The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1858-05-27
IMP0RfANT DISCOVERY.


DISEASES OF THE LUNGS AND THROAT
A2E POSITIVELY
CURABEE DIV INHALATION,
NsTRICH conveys the remedies TO the cari-
W ties in the lungs through the air passa-
ges. and coming in direct contact with the
disease, peutralizes the tubercuIar matter al
lays the cough causes free and easy expee-
.tora;ipn, heals the lungs, purifes the blood,
mparts renewed vitality TO the nervous system,
giving that tone and energy SO indispensable
for the restoration Of health. To be able to
state coQRdently that Consumption is durable
by inhalation, is ID me source of uaalloyeG
pleasure. Il is as much under The control OF
medical treatment IS any other Formidable
disease; niaety gut Of every hundred cases
can be cured III the first stages, aad fifty per
cent in the second hut in the third stage it
j. impossible tQ save more than five per cent.
for the Lungs are . cut up b. the disease aS
to bid defiance to medical skill. Even, how
ever. in the last stages, Inhalation afford ex-
traordinary relief 10 the suffering attending
this fearful scourge, which annually destroys
ninety-fre thousand persons i'll the United
States alQre and q correct calculation shows
that OF the present population of the earth,
eighty millions are destined TO fill the Con-
sumptiyes grayes
Truly the culver of death has no arrow so
fatal rs Consumption. In all ages it has been
the great enemy of life, for it spares neither
age nor sex, bat sweeps off alike the brave
this beautiful, the graceful aad the gifted. By
the help of that Supreme Being froEa whom
comcth every goQd and perfect gift, | am en-
ahbled to offer to the afflicted a permanent
and speedy cure in Consumption The first
causs of tuhcroles is frcm impure blood, and
the immediate effect produced by their depo-
sition n the lungs is to prevent the free ad-
mission of air into the air cells, which causes
weakened vitality through the entire system.
Then surely it is more rational Ia expect great
er good from medicines entering the cavities
Of the lungs than from those administered
through the stomach the patient Will always
lind the lungs tree and the breathing easy, at
ter Inhaling remedies. Thus, Inhalation is
local remedy, nevertheless it acts constitutions
ally, and with more power and certainty than
remedies administered by the stomach. To
prove tie powerful and direct influence Of this
this mode of administration, chloroforu
inhaled will entirely destroy sensihility in a
few minutes, paralyzing the entire nervous
system, so that liTb may be ampu,atcd With
out the slightest pain; Inhaiing the ordinary
*
The inhalation Of amnonia VIII rouse the
system when lainting or apparently dad. Th
odQr Of many OF the medicines is pcrcer.. bic
in the skin few minutes after being inhaled.
and may be Immediately detected j. The blood
A convincing proofot the constitutional effects
Of Inhalation, is the fact that sicAncss is al
ways produced by breathing fqal airs no
this positive evidence that proper remedies
carefully prepared and judiciousIy adIainis-
tered through the l.ngs should produce the
happ!e5t resuits2 During eighteen years
practice, many thousands suffering from dis
eases OF the lungs and throat, have been I'M
der my care, and have effected many remark
able cures, even after the sufferers had beer
pronounced in the last stages, which fully sat
isles me that consumption is 10 longer fatal
disease. Nv treatment of consumption j.
original, and founded on long experience and
a thorough investigation. My perfect acquan-
tance 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 q single case. This famil-
iarty, in conpectiGR with certain pathological
and microscopic discoveries, enables me tQ re-
lieye 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 scut to any
part of the United States and Canadas by pa
ticnts commuai icating 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 lung
and enable mo to prescribe with much greater
certainty, and then the cure could be effected
without my seeing the patient again.
G, w. GRAHAM, M. d,
Office 1l31 FiIbart Street, (Old
No. IO9,) below Twelfth,
PHILADELPHIA, IA.