Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1881-01-21
How to Cure Diphtheria.
Continued from last week,

Continued from last meek.
Physicians and their drugs arc in
dispensable, but they will never abate
the extent and virulence of this all
ment while the masses inattentively
remain ignorant of the cause of their
affection. The biased multitude must
be excitedly and powerfully moved by
being truthfulj and persistently
told that the prevention of this malig
nant diseases ons ofthe mostintellisible
and practical undertakings ever at
tempted and lies wholly in their own
pc yer. Your inexeusable indifference
to an imperfect knowledge of health
and sanitary science, not providence,
is the chief cause of your distress.
The provident mothers palatable and I'M
neutrality-suspicious. pastry, not deity will
inevitably destine the innocent youth
to feeble and limited life The
daily visitation and deadly inhalation
of the execrably foul and infectious
privy. not divinity, will certainly and
disadvantageously decide the contested
combat between health and disease.
Unventilated sleeping apartments con-
tanning deleterious air repeatedly re-
spired, not creator, will precipitately
hasten the mortal and sinful separa-
ton of parent and child. The meat of
diaboically infected swine, not God,
willirrsvocably doom and excrutiatingly
torture the bodies of your children and
predispose them to fatal attacks of
diphtheria. Stasnant cesspool water
continuously percolating into the
spring or well, no. the supreme ruler,
will fill the sick room with solicious
friends and the cemetery with infantile
victims. Your own objectionable and
deploring neglected duty, not the AL
mighty, will surely fill the house with
grief and prsmaturely the grave with
death. The sorely afflicted and devo-
tionally disposed may lamentably ex-
claim, ooh, Master! Oh, Savior
quickly give to your suffering people
an infallible remedy for this calamit-
GUS malady and stay for time the
frightful mortality now in our midst"
but the supplicants should know that
the omnipotent. One exercises no con-
troll over the innumerable indoor and
outdoor sources of disease, and that all
of those who ignorantly and intention
ally permit these sources to exist in
the house or near their premises will
be surely and severely, periodically
punished with malignant diptheria.
These are not delirious utterances
Enthusiastically attired with delusion and
alarm nor wild enthusiasm ema-
mating from religious fanaticism, but a
deeply interested and jealous effort to
truthfully, intelligiIly and compassion
ately portray some Of the sad inevitable
consequences accompanying inditfer-
emily performed duty, indiscreet judge.
ment and misapplied knowledge. No
prayer in private, no discourse in pub
lie. no power in Heaven will save the
the innocent youth from an untimely
grave nor the guilty adults from the
, condign punishment Of a justly smit-
: ten conscience and disconsolate
heart. Intelligent action viii save ALL
The Almighty will ever punish bu,
never pardon. Diphtheria and the
r deity will make no distinction between
plebeians aud princes. 1t is not the
poor and ilfitcrate alone who suffer
.. but the wealthy and cultured also.
, 1t may lie remembered that in Nov
! 1878, within period Of eight days
, four princesses, duke and grant
duke were suddenly stricken dowr
!. with this direful disease, one of whom
| Princess Alice, paid the death penalty
4 due to kiss from her infected siste
l princess. Here is another solemn
I warning to those who foolishly, affect
, eddy and fashioaably practice the un
. gracious, disgusting aud dangerou