Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1855-05-11


added, the victims of this single diseas,
swell to 10000 year! What an army
Picked from the choices All sunderet
from life untimely, and leaving iulin
itely more blight and sorrow behint
Than would pehsps twice or thrice III,
number whnm any other pestilenc,
would have selected, The magnitude %
the evil places the question OF the remed,
before all others that pertain to the heal
ing art
shall speak Of Inhalation, therefore
very earnestly, not as apaiiaiIve mere
", but as far more las remedy. Al
ter long and patient use, my experience
allows me to say, | know 1t to be such
and knowing this, should be crlmlna
not 10 present j, TO the public With n,
other feeling towards my professional
brethren than tina, ofrespec,, shall Vel
address what | have To say to the popu
ar mind. for II is the great multitude Of
sufferers, pressing FAST through the gate
Of death. who heed to hear words of hope
Ii Is not denied that consumption is a
general disease, needing Constitutional
treatment but ii has also local devel-
opment in the lungs, first IN the form oi
abumInous tumors, called tuberelcs, and
then after the sottcniug, breaking down
and discharge OF these, IN the more
formidable shape OF ulcerous cavities,
which, beginning at the summit, devour
~, tho a, |,
reasonable to apply no remedy directly
to this local disease : Not so does cur
profession deal with other local diseases.
To an lufameG skin we apply pouNices
cold congresses, solutions OF acetate OF
lead nitrate of silver, &c. to eprous or
scaly affections, sulphuret of potash bich.
loriie OF mercury, zinc ointment mira, t.
OF mercury ointment, su phur, creosote,
&c TO weak aud ln!lamed eyes SUI pha.e
OF copper, sui phale of zlue, nitrate of
silver, and opium; to liberated gums,
>ulpahte of zlnc, myrrh, honey, g., to
opeu chronlc ulcers upon the skin, lannin,
pulyerlzed rhenbarb. opium or clnhonca
aud 10 an intlamed throat. nitrate OF sll-
WI 'NSG 'Ait bil l'tA rs VI tHt
Thousand cases IN which Ne use local re-
medles. Why, then, when the mucou,
membrane, winch lInes the arr tubes, be-
comes lntianed through all It's. branches,
shouii We neglect, by the inhalation of
inedea,ed sapor, 10 apply remedy d.
tectty upon the whole indlmed surface,
Wdv. when tubercular matter is begnn-
ing TO be deposited upon the surface Of
the air cells, and of the small bronchial
tubes, should not the vapor 90 right to
those parts, aud Cause, as II would, the
expulsion OF this offending and
dangerous matter? Jneducated com.
mon sense sees the reasonabeness Of
these suggestions at a glance. Many a
person. with pulmonary disease, lies Of
>utiocatlon, not because there is not
strength To eSpel the matter
which is s.rang!:ng him, hut because the
lungs beloac the large pellets OF mucous
winch plug up The bronchial tubes cannot
be inflated, and have therefore no means
of driving on, the offending substance.
Heta proper medicated yapor, drawn
IN with the breath, would either dissolve
the mucous, or rouse up the expiring
membrane to cast II off
Ii the reader we're to place one end Of
stethoscope directly over the disease
upon the breast Of person in The third
stage OF consumption, and should then
ask him to talk, the words spoken would
seem TO rise up through the instrument,
and enter, we'll arliculated INTO his ear.
THIS, IN technical language, is called
pector7toguy-a word signlfylng chest
taking. 1t implies caritg in the lung.
1t no" the patient be asked to cough, a
gurthng and splashlng sound will be
heard. TITS denotes that the cavity is
partly hIled with fluid, which is dashed
about by The air expIosisely driven
through II by The portion Of lung below.
Here We have an excayated ulcer, with
all It's ilithy contents, composed Of pus
mucous, serum, and dissolved tubuc!es,
irIng III II day and night to agcravate II.
unhealthy condition. What more re-
assnabie, what more necessary, than
that soothing, Alternative, and astringen,
yapoT should be drawn into this cavity j.,
10 aa>e It's sides to heal, and lis absorb.
EMS to remeve this fluid, a surgeon
VINO should permit an ulcer upon the sur
lace Oh the body TO remain in that cen
dttion without local dressing, would be
deemed UNIT 10 Practice his profession.
Both IN tubercuar disease and IL,
simple bronchitis. the bronchial tubes
almos, always suffer some physical
change. The mucous membrane lining
these tubes Is generally softened. At
other times they become enlarged through
their whole length, so tina, many OF them,
from the SIZE OF quill. reach the bigmess
OF the finger OF glove. In still other
cases, the s:fainlns produced by cough.
ing causes lube 10 belly Oh. a. some
point forming sack, which is generally
hled with mucous or purulent natter
AT still other times. tubercle will press
against tube SO as 10 Hanen it and con-
ser. II into musical instrument the air,
's II is drawn lahoriously through, pro.
duslng high or low note, according to
he size OF the pipe. These physical
'hanges are all produced BY causes which
he inhalation OF a suitable vapor, at the
proper time, would almost inisllihle re.
move. How strange that this remedy