The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1857-11-05
IMPORTANT DISCOVERY.
CONSUMPTION
AND ALL
DISEASES OF TIE LUNGS AND THROAT
ARE POSITIVELY
CIR AREE gK INHALATION

EATHICH conveys the relledieS To the cayi-
w ties in the lungs through the air passa-
ges, and coming in direct contact with the
disease, neutralzes the tubercuar matter, al
lays the cough, causes free and easy expec-
toration, heals the lungs, puritieS the blood,
lmpartS renewed vitality TO the nervous sysLam,
giving that tone and energy SO Indispensable
for the restoration Of health. To be able to
state confidently that Consumption is durable
by inhalation, is TO me source of un2lloved
pleasure. II IS as much under the control OF
medical treatment AS any other formidable
disease ninety out of every hundred cases
can he cured in the first stages. and fifty per
cent. ia the second but in the third stare il
Is impOsSible 10 save more than five per cent.
for the Lungs are so cut up by the disease as
10 bid defiance to medical skill. Even, how
ever. in the last stages, Inhalation affords ex-
liaordinary relief 20 the suffering attending
this fearful >courge which annually destroys
nincty-fiye thousand persons in the United
States alone: and = correct calculation shows
that Of tic present population OF the earth.
eighty millions are destined 10 I'LL the Con-
sumptiYe's graves.
Truly the quiyer of death has no arrow 50
fatal As Consumption. In all ages it has been
The great enemy Of life, for il spares neither
th- beautiful, the graceful and the gifted By
the help Of that Supreme Being from whom
cometh every good and perfect gift am en-
ahbled 10 offer TO the afflicted permanent
and speedy cure in Consumption The first
cause OF tuberclcS Is from impure blood and
the immediate effect produced b. their depo-
sltion N the lungs is TO prevent the free ad-
mission OF air INTO the air cells, which causes
a weakened Vitality through the entire system
Then surely ii is more rational TO expect great
or good from medicines entering the cavities
vi the lungs than from those administered
through the stomach the patient viii always
find the lungs free and the breathing easy. af-
ter lnhaling remedies. Thus, inhalation is a
local remedy, nevertheless it acts constitutions
ally, anu 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 sensibilitv in a
few minutes, paralvzing the entire nervous
system, 50 that 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 viii rouse the
system when talntIng or apparently dead. Tue
OdOr Ol many OF the medicines is percrptibIe
in the skin n few minutes after being inhaled
and may be Immediately detected in the blood
\ convincing proof Of the constitutional effects
Of inhalation, is the fact that sickness j. al
ways produced by breathing foul airs not
this positive evidence that proper remedies
carefully prepared and judicously admins
tered through the lungs should produce the
happicst 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 been
pronounced III the last stages, which fully sat
isles me that consumption is 10 longer a fatal
disease. Ny treatment Of consumption is
original, and founded on long experience and
thorough Investigation. Ny perfect acquaiu-
tance with the nature Of tuberCles, &c, ena-
blcs mc 10 distinguish, readily, the various
forms Of disease that simulate consumption.
and apply the proper remedies, rarely being
mistaken even IN a single ease. This fimil-
iarlty, in connection with certain pathological
and microscopic discoveries. enables ME to re-
licye the lungs from the effects Of contracted
chests, to enlarge the chest, purify the blood.
impart to it renewed vitality, giving cnergy
and tone TO the entire system
Nc .ciucs with full directions seut to anv
part Of tIc United States and Canadas by pa
iientS communicating their symptoms BY letter.
Bat the cure would be more certain if the
patient should pay me visit, which would
give ms Al 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.