Litchfield enquirer., 1864-11-24
From HARVEY BuAcH, Esq, Milford,
CURE OF CATARRH
From Rev. Fred. s. Jewell, Professor 0e State Normal School, Albany, N. F.

From Rev. Fred. s. Jewell, Professor 0e
 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 a most distressing species of headache for days at 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 toothachej 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 Q darken- ed room. These attacks have been accompan. jed by strong febrile symptoms by stoppage of the head, and, in the first stages, by watery discharges from the nose, subsequently, becom. ing acrid and yellow, and dstowards the close of the attack beroming bloody and ptrulsnt. have tried medicines of almost every kind external applications to the head sucL as cam phOr, ginger, hot bandages, and Concentrations of hot vinegar snuffs of some half dozen kinds, and other catarrhal preparations, toS 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 come, at length. to believe the disease to be practically beyond either cure or material alleviation.
 Under these circumstances was led, some Ave months ago, to make trial of Dr. Lighth ills treatment. His method at once aprfoved itself to my judgment as simple, philosophical, and likely to be effective. Notwithstanding the disadvantages under which it labored, ifi dealing with disease of such long standing, aggravated by nervous debility and dyspepsia, and constantly induced by the accidents of my professional labor, I found the treatment reach. ing the disease as it had never been reached before, and producing such modification and alleviatiOn of it's character, as had supposed impossible. chronicle the reaults thus. AlA though I have been situated several times 90 that should formerly have believed severe attack of my catarrh inevitable, have e. capped thus far. The symptoms of threatened attack have been very light, and have yielded to the remedies applied by Dr. Lghthill, 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 I 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 of treating catarrh, and I 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)
 REV. FREDERICK s. JEWELL,
 Prof State Normal School,
 Albany, N r., March IA, 1864.