| contributor, Littell's Living Age — Volume 143…
“ In extreme cases, when the fungus was too nearly closing to allow the gargling, he blew the sulphur through a quill into the throat, and after the fungus had shrunk he gave the gargle. If the patient cannot gargle, take a live coal, put it in a shovel, and sprinkle a spoonful or two of flour of brimstone upon it; let the patient inhale the fumes, and the fungus will die. Brimstone kills every species of fungus in a man, beast, or plant, in a few minutes. ”
