The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1857-10-22
ImPoRTAMT DISCOVERY.
CONSUMPTION
AND ALL
DISEASES OF THE LUNGS AND THROAT
ARE POSITIVELY
CURARLE BY ENH

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w ties in the lungs through the airpassa-
ges, and coming in direct contact with the
disease neutralizes the tubercular matter, al
lays the cough causes u free and easy eSpec-
toration, heals the lungs, purites 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 durable
bv Inhalation is to me source OF unalloyed
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 the third stage it
is impossible to save more than Ave per cent,
for the Lungs are so cut up by the disease as
TO bid defiance TO medical skill. Even, how
ever in the last stages, Inhalation affords eX
traordinary relief to the suffering attending
this fearful Scourgc, which annually destroys
nnety-fye thousand persons in the United
States alone aud a correct calculation shows
that Of tue present population OF the GARTH
eighty millions are destined to fill the Con-
sunptiyc's graves.
Truly the quiyer of death has no arrow so
fatal as 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
the help Of that Supreme Being from whom
cometh every good and perfect gift, am en-
ahblcd to offer to the afflicted a permanent
and speedy cure in Consumption. The first
cause Of tubercles is from impure blood. and
the immediate effect produced by their depo-
siton in the lungs is to prevent the free ad-
mission of air into the air cells, which causes
L weakened vitality through the entire system.
TLcu surely il 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 lnhalng remedies. Thus, Inhalation is a
local remedy, nevertheless it acts constitution
ally, and with more power and certaiuty than
remedies administered by the stomach To
prove the powerful and direct influence of this
this mode of administration, chloroform
inhaled will entirely destroy Sensibility in g
few minutes, paralyzing the entire nervous
system, so that limb may be amputated with
out the slightest pain; lnhaling the ordinary
burning gas will destroy life in few hours.
The inhalation OF ammonia viii rouse the
system when fainting or apparently dead. The
odor Of many Of the medicines Is perCeptible
in the skin a few minutes after being inhaled
and may be Immediately detected in the blood
B u
of inhaIatioG is the fact that sickness is al
ways produced by breathing foul airs not
this positive evidence that proper remedies
carefully prepared and judiciously admins
tered through the lungs should produce the
happiest results? During eighteen years
practice, many thousands suffering from dis
eases Of the lungs and throat, have been up-
der nv care and have effected many remark
ohio c,IraS even er the su tirrprS had beru
pronounced in the last stages, which fully sat-
isfes me that consumption is no longer tataI
disease Nv treatr2ent Of consumption is
I original and founded on long experience ano
Il thorough investigation Ny perfect acquaiu-
tance with the nature of tuberciSs, &c, eAa-
/ bleS me to distinguish, readily, the various
forms Of disease that simulate consumption
and apply the proper remedies, rarely being
mistaken even in a single ease. This famiI-
iarity, in connection with certain pathological
and microscopic discoveries. enables rne 10 re-
lieve the lungs from the effects of contracted
chests, to enlarge the chest, purify the blood
impart to it renewed vitality, giving energy
and tone TO the entire system.
Medicines with full directions seut to any
part of the United States and Canadas by pa
ticnts communicating their symptoms by letter
But the cure would be more certain if thu
patient should pay me visit, which would
give me an opportunity to examine the lungs
and enable me to prescribe with much greater
certainty, and then the cure could be effected
without my seeing the patient again.
. Gr, w. GRAHAM, Nj. d,
Office 1131 Filbert Street, (OId
Mo. IOo, below Twelfth,
PHILADELPHIA. PA