Brimstone history?

[Oblivion582]

So after telling my dad about brimstone being a purifying agent back in the old days, he seems to think that its bullcrap. So I was wondering if anybody knows of any websites talking about how the greeks used brimstone? Maybe after I read it from a few different websites, he'll believe it.

[rjsurfs]

There are many on the internet... here was my first Google hit:

http://georgiagulfsulfur.com/history.htm

[skydreamers]

http://georgiagulfsulfur.com/history.htm

Excerpt:
Sulphur was used by pagan priests 2,000 years before the birth of Christ. Pre-Roman civilizations used burned brimstone as a medicine and used "bricks" of sulphur as fumigants, bleaching agents, and incense in religious rites. Pliny (23-27 A.D.) Reported that sulphur was a "most singular kind of earth and an agent of great power on other substances," and had "medicinal virtues" (Cunningham 1935:17). The Romans used sulphur or fumes from its combustion as an insecticide and to purify a sick room and cleanse its air of evil (Cunningham 1935). The same uses were reported by Homer in the Odyssey in 1000 B.C.

[skydreamers]

sorry Bobby, I didn't notice that you had already posted....!!

[seminole]

Makes sense. Down in the "black swamps" where the gators like to be, the air can become sickly and sulfur is used to this day to kill the germs.