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Influenza Encyclopedia

ï~~were.IS ULPH UR I NSHOES.. Ito at were WILL CHECK'"FLU." state num ASSE RTS PHYSICIAN aealth but it Put a mal amount f slphur In each shoe every morning and good-by sa te Infuent& aesI This lo the remedy offered to the pea-. Spie of Atlanta by a Goorgia doctor at who has ben praccing In Dixie for as- forty years and who went through the * to fevere7demic in New Oneas ed, it His account of the sucosaful trials choqI of this remedy follows: ed a In the early eighties I moved to 'tent Lalana to practic mnedicine, and re. rnaned In the town where I frat lo Put cated for nearly twenty ye The the town In whch I oate w in the alw southwestern portion or the state and two bad large sugar nd lumber Industries, the efore I met many traveling men, will and one in particular I remember from:alt Memphia, Tenn, who told me one eve board ning that he had nursed yellow fever d cholera in all its aes, had an caly sited In burying the dead, and that wore the only precaution he ever took uas S to sprinkle sulphur in hi. shoes every maornin during the epidemic and tat he had never contracted the disease; furthermore, every one he told about it and who had tried it, not a single one ha had the disease. E-RY -187s we had aeidemi of yet low fever, and remembering what this Tay gentleman had told me I tried It not withatandin I had very little confi Li -denca In IL I s lInever reg-ret hay field lag tried It, for escaped tefever, ert a hou gh I nursed it in alt Its etagem dun field, Ing the entire epidemi. Now what has left this to do with influenta It has the rday same to do with It.that it ha to do night with yellow fever and cholerakill the Was gr. I believe when the system Is was thoroughly saturated with the sulphur as suggested, it will prevent the germs ma- of any disease from attacking th ay7-' eral tam. There Is no doubt that sulphur is to will penetrate the system readily, for oa, when: one takes aulphur in the aye-. At ter and h a silver olar In his pock I his et it will be turned black, caused by mo- the sulphuretted hydrogen, Try it and nent- see. Now It woul 4be very little tron-! rern bleto have the boys in the amps carry I out thi slesUon siid thus break up the discase whlch is ausing so much sfering ann a mny dath," ERS OVER 600 PERSONS DE AD, batcry-proucutpqolalnlg les tman 20 r cent of wheat flour utbtitute oC.r Uraiotanga1at20prct of substitutes, not moretatwo ounce enmay beercv aone mauand of, corn and rnixed bread not more than four ounces at a " * m '" will ho permitted to be eerv vbread must not be served until arter the rst coure I served, and broad or toast may not He served as a garatturenor undermet. Bacon also may not e used a a rture As to the serving or meats, which Include beef, mutton. pork, poultry and by-products, not more than one kind may o included In a singe a met lbut.ter and American cheso must not be In portions of more than one- halr un Sugar bowls, according to the regulations, must not be placed on the table and no sugar wi be oerved unless requested by th go uL The portions are not to excee nor than one teaspoonful for each menL Other orders provide that food shall not be displayed in such a manner as to cause its deterioration. Double cream on cream containing more than 20 per cent of butter fat is prohibited. Waste food is not'to be burned, but must be saved to feed animals or reduced to obtain fats. Bwy Llbrtyonds. FOCl BRINGING PEACE BY SMASHING GERMANS Continued fromI Fret Page, 2L167 Germans have been made prisoner and 600 t their guns captured, WIth. the situatlun in France and Bels um hIghy satisra tory tothe allies, the operations in Serbia and Albania likewise dal are being carried forward uccessfully. Ninh, the apital of the little kingdom after the Invasion by the Austro-Hungariane, ha been re-captured and the enemy driven to the hill north or It The AutroHungarians a slow ly ut surely cing driven northward in Albania and now are being.engaged In the region of Ipelk 30 mles nouthwcsts of Novipazar, FRONT OGERMAN a t ~njt of the ScheldtcanaT we rgained -GK possession or Motr court villag and O rea d th outskrts of Lieu-s L "In ht floual sector our troops are now Witin a few hundred yards of the Bern town and have p.tured V obrg h dFs horu na, the ou prison and the occupied greater part f lere. East of Anna office al we have progresd along the sout The o bank of the Haute De toward Cour "outh Furthr progress h been made by the face the Bri:ab northwest of ouai and retired alon h a Selle river to the region of the el 8olesrns, according to Field M ariha has beer lag'. communiation Insudi tonight leonn Several adIditonal towns have been The ofI captured and prioner hve been war off a n, in Aba Th communication follow:4 "Our r During the day local eng mn In accor tween our and the aemy' advanced gion of detnchme.nts have. contianued Ialog the are ma line of th. Aelriver. Our bridge-h ma 4e positions in the nighborhood of Sola- doned t men have been enlarged and progreas Ragar han been madeon the westbank of the tions in river above aussy and Saulzotr. ateme "There has hsen local, gfng in the "Near neighborhood of ieu Arand. We succeaft Pt'ured a number of prinoners. massd F rly tIl morning our advanced troop ncrossed e 9ennee canal at A1 b liny-A-Baa a Tcptured nearly Clad ir 2 p.sanr and ainatned their p j wn Ion iona in the face of strong counter t- wife of tack s. een ta "Northwest of Dousl we have con- the Unit nue to advance. We hold Courcelles- at 8even Le-Leni and Noyelles-Godault and are a pronluing the fine of the- aut Dule canalonthe wholeo therun Mee between Duol and Vndan-JVit. A unes her of prisoors x rcaptured h in our ope i a ntis dn hnoe GERMNS ADMIT BA CKWA RD MOVES -A -SEVERA L POINTS. T Brin, October 1..-(Via London ya The offIiia statemont lssed aby Gem-r 4U ma headquarters today reads: "Army Group of Crown Prince Rip- o inecht In the canal neclor on bcth.ule Odes of Doual and the western edge ou of Doual we are in fighting contact;vithi the enerny. Douai h ans uffered conliderab ly from enemv artillery fire and airplane bombs. "Nortieant of Canibral duringte STOPDANDRUEF?! 19 S n fw ay wthtldr int ai famd'

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