The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-12-04
Home Health Club
Edited by DIR, DAVID II. REFDER. Chicago

SMALLPOX, Here is something
 from Clinical Medicine, for you to
 treasure in your memory and keep on file also.
 The Conquest of Smallpox By Cal
 Cium Su1ph.de in Mexico''
 The grandest and most meritorious
 work of my life has been performed
 within the past four months. namely;
 I succeeded in arresting the most deadly epidemic of smaIlDo2 I have ever seen, and that without per forming a single vaccination; and the death rate was 9 3 percent before I intervened, which practically was by force, without my having been called by the victims or the ratt.ed
 official I must confess that I eIn-
 parked on 2 very urpromising ven
 ture. I read up the history of small
 pox and about what js known of it's
 ineffective medication I had in stock a meagre 1000 calcium sul- phide granuIes of I-2 grain each and no chance to get more in reasonable
 time. This was not a drop in the bucket in this urgent need; and I had to employ them so that the value
 of not one solitary pill would be wasted.
 Having used sulphur internally
 against the oldtime seven year itch' with cheering success, it struck me
 that this chemical should exercise at least a modifying influence upon any cutaneous affI:ct=on. However. failed to find a word in the history of sulphur, and in tat Of the treat
 ment of smallpox, that it ever had
 been employed in that distressing
 pestiIence. Yet, nothing d5scouT@Eed me, resolved to put my birthstone
 theory to the proof.
 I started out by purging every
 mothers son, and the patients live wise, resident in the exposed realm. I gave tke grown folks a teaspOOnful of flour of sulphur every night and
 morning. and ' anO!nted the bodies
 of the little ones. I had them repeat
 the sulphur dosing day after day,
 while giving enough of a purgatiVe to
 aid the sulphur in insuring unob-
 structed clearing of the bowels I
 could not order burning of the cloth
 ing and bedding, for lack of others to replace them: out I had them boiled Also had boiling water lib
 eralIy applied whenever there had been any infection: and everybody still liable to infection was bathed with water as hot as could be born , without causing blistering.
 As a fresh case of infection ap- peared among those previously ex- posed, I gave the patient calcium sul- l phide, pushed to saturation and sus- tained and alte- hated with echina- cold. In this manner, every case was effectuaIIy aborted, the patients re- i covering the same as those treated l for the prevalent feFers; and they caused no new infections.
 Thus, this smallpox epidemic of welI-radicated virulence, collapsed at l four popuIous places. At one place, r deaths out of 50 people had occurred i in a few days, mostly before small pox was publicly suspected, the cases 1 having been reported as measles.
 But not one person died after my 1 calcium suIphide and sulphur and 1 boiling water called halt to the inn notation. Before this treatment was instituted, nearly everyone attacked l had died.
 (The proceeding statement is cop l jed from a personal letter recently re- l ceived from Doctor Gray. Just 1 think of the terrific load this man i is bearing. Despite his advanced years valiant Doctor Gray is doing more for the relief of suffering, un- | der conditions which would appal the average American physician. than any | man I can think of. Calcium sul- | phide is one of tie cell salts or t!s- I sue foods that I recommend so often.