Littell's Living Age/Volume 143/Issue 1847/Diphtheria Cured by Sulphur

Diphtheria Cured by Sulphur

Diphtheria Cured by Sulphur. — The celebrated Dr. Field cured his patients by sulphur. He put a teaspoonful of flour of brimstone into a wineglassful of water, and stirred it with his finger instead of a spoon. When the sulphur was well mixed he gave it as gargle, and in ten minutes the patient is out of danger. Instead of spitting out the gargle, he recommended the swallowing of it. In extreme cases, when the fungus was too nearly closing to allow the gargling, he blew the sulphur through a quill into the throat, and after the fungus had shrunk he gave the gargle. If the patient cannot gargle, take a live coal, put it in a shovel, and sprinkle a spoonful or two of flour of brimstone upon it; let the patient inhale the fumes, and the fungus will die. Brimstone kills every species of fungus in a man, beast, or plant, in a few minutes.