Remedy for diphtheria.
--The following is a receipt for the cure of diphtheria, from one who has assured us that out of a thousand cases in which it has been used not a single patient has been lost. The treatment consists in thoroughly swabbing the back of the mouth and throat with a wash made thus: Table salt, two drachms; black pepper, golden seal, nitrate of potash, alum, one drachm each. Mix and pulverize, put into a teacup, which half fill with boiling water; stir well, and then fill up with good vinegar. Use every half hour, one, two and four hours, as recovery progresses. The patient may swallow a little each time. Apply one ounce each of spirits of turpentine, sweet oil and aquia ammonia, mixed, every four hours, to the whole of the threat and to the breast benes, keeping flannel to the part.
