Delaware State journal, advertiser and star. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1832-1833, 1833-08-23

MONARY COMPLAIN L D.
TIE following communication and GER
tiicate annexed, afford fair promise OIL
! a specific against one OF the most formld
| able and obstinate of all the diseases to
which makind are liable.
To the Editor Of The Ne,o England Farmer
SIR, hope you will not think me gull
ty of flattery when | speak OF the value
to myself and the public OF your interes-
ting journal You publiCh experiments
upon the human system OF gentlemen OF
high responsibility, as well as essays,
sc. on Agriculture. On reading the cx-
periments so very interesting in pulmo-
nary complaints by DR.. Cottern IN. E.
Farmer, Vol. XII, No. 10, page l47O in
Paris, France, on patients afflicted with
consumption, I ventured to try the ex-
pertinent of inhaling the gaseous perfume
of chlorate of lime on young man, a
nephew to my wife, whose certificate &C
. companies this communications and which
took myself after his health had SO
improved as to visit me, Ia ride OF
! irn1ies.) re Is about 20 years Ut ages o
steady habits, and industrious. VISITED
: him after he had been sick five or siS
e weeks, and thought him not so sick as
p expected to find him, although much
reduced. / returned home in hopes
. should hear he was better, but every day
h brought tidings of his growing worse
: A second physician was called, gen.
tleman of emincncc of his profession
:, saw him. who informed me he feared his
! case was doubtful. Some OF my family
q visited him, the answer was he grew
a worse was wasting very fast, and accord
= ing to human view was rapidly approach
aching the close of life. All this time
:. the article above alluded to never entered
). my mind, till the yong man was in thu
:, last stages of consumption. One Sab
" bath evening, after retiring, not having
" much inclination to sleep, | was think
ing.of this distressed family, DR.. Cotter
=, ems experiment darted into my mind.--
"a The next morning spoke of it in m!
q. family-my oldest son lwho had witnes
w sed the surprising effect which chloride
n of lime had upon the corpse OF a youn'
~. man who had been dead four days an
~ brought almost sixty miles in wae
: on over rough road in a new countr!
+, one year ago in June lasD was very III
=, gent for the application to his cousin
T., Ii was procured by sending four mile
=, nv son went with ii, and administers
70 it watching through the night. Neitht
:. of us possessing any medical knowledg
+, | advised him TO use it with caution, an
If at first there was no apparatus used. Son
n was prepared by putting quarter OF
Ill pound into junk bottle, filling the DO
70 lie with soft water, shaking il little
:" letting it stand till settled, pouring it int
N a saucer, and to a gill adding hall
he much vinegar, when 1t is then tit Tor us
lie, The saucer was placed near the bed; lin
le- ing no unpleasant sensations 1t was p
ot- near to his mouth and nose, advising tn
In sick man TO shut his mouth and inha
Gus ~, the fumes through The proper orllicc
ua the lungs. A free use was made OF 1t
~ the night; the Liquid in vessel was rat
We er inconvenicns, a lag was wet, he sa
oes he received it stronger from the rag thi
ect any other way. My son left him in Il
ian morning more comfortable than he hi
,es been for several days. The use OF it W
to continued, aud the sick mans health II
proved to the establishment OF all W
nu saw him. The above, together with t
a." a. certificate, are the facts as they too
ron place; and the young mans health h
ap- improved so much in the short space
les, time that he is able to transact bushes
us, and do sorMe labor every day at the da
ma of this communities
er- hope that further trial will be ma
'1n by those afflicted with disordered lun
. uae and the result published, as the ingre'
air ent is so cheap, and the application
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