Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1888-10-24
OH farm aud firrside.
4 CIIRE FOR %DIPHTHERIA.

R. Munich, proprietor of a drug estab-
lishment in Leipsic, SaXony, publishes in
the Pharmacist, a medical paper, a remedy
for diphtheria which has had surprising
success. He urgently presses all physl-
clans to try,it for the benefit of all patients
suffering from the disease, and also re-
quests the press to publish it.
He says: "My little daughter, seven
years of age, has had diphtheria twice
Within some weeks, with severe fever
about los Fahrenheit. We gave with
great success rectified oil of turpentine (ole-
UNI terebinthina rectificatum). Dose, n
%teaspoonfull in the morning and the same
at evening""
Adults should take one t%easpoonful.
Afterward drink a little lukeWarm milk
to allay the burning in the throat.
For children the second dose can ne
mixed with milk, which will render it
easier to take.
The result is really marvellous. The Ill
famatiou of the abnormal %diphtheric spots
in the throat grows lighter at the edges,
and in this way they gradually shrink un-
til in t~wenty-four hours they disappear en-
tirely, leaving no sign.
To quiet the infamed tonsils the throat
was gargled at first every two hours, and
then every three hours with the following
gargle: One ounce chlorate of potash to
forty ounces of distilled water.
This remedy has been used with perfect
satisfaction both by adults and children,
not one case ending fatally. The MllWau-
kee Volksblatt quoted this remedy from q
German paper, and afterWard received a
letter from a subscriber in Mitchell county.
Iowa, saying that a child in the writer's
family was attacked by diphtherla, treated
- looo1 VIC nn6 HIn6 = fhan fnlJr
other members of the same family We're
similarly attacked, treated by this remedy,
and, 1 am happy so tell you, all recov-
cred"
A New York physician says that there
is nothing better for the treatment of diph-
liberia than tar smoke. 1t has been used
by many physicians in New York and
found most effcacious. The method con-
sists in closing the room tightly and burn
ing a quantity of pitch on a red-hOt stove
or shovel. The smoke dissolves the tibrous
matter that chOkes the patient, and gives
almost instant relief. A remedy 50 easy
to try is certainly worth remembering.
REvIv1NG FRUIT TREEs.-S. D: Pratt,
of Penn Yam, N. Y, writes tho Farmers
Club of the American Institute, concerning
the care of fruit trees, as follows: IRE.
Numbering Professor Liebig's theory that
when a vegetable is burned the part which
came from the air in the process of it's
growth returns to the atmosphere, and the
part which came from the ground is re-
duced to ashes, I came to the conclusion
that ashes would be beneficial when APP
piled to the roots Of trees. They were
standing in soil strongly inclined to clay,
with a turf around them which had not
been removed for several years. After
pruning them properly, removing every
indication of worms, &C., and washing the
body and branches with soap suds, | began
operations below-first removing the turf
about two feet around the tree, then with a
garden pick the ground was loosened from
six to twelve inches in depth, taking care
not to injure the larger roots. Twenty or
thirty quarts of loose dirt was removed,
leaving a large cavity, shaped like a saucer,
with the tree standing in the centre. About
one pint of unleached ashes was sprinkled
about the tree and upon this chip manure
was placed, nearly filling the cavity. An
other pint of ashes was sprinkled upon the
fertilizer, which was gently pressed down
and the whole covered with. the loose dirt
taken from the cavity, leaving the surface
nearly as it was, excepting the turf. A
young orchard wa treated in a similar
way. The effect was wonderful. Plum
trees that were going to be bad revived.
Peach trees that had presented small and
shriveled leaves threw out a luXuriant TO-
liage, and cherry trees gave fruit larger
and fairer than ever befOre."- New York
Weekly Herald.
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