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DIPHTHERIA.

TO THE EDITOR OE THE ARGUS.

Sir,-A correspondent of yours, in stating the deaths at Taradale from diphtheria, regrets the faculty know so little of the disease or its cure.   Having cut the enclosed from an English paper, and thinking it might be valuable to save life, I have sent it for your perusal and insertion, if you think it sufficiently important.  

81., off Flinders-lane east.

Yours truly,

S. LANSDELL.

" Two physicians write to The Times this morn- ing, giving prescriptions for diphtheria. Both mention bad drains, and other sources of malaria, the want of fresh air, &c., as predisposing causes, One 'M.D.,' Kensington, writes:-    

" 'There is always some slight stiffness and un- it, sincBs complained of. This ought to draw attention to tho throat, when Iho peculiar nppcar i reo of the ulcer will at onco determine it imturo. The means I use aro extremely simple, pud hitherto have been most effectual. I giva tho Ecsquicarbonato of ammonia dissolved in» little water and swoetcned, from two grains toa 1 nby of a year old, to ten grninB to au adult, ro I eating it every hour, together with as much nourishment as ean possibly bo got down ; at tho FI mo time, I rub the outside of tho throat with a f-tiong embrocation of camphor and ammonia. When this treatment is begun early and judi

lioubly continued, the diphtheria or skin, from Milich it takes its name, is rarely seen. Asta infection, there is reason to behevo that tho disenso oftenor arise, from malaria.' Tho other

BÍJS:-'The disease is so fatal, because it ¡J

mistreated. The local disease is not tho begin- ning, but tho end ; it grows out of a febrilo con- dition of the whole body, and its sourco is in tlio ti nin. Diphtheria is a new-fangled name for on cld-fafihioned disease-malignant quinsy-which in the days of our grandmothors was success- fully treated by emetics and bark, -hil is tho treatment which I havo never yet fcund fail. Lot mo give you a caso. I was telo pinpbcd to Brighton (Sussox) to soo tho daughtcr if n general officer who was suffering from this dis care. When I entered thoroomshowossittingupio bed, breathing with great difficulty, tho glands o£ tho neck wero hot and tumid ; tho tonsils on e? aminntion wore of tho colour of red velvet, but nu emetic of ipecacuanha in 15 minutes not only iclicvcd tho breathing most offectually, hut com- pletely changed tho colour of tho tonsils, and in J G minutes moro tho oxternnl- glands (ti hoso ska «nested my oycB on my approach) could not to felt with the fingers. A combination of quinina tnd prussic acid, with a repetition of the emetic, tho next day completed tho cure.'"

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