The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1857-09-03
IMPORTANT DISCOVERY


NTHlCH conveys the remedies to the cavi-
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-
toraton, heals the lungs, purifes the blood,
mparts renewed vitality 10 the nervous system,
giving that tone aud energy so Indispensable
for the restoration of health. To be able to
state confidently that Consumption is curable
by 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 FIVE 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 scOurge, which annually DESTROYS
nincty-hve thousand persons in the United
States alone and correct calculation shows
that of the present population of the earth
eighty millions are destined to fill the Con-
sumptiycs 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.
tbs beautiful, the graceful and the gifted By
the help Of that Supreme Being from whom
cometh every good and perfect gift, am en-
ahbled 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-
sition in the lungs is to prevent the free ad-
mission Of air into the air cells, which causes
n 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 lnhaling remedies. Thus, Inhalation is
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, chlorotorm
inhaled will entirely destroy sensibilty in a
few minutes, paralyzing the entire nervous
system, so that a limb may be amputated with
out the slightest pain; lnhaling the ordinary
burning gas will destroy life III a few hours.
The inhalation of ammonia will rouse the
system when tainting or apparently dead. The
Odor of many of the medicines is perceptible
in the skin 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 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 un-
der my care, and have effected many remark
able cures, even after the sufferers had been
pronounced in the last stages, which fully sat
isfics me that consumption is no longer fatal
disease. My treatment of consumption is
original and founded on long experience and
n thorough investigation. My perfect acquain-
tance with the nature of tuberclcs, &C., ena-
bles me To distinguish, readily, the various
forms of disease that simulate consumption,
and apply the proper remedies, rarely being
mistaken even in q 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 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 il the
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.