New-York daily tribune., 1857-04-21

Z. now say. Dr. Cowan very nationally almost entirely
ec.ed cure" The truth those who have been the oad
70 proclaim merits among Themselves either
dose artion properties On the uhsct of the after
Dr. Reid thinks nuLan,; Saunder. toaic, Hamilton
,dors: Kingske narcotic 'finuaa while Msgenu thinks
that il BY the retracou Of morbid action" Il has
now rusly required OF lat. year, it la. been sd-t entirely
superseded by opium and iac'nsnm We may safely chAra
t@rze dgsls old exploded remedy. which only
moved by who viii profit BY The lessons experience
far often peuicious than neand under any
circuuIstances cuTative.
THE IODINE TREATMEST.--Ano.her medicine which
when first in vogue arEely given 'p.cihc
Iodine The theory upop which prescribed in Consamp
ton essentially different hom either the the ifa1r
atory or the deby theories which have before
red Of iodine contended that the disease
... in presence Of specific poison in the blood
which poison vitste the whole system and gradually pro
sEee' s. in the ians, The condition Of the blood they
proposed to change by iodine, and 50 prescribed i
housh most powerful Alternative snd resOlvsnt medicine
when carefully administered in ProP-T forms and doses
dr h - t number Of deaths lessencd while its
on the stomach uns. mos, cautiously employed always
destroy its Sor Il is commonly given in its mide'
form and merely as an a,eIs,iv IN very ss doses & some
It'll larger number repudiate Il worthless. while tw
whom the learned DR. Stokes Of Dublin denonee
a. injurious
THE COD.LIvER OIL PRACTICE.-There are fashionable
medicines well fashionable garments, and each hourhes
for brief period and then disappears give place to another
In this iodine place 10 codve OIL This naseoa
medicine OF the faculty Every patient took IT, Every doctor
who ia led prescribe behind the Il was work
maces and Danish consumption from our midst So said the
aud believed the po'ient Aiew years have passed
and ell this deusion dpel.d Now We KNOW st has 10
curative properties whatever in consumption lt simply good
uour,lnen and nothing The best commentary on IT.
oil sold in this city alone, in single month than
od now the whole Union in the course Of year Another
and very significant be found in the bills Of mortality
They higher than when everybody was allowing
bottle after bottle Of PuJe Cod L'rs, o." resetio9 has
NH II lie
tesen observing ply scan now prescribe the on a. n@di
his strength period II he is not losing flesh, II il
worthless and likely 70 disagree with he stomach The system
disposition 10 hemorhss liable to do injury BY increasing
the ,ndeucy 10 attacks.
OF COUNTER IRRITATION-There three great
channels through which medicines may be introduced into the
system II will be observed that those Of which have just
been p akine all given by the stomach We TO
pesk medicines which applied to the skin These of
kinds First those which Intended 10 be- absorbed from
the SYSTEM and second those which act only
upon skin producing irritation which the principle Of
a blister supposed will draw the disease the surface
The practice Of rubbing medicines into the chest iodine aud
urcuGal outueut have been much thought of by
pvsiciaus few have prescribed This Of medication
consurnpion bu with satisfactory results The practice Of
appyne irritating substances the chest Is Of very old date
tie rou aied 10 white heat employed to bum
little hos into the muscles Of the chest and these then
TO burn little con csco with .altpeter
chest OF late doctors have grown more humane, and are
satisfied with creating crop of large fcserng pustuIc
milling those Of smallpox, by rubbing into the chest
ointment made from tasr em"tc Croft oil Il frequently
used the purpose; bters, mustard platers aud
tie ike. These applications came into with the
false theory which iBaugursed the bleeding and
rial practice and therefore. remedies for the II
CONSUMPTION far hurful than beneficial They cannot
possibly exert any influence on the tbeas deposits or on
The progress oenng and liberation All the good counter
relieving pain where the covering of the lung
becomes involved in disease The lungs themselves rarely
manifest their dsesseh by pain but the slightest irritation in the
peu. attended by acute suffering To relieve this anything
which will produce irritation the skin Is beneficial. But
al substances hich will rate not equally beneficial The
uest capable relief should always be- preferred
For this urrd plaster better than
blister and blister better than Croou oil and Cotton oil better
than eIneic But better than either of these s mild
stimulating anodyne nment. Ifhe patient feeble aud
the powers m the irritation induced by the
# strong puuaiing ointmens and issues always very obc
tiouAle il 10 the patient aud adds TO- rather tn
local congestion of the lungs Let II then be
understood that substance rubbed into the skin
eAert any influence tubccusr disease Of the
lungs the relief they afford t peuritic and c4rda
pains and these the mdcst rubeiacents the best.
To he TO