Semi-weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1852-1853, 1852-05-05
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gentleman of Savannah, who speaks confidently
of the merits of the prescription, having seen its
beneficial effects many cases in which 1t has been
tested by actual experiment. He desires that the
remedy should be made known for the benefit OF
those who may be afflicted with bronchitis. The
article is taken from the New York Advertiser:
"The late lamented death ofDr Rush, from that
form of CONSUMPTION known as chronic bronchitis,
painfully reminds of duty the subscriber owes
to his profession and to society of making known
simple form of treatment that has never failed
him in curing this form of consumption, destruc-
tive to the clerical and literary professions This
treatment is nearly of equal efficacy in catarraha
in all its forms when in its chronic stages and free
from infiamatory symptoms. This treatment is
based on the pathology of consumption, as the
generic name for disease.
Under the name of consumption are included
that variety of diseases of the lungs attended with
expectoraton as purulent matter from the breath
ing surface of the lungs connected with evacuation
hectic fever, and as concomitants, night sweats
colliquative darrhoea, &c. All the forms of con-
sumption act on the general health from one COM
cause, the presence of matter acting on absorb
ing surfaces, and thus producing those symptoms
known as hectic fever 1t is the presence and vio-
lence of this symptom of consumption that pros
trates the patient, until it less slowly ends
in DEATH 1t the consequence Of this hectic fever
and not the immediate disease OF the lungs causing
it, that forms the of fatality from consump-
ton.
The treatment now with reluctant diffdence
submit, 1 have successfully used for more than
twelve years. and during that period of medical
practice, am not aware of having lost more than
four five patients from all the various forms Oh
consumption, and these mostly passed to that
stage of disease where the structure of the lungs
had become so extensively diseased to preclude
the use of more than palliative treatment Cases Of
chronic bronchitis were in every instance cured by
it; even when the purulent expectoraton amount
ed to pns daily, with hectic fever, darrhea, and
entire physical prostration.
The treatment is the administration of sulphate
| of copper, nauseating doses, combined with gum
ammoniac given so as to nauseate, but not ordna-
rily to produce full vomiting the usual dose for
! this purpose about half grain Of sulphate Of
copper, and five grains of gum ammoniac, in tea
spoonful of water to be taken at first twice, and in
the convalescent stages once a day.
In cases of chronic bronchitis, gargle of the
sulphate of eonper alone is superadded. In this
latter form of consumption this treatment almost
invariably suspends the hectic symptoms in few
days, and the disease rapidly advances to its final
cure.
In cases of the more proper forms of consump-
tion the treatment must be intermitted frequently
and again returned to ; and whenever soreness OF
the chest or other symptoms of infammatory action
exist the treatment should be suspended it is in
the chronic state alone that the remedy is indicated
useful that state in which the general SYSTEM
as alphabetically involved, becomes the more
prominent system, and the success of the treat
ment depends chiefly on the breaking up the SYM
pathetic action of the diseased lung on the more
healthy tone of the stomach, and increasing its di
gestipe power. and likewise causing, during nau-
| hoalt
of blood through the lungs. It's curative powers
are more Immediately attributable to these effects of
its action. But theory apart, the treatment is
based on more than ten years experience of its cura
tive advantages in the proper treatment of mucop-
urulent and purulent expectoration.
Having left a profession that more nearly than
any other approaches the pure duties of humanity
but which has nearly ceased in this country to be
honorable profitable, have little motive in expo
sing myself to that certain rdicule that follows the
annunciation that consumption may be cured, but
the assurance fpractical expernce and the desire
| of making public means of saving life in one OF
its most frequent and unwelcome exits
ED. @. COOPER, M. D."
ESTIMATES OF Fashionable HAPPINESS. The
Duchess of St. Adams fascinating actress, OF
good common sense, who married first banker
and then q Duke. She had seen poverty in the
most trying well the more tolerable of its
shapes, and we'll prepared to Judge of high life
by comparison. She thus speaks OF it in her me-
moirs:
Few persons have seen so much of the various
| aspects may say eXtremes-of life as myself
the difference between great poverty and great
wealth but after all, this docs not by any means
constitute the chief and most important distinction
between the high and low states. No. the signal
the striking contrast is not in the external crcum-
stances, but in the totally opposite minds Of the
two classes to their respective enjoyment of ex-
istence The society in which I formerly moved
was all cheerfulness all high spirits all fun, frolic
and vivacity. They cared for nothing, thought of
nothing, beyond the pleasures of the present hour
and to these they gave themselves up with the
keenest relish. Look at the circles in which l now
move Can anything be more weary, stale, fiat
and improbable" than this whole course of life
| Why, one might well be on the treadm as
toiling in the stupid, monotonous round of what
they call pleasure but which is, in fact, very cheer
less and heavy work. Pleasure indeed! when all
merriment, all hilarity, all indulgence of our natu
raj emotions if they be Of joyous nature, are de-
clared to be vulgar. There can be no cordiaty
! where there is so much exclusveness and primness
No; all is GOODNESS, reserve, and universal ennui
even where this starchness of manner is unaccompa
MED by any very strict rgors in matters of conduct
Look, now, at those quadrille-dancers in the othel
room; they have been supping; they have beer
drinking much champagne as they liked the
band is capital the men are young and the girls
are pretty and yet did you ever see such crawling
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