Litchfield enquirer., 1864-08-04
CURE OF CAT4RRH.
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 1 have been, since 1S44, subject to violent periodical attacks of
 catarrh, marked by highly infamed condi-
 tion of the lining membranes of the cavities of
 the head, producing most distressing species l of headache for days at a time, wholly incapac-
 itating me for business, and during the parox- ysms contining 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 1t has so affected the left eye as to | conre me for a month or more to 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 Concentrations l of hot vinegar snuffs of some half a 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 1 length, to believe the disease to be practically 1 beyond either cure or material alleviation. l Under these circumstances I was led, some | five months ago, to make trial of Dr. Lighth l 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, I found the treatment reach | ing the disease as it had never been reached before, and producing such modification and l alleviaton of its character, as I had supposed | impossible. I chronicle the reaults thus AL I though 1 have been situated several times so | that 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. Lghthili, with
 out need of recourse to the old Concentrations,
 or emetics and the discharges from the head
 have resumed the original and natural condi- I 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.
 l make this statement unsolicited, as a
 means of acknowledging my obligation to Dr. 1 Lghthlps method ot treating catarrh and 1 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 1 their own case. (Signed)
 REV. FREDERICK s. JEWELL, Prof State Normal School Alhonv March 1t 7SGd