Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1899-01-08
To Prevent the Grip.

Mr, GeOTSe i. AnBSll, lhS WSll-
known Boston philanthropist and pub
..sher of Our Dumb Animals" wants
everybody to know that he considers
sulphur as a sure specific for the grip,
and other epidemics of the influenza
order. He is out with a communica-
tion to the press, in which he claims
that sulphur will not only prevent at
tacks of the disease, now SO widely
prevalent, but that 1t is a powerful
safe guard against yellow fever as well
He says that when grip was so COM
mon in Boston, New York and other
large cities a few years ago, he ascer-
tanned, by inquiries of officers at By
ANS match factory, that of the forty
three persons employed there not one
had been troubled by it. Mr.. Angel
recommends that a half teaspoonful
of powdered sulphur be placed in each
shoe or stocking by those who wish to
escape this annoying disease.
In support of his claims as to the
value of sulphur in such cases, Mr..
Angel advances the following
l have at various times told the
press how many at Memphis Tenn,
Qncluding the agents of the Howard
Benevolent association escaped the
terrible epidemic of yellow fever there
as they claimed) by wearing powder
ed sulphur in their shoes-also the
evidence of a distinguished German
medical writer, translated into Eng
fish, that wearing sulphur in this way
has proved a complete protection
against cholera and other epidemic
diseases; also that sulphur in the shoes
has cured various diseases of rheuma-
tism; also that sulphur taken intern
ally or worn in the shoes has suffic-
lent power to pass through the body,
the clothing and the pocketbook, black
ening the silver there.
find in the London Lancet that no
less authority than the president of
the Institute of Civil Engineers of
London declares that the sulphurous
vapor produced by the combustion of
coal in that city kills the disease
germs in the atmosphere.
1t seems to me a duty, at this time
to again suggest as widely as possible
that sulphur is very cheap, and wheth-
er it destroys or keeps out germs of di-
sease from the body or only acts up
on the imagination, it cannot do much
harm to try it.
In the Scott County (Miss) Regis
ter of June Is last will be found an ac-
count of how the agents of the How
ard Deneyslent association at Memphis
escaped yellow fever by wearing sui
phur in their Shoes
did my best last spring to put these
facts (for the protection of our SOL
diers) before our army and navy offic-
ials at Washington. | do not know
whether anything was done about the
matter by our medical officers l..ere,
but have received letters from army
officers and men that with sulphur in
the shoes they had no fevers and al
so found the sulphur complete pro-
lection against fleas. On December Il
l received in a letter from Captain Jul
ius A. Palmer the following:
by the way, in view of your fire.
quent recommendations of common
sulphur, it came to my notice recent
ly tnat on California ranches where
walnuts are prepared for ale market
the shells are bleached by the use of
birthstone fumes, and that the men
having charge of the work are never
touched by the grip. influenza or other
epidemic which attack their fellow-la-
borers on the same estates"