Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1856-02-27
DIR. HARDMAN,
On the Cure Of Consumption by Medi-
Gated Inhalation.
To the Editors of the Chronicle:
LETTER NO

To the Editors of the Chronicle:
1t is said FORTY THOUSAND women an
nually perish in England with consump-
ton. In this country, more than FIFTY
THOUSAND graves are annually dug, for
the victims of the Unsuitable destroyer
of the race. 1t is truly melancholy to
look back upon the past and see how lit
tie the art of man has done in the cure Of
this disease. Under the usual treatment
its course is onward, and only onward to
the grave. have no hesitancy in assert
ing, that the usual course of treatment;
p~ersued by the great body of the medical
profession; is calculated to CREATE instead
of CURE consumtion-their treatment err
roneous in principle and fatal in practice.
Physicians, venerable in years, standing
highest in estimation Of community, WELD
ing the widest influence, will Undated
stand in the midst ola domestic circle,
year after year, conducting members Of
family to early graves; once devil
aiing from written authorities, or COM
handing precedent-never once thinking
for a moment, hat such UNIFORM FATAL
TY, is overwhelming evidence in condem-
nation of the treatment. They d~enounce
the Physician, who proposes to cure con-
sumption; because THEIR COURSE is useless
and inefficient. The same fingers, that
annually feel the Pickering pulse of FIFTY
THOUSAND, pallid, haggard, emaciaied con-
sumptives; and with stern gravity follow
the same 10 their graves; write the word
HERETO upon the brow Of the man, that
dare deviate from their well beaten
trackii
Consumption cannot exist without the
air cells and tubes of the Lungs are more
or less closed up; either by tuburcular de-
posits, or by mechanical causes, acting
either from habit or accident; in such
way that the lungs are compressed by the
bony frame work surrounding them. By
| the use of the INHALING INSTRUMENT, from
which the patient breathes the indicated
air and vapor, the air cells of the Lungs
thus collapsed, closed up, or, glued togeth-
er, are freely ~opened-the air and vapor
having free access 10 the intricate air
passage and cells, removing obstsuctions
and increasing the capacity and tone of
the Lunga. Inhalation is not only an
efficient remedy in the cure of consump-
ton, but it applies with still GREATER
FORCE, in the cure Of Asthma, Bronchitis,
Laryngitis, Splitting of Blood, or any af
lection of the Throat or Lungs. The
reader will bear in mind, INHALATION is
not a medicine, but only a mode of con-
Quoting medicines to the diseased Lungs.
The medicines used are very numerous,
of various classes, possessing properties
peculiar 10 themselves, and must be Sc
lected to fulfill the indications directly
before US.
By a iudicious use of inhalation, con-
sumption is now as successfully treated
as other diseases of the body. In the
early stages of consumption; after tuber-
cular deposits exist, and prior TO the for
nation Of cavities, about eighty out of one
hundred, treated by inhalation, will re-
cover. After the formation OF cavities,
about fifty will regain health.
1t is my hrm conviction, based upon the
substantial evidence before me; that fall
the consumptives in the Union, were this
day, put upon the use of proper INHA-
>LANTs, administered by a judicious Ply
stefan, that in less than three months, the
terrible fatility, from this desolating dis
ease, would diminish at least one half.
AS a means of ~palliation; when all hope
is cut off, and the patient must inevitably
die; inhalation comes to soothe and COM
fort the pillow of death; affording imme-
date relief from pain, promoting free ex-
pecloraiion and quiet sleep. The supe-
riority of this treatment, as a PALLIATIVE
means over treatment by the stomach,
must be apparent to every person &C.
quaiuted in the least, with the relative
position Of the Lungs and S'cmach.