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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Aug 20, 1902

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 28, No. 34.

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MOSQUITO BITES.

The following cure for mosquito bites is given on the authority of Professor Dr. Voges, the director of the National Board of Health at Buenos Ayres. He says that he discovered it by accident during his trip to Paraguay to study the pest. He had been supplied with all sorts of remedies, among them naphthalene, an article of no value whatever against the pest, but on using it for mosquito bites he found it of surprising effect. It neutralized the poison, even when the spot bitten was highly inflamed. If fresh bites are rubbed with naphthalene, he declares, no swelling follows. The professor considers naphthalene almost a specific against mosquito poison.