Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1858-08-12

A letter from Paris, July 2Gth, TO the Tribune,
gives rather an uniavorabIe account of the
health Of Senator Sumner and the effect of the
burning process of cure upon his spine, pIac-
tised by his eminent Paris surgeon. The VIII
ter, who had just been spending an hour with
with Mr.. Sumner, says:
His physical suiferings have been constant
and rather increasing than diminishing since
last wrote. The moKa has not been admins
tered anew, but none of the wounds on the neck
aud back left by the six first burnings are vet
healed. These render every change Of posture
difficult, slow walking very painful and the
constantly irritating motion of a carriage nearly
intolerabIe. Tue bed gives only a cramped,
labored rrpose, for the nature and position Of
the fire wounds are such as to forbid the poor
privilege of =. tossing about " under penalty Of
fresh agony. This state Of things has lasted
now for nearly six weeks Meanwhile, how
ever the burns are slowly closing over, and
DIR. Brown-Sequard, who Is in daily attendance,
does not propose to apply the moxa again for
the next two months.
Some new features in the case have devel-
Oped, causing the patient intense pains. Ii Is
throwing but little light on them 10 say that
they are neuralgic, eonstringing and opprsss-
ing the chest as with a toTturIng, deadly weight.
They have been considerably reduced by the
administration Of hot baths and powerful inter-
nal remedies. III rightly understand the ply
sician and his patient, these new pains are to
regarded purely as an effect Of sympathy be-
tween the nerves in the region of the chest and
the great nervous central eolumn-nOt an
extension to that region Of the malady Of the
latter, nor as an independent local disease Of
those nerves.
a few days since, man was discharged,
cured, from one of the Paris hospitals, whose
case bears complete likeness 10 and therefore
presents the best hope for that of Mr. Sumner.
His injuries, received on the head, took effect in
the spine, by eOnireeOup or conclusion, so as to
absolutely paralyze blih legs. As ! said, he
has recently been discharged, cured; but this
was after treatment by fire, continued for thee
months.
1t is to be hoped that briefer trial will serve
for Mr. S, but his friends may be sure that be
will not finch from the fiery ordeal, let it be
ever so prolonged. His morale, as the French
would say, his plAes, as we phrase it vernacu-
larry, Is sound
On the whole there is as large room for hope
in his case as when last wrote. So soon as he
Is able to travel without too much pain, Mr.. ).
purposes. with the assent of his physician, To
leave PARIS for short tour in France, going
pTehaps 10 AK, in Savoy, or some other place
convenient for bathing and for whatever water
treatment may be conducive to his final cure
1t will crafty his friends to know that DR..
Hayward of Boston, on a recent visit 10 Lon
don. took occasion 10 lay his case before Sir
Benjamin Brodie and others, the most eminent
medical authorities of that capital, all Of whom
we're agreed as to the necessity of an active
treatment aud in approval Of the course that /
has been pursued by Dr. Sequard.