Litchfield enquirer., 1864-12-29
From HARVEY BEACH, Esq, Milford
CURE OF CATARRH.
From Rev. Fred. s. Jewell Professor Of State Normal School Albany N: Y

From Rev Fred. s. Jewell, Professor of
 State Normal School. Albany. N Y.
 This may certify that I have been, since lo44, subject to violent neriodical attacks of catatrh, marked by highly @fnfamed condi- ton of the lining membranes of tho cavities of the head, producing most distressing species of headache for days at time. wholly incapaes. ltating me for business, and during the parox- ysms contining me to the bed. In some in. stauees the intlamation has extended. to the teeth, occasiohing toothacbe; io the throat, producing hoarseness and partial loss of voice !; and twice 1t has so affected the left eye as to cohiine nie for month or more to darken. ed ruom. These attacks have been accompan. jed by strong febrile symptoms by stoppags ot the head. and, In the first stages by watery discharges from the nose suLseo uently becom. ing acrid and yellow, and towards the close of the attack beroming bloody and purulcnt. l. have tried medicines of almost every kind {: external applications to the heal such as cam. plior, ginger, hot bandsges, and fome entations of hot Vinegar snutfs of some half dosen 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 tEe disease to be prscticalls beyond either cure or material dlieviation. D .
 Under these circumstances I was led, some five months ago, to make trial of Dr. Lighth tilIs treatment. His method at once approved itself to my judgment as simple, philosophical, and likely to be effective. Notwithstanding the disadvantages under which it laboretl. in dealing wlriI taisrusv of ruel, ~-lsaQ standing aggravated Ky nervous debility and dyspcpsia. :. 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 Q modification and alleviation of its character, as had supposed impossible. chronicle the reaults thus AL. though l have been situated several times so. tliat should formerly have believed a 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. Lighthili. with out need of recourse to the old lamentations or elaetics and the discharges from the head have resumed the ariei---a a-rraf natural oofidi. tiou. Ihrr1 have been able to obtain so ma. teriai a relief, ls to me a cause of gratitude. I'll that alone am repaid for whatever the ex. pertinent may have cost me- .---F-
 make this statement unsolicited. as n means of acknowledging my obligation to Dr.. Lighthill's method of treating catarrh. and with ayiew to aid any one who may have snf. fered from that disease. in forming . just opin |. ion its merits, and its probable utility in
 REV. FREDERICK S. JEWELL.
 Prof State Normal School.
 Albany, N. F., March IA, 1864,