The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-06-27
experience IN hospital practice Your Kind attention 70
this will be greatly appreciated BY yours

e.psresss IN hospital practice Your hind attention 70
- - : N' l. j. KORAN, ND.
MApnos, Wiz March %. 1855.
Dr. HusrKR.-Dear sr:-I write to you In behalf OF
Mrs. F., wife OF OF Governor F., Of this city She
1,s ssss asISr sssn yeIs sooa dsssp
ton Of the disease and its treatment Ia the Home Jour
NAL che In anxious TO mske trial of your mode OF cure
Fer freshmen has BEEN far, homeopathic bat with
accomplish speedy cure WIN be gratefully received by
the fsmiy' and yours very t JxyyEs GROSS ND
To TIE EproR OF rnx FREzxAs's JOURNAL -
Mr.. sHAw-DeAr SIR II think many will hereafter
sgres with that the public under great oogs-
lions to you for calling Their attention in paper Of
balation, prsctised by DR.. Robert Hunter o. New
YORK; and for the valuable extracts accompanying 1t,
is in which almost every family In our lana has
special interest SO rapidly Is this disease increasing
fearful facts Consumption has long been the oppro
hrium OF the medieal profession No candid physician
atten ptng 70 battle with this tyrant disease After
practice Of twenty three years am myself entirely
xirg 70 male the concession. the public also nave
poripRly for relief from the grasp Of ths
destroyer Hence the almost universal resort 20 nos
trums end pBnaceas which IN mir Minis in hun
dr.d have cssppointed the poor victims and left them
before And yet an innate Consciousness
belief ezsts in the public mind that there whsr
Ismeoy-yts cure for this fearful malady and that
&c
tier improve will render 1t almost certsin
have during the past ss';on enjoyed the privilege
and happy In being able to attest to his kind and
eeptl*msnly qualities a. man, Is also to the candor
GEEK bis advice From tire several interviews and
conversations which lad with him on the subjsct
generally well to his particular treatment by in
haa,ion, believe him to be q OF science and deep
researcb and that he thoroughly his sub
Treated aeceronS to the psps,suar
That 10, the inbaiDg mixtures vary with the varying
aspects Of each particular case also met at his rooms
and had conversation with several Of his patients who
had been longer shorter time under treatment ami
the results were such to afford encouragement and
would not, by these remarks intend to convey .hs
idea that all Of consumption will be cured
in which THE treatment 10 used But what would say
ia that believe that ordinary of consumption,
with inveterete stomach liver disease
end where the remedies are seasonaby used, may be
cured in at least nine out ten and sasss
too the ordinary remedies would fail entirely to
to second your worthy efforts to give heht aud afford
hope to the suffering ones around us and II 1t shoaid
eoHaSss in any degree to TINS end h b amply
Cooperstoun, Dec. Is, 1854.
TO THE EpIron OF THE NEW YORK DAILY TINES
SR-Some months SINCE while suffering from affes-
ton Of the lungs induced, at the suggestion OF
and as 70 III s the On
his reasoning that Immediately consulted him in my
OWE case Fer more than year previous to this time
Of ,eFef even to spending winter in the West Iudes,
without obtaining more than very temporary benefit.
About months have elapsed since first made trial
Of Inhalation, and have now NO hesitation in stating
that have obtained great benefit from Or. Hunters
Is doy sa1 ali
essenAl sefshness, and promptly and gratefully rendr
him this public acknowledgment:
an glad to that band the profession
beginning to ADMIT the merits Of inhalation and to pab
hcy advocate it in TIE medical jour- ais. have seen
tended with extraordinary success, I'D possesses tho
highest claims to public attention. SIMILAR results must
Of others who have had little or no experiences in the ad
inisratioD Of medicines In this Indeed, it il
to Le feared that injudieous apartments win lead in
many instances to injury and disappointment rather
than ben et for elm this practices u.s. requires
degree Of experience discrimination which, untor.
tunately, the general practitioner can rarely attain
Considering that consumption has hold its fatal career
through all preceding centuries and that all the modes OF
to what can tie valid look for health not to inhaa
ton TO me, this seems the only hope science ana
The disease win not die out Of its own Accord meai
:'chsnte Of ens,e5 is faliacy upon which too many
human hopes have already been sacIiAcei.
The history Of the PAST il but record OF fruitless
peIinents and from beginning end there not
ho o. :. '
hopes have become petr6ed by disappointment ana
try to i've when the remedy malady Is bsfore
Many will visit for their friends experiences, without
Alas such doomed to lssrn their own folly ia their
own fate. While waiting for others to b. cured, they
lose the precious time that would have saved
Although long tince proposed, it is only tina In
haston be said to been reduced to system OF
practice adapted to the phases o. pulmonary dis
snce and able advocacy Of Dr. Robert Hunter this treat
Dent iebted for its introduction into the United
with The profession the public it already at
taiDed by its success. few years hence 1t win be
gaIded as equal to The brightest discoveries OF medical
II Ihavs written earnestly, it is because judgment,
what have observed in Others and what have expert
enced in my person. all units to make feel that
the bops OF the consumptve in iahaiaon and that
none oue to despair Of recovery while the
can add any thing for information to what have
written, either personally or BY letter. it will afford
SEArY &c wnts
NEw York, Nov. 8, 1854
TIE inferences to be drawn from this interesting
correspondence are at once conclusive aId self
evident the utter inadequacy Of tue old treatment
-wbet or practjsed under the auspices of the alo
nhbS hoaeqRs s or water cure scoOs l. fully
special attention ia the weight Of evidence 70 prove
that nbalation az syttemadzed mode Of treatment
YVES altogether unsnowo 70 the profession previous
testimony hat 1t Was not prsctised In the hospitals
ntT demonstrated In the cole ges, nor mootsd in
medical periodicals., nor treated Of tn books, nor
u.ed II placsice, up TO Tie time Of my pubic advo
been practising 1t in t1s country with special .en
ton ard signal success. / AN thus n paa,ic be
cause rnsny practitioners in the city and elsewhere
moved BY that miserable envy, IN such contrast with
the egCiIg correspondence, endeavor to insinuste
themselves into The practice of insala,ion-not In
straightforward manner, by "givlag credis wners
it 10 due" but by ticking credit to themselves at my
exItrse. FDc,Dg the common sense CT the people
resptnd,rg universally TO my views 80 set foiti
publicly, they pretend to use aud 10 have usei
system Of treatment cf which ey are utterly igno-
INT having either the K; owlsdge u experience
If it sufficient TO ena,le tsem to use Il with Judi
ciCIsies Or any degree OF success.
IL will be observed that many Of my c1rrespon
dtnfs, fully impressed with tte importance of my
We've, VINE to me for information, wishing to OBJ
tain tie materials end formula used In my pra .tice
Mott gladly would accede to their wishes could
d. en- 1t consistent with the interests Of this bra1ca
Of my profession to wAicn have devoted such spe-