Litchfield enquirer., 1864-08-25
PHILO B. SHERWOOD.
From HARVEY BEACH, Esq, Milford
CURE OF CATARRH.
From Rev. Fred. S. Jewell, Professor Of State Normal School Albany, N. r.

From Rev. Fred. s. Jewell, Professor Of
 State Normal School, Albany, N. r.
 This may certify that I have been, since l844 subject to violent periodical attacks of catarrh, marked by a highly infamed condi- tion of the lining membranes of the cavities of the head producing most distressing species of headache for days at a time, wholly incapac- itating me for business, and during the parox- ysms confning me to the bed. In some in- stances the inflammation has extended to the teeth, occasioning toothache 10 the throat, producing hoarseness and partial loss of voice and twice it has so affected the left eye as to conine me for month or more to a darken- ed room. These attacks have been accompan- jed by strong febrile symptoms by stoppage ot the head, and, in the first stages, by watery discharges from the nose, subsequently, becom- ing acrid and yellow, and towards the close of the attack beroming bloody and purulent. I have tried medicines of almost every kind external applications to the head such as cam. phor, ginger, hot bandages, and lamentations of hot vinegar snuffs of some half dozen kinds, and other catarrhal preparations, to. gether with internal remedies, such as altera tives, cathartics, and cosmetics. These have produced no change in the occurrence or char acter of the disease, and, in most cases, with little or no temporary relief. had come, at length to believe the disease to be practically beyond either cure or material alleviution.
 Under these circumstances l was led, some five months ago. to make trial of Dr. Eighth ills treatment. His method at once approved itself to my judgment as simple, philosophical, and likely to be effective. Notwithstanding the disadvantages under which it labored, in dealing with disease of such long standing, aggravated by nervous debility and dyspepsia, and constantly induced by the accidents of my professional labor, found the treatment reach- ing the disease as it had never been reached before, and producing such modification and alleviation of its character, as had supposed impossible. I chronicle the reaults thus AL though have been situated several times so that should formerly have believed severe attack of my catarrh inevitable, have es- capped thus far. The symptoms of threatened attack have been very light, and have yielded to the remedies applied by Dr. Lighthill, with out need of recourse to the old lamentations, or emetics and the discharges from the head have resumed the original and natural condi- tiou. That have been able to obtain so ma terial relief, Is to me cause of gratitude. In that alone am repaid for whatever the ex- pertinent may have cost me.
 make this statement unsolicited, as a means of acknowledging my obligation to Dr. Lighthill's method ot treating catarrh, and with view to aid any one who may have suf- fered from that disease, in forming just opin- ion of its merits, and its probable utility in their own case. (Signed)
 REV. FREDERICK S. JEWELL,
 Prof State Normal School
 Albany, N. r., March IA, 1864.