Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1859-03-10
CONSUMPTION.
LETTER No. Q.

To the Editor of tke Star
The word Consumption on eyerybodys lip<
seems to convey fearful import, IL is imagined
to be the death-kneil that rings in our ears and
why, Because the origin Of il is so frequently
misunderstood which can be daily proved in thc
Ignorance that prevails in It's treatment How many
pretenders To medical knowledge have pom pously
advertised their poisonous noStrumS rs sovereign
remedies. There is not day but the press is tenn,
ing with the advertisements of those travelling
humbugs, pretending To cure consumption. n dis
ease. while In reality they could not describe a
half-dozen of its symptoms even in the last stage
What moCkery il is In take medicine from the
hands of such imbeciles. Money is their obi,-ct
and not the cure Of the consumptve There are
hundreds Of these boguses advancing their specf-
les to the public for mere speculation, conscious
fits wcrthlessness TO the purchaser.
To be able to trent consumption successfully
not speculatively, physician must have an ex-
teusve observation, besides practical experience
This is the key To and 10 arrive at this he
| must make il his special study. This gives him
an intimate acquaintance with every mod
OF the disease from the carly period 90 its fatal
termination. Hence his unbounded confidenc in
q eSrribing and explaining the different stages,
the progress, position and extent of the disease
| the nature and essence thereof the particular
stage. and the probability Of a cure Those quail
tues are indisPensably necessary for physician
that intends 20 treat and cure consumption
How many patients do daily examine appareat-
~ In the last stage Of the disease. that have been
doctored Tor four or six months ny those swind-
| lers and feeced of the last dollar, Physicians
who. TO lose their lives by IL, could not discern the
difference between the first and last stage What
deluSiOn is this. To use the old adage drown
ing man catches At straw; will the consunpt-
I've catch at the oly-mouthed slang of these lin-
scrupulous charlatans and their filthy nostruns
| Ii physician DE competent and is Possessed OF
self-rellance, he should specify limited time of
ueliInehI that at once would mark his ability
and competency in checking this serious disease
In TINT given time; and if not successful to aban-
don it, and lead the sufferer 10 no further expense
How many thousands there reduced 10 the
nf1fa In Ill
a lack of knowledge of the early stages,
For instance, patient troubled with Bronchi-
us-thls is treated as distinct complaint He is
swabbcd. cauterized, croton oiled. or mercuria-
LIED. and probably blistered and purged All Of
this fails. As proof of this assertion could sum-
mon cloud of witnesses TO the incompetency Of
those men. and their Intellectual mode of treat
ment. In place Of being better the throat is further
aggravated-the irritation is daily increasing the
sufferer has doble consumption TO contend with
his body is gradually consuming by disease. and,
secondly. his pocket bv cunning artificial phy-
stefan Different 10 all the other diseases IL c, n
sumption is not arrested while confined to the
throat, IL is impossible TO do when il settles in
the lungs, when the constitutional energies Of the
invalid are decayed and wasted away
The hope Of the consumptive depends on the
mercies OF the Lord; not on this pretended science
OF this trucking M ID. Though IL generally ter
inmates fatally in the hands Of such men, there is
not in the whole catalogue of diseases one SO easy
checked as consumption at the commencement
| Ii is only the result Of simple CO 4mon cold
effect OF this common cold is concentrated i'm the
air passages Soothe this irritation Of the throat
regulate the bowels, and the blood will circulate
immediately, and the sufferer is at once restored
This is the first stage, in giving rise to this terri
Die dlstaS which impress on the public TO no
uce and guard against. This is the reason have
specified limited time of three weeks in treating
those bronchial types, well knowing that il nv
medicines available in six months il will be in
81 days and generally where relief is 70 be sought
Tor in that space Of time, il will be marked by a
partial benefit and soothing condition Of the
| symptoms is evident in less than "a hours of its
use, subdulng the Inflammation that exists in the
throat, which excites that ckliag sensation and
| relieving that languid feeling of the stomach
This is what | call constitutional treatment not
local 1t is seldom that a sufferer applies to me
until he is broken bown both in body and mind
victmizcd and duped by the schools; humbuyged
and fooled by patent medicine venders fit subiect
for the sexton and the shroud; and though dolef,
this spectacle is and doubtful their condition NAV
be. vet give no medicine beyond three weeks
IL the first allowance should fail I don't attempt
| to administer the second So confident am of It's
efficacy that where il fails there must be certain
death. Atmy Office can he seen thousands of doc
| uments of undoubted veracity from every state in
the Mon, including Canada, the grateful ack-
nowledgements of the cOnsumptve patients who
have been rescued from the grave through my in
strumentalitv.
remain, respectfully, &c,
| J. ID. DURAN, NJ. D.,
Physician for the Throat and Lungs, of N York
Can be consulted at his Office No 447 Pennsyl-
vania avenue, south side, between 3D. and Y SIS .
Washington, opposite the United States Hotel
No communications answered from patients un-
I'll they come To the office and undergo a minute
examination, which is necessary in order to give
ample satisfaction
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