Litchfield enquirer., 1864-09-29
From HARVEY BEACH, Esq, Milford
CURE OF CATARRH.
From Rev. Fred s. Jewell, Professor Of State Normal School. Albany, N F.

From Rev. Fred. s. Jewell, Professor Of
 State Normal School. Albany, N. F.
 This may certify that have been, since 1844, subject to violent periodical attacks of catarrh, marked by highly unframed condi- tion of the lining membranes of the cavities of the head, producing most distressing species of headache for days at time, wholly incapac- itating me for business, and during the parox- ysms confining me to the bed. In some in- stances the inflammation has extended to the
 teeth, occasioning toothache; to the throat,
 producing hoarseness and partial loss of voice and twice it has so affected the left eye as to confine me for month or more to Il darken-
 ed room. These attacks have been acconpan-
 jed by strong febrile symptoms by stoppags
 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
 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 | kin,is, and utfor catarrhal preparations, to-
 gether with internal remedies, such as altera lives, 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. I had coEYe, at
 length, to believe the disease to be practically
 beyond either cure or material alleviation. OnQ6r these circumstances WuS leu some five months ago, to make trial of Dr. Lighth-
 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 Urea atment reach-
 ing the disease as it had mayer been reached
 before, and producing such modification and alleviation of its character, as had supposed impossible. chronicle the reaults thus. Al though have been situated several times so that should formerly have believed severe 1 attack of my catarrh inevitable, have es- caped 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 a cause of gratitude. In that alone am repaid for whatever the ex-
 pertinent may have cost me.
 I make this statement unsolicited, as Q means of acknowledging my obligation to Dr. Lighthill's method of treating catarrh, and with view to aid any one who may have sui. fered from that disease, in forming just opin- ion of its merits, and its probable utility in their own case. (Signed) wf%ss REV FREDERICK s. JEWELL, assFHEsH .Hssas* Prof State Normal School. Albany, N. Y., March IA, 1864.