白喉是一种急性传染病,各地均有流行,以1～5岁儿童最易感。近十多年来,发病年龄更有向年长儿童及成年人推移的趋势。祖国医学很早即有关于治疗白喉的记载,其特点在于消除病人的中毒症状方面,具有显著而迅速,并超过现代医学的疗效; Diphtheria is an acute infectious disease that is prevalent throughout the country and is most susceptible to children aged 1 to 5 years. In the past decade or so, the age of onset has shifted more towards older children and adults. In the early days of the motherland medicine, there was a record of the treatment of diphtheria, which was characterized by the elimination of the poisoning symptoms of the patient, which was remarkable and rapid, and surpassed the efficacy of modern medicine;