Kanawha Valley star. [volume] (Charleston, Va. [W. Va.]) 1856-1861, 1858-06-08

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lTXvHlCH CONVEYS the remediedEto the cav
| WV tiles in the lungs, through the cir pas
Isages, and coming in direct contact with the
disease, neutralfzes the tubefcnlaf matter, az
lays the cough, causes free and easy expec
| toratiun, heals the lungs, pnrifSS he blood
limpafts renewed vitality to the nervous sys-
item giving that tene and energy 50 indispen-
sable for the restoration Of health TO be
L able to stale confidently that Consumption is
durable BY inhalation, is to me source of un
alloyed pleasure. II is as muchApnder the
control 81 medical treatment Dis any other for
nlidable disease, ninety out Of every hundred
leases can be cured in the first STAGES, and ff-
lty per cent, in the second; but III the third
| per cent for the Lungs are SO cut up By the dis
ease as to bid defiance 10 medical skill -
Even, however, in the last ages, inhalation
affords extraordinary relief 10 the suffering al
tending this fearful scOufge, which annually
illtstfDys ninety five thousand persons In the
4 United States alone: and d correct calculation
shows that Of the psesent population III the
earth, eighty millions, are destined to fill the
lConspmptixe,s grave.
Truly the CULVER Of death has 10 arrow SO
fatal as Consumption. In all ageslt has been
the great enemy Of life, for " spares neither
! age nor sex, but sweeps of alike the bfaye,fhe
help Of the Supreme Being from whom cometh
every good and perfect gift, am enabled to
offer TO the afflicted permanent and speedy
lcureIin Consumption. The first cause 81 tn.
bbercles is from impure blood, and the imme.
diate effect produced BY their deposition in the
lungs is to prevent the free Admission Of air
Into the air cells, which causes d weakened
VITALITY through the entire system. Then
surely II is more rationalto expect greater
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i the lungs than from those administered though
the stomach: the patient win always find the
i lungs free and the breathing easy, after inhal-
ling remidies. Thus. inhalation is alocal rem
ledy nevertheless ii acts constithtionally, and
i with more power and certainly than Iemedies
administered BY the stomach Foproye the
1 DON eEful and direct influence or this mode of
Iadminislration, chloroformiu haled will entire
lily destroy sensibiiity in few minutes, para
lysin& the entire nervous system, SO that q
limb may be amputated withoA the slightest
pain: iUhaling the ordinary burning gas will
i destroy life in few hours.
The inhalation pf ammonia will rouse the
system when fainting 81 apparently dead. =
/ The plor Of many Of the medicines N percep-
i tible in the skin few minutes after being
/ inhaled, and may Be immediately detected III
I the blood. A convincing proof Of tile consti-
tutional effects ofinhaIati0n, IS the fact that
sickness Is always produced by breathing foul
alr--is this not positive evidence that proper
remedies. carefully prepared and judiciously
adm! tered through the lungsshould produce
me happlest Tesultsl During eighteen years
practice many thousand, suffering from dis
\ eases ~ the lungs and throat, have been u a.
| der my care, and have Effected many ,emark-
j able cures, even after The suffereres Had been
pronounced in tile last stsges, which fully
| satisfies me that cbnsnnnn3ion II |neIlanssy J.