Maumee express. [volume] (Maumee City, Ohio) 1837-1838, 1837-10-28

IT~CoNsUMPTIoN--We find the follow.
fling publication in the New York Com
mercial Advertiser:
The late lamcnted death of DR.. Bushe,
from that form of consumption known
as the chronic gronchittis, painfully re-
minds me of duty the subscriber owes
TO his profession, and to society, of ma
king known simple form OF treatment
that has never failed him in curing this
form o. consumption, SO destructive to
the clel " and literary professions: this
treatment is OF nearly equal efficacy in
catharral phthisic, and is a valuble rem
edy for consumption in all its forms
when in its chronic stages, and free from
any inaammatory symptoms. This
treatment is based on the pathology
Of consumption, as a generic name Of
disease.
Under the name Of consumption are
included all that variety of disease of
the lungs attended with expectoration
OF Purulent matter from the breathing
surface of the lungs connected with
emaciatioa, hectic fever, and its concom-
itants, night sweats, colIiquatve diar-
rhea &c. All the general forms of con-
sumption act upon the general health
from one common cause, the presence
of matter actingupcn absorbing surfaces,
and thus producing those symptoms
known as hectic fsuer. 1t is the presence
and violence OF this symptom Of con.
that prostrales the patient
until it more Or less ends slowly in
death. 1t the consequence of this hec-
tic fever, and not the immediate disease
of the lung. causing it, that forms a
source of vitality from consumption.
The treatment | now with reluctant
dlfidence submit, | have successfully |
used for more than twelve years; and
during that period of medical practice,
| am not aware of having lost more
than four or five patients from all the
forms Of consumption, and these were
mostly passed to that stage of disease
where the structure OF the lungs had be-
come so extensively diseased as to pre-
clude the use Of more than palliative
Cases of chronic bronchitis
were in every instance cured by it, even
when the purulent expectoraton amoun-
ted TO pints daily, with hectic fever, di.
lrrhea, cold sweats, and entire physical
The treatment is the administration
of sulphate of copper in nauseating do
'cs, combined with gum ammonica, Civ
sn SO as to nauseate but not ordinarily
o produce full vomiting; the usual dose
or this purpose, is about half grain
md live grams of the respective ingre-
llents. III a tea spoonful of waller, to be
aiken twice, and in the convalcscent sta
.es once dav.
In cases of chronic bronchitis gar
,le OF the snl phale of the copper alone
$ superadded. In this latter form OF
this treatment almost inva-
iably suspends the hectic symptoms in
few days, and the disease rapidly ad-
'ances to its final cure.
In cases Of the more proper forms
i consumption, the treatment must be
emitted frequently and again returned
o, and whenever soreness of the chest
r other symptoms OF infammatory &C.
ion exist, the treatment should be sus.
ended: as it's in the chronic state
lone, that the remedy is indicated or
seiul, that state in which the condition
T the general system. as sympathetical-
Y involved, becomes the more promin-
nt symptom, and the success Of the