The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1885-10-22
sDrc.fic for WSooping-Cough

Now childer. dears, be patient; be
aisy now; ov coevso the shmell amt
plisint. but don't ye want to get rid O.
that whoopin' and tearin' cough that'll
be the death OF yez. so it will" Fore
man Gilmour thus spoke to a half-doz-
en- little boys and girls in the purifying
room ut the gas-works, Twenty-third
and Market street, yesterday morning.
The children had been brought there
by contiding parents in the belief that
the inhalation of the gases arising from
the lime in the purifying pans is SOW
ereian remedy for that i'll from which
infant flesh seldom escapes, the whoop-
ing-coueh. Several of the little chill
dren were made violently sick by the
gas. which alarmed their parents, but
had an opposite effect on the foreman.
That's good" he said. That's the
midicine that clears their little troats.
That's right, me DEAR patting little
girl on tho head, "that'll bring the
kinks out O. your troat an yell sing
loiAe Il bur,t acin."
Il first heard of it," he said yester-
day to Il visitor, ''about three years
ago, and ever since that time people
have been comm to the works wild
their chlder who have the whooping-
cough. I'm told it was first discover
ed be Frinch dochter, and know it
has never failed wild any Nv the childer
that have come here. "
He then proceeded to explain how
the benefits were derived. 1t is, he
said, from inhaling the gases of ammo
mia and sulphur arising from the lime
through which the gas had passed in
its process of publication. The upper
surface of the purifying pans, which
are twenty-five feet square and four
feet deep, are covered with q layer of
lime about an inch thick and then
closely sealed with heavy iron lids.
The gas passes through three of these
layers of lime in rs many pans before
it is entirely freed from sulphur and
ammonia. Each of the pans are used
twenty-four hours, and when they are
uncovered the white lime is found to
have changed to greenish yellow col
| or and is thoroughly impregnatcd with
sulphur and ammonia When the lids
are removed q. O'Clock in the morn
ing is the time for the afflicted to visit
the works and partake OF the healing
qualities, OF the gases.
'.Whw, | have half dozen families
nearly every mornin' here" said Gil
mour. They come in their carriages
froia I'll parts of the city and even from
far places in the state. One trouble l
have wild some OF them is that the
NJ others don't like the shmell and
won't allow the ch.ldcr to remain long
enough. Three visits Of from thirty
minutes to an hour is enough to cure
any ease. Some Of the little people
get sick, but not all. There was lit
tic, fellow here the other day who
wanted to get into the pan and help the
men shovel out the lime, he felt such
Il relief after breathing the gas for a
tonne.
''Some people say they don't believe
in it, continued Mr.. Gilmour, '.but |
guess l ought to know, after seeing
how it works in so many eases. It's
not only good for whooping-cough, but
diphtheril. colds. and many other
things. None of the men that work
about the purifyin' room are ever
troubled with coughs or colds of any
kind all the year round. And there S
cholery. Cholery will niver come
round III the nclghborhood o the lime
after coal gas has been purified in it,
| In 80, when they had the cholery in
Glasgow, the dochtors ordered that the
lids be left off the purifyin' pans in the
gas works there, and while people were
! dyin' o cholery in all other parts O.
| the city, it niver came near the neigh
borhood o the gas works. In 81,
when the cholery was SO bad in this
city, the same plan was tried here and
worked jst as we'll. Yes, sir, tell ye
amony aud sulphur is not only sure
thing for whooping-cough, but will
keep away cholery, too. '-Ihitadet-
| a,hia IineS.