The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-01-27
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4 FEW WORDS OF FRIENDLY ADVICE TO THE
"A consumptive.-His dangers and his remedy.

IA c0nsumptive.-hH dangers and his remedy.
ny $. rnCH, OF NO. TIA BROADWAY NEW YORK
When published the first edition Of my six lectures
diseases OF the lungs and she laws Of lifs" the
sally thought to be incurab. Physicians
it, and the people so believed it, Some physicians more
bold than their brethren did indeed venture to suggest
that In its earliest stages and when not hereditary
sometimes arrested, and the patient saved. But
these rare exceptions were contested to be puzzle
They threw no light the OF cure, checred
by single ray Of hope the blank midnight Of despair
which rested upon the poor faet victim Of consumption
Then thousands who might have been cured died OF this
disease because nothing done TO them. II
considered useless to doctor for incurabe disease
had demonstrated in my practice that consumption
was not even In advanced stages ncurabe and, with
view to dspel possible, the darkness and which
everywhere prevailed with reference to the true uses Of
the lungs the real nature and OF consumption
and 10 point out the means Of published the vol
ume to which have referred; and it Ia of
sincere grat ,aticn that most hopeful change has ia
ken place In the public mind this subject. Phys
clans forced TO yield the point, AMI confess that
sumption be cured Its durability Is even taught in
of the medical schools and the glad spread
ing far and wide the people that there Is hope for
the despairipg consumptiye
But with this 1ghtipg Of his fears" has sprung up
another danger to the consumpve wl:h threatens to
be almost equally disasterous with the belief that there
is help for him. IL Is the multitude of specifics and
speciates which swarming out upon the public, all
protesting to cure consumption. Amid this mut,form
quackery the consumptye Ia liable to be bewlderedto
lose his confidence in all remedies to be cheated out
Of his time and his lite. The evil IL so much In sny
ties at least most OF them; but rather In the fact that
they are inert and useless. While they do little harm,
they OF benefit and time wasted in using them
in which the patient might be cured by Efficient RENE
Dies and he wakes up to the fact he has been cheated
only TO find his day Of hope is passed.
There Is more hurtful and pernicous imposture In
medicine than that of als the pretence that all
diseases any disease in all its forms Of deveope
he y s same
no more uImitisated quack, than the some remedy"
man.
these receptions. For instance he will find in every
apothecary shop dozen more specifics for consump
ton each one announced TO be perfect remedy for all
forms of disease Of the lungs failing cnre an
II he tries any Of them he may perhaps find his cough
should not waste his precious time with them
1t may be he has faith In these patent medicines
but there is ono which he believes cannot dssppont
him. His physician recommends it, IL Is cod liver
oil This oil has remedial virtues. Years before II came
into gene raj used it, and learned It's value in
consumption long before physicians regarded with any
favor but s curative properties are vastly overraed
II Is a nourishipg diet easily assimlated and has
slight medicinal quality but il will no. alone cure con-
sumption. Trust 10 1t and IL viii disappoint you. It
has disappointed thousands; and, though 1t has had
great popularity, Is already beginning to decline in
public estimation and will, doubt, fall quite
into disuse except when employed in connection with
other remedies.
The inhalation Of indicated vapor directly upon the
lungs is In rome exceedingly effective mode of
to abuse. Too much may be expected from it. The
danger just Ia that consumptives will be brought to
rely upon medicated inhalation to meet all the conditions
OF diseased lungs that other accompanying diseases will
be neglected and that thus will disappoint those who
resort it. There condition OF the lungs which
the treatment BY inhalation may generally, perhaps al
ways, be employed with advantage But there is not
one case in ten thousand In which IL should be used
alone fact have never seen case that did not re-
qure other remedies than those used in inhalation and
other modes Of administering them than by inhalation
would most earnestly warn the Invalid not to be in.
duced to place confidence In this treatment, winch
must be betrayed. The consumptve has usually no
time to waste In experiments H needs the right treat
ment now. He cannot retrace ground once passed
over Every hour he spends in the OF remedy
which does him no good an hours advantage given to
the disease, which he may never recover. Do not be
cheated by this speciality
But do not misunderstood me. am not condemning
inhsstion properly employed and in proper cases.
employ It myself, and have employed it for years with
great benefit to my patients But this experience has
taught that while 1t Is valuable aid treating
SUMPTION it will usually fail OF success and at
the consumptive when emp Logged alone
GATHERING THE THROAT FOR THROAT DISEASE.
There has come into vogue within few years most
HAZARDOUS and deceptive treatment Of the throat which
is destined to have It's hour OF popularity and then f.
into disuse with many Of It's kindred :" one remedy
the throat and wndppe with nitrate silver. II has
become common among many to refer all disorders Of
and at whether percepbly diseased not II there
10 cough or irritation about the neck chest the eau.
terzng swab thrust into the throat There
where this caustc Is useu but IL shosd be used
without the most careful and efficient precautions to
prevent driving the disease Of the throat upon the lungs
II true liberation OF the throat often arrested
by it. This however, is not to the disease but
only to close the issue at the point it Is being de-
veoped II is still in the system and will inc yitaby re-
appear either the throat or the lungs In hu ndreds
OF the lungs take the disease, and the scene
ends in consumption and death. ] repeat 1t Is dan
gerous and deceptive practice land the nvad should be
warned against 1t.
might enumera,e other forms of this oone remedy
species of qusckery but the above sufficient for IL
lustaton Unless you would be cheated into your graves
AVOID ali lone remedy" treatment.
THE MISTAKE
OF all the perils to which the poor comsumptive Is sub
Ject that OF being deceived 20 his true condition
the most common and the most fatal. The disease is
itself deceptive and generally involves the lungs in Ill
ceration and cecay long before the patient imAgnes
possible that he "has the consumption But the great
est evil Is that his stefan does unteceve him un
til the sttution 10 all broken down the lungs mass
OF dteae and the sufferer just stepping into the grave
IT is most amentable truth that, as general thing
physicians disguise from their patients the fact that
their lungs diseased long after disease has fastened
itself there; and many Of them, charitabiy believe,
the alarm Mt the first approach OF the enemy and
TIN ely TO off ts attacks thousands might
be saved who now fall it's victims.
And now, dear reader whoever and wherever you may
be, let me- with the earnestness and socitude Of bro
ther, againgst this terrible d.uson against
security which II false Is certainly fatal Have you
ever lost relatives by consumption, thus warning you
that Its faint may be running in your veins Have you
n narrow, contracted chest and stopping shoulders
Are you troubled with shortncss OF breath Do you
find yourself out Of breath In going up sta r. or up
hhR 10 you have occasional pains in the chest
through between the shoulders under ulder
tladeS Have you cough, from any cause, that has
followed you more than two weeksi Are you subject 70
with occasional habitual feeling of structure across
the chestl 10 you have the dyspepsia, or sluggish
liver, with occasional cough or or LADY, IL there any
arrangement Of the famale organization, with some
times coughr Are you habitusy costive and inclined
to coughg Have you bed rom the lungs tbrostS 10
you take cold easily, ara when you have eoes GO
TO the lungsS II you have any these Indications be
warned, beg you, that you are the
sumption or already have II. Neither yourself your
friends may have taken the alarm. But there s GER
tanly for IT, You just where the dsease
may be easily averted. But few months weeks may
find you givsn up by friends and ply siciansto die
And yet II be- weeks months before your hyscan
trends VIII tell yeu that have the umption.
Huf " nv ~ haNa IN fhaa h ola. aN
sons, would not have the confirmed consumpiive
Despair. Consumption Is not necessarily incurable,
even in hs advanced stages Nine has been the plea.
10 witness the restoration 70 perfect heath Of
numb.rs who have BEEN pronounced incurabe by
physicians and friends, aud had we / nigh des
paired Of lie themselves. Still should ven.
fur nnd HINT In be-.