The homeopathic treatraent is to begin at once with aconite and belladonna, alternately every hour. If after four hours there is no improvement, and the characteristic prostration, and the patches on the tonsils are increasing, stop: the aconite, and supply its place with the proto-iodide of mercurius. Let these two remedies be continued until there is a marked change for better or worse. If for the former, let the intervals be increased to one and a half or two hours; for the latter, and there is approaching unconscious- ness, with frequent arousing to cough up or hawk up the detached fragments of the deposits, that brings up tough, ropy, yellowish mucus, give kali bi-_ chromicum alone every hour. When the patient becomes really better, stop and give no more medicine while the improvement goes on satisfactorily. One reason why it is important to summon a physician as soon as the symptoms of the disease appear, is that many cases which appear slight, at first, are really most serious and fatal, while a common sere throat excites the greatest alarm, the judgment of the physician being necessary to decide the amount of danger in the case. ‘ In some cases dry sulphur, applied to the tonsils and throat, gives relief, — and in violent cases the fumes of sulphur, burned in the close room, have been used with good effect. An outward application to the throat, of lard as hot as it can be borne, is an aid to the other remedies mentioned. T avoid all causes of diphtheria, keep the house free from dirt and filth of every kind from cellar to garret. See that no sewers give off gases, no draing are left filthy, and no out-house uncleaned, and bear in mind that it is not enough to destroy bad smells by disinfectants—the cause of the smells must be removed. A lady who had the courage and coolness to treat herself, through a severe case of diphtheria, when no physician was at hand, describes her case thus: “T first noticed spores (the characteristic white patches which appear on the throat) on my right tonsil at 9 a.m. By noon they had spread over the entire arch of the palate, and the back of the throat. Several of these were loosened before night, but during the night they had spread up the nose and down the bronchial tube. My palate and tonsils were so swollen that I could scarcely speak, and with difficulty swallow. The gland on the right side of neck was much swollen, and ached, causing a dull pain in the ear. The breath had i dw Fe enh isoy Ay A Wey san Me a.) BS eta se Te Pare Sladen NI ey aaa ge TARY OS cab) Read 8 0 ce et Rr eS pains es Ua tne: yoked see a3 fi RMAC I he SARAH ROE Col CON AE a a =the ir ; a ies wc sk ma be Chae WAHT ey Fadil tebe eet ¥ 508 . | MEDIOAL, RE bG that offensive odor peculiar to the disease, and I had an intense, burning fever. I began my remedies as soon as I discovered the spores. I took a clay pipe, filled the bowl one-cighth full of dry sulphur, powdered very fine, and shook it down into the stem. I then placed the end of the stem in my throat, and hcld it there in front of the spores, while an attendant blew into the bowl, and repeated this until the whole diseased surface of the throat was covered with dry sulphur, taking care to hold my breath while the sulphur was being blown in. In half an hour this was repeated. I then made a strong gargle of chlo- rate of potash, and half an hour after using the last sulphur, gargled my vhroat thoroughly. I then alternated the sulphur with the gargle of chlorate of pctash every hour. At night I mixed a tea-spoon of: sulphur with water, and swallowed it slowly, and continued taking it in this way three times a day. Blowing sulphur into the throat, and gargling with chlorate of potash was kept up regularly for four days, until every spore had disappeared, ex. actly as at first, except making the intervals longer as the disease abated.

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The homeopathic treatment is to begin at once with aconite and belladonna, alternately every hour. If after four hours there is no improvement, and the characteristic prostration, and the patches on the tonsils are increasing, stop: the aconite, and supply its place with the proto-iodide of mercurius. Let these two remedies be continued until there is a marked change for better or worse. If for the former, let the intervals be increased to one and a half or two hours; for the latter, and there is approaching unconsciousness, with frequent arousing to cough up or hawk up the detached fragments of the deposits, that brings up tough, ropy, yellowish mucus, give kali bichromicum alone every hour. When the patient becomes really better, stop and give no more medicine while the improvement goes on satisfactorily. One reason why it is important to summon a physician as soon as the symptoms of the disease appear, is that many cases which appear slight, at first, are really most serious and fatal, while a common sere throat excites the greatest alarm, the judgment of the physician being necessary to decide the amount of danger in the case. ‘ In some cases dry sulphur, applied to the tonsils and throat, gives relief, — and in violent cases the fumes of sulphur, burned in the close room, have been used with good effect. An outward application to the throat, of lard as hot as it can be borne, is an aid to the other remedies mentioned. To avoid all causes of diphtheria, keep the house free from dirt and filth of every kind from cellar to garret. See that no sewers give off gases, no draing are left filthy, and no out-house uncleaned, and bear in mind that it is not enough to destroy bad smells by disinfectants—the cause of the smells must be removed. A lady who had the courage and coolness to treat herself, through a severe case of diphtheria, when no physician was at hand, describes her case thus: “T first noticed spores (the characteristic white patches which appear on the throat) on my right tonsil at 9 a.m. By noon they had spread over the entire arch of the palate, and the back of the throat. Several of these were loosened before night, but during the night they had spread up the nose and down the bronchial tube. My palate and tonsils were so swollen that I could scarcely speak, and with difficulty swallow. The gland on the right side of neck was much swollen, and ached, causing a dull pain in the ear. The breath had dw Fe enh isoy Ay A Wey san Me a.) BS eta se Te Pare Sladen NI ey aaa ge TARY OS cab) Read 8 0 ce et Rr eS pains es Ua tne: yoked see a3 fi RMAC I he SARAH ROE Col CON AE a a =the ir ; a ies wc sk ma be Chae WAHT ey Fadil tebe eet ¥ 508 . | MEDIOAL, RE bG that offensive odor peculiar to the disease, and I had an intense, burning fever. I began my remedies as soon as I discovered the spores. I took a clay pipe, filled the bowl one-eighth full of dry sulphur, powdered very fine, and shook it down into the stem. I then placed the end of the stem in my throat, and held it there in front of the spores, while an attendant blew into the bowl, and repeated this until the whole diseased surface of the throat was covered with dry sulphur, taking care to hold my breath while the sulphur was being blown in. In half an hour this was repeated. I then made a strong gargle of chlorate of potash, and half an hour after using the last sulphur, gargled my throat thoroughly. I then alternated the sulphur with the gargle of chlorate of potash every hour. At night I mixed a tea-spoon of: sulphur with water, and swallowed it slowly, and continued taking it in this way three times a day. Blowing sulphur into the throat, and gargling with chlorate of potash was kept up regularly for four days, until every spore had disappeared, ex. actly as at first, except making the intervals longer as the disease abated.

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