Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1844-11-07
Fre~ the National fatea.rszrer.
URE FOR WHOOpING COUGH.

! .Nessrs. Editors;--I take the libar,,
OF offering for publication IN the Naaona
Ilntelligeucer Chat the information may
be as extensively circulated as possible
the fact that cure has heen discovered
for that mos, distressing disease. the
,chooping cough. You are probably aware
that this disease has always been consid.
cred as incurable that il will take its
course as 10 the time OF lis continuance
and that nothing bu, slight palialion can
30 expected from remedial ueatmen,.-- -
SO universally does this opinion prevail
tina, medical advice is seldom called in
unless other diseases OF sffrctions super
vene or are induced by the whooping
cough. Il has. however, been my good
fortune 10 become possessed Of sn also
Lutte remedy. curatipe If this Disease !;
and do think that the fact ought to be
universally known; humanity dems nds
~. Every parent must have become ac-
quaInted by experience with tins most
affecting malndy: indeed every parent
dreads lis appearance IN his family, no,
so much or account OF rs fatal effects
(Which, by the way, ars by no means
rare, as every board If health in the
country reports more or less deaths from
it every month, in Baltimore tho deaths
from whooping cough reported by the
board of health have been two TO four
per week for several weeks past IS from
the intense distress il en6icts on the little
patients themselves, and also upon the pa.
rents for six or eight weeks. The ordi-
nary duration OF the disease is from nine
weeks TO three or fonS months, its most
favorable condition requiring. N warm
dry weather, about nine weeks. The
remedy ! possess has Invariably cared
the dis ase IN few days. 1t always re.
lieves all the distressing symptoms during
the first twenty. -four hours, and of.en al.
ter the first dose. My medical brethren
ask Why | do not make public SO valua-
bic remedy? They say it is unprofeS
sionai to keep il secret. have several
reasons Tor keeping it secret for The pre-
sent First. the principal ingredient IN
tho remedy is no, kept in any apothecary
or other store in the country II is no, an
article of the matcria medica; it is very
rolaiile and canno, DO kept active except
in the form in which prepare il. Sc
cond, | can see no good reason why
should not be entitled to the benefit Of
any discovery | may make in medicine
as well as in any other art. Blu, | am
not disposed TO withhold frcm suffering
humanity so valuable remedy, and there
fore offer it to the public. 1t will cost
but one dollar for sufficient, quantity for
one patient, besides the expense oil trans
portatlon,
The remedy is in the form Of a most
pleasant cordial; all children are fond of
II; it can do no harm under any crcum-
stances. Although it has MT been tried
in other diseases, the few TIL
ais that have been made of It induce the
the. il is equally beneficial in
cholera infantum or summer complaint,
in chronic forms Of Group, and all spasmo
die affections of the gloihs and air passa
ges. la the few of the last mentioned
affections in which il has been used the
relief il afforded was prompt aud efficient.
Orders for it may be addressed to the
subscriber from any part of the United
States.
GIDEON B. SMITH, NJ. ID.
Baltimore, Maryland.