The Robesonian., 1918-10-21
DOES SULPHUR
PREVENT GRIP
Simple Remedy Said to Keep Away
Or Kill the Germ.

Mr.. H. C. Freeman passed along to
The Robesonian a newspaper clipping
in which is quoted a letter from Geo.
T. Angel of Boston to the Washing
ton Post recommending sulphur as a
preventative Of grip. A part of the
letter follows:
"In my daily papers of December
% I find that there supposed to be
something like 100000 cases of grippe
in New Work city, and that it is also
prevailing largely in Washington,
Philadelphia, and other cities, and is
now threatening Boston. 1t is fact
that when it was prevailing as an epi-
demic largely in our city few years
ago, accertained by inquiry of my
officers at Byam's factory that OF the
forty-three persons employed there
not one had been troubled by it.
81 have at various times told the
press how many at Memphis, Tenn,
(including the agents of The Howard
Benevolent Association) escaped the
terrible epidemic of yellow fever
there (as they claimed) by wearing
powered sulphur in their shoes; also
the evidence Of a distinguished Ger
man medical writer, translated into
English, that wearing sulphur in this
way has proved complete protection
against cholera and other epidemic
diseases; also that those working the
sulphur mines of Italy escape the ma
laria which prevails all about them
| also that sulphur in the shoes has cur
ed various cases Of rheumatism; also
that sulphur taken internally or worn
in the shoes has sufficient power to
pass through the body, the clothing
and the pocketbook, blackening the 81
liver there.
| "I find in the London Lancet that
no less authority than the president OF
the Institute of Civil Engineers, Of
London, declares that the sulphurous
vapors produced by the combustion
of coal in that city kills the disease
germs in the atmosphere
"It seems to me a duty, at this time
to again suggest as widely as possible
through my own paper and other:
i that sulphur is very cheap, and wheth
er it destroys or keeps out germs o.
disease from the body, or only acts
upon the imagination it cannot dt
much harm to try it.
i Gin the Scott County mississippi
Register of June Is last will be fount
an account Of how the agents Of th'
Howard Benevolent Association, a
Memphis, escaped yellow fever b!
wearing sulphur in their shoes.
"Half q teaspoon full of poweret
sulphur in each shoe or stocking j
, considered to be sufficient
GAS our readers know, we did ou
best last spring to put these fact
f tfor the protection of our soldiers
,. before our army and navy official
I at Washington.
owe do not know whether anythin,
: was done about the matter by on
i medical officers there, but we have re
= ceived letters from army officers an
men, that with sulphur in the shoe
! they had no fevers and also found tn
: sulphur complete protection agains
, fleas. On this same December % W
1 received in letter from Capt Juliu
A. Palmer, of this city, the following
k "By the way, in view Of your FIRE
o Quent recommendations of commo
+ sulphur, it came to my notice. recent
!, ly that on California ranch wher
!. walnuts are prepared for the marke
the shells are bleached by the use {
O birthstone fumes, and that the me
q having charge of that work are neve
touched by the grippe. influenza G
= other epidemics which attack thei
e fellow laborers on the same estate