Litchfield enquirer., 1864-09-15
From HARVEY BEACH, Esq, Milford
CURE OF CATARRH.
From Rev. Fred. s. Jewell, Professor oj
 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
 1844, subject to violent periodical attacks of catarrh, marked by highly intlamed 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 contining me to the bed In some ip stances the inflammation has extended to the teeth, occasioning toothache; 10 the th.,at, producing hoarseness and partial loss of voice and twice 1t has so affected the left eye as to conine me for a month or more tu t!;,k kcn- ed room These attacks have becl. au,ulnpan- jed by strong febrilo symptoms ly stoppage of the head, and in the first stages, hy watery discharges from the nose, subseque r!y bccom- ing acrid and yellow, and towards Ii close of the attack beroming bloody and purul,nt I have tried medicines of almost eve1v kind external applications to the head such as cam phor, ginger, hot bandages, and Concentrations
 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 I had come, at length to believe the disease to be practically beyond either cure or material alleviation. Under these circumstances I was led, some five months ago, to make a 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 nv professional labor, found the treatment reach ing the disease as it had nGvcr been reached
 before, and producing such modification and alleviation of its character, as I had supposed impossible. chronicle the reaults thus. AL though have been situated several times SO that should formerly have believed severe
 attack of my catarrh inevitable, I have es- l 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 emetics and the discharges from the head
 have resumed the original and natural condi- | tiou. That have been able to obtain so ma | terial a relief Is to me cause of gratitude. a l In that alone am repaid for whatever the ex- pertinent may have cost me-
 1 make this statement unsolicited, as
 means of acknowledging my obligation to Dr.
 Lighthill's method of treating catarrh, and
 with view to aid any one who may havo suf- fered from that disease, in forming a 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 Y., March IA, 1864.