Weekly American. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1858-1858, 1858-05-22
IMPORTANT DISCOVERY.
CONSUMPTION
AND ALL
OF the LUNGS and THROAT
CAN.BE

CANBE
CURED BY INHALATION
| WHICH CONVEYS TUE REMEDIES TO THE
w cavities in the lungs through the air passages
and coming IN direct contact with the disease teu-
razes the ubercular matter alays the cough causcs
free and easy expectoraon, heals the lungs pur-
| fees the blood mparts renewed vitality 10 the ner-
yous system giving that tone and energy so indis
pensabe for the restoration Of health To be able 20
state confidently that Consumption il curabc By in
halation, Is 30 a Of uDallOyed pleasure. II
Is as much under the control Of medical treatment
as any other formidable disease ninety out Of every
hundred cases be cured in the first stages and
fifty per cent In the second but in the third stage
ID -is impossible 10 than five per cent for
the Lungs so cut up BY the disease 10 bid de-
fiance 20 medical skil-Even, however in the last
stages Inhalation affords extraordinary relief to the
suffering attending this feafu scourge, which anuu-
ally destroys nnety-fve thousand persons in the
United States alone; and rrect calculation shows
that OF the present population Of the Garth eighty
millions destined % GIL the Consumptve's grave.
Truly the quiver 81 death has no arrow SO fatal as
Consumption. In all ages il has been the great
enemy OF life for il spares neither age SEX but
sweeps of alike the brave the beautiful the grace
ful and the gifted. BY the help Of that Supreme
Being from whom cometb every good and perfect
gin am enabled 10 offer 10 the afflicted permanent
and speedy cure IN Consumption. The first cause Of
tubercles Il from impure blood, and the immediate
effect produced by their deposition in the lungs IL 10
prevent the free admission ~ air into the air cells,
ystem. Then surely II IL more rational 30 expect
good from medicines entering the cavities 81 the lungs
than from those administered through the stomach;
the patient win always end the lungs free and the
breathing easy, affor inhaling remedies. Thus, In
hsation is local remedy, nevertheless II acts con-
stutionally and with more power and certainty than
remedies administered BY the stomach. To prove
the powerful and direct influence Of this mode of adj
mipistration chloroform inhaled win entirely destroy
sensibility In few minutes, pnrayxing the entire
nervous system, - that limb may be ampuiated
without the slightest pain; inhalihg the ordinary
burning gas will destroy life In few hours
The Inhalation Of ammonia will rouse the system
when fainting on apparently dead. The odor ~ many
OF The medicines II peropGbe IN the skn Few
minutes after being inhaled, and may be immediate "a
ly detected IN the blood convincing proof Of The
constitutional effects Of inhalation, u the fact that
sickness is always produced b. breathing foul air.
il This not positive evidences that proper remedies
carefully prepared and judiciously administered
through the lungs should produce the happicst 70
suits n During cightces yearF practice many thou
sands suffering from diseases Of The iungs and hroai
have been under my care. and havc effected many
remarkable cures even nftcr the sanersrs had been
pronounced IN the last sfagcr which fully satisfies
me that consumption Is longer sl.ial disease. Ny
treatment Of consumption u original, and founded