New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1846-12-14
NEW-YORK TRIBUNE.
Consumption.

ofLongevity and the Mode OF Preserving Male and
Female Health 10 Hundred Years with Twenty
eight Illustrations Designed for all Glasses of Res-
ders: By SAMUEL 5. FITCH A. NJ. NJ D; Opp. f2+
i2mo) II. Carlisle, 7O7 Broadway Burgess, Siringer
& Co. go Broadway.
Doctor. it has been well said. is man daily
required to perform miraces-to restore Health
aud preserve Life in defiance Of the daily violation
of those laws on the observance of which Life and
Health Immediately depend. And this is not the
only miracle required Of him-he is also required
aud expected to possess amount am variety OF
knowledge, with regard TO the Human rame and
It's diseases which no life time were long enough to
acquire The young physician who has given five
or six years to the study and practice OF Medicine
ia expected by his patients to recognize and fully
comprehend their various ailments, usually from
most blind aud imperfect relations of symptoms,
and to know exactly what will cure them; and his
failure is resented after the fashion Of the dolater
who chastises the craven image Of his god because
his prayers for success in some meditated robbery
or piracy have proved unavang. How we
expect that doctors shall be all they ought until
patients exhibit more common sense with regard
TO their physical iniirmities?
Real progress in Medical Science has usually
been made, must usually be made, by men OF good
talents and liberal attainmens devoting themselves
thoroughly to the contemplation OF single class of
diseases or the diseases of some single class Of
organs Such, we gather from the book before rs
has been the course Of its author Early induced
10 doubt the truth OF the current belief TINT Con
sumption once thoroughly seated is incurable he
has been induced to devote twenty years to an
earnest investigation and study OF the nature and
uses Of the Lungs, the causes and character OF
their diseases, and the means OF preventing and OF
curing those diseases. In the course OF tins lnves
tgation he has Travelled far and wide on this con
tinent and in Europe consulted the highest medi-
cal authorities and sought to profit by the experi-
ence of the humbest sufferer from diseased lungs,
visiting the most celebrated hospitals and colleges,
audinquiring into some five thousand cases OF IN
cipient Or seated Consumption. The general con-
cIusions at which he has arrived may be summary
set forth as follows
l. Consumption is manageable durable except
los with ell other dseases) in its last stages
o No person need die of Consumption or suffer
from If, because his father mother and whole FAM
ly have had it and died o., it.
s. Eight out OF ten cases OF seated Consumption
may be cured by proper treatment
d The popular modes Of treating 1t by calomel,
bleeding, blisering condning the patient ma close
warm room sending him OIL on long, dreary com
fortress sea-voyage, &c, are rs mistaken and Initial
as possible
On the point of preventing Consumption in those
hereditarily or otherwise inclined it, of curing
II in lis ncipiemt stages DR. Fitch is very lucid and
thorough-.nay iaore: weneed no assurance that he
is entirely right for Nature and Common Sense at
~. IS a., ,l,oti ha
summed up as follows Stand or sit as erect as pos
sl6le with the shoulders thrown back Oft the chest
Take abundant though not too violent exercise IN
the open ar.-the colder the better; Be careful not
10 dress nor sleep too warmly; Avoid damp, un'
healthy localities especially sleeping in Easements
and all such denominations Avoid all ply steal eN.
cess Be cheerful active energetic; Have change
of air and scene if feasible. but not To a Southern
climate rather go Nor,hward, or into dry noun
tain region Eat regularly and moderately Battle
frequently and in cold water, II possible AVOID
Night watching; Abandon injurious empoyments,
Nc &c. Along with these, so far as an Invalid can
practice them. DR. f. recommends for the care of
seated Consumption the OF the lnhaliuS Tube
invented by DR., Ramadge OF Brace aud aSupport
err to keep the shoulders and Intervals in their pro
per aud heathul positions whence they have fallen
by the relaxation OF the belts ligaments which
should support them, or by their own weaknessl
so that the Lungs shall have chance 10 recover
visor and healthiu seton by the aid OF Ma
lures owl, remedies We hear little or nothing
OF Medicines Drugs TO be gwen IN any case. II
there be snything OF this sort that we have over.
looked, Will be understood rs expressing no
opinion thereon while 10 all that is suggested As
to the means Of preventing Consumption give
our most hearty approval Il needs no seven years
study OF Medicine 10 enabe any 10 determine
that so much is right any more than seven years
study OF Law is requisite 10 teach an honest man
TO discern right from wrong.
DR., Fitch maintains that The proper and most
important use of the Lungs is To give support and
power to the Nervous System, But we cannot
farther speak OF his views. The following passage.
however in exposition Of the detestab!e, idiouc,
suicidal vulgarity OF Tight Lacing we select from
many OF like character, rs warning TO the iSno-
rsnt and simple misses who persist in that insane
depraNty and libel on the wisdom OF their Creator:
Consumption usually begins in the top Of the lungs
eu; many when the wsst has been greatly
contracted that tuberces first deposited in the bases
Of the lungs and by their soeninss produce one OF the
most utracaee and iacursble forms OF Consumption
:" | once knew lady, who a: nineteen chose 10 have
tae smallest waist IN the neiehborhood small WRISTS
then snd there considered by the young ladies
most desirable She would lace her stays tightly as
she could them by day. and al night would sleep
in them Before going TO bed she would ,ie lace
string the hedpost and. holding the other would
throw her whole weight the strings contract
The ches, very greatly indeed she soon had perfect
~Ssp or hour glass shape. She wss in no way prcdis
posed TO Consumption In few months. from perfect
hes,h. she sunk away into species OF apparent
sumption, and died Rw,ul death. from the dread
iu throes and efforts To breathe which characterized
the disease for time before she died After death
Der body was opened. when it found thst the liver
the upper par. 0: The stomach. the rdra the heart
and o6es of both lunss hs6 all grown together and in
sas way produced an unhmely aud awful desih Great
Contraction OF the bSse O. the chest vast misfortune
and utterly prevents full development of the lungs;
consequently they Will always be weak and disposed in
such persons TO Consumption
The following passage ernbodies truth which
would have prolonged thousands hives if generally
Known Let it be known henceforth:
lisa vas, 6ssiSerstuu 10 throw the hafuors out