The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-03-14

N"iioioiu' uuillillSleIeu W luy pdlielO
Is grains of the soda sulphice, dissolved
in milk well sweetened, every three
hours. l also had her entire body oiled
effectually with crude petroleum applied
with the bare hand.
The next morning the eruption was
absolutely killed and dry ; and the dis
ease broken up, to the wonder and, 1
need scarcely add, the great relief of all
interested. As no pustules had had time
to form, not the least trace of the erup-
ton remained and in few days my
child was as well as ever.
When the seventeen year locust"
abounded in this region, it was found
that the sting of the male locust was so
poisonous as to produce serious and, in
some cases noted, even fatal effects. A
servant girl in a my family trod upon q
locust, and the sting had to be with
drawn with tweezers. The girl scream
ed with agony, and said it was "worse
than forty bee stings." gave her about
15 grains of the sOde Sulphice, and kept
the wound wet with cloth dipped fire.
quently in a mixture of equal parts of
spirits ammonia, alcohol, and strong
water solution of the Sodg SulpAice. Al
though her foot had swollen amazingly
before l had time to prepare my reme-
dies, yet it stopped swelling at once af-
ter the first dose and application. A
sharp pain-went through the foot occa-
sionally, but in few hours the swelling
and pain were entirely gone.
When my interest was first excited by
the article referred to, concerning the
sodg sulphice, urged prominent drug
gist to send for it. He consented, stat
ing, as far as l remember, that I should
have to wait some time for it, as he
should have to order it through a Lon
don house. received it in due time,
labelled as above.
I have, since that first supply was ex-
hausted, made use of the American pre-
paration, the sulphite of soda; but 1
prefer the foreign (French) article, as
the American contains larger percent
age Of sulphuric acid and is, in fact, a
hyposulphatc. However, this now Off
cinal preparation is equally efficacious.
L used the sodg sulphice with perfect
success, in cases of liberation and as a
wash for scrofulous discharges of the
eyes and glands, at the same time ad-
ministering it internally, in doses vary
ing from 10 to 30 grains, three times a
day.
l would strongly urge the use of the
crude petroleum in connection with the
sOdg sulphiS, for variola and all its modi-
fled forms and in the treatment of
measles, scarlatina, or any eruptive dis
ease whatever its nature may be. The
beneficial effect of oiling the skin is we'll
known.
The crude oil" use is that sold here
in Pittsburgh under the name of "Kiers
Petroleum" Several varieties of crude
petroleum can be got, on inquiry, that
are so clear and pure as to be available
for many purposes without refining. Of
this article there is, fortunately, no scar
city.
AS the latest edition of the United
States Dispensatory" may not be within
reach of all interested, 1 subjoin, from
my copy QS7I a portion of what is said
of the remedy-soig Sulphjce-under the
description of the article, PIP. S26, S27.
"Sulphite of soda, ISOLDE sulphis). This
salt was first adopted as officinal in the
present edition of the United States
Pharmacepeia.'
Medicinal uses. Sulphite of soda
has been used in cases of yeasty vomit-
ing with remarkable success. The mat
ter vomited in these cases has yeasty
appearance on the surface, and is gener-
ally found to contain-when examined
by the microscope-two microscopic
fungi called Sarcina gentricuH and t0,uli
cereUiSie. The diseases, in which these
medicines (the sulphites) have been re-
commended, are purulent infection, OF
whatever origin malignant pustules
hospital gangrene erysipelas and other
exanthematous fevers malarial and
miasmatic fevers and in fine, all dis
eases which may be supposed to depend
on absorbed poisons not acting on the
tissues, but by species of fermenta-
ton.
"Also, in controlling suppurative ul-
GERS, and all suppurative affections OF
the mucous membranes, as of the throat
the bronchial tubes, through inhalation
by the atomizer the urinary passages
and the alimentary canal and in any
case where there is reason to think that
the local affection is sustained by zymot-
~ liIhutHCt VI llfiSiDIt OI3ulllSiuS, [ par
asitic, vegetable or animaD and in any
disease in which purulent infection of the
blood may be produced by the same
cause. They almost act as specifics in
such cases.
cat certain stages of cancers sthey
operate in the same way, by obviating
the effects of putrid lamentations"
DIR. Farnsworth says, in an article on
the influence of drugs upon larrG and
insect life in standing water: "A So
luton of soda sulphite destroyed the in
habitants of the water in one glass, in
two hours" etc. By comparing the eff
fects of the different drugs, the DIR
shows that the soda sulphite takes rank
with the highest in efficiency.
Thus we have evidence that the sods
sulphite is an agent Gust beginning tC
be appreciated) that can be relied on il
exterminating noxious parasitic life
also animalcules, that produce or follow
upon various diseases as a remedy fol
ulcers and sores, for nausea, and vomit
ing for eruptive diseases for poison
Gus stings and bites and at the sam,
time possessing no injurious propertie
whatever, when made use of, internall,
or externally, in reasonable proportion
and quantity.