New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1858-07-26
New orleans 1aloetro-ohemloal Institute.

The fact that there is yet balm in Gileadn-tbat
there is yet reasonable hope OF restoration to health
and the joys of lifefor the mulLtudes of suffering
human beings who pine under the ordinary medical
treatment, experience a siCkly expectation of re-
covery under selEdrenchings of patent medicines,
and at last sink like phantoms into the grave we re-
gard as fact important that should be published
far and wide, and in such manner as to compel the
attention of those for whose benefit it is uttered.
There are wide differences in medical theory and
there are multtudes who now moulder in untimely
graves, because instead of looking around and them
selves judging Of facts they blndly placed themselves
in the wake OF or another of the fashionable
and tmehonored theories which divide the medical
world
We do not undertake to deny that there is merit in
the old practices of medicine. Allopathy homoeo-
pathy Thomsonianism, each does much good in its
way, and in some things each exces the others-all
In the aggregate being sufficient for the ordinary and
transient ailments to which humanity is heir. But,
unfortunately, there is class Of ailments which be-
come deepseated in the system-in the blood in the
bone and in the vital machinery of the life apparatus
diseases which start almost imperceptibIy and
grow slowly but surely, steadily sappng the fountain
of life, and finally, like the poison ivy around the
oak claspng their victims in the embrace of prema-
!
eases are consumption, or the pulmonary disorders
which lead to that disease and the host of ills which
are implanted in the system by the unfortunate use
Of mercury for primary i'll. How many unfortu-
mates there, either permanently invalided or
steadily the decline under the above complaints
wasting their substance and cherishing hopes which
are never realized, under the ordinary medical treat
| nenta There is man who cannot reckon some
such amongst his acquaintance, and if all could be
seen--or even as many as there are in this city of
New orleans-ata glance, the sight would be more
narrowing than anything we dreamo of. But we must
not digress from our main object
/ Several years ago, DR.. G. P. Crane, after much
patient study and experiment introduced in this city
new branch Of medicine, which met the usual cry
Of humbug from the hard.she theorists and was
looked upon a piece of scientific monomania. This
new curative power was the combination of electricity
4 and galVsnsm with medicine, and the formation of
an entirely original method of medical application
This application was simply the reduction of power
ful medicines 70 yapor, and the inhalation Of the
vanor By the patient. tt required but little practice
to show that this was the best thing for pulmonary
sufferers yet invented. The success of this dis
covery led the Doctor into further research and be
was not long in discovering an equally potent method
Of reaching deep seated chronic and functional dis
eases, and eradicatng from the system all mereuria
end other foreign taints, the wesprings of disease
and death This curative power was the electro
| chemical bath--a bath prepared with such chemical
aud electric elements ia combination as to penetrate
the entire system Of the invalid and surcharge its
nlnatest hpres THIS vas found to be of the greatest
efficacy and as facts VIII fly over all theory, the
suffering public began gradually to estimate them
i iRio9el4gt
l1e result noW - that Dr. Crane stands on proud
sililstse q ms own efeeton-haYlng restored to life
alla malAtaaes OF people VINO would at this
tltus e ellnsf ueao OF N ns pam OF ioagpfotracted
A8lhR aeata' NUMBERS 81 persons, found to be IN
s1tse elusr the oIalnary applications q medicine,
aaa Wlta aeata staring then ~ the face, have gone
II ahl " 1ae alpsFsetioas leeNng Whleh gFasps az
sas u 4ass Iesoft, ana no" they I'VE % pless
se llgAy Wy 'aV sooA ee'l 70 MN bu1 we heed hoI
49, 9u sn's pars y oHf subject oaF o9ece Is 10
ss l9sn 20 present suaerefs What VI, Crane can DO,
~ no@ y uoss u.
~ anlaIaton e msaieateu vapors ls eheaclory
II III aisofaefs u .ie tRfoat ana lungs, sneh as con
otohenes' ana the other ailments
mAisli Becoine permanent uniess arrested IN tlme
INC manner Of administering medicines by inhalation
y t7soiold' 4 e. by an inhaler, and by dtasng Vapor
ttoagn tne room occupied by the patient Ihe in'
halst = llaae q glassi ana holas ABOUT punt OF
9s'es nsei'raaee 'alo Y y lurnsaea WIN glass
saae' winch passes from the top down into the iad
4. = Wlshsn qlaF1ef @ an men tEom tne bottom
lts, lleh not y use = Closed With glass STOPPER
5e osnei tuDe projects L1le from the SIDE ana Is
e9lslea Wl'l en e'astic tuee about ntIeen inches IN
shgsa' #iAu gHAss Aaoasnpleee, Inc explanation OF
= aeton y EsIy simple. oh ihnailhg throngh tne
e.slle tee' vacuum y created snoVe the mud 70
" MlSn sIreal = ~ lusnes Gown tne glass tune
/ aaa .Aeaks uP " oaeoles through 1he medleated
9nl' .nlol lae 9eole lato intense agta5on, rms
A'a als insusa.su a. eaeh time ol use, thoroughly
sne alf WIN us properties ana N this
manner ~ sne psas,ea1 ehec'S 70 pe derived from
ss.s nisuiens III oosal!eu n me lungs, WIN Vhe
aio aas'ioly causing any aetAhBe
laaal1oa ~ ssonach ~ adapslng me medicine 70
~ :. sle case fehaefs tne Vapof
1Fessoian', alouSils s'llnuh',ns' aieet@ese' OF
as se case may require inere Is an hhaIer
e suppy'ps luso'assu 'oIs 20 tne nsat passages,
.l..seu san y @otu uloii ~ nesu hient ana aay II
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