The Diamond state., 1855-07-20
From the New York Evening Mirror.
Lung Diseases-Dr. Hunter.

iiNuh PuDhS7--iiiS5tb w ia WlliVTHi sue
cess, even in cases pronounecdinoura
bic BY other modes Of treatment, seen
red a favor with the public, aud th,
medical fraternity even, seldom Youch
safcd to an innovation on medical usa
ges." Indeed, We doubt if any great
er revolution in the treatment Of 4
class of diseases, has ever occurred il
this country.
To diseases Of the lungs and chest
consumption, bronchitis, &C., the Anne
rican people have a general and, il
would seem, chronic inclination. Whe-
ther it results most from carelessness
in dress, or in diet, or mainly from a
want of care in both, as well as in hab-
its of exercise, we cannot say-but we
know, from keeping an eye to the NOR
tality bills, that lung and chess disea-
ses are the ruling diseases Of this coun-
try. And what is more, they have,
heretofore, mainly balfled the skill Of
our medical faculty, laQghinS star-wa-
ter, cod-liver oil, and all that sort Of
thing to scorn. The accession Of Dir.
Hunter, therefore, to our medical ranks,
with system of practice that promi,
scs to reduce if not obliterate the tri-
umphant power of consumption and its
cognates, is hailed with more than sat
isfaction.
DR.. Hunter is u physician, who has
ventured into the field with no less
modesty than ability, making no PEE
tensions that he has not justified by
sound argument and successful prac.
tice. Right here, in our midst, he has
met the ''incurables," and restored
them to pristine health He. lw SO
multiplied witnesses in his belalffAat
.it 2. .s.lt a.. c7st U "a : el5lsl ii-,
and been sure cof practice to his heari 5
content. But he has taken a broader
and nobler view in relation to his du>
ty, as the institutor of valuable new
system in connection with the healing
art. He has desired not only to pra,
tise it himself, but to commend it to
the medical fraternity, certain that,
when their prejudices should be over
come, they, too, would join with him
in its practice. lie wished to serve
the public in the largest way possible.
OF course we know nothing of the
medicaments used by DR.. Hunter, nor
can we discourse technically upon his
mode of treatment; We only know that
by inhalation he reaches disease as il
has never before been reached, and
that, to the patient, it is not only Gu
rative but at the same time the most
agreeable mode of treatment. Our rea-
ders have, however, been enlightened
by DIR, HIS letters more than they
would be by anything We could say.
A very able article, or summary OF his
system, appears in the March number
Of the American Medical Gazette, ed
tied by Dir. Meredith Reese. We have
not space here to copy this article, as
we would like to do, but 1t is worthy
Of the attention of every one. In in
Producing the letter to his reader, DR..
Reese says:
"We insert his (Dr. Hunter's) let
ter with pleasure, addressed as it is to
the profession, who will know how to
appreciate it. It will serve US, lnofe-
over, as an answer to mauy Of our. dis
tant subscribers who have written TO
us for information on the subject. They
cannot fail 10 discriminate between pf.
Hunters scientific yiehs in regalA e
diseases and remedies, and the paltfy
charlatanism Of certain quacks, whose
grandiloquent advertisements Of lung
vapor in packages" &C., merit only
contempt, and whose employment OF
Inhalation is calulated to bring tho
practice into disrepute.'
The Herald says, in copying the a.
bove mentioned letter:
telhe article is clear, well written
and sensible, and is addressed by DR..
Hunter to his brethren Of the profess
sion at large, as an explicit declara'
tion Of the principles on which he prac-
tices in a speciality, with aekno"led-
ged benefit to large and widedly eA-
tending circle Of patients, both from
this city and the surrounding districts, /,
His avoidance of every indication Of
empiricism, and his rational diagnosis
Of all affections of the throat aud lungs,
with this very successful application Of
remedial agents in the shape Of medi-
Gated yapor, have caused DIR, Hunter
to be already patronized BY come Of
our leading physicians, and his house
is daily crowded with patients.
But our purpose, in this article, was
not to introduce special testimony, or
to arguesDr. Hunters claims in any
special way. With thousands Of others,
we have been interested in his system,
more by the universally of its success
and the blessing it promised, than on