The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-12-02
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~ fso, howa Its Causes and its Treatment. The
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To THE EDITOR or TIN Nsw York HERALU:-
SlR-Pulmonary consumption is disease so fright
fully prevalent and fatal that all well authenticated
facts showing its durability well any information
regard to the treatment which has proved eectua ia
its cure, must be matter Of universal interest No
apology cam therefore be necessary in requesting the
The prominent fact brought out in this correspond
is that positive seated consumption of long stand
stances been cured the patients restored to health
and are now living witnesses OF the fact.
should s sae
their Statements and yet deeply rooted is the
popular conviction that consumption incurabe and
fortified so strongly 10 this conviction by the prevailing
theory among physicians that the most positive and
unilnpeachable testimomy-testimony which would
before court Of justice Or even prove the reality Of
MIRACLES very likely tn he nver5orne ana disbelieved
by obstinate Incredibly With many minis all the
ect to be reversed With such the fact that consump
ton has been cured does establish the possibility Of
% be %
irrational every reasonable person must admit, and
yet desirable Isl that more hopeful correct and
rational view of consumption should be unver sally
adopted this demand should far possible, b. met
1t may not be inappropriate, therefore, to present
hero suggestions and explanations which may
throw light upon the and Of consumption
the character of the mischief it accompshes the system
Of remedial agents which Il successful in meeting and
arresting the disease and the most efficient mode Of
poying and administering these agents In these sug
gestons the reader will discover the leading features
the plan OF treatment which has bssn attended with the
f nspy results disclosed IN n'n
those who hold the fancied claims of professional ETH
quctte to considerations Of humanity II will
nevertheless most certainly meet the Of all who
value only far they made subseryent to the al
deviation and of the ills to which esh is heir
1t should Be specially remarked that 1t is not here
proposed to deal in theoretical speculations As
intellectual pastime such speculations are well
os but @ as
deductions from facts gathered during practice and
study Of more than Twenty-Five years. exclusively de-
nation and treatment Of more than thirty thousand
Of consumption Such opportunity Of studying
and Of testing under the eve Of the practitioner the va
lue Of remedies aud the best Of applying them,
has seldom been given to any one man. Such facts, and
the rational conclusions drawn from them, 1t may be
properly claimed should both arrest attention and
command confidence.
lat. The True CAUSES AND NATURE OF CoSsUMrrIoS.-
ries among medical men. Some OF these theories have
been entirely groundess and even absurd Others have
approached more less nearly to the TRUTH but mono
OF them planted directly upon it, The practice founded
upon theories having no substantial bass either ration
q
very simplicity OF the truth has caused it to be
looked 1t really seems that in proportion to the pro.
oundness Of the minds engaged IN me invesusanon o.
the dark and inexplicable phenomena OF life for
them; overlooking entirely, as quite unworthy of no
the system in which alone they TO be found.
The immediate cause Of consumption IS invariably to
be found in the blood 1t Is there poison an inn
purity or hunor or as imperfection, by which is
meant "a absence Of some more of its healthy
constituents This poison and imperfec'ion may result
nf owsotv nd
characteristics. 1t may be hereditary faint trans
mtted from parent to child, eczema, salt rhsum,
scrofua, &C. it may result from imperfect digestion
and nutrition deranged action Of the heart the liver
the Kidneys the bowels, the sexual organs &c., from
some Infectious or malaria or from
simple cold checking Precipitation, and throwing the
ete waste matter back into the blood and the
lungs from breathing impure insufficient air, &C.
From any of these causes poison or humor in the blood
may result which may determine upon the lungs and
produce consumption. II eats into them in the form Of
ulceratons disturbs and throws into confusion the
healthy circuations and secrcions and thus occasions
the deposition Of poons foreign matter In the form
If tubercles; in1ames and disorganizes the lining
membranes Of the air passages cells as in bronchtis
works mischief in some other way.
Consumption is not then in its origin local disease
In its origin itis constitutional in its Development IT is
Let me refer TO some obvious and familiar facts in
confederation of this view.
colds Why simply the sudden closing Of the pores Of
the skin, through which in health, portion Of the
cxcrementious matter Of the system being constantly
expelled in the form of Precipitation And what is the
effect of closing these pores Evidently to prevent the
expuson Of this waste natter IL ia thus thrown back
into the body absorbed and taken up into the crcula
ton. But this waste matter IL to the healthy system
OF the rankest Of poisons 1t is felt almost instanta
neousy and often the alarm Is at once given In the con-
vulson called sneezng. What causes this sneezingf II
10 not the cold air passing through the nostr for this
Of itself win not produce sneeSng II Is the poison
thrown back from tho skim taken into the blood and in
its course through the system irritating the dencats
membrane Of the nosrils Now this poison unless OK
PEELED - liable to determine upon some one point and
frequently upon the lungs II may cause violent in-
EXAMINATION or congestion there It may rritate the
lining membranes Of the air passages but unless arrested
may pass into liberation and fatal consumption.
Again, person has the poison in the blood known
salt rheum; 1t IL out the hands, while there II Is
comparatively harmless; but It disappears from the
hands, and the lungs ct disturbed Il has
follows; there ulcers tumors or some form
skin disease which for while appears ON the surface
and then fetires and reappeArs the lungs.
Again. Consumption IL said TO be hereditary. But
what does this meant What IL Il that IL inherited IL
IL liberated lungsf Certainly not But II il yicious
poisoned condition Of the blood Years may elapse be-,
fore the lungs affected by 1t.
TINE TREATMENT CoysUMPn0N.-Tbe true course Of
treatment for the Of consumption In partly sue-
gcstet in stating its causes%nd nature. this poison
which originates the disease be neutrazed and
PEELED and the Reorganization occasoned healed is plain
consumption may be cured As this poison is in the
stituton constitutional remedies must be employed 1;
cannot be met. To neutralixe this poison, remedies
truly antdotal must be used BY sending into the cir
| culaton true antldote while at tho time the
skin the bowels and the kidneys gently stimulated
to the work Of purifying the system the poison 10 eradi-
Gated Appliances should Of be used to heal the