The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1857-09-17
IMPORTANT DISCOVERY,
CONSUMPTION
AND ALL
DISEASES OF THE LUNGS AND THROAT
ARE POSITIVELY
CURARLE BY INHALATION,


VA HIGH conveys the remedies to the cayi-
/ w ties in the lungs through the air passa-
/ geS, and coming in direct contact with the
disease, neutralizes the tubercular matter, al
lays the cough, causes free and easy expec-
toration, heals the lungs, puriies the blood
imparts renewed vitality to the nervous system
giving that tone and energy so indispensable
for the restoration of health. To be able 10
state confidently that Consumption is curabla
by inhalation, is to me source of unalloved
pleasure. 1t is as much under the control OF
medical treatment as any other formidable
disease ninety out of every hundred cases
can be cured in the first stages, and fifty per
cent. in the second; but in tne third stage it
is impossible TO save more than five per cent,
for the Lungs are SO cut up by the disease as
to bid defiance 10 medical skill Even, how
ever, in the last stages, Inhalation affords ex-
tfaordinary relief to the suffering attending
this fearful Scourge, which annually DESTROYS
ninety-iye thousand persons in the United
States alone; and IA correct calculation shows
that Of the present population of the earth,
eighty millions are destined 10 ill the Con-
sumptiSe's g.ayes.
Truly the culver of death has no arrow so
fatal "a Consumption In all ages it has been
the great enemy of life, for it spares neither
age nor sex, but sweeps off alike the brave
th- beautiful, the graceful and the gifted By
the help Of that Saprcme Being from whom
cometh every good and perfect gift am en-
ahbled TO offer 10 the afflicted a permanent
and speedy cure III Consumption. The first
cause OF tubercles is from impure blood and
the immediate effect produced by their depo-
sition in the lungs is 10 prevent the free ad-
mission Of air into the air cells, which causes
weakened vitality through the entire system.
Then surely it is more rational to expect great
er good from medicines entering the cavities
Of the lungs than from those administered
through the stomach the patient will ALWAYS
find the lungs free and the breathing easy, af-
ter Inhaling remedies. Thus, Inhalation is q
local remedy, nevertheless it acts constitution
ally, and with more power and certaiuty than
remedies administered by the stomach Tc
prove the powerful and direct influence of this
this mode of administration, chloroforn
inhaled will entirely destroy Sensibility in g
few minutes, paralyzing the entire nervou:
system, so that a limb may be amputated with
out the slightest pain; Inhaling the ordinary
burning gas will destroy life in Il few hours
The inhalation of ammonia will rouse tht
system when faln:ing or apparently dead Th,
odor of many of the medicines is perceptiblt
B
and may be Immediately detected in the blood
A convincing proof of the constitutional effect.
of Inhalation, is the fact that sickness is al.
ways produced by breathing foul air-is no
this positive evidence that proper remedies
carefully prepared and judiciously admins
tered through the lungs should produce tn,
happiest results? During eighteen years
practice, many thousands suffering from dis.
eases of the lungs and throat, have been un.
der my care, and have effected many remark
able cures, even after the sufferers had beer
pronounced in the last stages, which fully sat.
istes me that consumption is no longer a fata
disease. Nv treatment of consumption i
original, and founded on long experience anC
a thorough investigation. Ny perfect acquain.
tance with the nature of tubercles, &c, cna.
bleS me to distinguish, readily, the variou.
forms of disease that simulate consumption
and apply the proper remedies, rarely being
mistaken even in a single case. This famil.
iarity, in connection with certain pathological
and microscopic discoveries, enables me to re.
lieve the lungs from the effects of contracted
chests, to enlarge the chest, purify the blood
impart 10 it renewed vitality, giving eneTg,
and tone to the entire system.
Medicines with full directions seut TO any
part of the United States and Canadas bv pa
tlentS communicating their symptoms by letter
But the cure would be more certain if the
patient should pay me 3 visit, which would
give me an opportunity to examine the lung:
and enable me to prescribe with much greater
certainty, and then the cure could be effected
without my seeing the patient again.
! G, w. GRAHAM, M. d,
Office l13l Filbert Street, (OId
No. I0o,) below Twelfth,
PHILADELPHIA PA.