THE CURE OF DIPHTHERIA. Dr. E. N. Chapman of Brooklyn N. Y. has discovered an antidote to the poison of diphtheria by which the per centage of deaths is reduced to less than one in fifty. Statis tics show that the percentage of recoveries in cases treated under the usual practice is about thirteen or eighty-seven out of a hundred sufferers succumb to the fell disease. Diphtheria first appeared in this country in 1858. Dr. Chapman in 1859 lost several cases and became distrustful of the regular methods. He had been using alcohol in the cure of and he determined though contrary to all
THE CURE OF DIPHTHERIA. Dr. E. N. Chapman of Brooklyn N. Y. has discovered an antidote to the poison of diphtheria by which the per centage of deaths is reduced to less than one in fifty. Statis tics show that the percentage of recoveries in cases treated under the usual practice is about thirteen or eighty-seven out of a hundred sufferers succumb to the fell disease. Diphtheria first appeared in this country in 1858. Dr. Chapman in 1859 lost several cases and became distrustful of the regular methods. He had been using alcohol in the cure of and he determined though contrary to all rules to try it in diphtheria. To his surprise several of his patients recovered. He then tried quinia and found it acted well but not so quickly. At last he settled on a com bination of the tw alcohol and quinia and with these remedies he claims that diphtheria is more amenable to treatment than many common diseases. In an epidemic such as diphtheri 1 all are affected by the morbific agent; but a few only yield to it. Mature vigorous persons have vitality enough to resist the disease. Children and weakly adults are its usual subjects. Dr. Chapman considers that there is almost always super-added a local and direct ex citing cause such as defective exercise improper diet dark rooms damp houses imperfect ventilation and poisonous emanations from decomposing filth in privies cesspoo!s sewer pipes etc. To such agencies the strongest constitu tion will soon succumb. The blood being deteriorated its crasis is impaired and its vitality lowered; and then the sympathetic nerves failing to receive due stimulus waver in their efforts to carry on the animal functions. exhausts the nerve force and induces greater injection of the blood vessels thus favoring the exudation. 'Alcohol neutralizes the diphtheritic poison sets free the nerves of animal life subdues the fever and inflammation destroys the pabulum that sustains the membrane cuts short the disease conquers its sequelte and shields
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