3424.- Peppermint-Drops and the Plague by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, Cal. · Apr 25, 1911

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 38, No. 17.

3424.— Peppermint-Drops and the Plague

By Editor

Do you think peppermint-drops would cure the plague in Manchuria? It is a little thing, but it has great virtue in it. A little injected in the arm checks poison in the blood, and a little taken inwardly. H.

We do not know. Physicians are well acquainted with menthol, the active principle of peppermint. The plague in Manchuria seems to find its seat in the lungs, and is of a pneumonic character. It is very rapid in its course, the patient usually dying in a few hours.