The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1858-08-12
IWPcRTANT DISCOVERY.
CONSUMPTION
AND ALL
DISEASES OF THE LUNGS AND THROAT
ARE POSITIVELY
CERARLE EY INHALATION,

KATHICII conveys the remedies to the cayi-
w ties in the lungs through the air passa-
ges and coming in direct contact with the
disease, neUtr2lizes the tUbercular matter, al
LAYS the cough, causes free and easy expec-
toration, heals the lungs, purifes 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 durable
by Inhalation, is TO me source Of unalloyed
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 tG medical skill. Even, how
ever, in the last stages, Inhalation affords ex-
traord binary relief 10 the suffering attending
this fearful scourge, which annually destroys
ninety-fye thousand persons in the United
States alone, and correct calculation shows
that of the present population of the earth,
eighty millions are destined TO fill the Con-
sumptiye's graves.
Truly the quiver of death has no arrow so
fatal as Consumption. II all ages it has been
the great enemy of life, for it spares neither
age uor sex, but sweeps off alike the brave,
tn; beautiful, the graceful and the gifted. By
the help of that Supreme Being from whom
cometh every good and perfect gift, am en-
ahhled to offer TO the afflicted O permanent
and speedy cure in Consumption. The first
cause Of tubercleS is from impure blood and
the immediate effect produced by their depo-
sition in 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 TO expect great
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, af-
ter Inhalng remedies. Thus, Inhalation is a
local remedy, nevertheless it acts constitution
ally, and with more power and certainty than
remedies administered by the stomach. To
prove the powerful and direct influence of this
this mode Of admins tration, chlOroform
inhaled will entirely destroy sensibility in q
few minutes, paralyzing the entire nervous
system, SO that a limb may be amputatcd with
out the slightest paia Iuhalng the ordinary
burning gas viii destroy life IN a few hours.
The inhalation of ammonia will rouse the
system when tainting or apparently dead. The
odQr of many of the medicines is perceptible
in the skin a few minutes after being inhaled,
A convincing proof Of the constitutional effects
of inhalation, is the fact that sickness is al
wavs produced by breathing foul air--is not
this positive evidence that proper remedies,
carefully prepared and judiciously adminis-
tered through the lungs should produce the
happicst 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
istes rle that consumption IS no longer a ia tai
disease. Nv treatment OF consumption is
original, and founded on long experience and
a thorough investigation. Ny perfect acquaiu-
tance with the nature of tuberclcs, &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 sin"le case. This tamil-
iarty. in connection with certain pathological
and microscopic discoveries, enables ne TO re-
iieve 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 fall directions seut to any
part of the United States and Canadas by 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.
G, w. GRAHAM, M. d,
Office 1l3l FiIbert Street, (Old
No, lO9,) } below Twelfth,