TREATMENT OF DISEASES, 63 



" The marvellous success which has attended my treatment of scarlet fever 

 by sulphur induces me to let my medical brethren know of my plan, so that 

 the^ may be able to supply the same remedy without delay. All the cases in 

 which I used it, were very marked, and the epidermis (outer or scarfskin) on the 

 arms, in each case, came away like the skin of a snake. The following was 

 the exact treatment followed in each case; 



" The patients were thoroughly anointed twice daily with sulphur ointment 

 [the sulphur ointment used was made by the London Pharmacopoeia as follows: 

 sulphur, 4 ozs. ; lard, % lb. ; oil of bergamot, 20 minims (drops); mixed]; giving 

 5 to 10 grains of sulphur in a little jam, or jelly. 3 times a day, according to 

 the age of the child and severity of the case. Sufficient sulphur was also 

 burned, twice daily (on coals on a shovel), to fill the room with the fumes, and, 

 of course, was thoroughly inhaled by the patient. 



" Under this mode of treatment each case improved immediately, and none 

 ■was over 8 days in making a complete recovery; and I tirmly believe in each; 

 It was prevented from spreading by the treatment adopted. Having had a large 

 experience in scarlet fever last yeaV and this, I feel some confidence in my own 

 judgment, and I am of the opinion that the very mildest cases I ever saw do 

 not do half as well as bad cases do by the sulphur treatment, and as far as I 

 can judge sulphur is as near a specific (positive cure) for scarlet fever as pos- 

 ■ible." 



Remarks. — I can see no reason why the milk, as Indicated under the head 

 of milk in diarrhea, dysentery, etc., may not be given with the sulphur treat* 

 ment; I believe both to be good; and as I see the medical journals speak with 

 such eonfidence of Dr. Pigeon's sulphur treatment, I place also great confi- 

 dence in it, and recommend it most heartily, 



2. Scarlet Fever, Sulphurous Acid Treatment of.— Dr. L. 

 Waterman, of Indianapolis, Ind., in an epidemic there, in 1876, gives his erpe- 

 rience in the use of sulphurous acid. He says: 



" I early adopted an anti-zymotic (anti-poisoning) principle, the administra- 

 tion of 10 to 30 drops, every 2, 3, or 4 hours, of sulphurous acid, diluted, 

 in a little water. I treated eleven severe cases. The ten treated after its adop- 

 tion recovered, " 



3. Scarlet Fever, Simple Remedy, or Warm Lemonade for. 



—An eminent physician says he cures 99 out of every 100 cases of scarlet fever 

 by giving the patient warm lemonade with gum arabic dissolved in it. A cloth 

 wrung out in hot water and laid upon the stomach should be removed as rapidly 

 as it becomes cool. 



Remarks. A writer in Good Health gives the philosophy of the above 

 treatment, with the warm lemonade, with an addition (which I know to be val- 

 uable), the wet hot sheet, or pack, over or around the whole body, guaranteeing 

 that not one in one hundred will die of scarlet fever, if this treatment is pro- 

 perly carried out. He says 



4. Scarlet Fever, Unnecessary for a Child to die with it.— 

 " It is as unnecessary for a child to die of scarlet fever, as it is that it should be 

 blind with cataract. Let us see: At any time before the body has finished its 

 Ineffectual struggle we are able to help it, not by wonderful medicines, but by 

 the knowledge of anatomy, and the application of common sense. * * * » 

 Undress the child and place it in bed at the very first sign of sickness. Give it, 

 if it has already fever, sourish warm lemonade, with soma gum arabic in it. 



