The Newtown bee., 1880-11-10
A CURE FOR wH0oPISG COUGH.
Tho Discovery of a Chemist-Breathfne vapors from Purifying Boxes fn Gas Works.

 The Discovery of a chemist-Breathine |
 yapors from Purifying Boxes fn Gas
 Works.
 The following letter in relation 10 that dis s7ase which all mothers dread ap- pears in the New York Ssay The ex- perience detailed by the writer may prove of benefit to others:
 4 friend sends me slip cut from re- cent edition of your journal, inquiring for a reliable remedy for whooping coush. am enabled to give the de- sired information after actual exper- fence in my own family, and through the equally favorable experience oi more than a score of friends and neigh bors who have tried it.
 It is well known to most intelligent people that exposure of patients to the vapors arising from the purifying boxes in the gas works almost invariably re- lieves the terrible paroxysms, and, after repeated visits. cures have been ire quently effected. This discovery was made by physician in Paris about fifteen years ago.
 The fact was published, and soon after visits began to be made to the Manhat- tan, New York, Brooklyn, and other gas works, on the recommendation ot our medical men. An endemic of whoop;ng cough ragged in Newport in the winter of 1878. Over 200 patients, between the ages of two months ard seventy-ive years, visited the gas works. Tine treasurer of the company, William A. Stedmap, Esq, states that nearly all were benefited. and some were un- doubtedly cured.
 About that time the child of 8 distin- tinguished chemist in Providence, R. l., was seriously ill with this terrible dis ease, and too weak to be taken to the gas works. The father procured Q quantity of the liquid hydro-csrbon de- posted by condensation i1 the bottom of the purifying box, and vaporized 1t, in metal dish in the closed room of the little sufferer. Almost immediately it revived. the spasms were checked, and after q few days the child recovered and was as well as ever.
 Microscopists have recently discovered that the cause of whooping cough lper- tussis) is the rapid aggregation of bac- teria under the root of the tongue. These must be destroyed before relief can be obtained. To this end such 1 powerful medicine as quinine bromide is given; but even that fails to reach the seat of the disease. Of course the ordinary cxpectorauts are absolutely useless; change of air is rarely cura- tive; hence the rapidly-increasing per centage of deaths from this disease.
 The New York board of health report | for 1875 has list of 4s9 deaths from whooping cough in that city The ! deaths weekly in London, England. are from a minimum of sixty to a max imum of ea,, over 5000 annually.
 Physicians generally. inform the anxious parents that whooping cos,s a must take it's course, as a remedy IS un- known, and they can only slightly re. 1 lieye it; that the incubation and in- weeks, and from six weeks to six months will be required before 1t is en- | tireiy removed. The whoopings usually l increase regularly in number from day to dayro the fifth week, often equaling forty times in twenty-four hours. Very rarely is this disease preceded by any other, ! but so great is the strain upon the sys- tenn that frequently it is foilowed by pneumonia. in which event ueath often ensues A fatal termination is more gen: orally the result of absolute physical exhaustion due to the terrible strain consequent upon the oft-occurring par. oxysms.
 A few years since my youngest child never before i'll. was stricken by thl; dread disease. The best medical talent was obtained, every known remedy tried, most watchful care constantly ex ercised, but without the slightest avail I The child actually coughed itself tt death. With ali the grief of this sad ex xperience still fresh, in April, 1879. VI were alarmed by a new lncurslon of th' destroyer. Our children, hve ana sever years were attacked, seemingly w1tf the severity of the preceding case. I It was then I learned of this Provi'
 dence chemists discovery, and tha simple but ingenious apparatus had
 been invented by which the hydro-car bon could be evaporated in closed room. l immediately procured both
 The apparatus is a metal stand SIX
 inches high, supporting cup, holdini
 half an ounce of cresOlene. The heat lS applied either by a petroleum night
 lamp or gas; vaporizers being made t
 attach to an ordinary gas-burner Cresolene is 8 rose- pink liquid with
 boiling point cf 397 degrees. It IS no
 unpleasant in odor, but, on the othe hand, i5 extremely grateful to any on
 with the least bronchial or catarrha ] affection.
 In three minutes after the lamp wa
 lighted the vapor of the cresoiene wa diffused in every part of room ffteel j l bv twenty feet. In ten minutes tn children manifested evident relief, re f covered from tbelr dull eXnHuStlOn an'
 were playing on the bed, even laughin i aloud in their evident freedom from tn paroxysm.
 Twas not advised it could be continues in safety all night, or even day an
 night, and at the expiration Of tifteel minutes extinguished the lsmp. Tn l children had been whooping twent i, times a day. One of them did not eve 9 cough for twelve hours, the other fo 1 thirty six. Learning that the vaporization coul be continued day and night with nor Frapid benefit, applied 1t for i've night
 in their sleeping room. The spasm
 ceased asd they speedily recovered.
 At that time an epidemic Of whoopin a cough was raging ia my vicinity. ae : vised y neighbors of tuis apparatu' Many of them were used and with th Il best results.
 D believe the voporizers and cresolen
 are now to be obtained from druggist Q am confident it will be found equal [. eff cient in all throat and lung disease . Inhalation is the true mode of treatmen r The apparatus is nearly perfect as a
 agent for deodorizing. disinfecting, an f perfuming not only a sick room, but ;. entire house It deserves an extende
 trial.
 e Cloth Made of Sponge. ' One of the recent German invention