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Show recommended the swallowing of it. In extreme cases.in which he had been called call-ed jist in the nick of lime e" fungus was too nearly closing to allow the gar-glinir.he gar-glinir.he blew the sulphur Ihroug a quill into me throat, and after the fungus had shrunk to allow of it then gave tlie al-gle al-gle He sever I st a patient from diphtheria. diph-theria. If a patient cannot gargle take live ct-al, put it m a shovel and sprinkle a spoonful or two of Hour ol brimstone upon if, let the sufterer inhale in-hale the fumes and the fungus tll die. James Lindsay. The above is an excerpt from the S. L. Examiner. In the year 1880 the town of May-field May-field was visited by a very severe epidemic of diphtheria. I was teaching school at the time, lieing one of the Board of Health I told my pupils not to keep away from school but to attend regularly and strictly follow my instructions with regard to health. Erom my experience in the tropics trop-ics I knew that sulphur was a destroyer des-troyer of all fungs in animal life. I bought a pound of sulphur at the store and gave th children a little twice a clay to suck in the mouth telling them to swallow the salivia. I also sprinkled sulphur on the hot stove several times a day. Not a pupil who attended school caught I the diphtheria. I have used it often since then in all cases of soar throat with good result. Every person should keep some sulphur on hand and at the first sign of a sore throat put a large pinch into the mouth especially at bed time. The cure will be miraculous. I do not profess to "know it all" or make any pretense at medical knowledge but submit the above for the general good. Gus m. Clarke Dover Nov. 20th, 1800. mm u:k i. Since this dread disease is again making itself felt in our midst, the following may not be out of place but rather beneficial to our readers: Of those win) were attacked bv yellow fever during the prevalence of that dis-cease dis-cease in Hotida a year or two ago onlv about jne in eleven died. In the same year there were Mil cases of dipiheiia in lioston. of whicn 470, or one 111 ihree, pnved fatal. Dut'iig the last eleven , years t!iere have been 14.857 cases of d piheri i in B)Ston, with an aggregate 0(4,815 deaths. Such afeailnl prevalence of this deadly dead-ly d saase with its incessant das -dating of home is not bv any means necessary. heen greatly checked'bv means ' 0T err-forced err-forced isol.iiion and .iulecli. n: and there is 110 reason w iy Tair own boards of health, if thev were armed with lhe requisite legal power mid barked up by a wise public sentiment, might not be a' le to ace mplish a similiar result. D ptheria is much more lutal than smallpox, and the fact that 11 is less contagi 'tis only increases the necessity of compulsory isolation, for many persons per-sons expose themselves unnecessarily to diptheria who could not be induced by any consideration to expose themselves to smallpox. It is a fact ol public interest that diptheria dip-theria does not go from house to house apart from personal communication, except ex-cept in tenement houses, therefore, lle patient can be salely isolated at home, provided the public is duly notified by some simple b it familiar signal attached 1 some simple b it familiar signal attached to the do .r. For such as cannot be sale ly isolated at home, adequate municipal accommodation should be provided Youths Companion. AStMPiB remedy: The following is from M r. Gtis M. Clark . Several papers of P ais have published publish-ed that Dr. Lmigardierre of Toulouse had, al different tune, experimented with stiscess with a new treatment of sure efficiency for the cute ol that terrible terri-ble discease, the croupe The new treatment consists in the use of sulphur. Dr, Laugaidierie narrates this hs fust experiment, "I called lor si me sulphur powder; t ( k a la!ilup 101, ful of it which 1 diluted dilut-ed in a j'n-s i.l wa er.ordciing the pat ent 1 1 dr nk one tatks,i jonlul of the niixtuie eveiy 11 'tir.ili.tking it before using. Next dav the c i d wa-i belter. New potion fo the next dav. The following dav the clnld was cured, The only thing lelt was a loose cou'h which I attributed to the ta'semembijiies circulating in til; tra cheal'ar.ery. Asking the parents to save them for me 111 case the child should expectorate them.Two days alter a sudden lit of coughing expelled tin 111, and three dried up pieces the size of a large bean were brought to me." Afier that cure the doctor obtained several others, but none more convincing convinc-ing than the following: "A little girl was dying; neither civ nor the least sound could come from her larynx; the pimples of diptheria were on her cars, neck, head and cheeks; her wheezing breathing could be heard at twenty meters oft. "The doctor had secured a tube to insufflate nitrate of silver into the larynx The parents opposed that, but consented consent-ed to make the child swallow the sulphurated sulph-urated potion during the night. "On the next day the child, which I had considered as lost, resuscitated the voice was restored, the potion was continued during that day, and the next day the child was, cured." The communication of Dr, Laugardi-erre Laugardi-erre is of too much importance to not be the subject of a serious and immediate examination, and it is for the Academy of Medicine to order such. FROM ANOTHIiR SOURCE To fie Editor of tlu Exattii :trS : a few years ago when diptheria was raging in England a gentleman accompanied the celebrated Dr. Field on his rounds t witness the so-called "Woudeilul Cures" which he ptelotmed, whiie the patients of other phvsicians were dying on all sides. The reme.ly tobes rap d must bes mple All he took with turn was tlour of sulphur sul-phur and a quill, and with this he cured every patient, without exception. He put a tea'pjouful of flour of brimstone into a wine-glass of water surred it with his finger instead of a spoon, as the snip iur does not readily amalgamate with water. When the water was well nvxed he gave it as a gargle, and in ten minutes the patient Mas out of danger, Brimstone kills eveiy species of fungus in a man or beast in ten minutes. Instead of spitting out the gargle he ... t . s |