Cheraw gazette and Pee Dee farmer. [volume] (Cheraw S.C.) 1838-1839, 1839-07-26

Although the remedy recommended in
the following article is not new. yet good
may result from publishing it with respecta'
bic a,testation of its efficacy. Our medical
readers, for whose benefit we copy it., will
perceive that the cases in which it proved
effectual, were not confirmed consumption ;
that is the body Of the lung was not ulce-
rated. But in most if not all the cases.
pulmonic consumption and death might
have been the result of neglect or improper
treatment. -. Ed. CH. GAz.
- From tho ". Y. Commercial Advertiser.
The late lamented death Of Dr.. Bush,
from that form of consumption known as
chronic bronchitis, painfully reminds me OF
a duty TO bis profession and to society, OF
making known a simple form Of treatment
that has never failed hlm in curing this form
Of consumption, so destructive to The clerl-
caland Literary profession. This treatment
IS of nearly equal efficacy in catarrhal
-nh.hiais. and is valuable remedy for con.
sumption in all its forms. when ia Its chron-
ic stages, and from any inaammatory symp.
tones. This treatment is based on the pa
,hology of consumption, as the generic
name for disease. ,.~ .'. go
Under the name Of ofconsumption are in.
cluded that variety Of diseases of,he lungs
attended with .expectoraiion Of puruient
matter from tho breathing surface of the
lungs, connected with emacia,ion, hectic
fever and its concomitants, night sweats,
collIquniiye diarrhea, &c. All the forms
Of consumption act on the general health
from one common cause--hle presence Of
matter acting upon absorbing surfaces, and
thus producing those symptoms known as
hectic fever. It is the presence and VIC.
lence ofthis symptom of consumption that
prosgates the patient, until it more or less
slowly ends in death. 1t is the consequence
Of this hectic fever, and not the immediate
disease Of the lungs causing it, that forms
the source Of fatality from consumption.
. The treatment now, with reluctant dItti.
dence, submit, have successfully used for
more than IL years, and dnring this period
Of fmedical psactice, | am not aware OF hav.
ing lost more than four or FIVE patients from
all the various forms of consumption, and
these were mostly passed to that stage OF
disease where the structure Of the lungs had
become so extensively diseased as 10 pre-
clude tho use Of more than palliative treat.
ment. Cases of chronic brochitis were, in
every instance, cured by j. even when the
purulent eypectoration amounted to p'nts
daily, with hectic fever, d'arrhGa, cold
sweats and entire physical prostration: :.
The treatment is the administration OF
sulphate of copper in nauseatin5 doses,
combined with gumammoniac. given so as
to nauseate, but not ordinarily to produce
full vomiting the usual dose for this pur.
pose Is about half grain, and FIVE grains Of
the respective ingredients. in a teaspoon
full Of water, to be taken at first twice, and
in the convelescent state once day.
In cases Of chronic btochitis gargle Of
the sulphale Of copper alone is superadded.
In this latter form of consumption this treat.
men, almost invariably suspends the hec.
tic symptom in a few days, and the disease
rupidly advances 10 its final cure.
r Ia cases ofthe more proper forms ofcon.
sumption the treatment must be in,ermitted
frequently and again returned 10 and when
over soreness of the chest, or other syn'pS
toms Of ofinhamatory action exist, the treat
neut should so suspended, as it is in the
ceronic state alone that the remedy is Ind'-
Gated or useful--that state in which the
condition of the general system as sympai'
theticaily involved becomes the more Prorni'.
nen. symptom, and the success OF the treat
ment depends chiefly upon the breaking: up
Of This ayinprshe!ic acton Of the diseased