The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1858-03-04
IMPORTANT DISCOVERY.
CONSUMPTION
AND ALL
DISEASES OF THE LUNGS AND THROAT
ARE POSITIVELY
CURABEE BY INHALATION,

SNHlCH conveys the remedies to the e"vi-
w ties in the lungs through the air passa-
ges, and coming III direct contact with the
disease, neutralizes the tubercular matter, al
laws the cough, causes a free and easy expec-
toration, heals the lungs, puriies the blood,
imparts renewed vitality to the nervous system,
giving that tone and energy so indispensable
for the restoration of health, To be able to
state confidently that Consumption is curable
by Inhalation, is to me a source of unalloycd
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 eI-
traordinary relief to the suffering attending
this fearful scourge, which annually destroys
ninety-fYe thousand persons in the United
States alone and q correct calculation shows
that of the present population of the earth,
eighty MILLIONS are destined to fill the Con-
Sumptivc'S graves.
Truly the quiver of death has no arrow so
fatal as Consumption. In all ages it has been
the great eaemy vt life for it spares neither
age nor sex, but sweeps off alike the brave
ths 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 tuberoes 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
a weakened vitality through the entire system
-
cr 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 at-
ter Inhaling remedies. Thus, Inhalation is
local remedy, nevertheless it acts constitutions
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, chlarafQrm
inhaled will entirely destroy sensibility in a
few minutes paralyZing the entire nervous
system, so that a limb may be amputated with
out the slightest pain; InhaIing the ordinary
burning gas will destroy life in few hours.
The Inhalation of ammonia Will rouse the
system when fainting or orapparently dead. The
odor of many of the medicines is pcrceptible
in the skin a few minutes after being inhaled
and may be Immediately detected in the blood
A convincing proof of the constitutional effects
Of Inhalation, is the fact that sickness is al
ways produced Ly breathing foul airs not
this positive evidence that proper remedies,
carefully prepared and judipiously adminis4
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
isies me that consumption is no longer fatal
disease. Ny treatment Of consumption is
original, and founded an lang experience and
a thorough investigation. My perfect acquan-
tancc with the nature of tubercles, &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 a single case. This famil-
iarity, in connection with certain pathological
and microscopic discoveries, enables me to re-
lieve the lungs frQm the effects of contracted
chests, to enlarge the chest purify the blood,
impart ia it renewed vitality, giving energy
and tone to the entire system.
Medicines with full directions seut to any
part of the United States and Cenadas hy pa
tients communicating their symptoms by letter,
But the cure would be more certain if the
patient should pay me visit which would
give me an opportunity to examine the lungs
and enable mo to prescribe with much greater
certainty, and then the cure could be effected
without my seeing the patient again.
@, w. GRAHAM, M. D.,
Office 1131 Filbert Street, (Old
No. lO9, below Twelfth,
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