The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1863-08-28
THE GATE CITY.
ppns Gassnast.l


This affection which comprises those
known under the various names Of bad
sore throat, angina, Group, and the French
engine couenaeuse, has hitherto been con-
sidered one of the most dit6cut to cure.
We some time back gave an account
of DR.. Tridesus method, which ccnsists
In administering storax under the form OF
asyrup but We now fnd in the kerue
Therapsufique. paper by DIR. A. DsGrand
Boulogne, Vice Consul at HAVANA. In
which he %, o ice is an infallible appetite.
As this, from it's extreme simplicity,
would, if effective, be far superior 70 any
yet tried, we cannot refrain FROM quoting
the cases mentioned by the author, who
had published this remedy as far back a.
February. 1860, and consequently com.
plains, not without reason n its sfieacy
il such a. he describes III of the inexcuaa.
BILE negligence Of practitioners in not tax
ing notice Of it., thereby allowing many
valuable lives TO be lost. The following
eases came under his observation after
tie. la March and April, 1861. the dis
IN question broke out under an cpl
10 form, and chiefly stacked adults
such virulencs that in one week three
og women died in one house. One Of
De Grand's patients. afflicted with
bacits, Was seized with it, and ~ he
aid not immediately attend, owing to
the severity Of the csss, another physician
was called in, who ordered emstics and
aluminous gsrgies. which produced no
effect At length DR.. DE Grand came and
found the tonsils greatly swollen, and .
false membsane covering them. He i'm.
msdiately administered small pieces Of Joe
and by the following morning the tune
faction of the tonsils had diminisbsd by
one half, aud The false membrane had
nearly disappeared. That very evening
she was enabled to take food. Pro6ting
by this example. fee days after her
brother was seized with the sore throat,
presenting the sane preliminary symp-
toms a. those Of his sister; but be, with
out waiting for the doctor, At once took
some ice, and was rid Of his sore throat
in few hours. Some days later, DR.. De-
Grand wac summoned to young lady
who had been lAboring under the disease
for some forty eight hours oil remedies
had failed, aud the parents, relations and
friends OF the family were plunged in the
deepest sorrow. When DIR. DeGrand or
dsred ice, general cry of sstonishment
was uttered s. ~ present Ice for sore
throat Impossible Il VAS sheer muir
der. DIR. IeGrand maintained his
ground, and sfter much expostuiatien,
during which much time IVES lost, be OBJ
tanned his end Before twenty -four hours
were over the patient was in iuIl conys-
lesoence. Beng at Vera Cruz on q mis-
sion he was requested tosss young ina
who was ATTACHED with malignant so.e
throat, and had been treated without effect
by cauterixsti ms with hydrccholoric aoid
and astringcn; gsreies. Here again Ito
had 90 battle with the prejudiees Of the
family, but was at length allowed to adj
minister ice The young man recovered
in the course of The following day DIR.
DeGrand has now been using this reme-
dy for the has. twelve years, without hav-
ing met with s siusle failure. his is
Whist he says, but even If only half OF
what he says we're true, the method should
be tried by others. Cold gargles have
been employed with success by DIR. Blanc,
Of Strasburg why not icey