, 1863-08-18
A NOTE FOR THE DOCTORS
A Remedy for Dfpt11eria,

From Galisnani.1
This affection which comprises those knosn
under tile various na1nes Of bad sore throat,
Angina, Group. and the French dngine con.
t.17,e4tse, las nithettb been considered one Of
the most difficult: to cure We some time
back gaye an account Of DR.. Trfdeaux's method
wEicG conelats III administering storax under
the form Of q syrup; but :We now find In the
Resre 1haapeattQIs, paper By Dr. A. D.
which he mentions ice as an infsllibla specific.
As this, from Its extreme simplicity, would,
ifeffectiye, be fur superior to any yet tried,
we cannot refrain from quoting the cases men
toned By the author, who had published this
remedy as far bacE as February, 1860, and con
eequsntly complains (not without reason, It
its efficacy be such us he describes it, Of the
Ine1cusahls negligence Of practitioners In not
taking notice ot it, thereby allowing many
valuable lives to be lost. The following cases
came under his observation after that date:
In March and Aprl, 1851, the disease in qaes.-
ton broke out under an epidemic form, and
chiefly attacked adults will such violence that
house. Ono of Dr., De Grand's patients, If:
1icted with blephaclte, was seized with it,and
is he could not Immediately attend, owing
to the severity Of the case, another
physician Was called in, who ordered
emetics and alunafnous gargles, which pro,
QuceQ Hu tASGls AL 1tOEtH LIE. 0c oI.AuA
came, and found the tonslls greatly swollen,
and q false membrane cogef1ug them. He
Immediately administered small pieces Of ice,
and by the following morning the tumefaetion
of the tonsils had Diminished BY half, and the
falsc membrane hid yearly disappeared That
very evening she Has enabled to take food.
prolting hy this example, few days after her
brother Kas seizud With sore throat, presenting
the saMe preliminary symptoms as those VI bis
Sister; hut he, without waiting for the doctor.
Ut once took some ice, and was lid Of his soFo
Dc Grand was summoned to . young lady
who had been laboring under the disease for
some forty.eight hours; all remedies had
failed, aud the parents, relations md friends
Eo11ow. When 4 DR.. Dc Grand ordered
ice, general cry Of astonishment
was, uttered by all present, Ice
for sore throat! Impossible! 1t was sheer
muratr! DR.. De Grand maintained his ground,
ard after much e1postulatton, during which
much time was LOST, he obtained LIS end b.
toro twenty four hours were over the patient
was in tul1 conyalescence. Being at Vera
Cruz On . mission, he Tas requested to SEQ
young man who was attacked with malignant
sore throat, and had been treated without Ct
feet by cauterizatiQns with hydrochloric acid
and nstringent garglcs. Hero again he had to
battle WITH the pteiudlces Of the family, but
vas at length allowed to administer Ice.
The young man rcto7ered III the course OF tho
following day. Dr. De Grand has now been
using this remedy for TIE last twelve years,
without having met with single failure.
This is what be ssJ:, but even If only half Of
what lie eays were true, the method should be
tried by Others, Cold gaygles hare been en-
plo5cd With success By Dr. Blanc, Of Ssras.
! burg WHY not ice?