The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1854-06-28

much Z IA d;cat a.n, and though 1t Is %
par my p~olessioe duty to give advice
rsked, have jus; 3gd my sympn.hies strof
y moved by rad in Dostcn paper yn.r
rematks respectaL cough, and your Hurts
to alleviate it, II a, mn iu,peed 10 say word,
although lave rot thc pleasure q z personal
arqu lntance will you. ln dong So, | must
throw myself uroI your kindness FIR gpHer-
our ppreciafion of my motives. The remarks
to which refer. evinces struggle TO evolve q
satisfactory theory OF your difficulty, Ga thing t9
which fancy you have never yet attained,) and
an apparent snlicitude to grasp any probable
form of relief, which it was really painful to me
to witness. have the feeling Of one who sees
blind man groring for a coveted treasure
when he almost touches il! You instinctively
guide his hand 10 the prize.
"Ynu say, sut cough itself, have long he'd
an im3raving estimate II IS remoDaL Of the
mute iat diScase aud the medicinal opjate
which stills il, is calling of the dog from the
unexpected enemy. In that you give the real key
to the most successful treatment of pulmonary
disease, and one which | hope to live long
enough to see generally admitted 1t IS the et-
tort of nature TO cxrel tn 'mqte,ias morbi, as
the books hay, il, but TO which she does
not res, ,rt until another ard the nam source Of
relief has been partly closed that Is, The sbir.
In every Aeathy man, fve-eights OF all whirh
is taken into The system, passes out through the
skin. Weigh yourself il the morring, weigh
the solids and fluids consumed through the day,
and weigh yourself at nig,t, and you weigh no
more than IA The ncranIi and yet what has
Passsu asrs oy ~, na. ral evacuaiians ol
,na h,,,toa has 10 what hay'bpen consumed:
w., o.nnn, sn maInly pas-ed of ~ the kin
L;n doas .r,,, man In your condition whose
o." ~ ling Ike this amount of work
odo-,, mo-, hHk am going TO recommend thn
~, mao cure. There is reason Il, ali
- Si. ih,,an had been intended for fisb no
and sns tss have been supplied wi:h scales
IT,, =. aa ases Ike y 'u-s the skin doe I
"n,oa, a.ar Se ~, and until il does, thnua h yon
,h,,in no ro,;ef fnn,afns and ov,r seas, you will
H. rh,; What 1t does, is done Unequal.
,ho AZ swea's at night and burning
1T s,;. This 'material Of disease
"",In .nr +" .'s,ns ye'I your strength, and s.erp
- 49,, -, by the lungs, and wficu,
u, u, '''ef s'ase' It u,Ielieved, will fnd exi; bv
."e ooweis 10 ~ cur 'p1s.srEga, ought TO 90 out
,"'"'si NV, :ne ly6y insensible perspiration
"ne" '"i' 70 ",de to go, the cough is diminish
eo III "ofa' 1e exhaiation from the. lungs
and The cu'aneous pel,xiration are rec;n,ocaI
As one increases, the oNsr is. and mnsi +. d.,
mlnished. Hence it is that ~ an, &c IN NJ =, -
snmptve patients will tell you Ma, .tbey took
cold, Ii. e., suffered from checked perspira,,onl
'and have cough, ETC., ever since. Their akin
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that such patients are relieved n summer and
in warm climates. The cu'aneous secretion IS
increased, and there is less TO b. thrown fron,
the system by the lungs or baWtls, On the
same principle, damp, wet We 5ss,. sbRhlng n
b andy, bark, or other astrn ms, which 9nitt-
ish the perspration, aggrava,1 al their trat le
1t is on thi. account, also, that ipeca 10 wl.,ef
you allude as the eff. ingredicn, q most
cough mi xtures, bei1s almost always cuu,gu.ed
u.
the skin, relaxing it, as well as by exciting cx
pectoraton Nature has given you most "a.
pacous outle' for 'expelng your enemy which
you neglect, allowing it to seek cgress by only
one-the lungs.
Zone other fact, in c~as like yours, is of
vital importance to ro,ios and that is, that the
system is surchargcd- rEeFfinwing with acditv.
| The patient bss been the habltual use Of acids
vinegar, pickles, etc. Or sweets ard articles
such coffee, etc whleh become acid in the
system The perspiratlan is acid the breath
has almost invariably odor--his liren has
| the same--he has acd eructaIors rive lini m
emetic, and the mouth and fauces are almost
excoriated by the ac-imony If the Contents Of
the stomach.
| "Adnt these fac's, yeu say, ard what is the
! crncluson OF the whole matter? l. is this; tair
n warm alkaline bath, say twice week--cold
spongng won't do it. If you have an aaccEsidr,
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tnat time, and be in your bath when it comes.
lfthe SIX n is moist and persplrng, my vord for
it, You will have no fever TINT day Soar 10
trouble to be as tn roughly dry when you leave
the bath as when you entered i!
| Next-but not second in Importance
and day surrounded the chest with soap jark-
e,, made of flannel, and spread with the llfErs.
brown soap, (being strongest with the akali,
melted to the coLsstepce OF thick nlst< with
| Il hnlin pDfe TAX iur
ct is worn sufficiently cl,se To The skin. The
objections of most patterns TO this are first that
they never heard OF sGch ihiur hef re- sec
ond, that ,itis nothing hn soap third that ~
doesn't smell well. l. wonId doubtless b.a
,nore readily appreciated if accompanied " II,
Latin recipe, Empiast"m S,p,atiS tnm1asi1-
MS and was purchased at 4 llar pound
The first two objections 60 r npthinr The
third is nbva,ed by al lin, a few drops ,f o /
of Bsrgamo', when The soap Is dssnyn--
/ (Thc soap ac!s On a similat principle with most
ofthe opobeldocss volatile liniments, e., &
the base Of lhcs' b. ;n- olive oil end ammon.a-
an oil and an alkali-the so7p 'ntains the'sama
principles in much more eli.ible form ioftisa
+" 70 conqner the un' xp He'd enemy. ". shin
you have first 10 allow no reinG,rcanenfs 10 en-
ter. Rigid'y avoid, in your Diet, acids cufie
and all other articles which become acid, and
use simple, pure alkali, internally TO neutra.
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; tendency to generate more.
/" If this is feasible, why have not you
/ done it in other cases? This is an anomalous
communication, and, if it will not seem indel-
icates | will answer that under this treatment
: iudiciously carried out, modified to suit pecu-
f liarilles OF different cases, have seen invaIids
, VINO confined to their beds, emacated 10
an extreme degree, without strength, without
appetite, with exhausted night sweats, will,
a harassing coughs allowing them no peace)
regain their appetite with sufficient strength
to journey here twenty or thirty miles, ard |
speak what is susceptible of proof By unin,.
, peachable testimony gained four pounds
week for eight or ten weeks successfully. /
may mention that the patient who left my office
> the moment before l took up the paper conta
ming your article which prompted ma to-
address you, has been subjected to it in part
the present week and he said Since ] was
here, have done what havn't done before
6 for year, that is to take a full, long breath
without trouble, and have had a good time
at it; my cough is nearly gone.
6 | do not mean by this, that where. the
substance of the lungs is destroyed, Gng treht.
8 ment will reorganize them with new material,
but do mean, that where it has been resofted
to sufficiently early, it has been attended with
the most gratifying results: and where Il has
not been appealed to until it was TOO l,eA tn
entertain any hope of recovery il has elevated
the sutferings of the patient, and srender the
slopng path smooth and easy to the feet g:
And now that have written this, | should dis
trust still more than | do the impulse which
prompted IT, if, coming from stranger, the
suggestions which have made, pointed 10 any
severe or dan yerons course of reatnent--any
thing which could iniure You have peen az
observant invalid, infer, long enough t" hive
medical opinions of your own. OF them you
must Judge.
venerable old man toied through the bar
den and heat of the day IN cultivatiLg his field
with his own hand, and in sfrewing with his
own hand the promising seeds into tho fruitful
lap of the welding earth. Suddenly there
stood divine vision. The old man was struck
with amazement
81 am Splomon,' spoke the phantom, in a
1 friendly voice. " What you doing hss-r,
old man -
n you are Sol mon" replied the venerable
Iaborer, I" how can vov ask THIS In nv youth
YOU sent me tosthe ant | saw it's oecnpaft =
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