Litchfield enquirer., 1864-07-21
From HARVEY BEAcH, Esq, Milford
 Conn
CURE OF CATARRH.
From Rev. Fred. 8. Jewell, Professor ot State Normal School Albany. N Y

From Rev. Fred. 8. Jewell, Professor oe
 State Normal School, Albany, M Y.
 This may certify that I have been, since 1S44, 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 spScies of headache for days at a time, wholly incapao. itating mo for business, and during the paEoS. ysms confning me to the bed. h some h. stances the inflammation has extcHded to the i teeth, occasiuning toothache; 10 the throat, producing hoarseness and partial loss of voice i; | and twice it las so affected the left eye as to contne me for month or more to darken. ed room. These attacks have been. accempan. jed by strong febrilc symptoms by stoppaRs ; ot the head and, in the first stages, by waee . discharges from the Eose, subsequently, becOm, ing acrid and yellow, and towards the close of the attack bcroming bloody aid purulcht l have tried medicines of almost every kind i external applications to the heal such as cam- phor ginger, hot bandages, and Concentrations of hot vinegar snutfs of some half do4en kinds, and other catarrhal preparations, to. gether with internal remedies, such as altrra tites, cathartics, and cosmetics. These have produced no change in the occurrence or char acter of the disease, and, in most cases, with i little or no temporary relief. 1 had come Ak length. to believe the disease tn be practically beyond either cure or material alleviation.
 Under these circumstances was led, some five months Ago, to make trial of Dr. Lighth. ills treatment His method at once aprroved 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 neveE been reached before, and producing such modification and 1 alleviation of its character, as had supposed l impossible. chronicle the reaults thus. Al, | though Havs been situated several times 50 that should formerly have believed a severS 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. 1 tou. 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.
 I make this statement unsolicited. as n means of acknowledging my obligation to iDr Lghthill's method of treating catarrh. and with view to aid any one who may have sufs fered from that disease, in torining just opl3. ion ofits merits, and its probable utility in their own case. (Signedl
 REV. FREDERICK S.. JEWELL.
 Prof State Normal School.
 Albany N. Y, March IA, 1864, .iE, r.