The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1855-12-26

Our readers have, doubtless, all read
the series Of interesting letters by DR..
Robert Hunter, whose system Of SIN.
halation In the treatment Of diseases Of
the Chest though but for . eAeIe
time Introduced to the American pub
lic-has, by its uniform success, setn
in cases pronounced incnrable By other
modes of treatment, secured 4 favor with
the public, andAtbe medical fFatef1itJ
even, seldom ~vouchsafed to a innovee
ton on /" medical usages.p Indeed, We
doubt if any greater revolution IN the
treatment of a class Of diseases has ~
er occurred in this country.
TO diseases Of the lungs and chest-
consumption, bronchitis, &c.-the Amer
lean people have = general, and, Il would
Seem, chronic inclination. Whether IL
results most from carelessness in drens,
or in dict, or mainly from want q
ARE In both, as well as in habits Of ex<
e~rcise, we cannot say-but We knou,
from keeping an eye to the mortality
bills, that lung and chest diseases are
the ruling diseases o fthis country. And
what is more, they have, h~eretofore,
mainly bafied the skill Of our medical
faculty, laughing tar-Water, cod-livor
oil, and all that sort of thing to scorn.
The accession of DIR. Hunter, therefore,
to our medical ranks, with q system Of
practice that promises to reduce. II NOT
obiiterate, the triumphant power Of con
sumption and its cognatcs, is hailed with
more than satisfaction.
DR.. Hunter is a physician, who has
ventured into the field with no less mod
esty thnn ability, making no p~refe11ions
that he has not justified BY sound ar
gument and successful practices He
has so multiplied witnesses In his behalf.
that he might have rcsted on testimo-
mails, and been sure Of practice 70 his
hearts content. But be has taken :
broader and nobler view In relation 60
his duty, as the instituter Of valuable
system in connection with the healing
art. He has desired not only ia prac-
tice it himself, but to commend il to
the medical fraternity. certain that,
when their prejadiees should be over
come, they, too, would join with him Ia
its practice. He wished to serve the
public in the largest way possible.
OF course We know nothing Of the
indictments used by DR.. Hunter, nor
can we discourse technically upon his
mode of treatment we only know that
by inhalation he reaches disease % IL
has never before been reached and that
to the patient, it is not only curative,
but, at the same time, the most akresa-
BILE mode Of treatment. Our teadets
have, however, been enlightened By Dr..
HIS letters more than they would be by
anything we could say. A very sb1s
article, or summary Of his system, an
pears in the March number Of the Amer
lean Medical Gazette, edited BY DR..
Meredith Reese. We have not space
here to copy this article, as We would
like to do, but it is worthy OF the At
%tention of every one. In Introducing
the letter to his readers, DR.. Reese iayss
i've insert his Cdr. Huuters'sl letter
with pleasure, addressed az it il to fhe
profession, who will know how 70 apppe-
ciatc it. It will serve us, moreover,
as an answer to many of our distant sub
scribers who have written to MS Tor M
formation on the subject. They can
not fail to discriminate between Or.
Hunters scientific views in regard to
diseases and remedies, and the palfry
cha~rlntanism of certain quacks, whose
grandiloquent advertisements Of /" lung
vapor in packages Sc, merit only con-
tempt, and whose employment Of inhA-
lation is calculated TO bring the prac-
tice into disrepute."
The Herald says, in copying the
above mentioned letter:
1.-THE article is clear, we'll written.
and sensible, and is addressed BY DR..
Hunter to his brethren of the profession
at large, as an explicit declaration OF
the principles on which he prastises In
a speciality, with acknowledged beneht
to a large and widely extending circle Of
patients, both from this city and the
surrounding district. His avoidance Of
every indication of empiricism, and hia
rational diagnosis of all affections oftke
throat and lungs, with his very success
full. application of remedial agents inthe
shape Of medicated vapor, have cauncd
DIR. Hunter to be already patronizcd By
some of our leading physicians, and his
house is daily crowded With patientsss
But our purpose, in this article, Was
not to introduce special testimony, or to
argue DIR. Hunters claims in any ape.
cial way With thousands of Others.
we lave been interested in his system
more by the universally Of its success
and the blessing it promised, than %
any and all other accounts. To The
real s~ervitor of the public--the friend
of humanity-We have never been want
ing in eulogy. We regard Dr. Hunter
as q distinguished member Of this class.
|-NeV York EVenngg M7rroy.