Litchfield enquirer., 1864-07-07
F,ron, HARVEY BEACH, Esq, Milford,
CURE OF CATARRH.
From Rev. Fred. S. Jewell. ProSessef W State Normal School. Albany, tNs N.

From Rev. Fred. s. yewell: PTosssssf @
 State Normal School, Albany, Nr N.
 This may certify. that haye been, sinoe lS44, subject to violent periodical attacks ct catarrh marked by a highly intiamed conoi. tion of the lining membranes of the cavities ol the head, producing most distressing species of headache for days at time, wholly .incapao- itating me for business, and during the parox. vsms confining me to the bed. In some in- stances the inflammation has extended to ths teeth, occasioni1g toothache to the throat. producing hoarseness and partial loss of Volcei and twice it has so affected the ieit eye Ss se confine me for month or more to darksn. ed room. These attacks have been accompan- jed by strong febrile symptoms by stoppags of the head, and, in the first stages 6y watery discharges from the nose, subsequently, Decom. ing acrd and yellow, and towards the close ok the attack beromng bloody and puruient" have tried medicines of almost every kind external applications to the hea' such as cam phor, ginger hot bandages, and lamentations of hot vinegar snuffs of some, half dozen kinds, and other catarrhal pfeparatiops, to. gether with internal remedies such, as aHera. tiyes cathartics, and cosmetics. These nave 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 the disease to be practically beyond either cure or material alleviatiOn -,sis
 Under these circumstancesI was tled., some five months ago, to make trial Of Dr!Ligdth: ills treatment His method at once approved itself to my judgment as simple, philosophical. and likely to be effective. Notwithstanding the disadvantages under which 1t labored. h dealing with disease of such long standing, aggravated by nervous debility and dyspcpsia, 1 and constantly induced by the accidents of my professional labor, I found the treatment reachp | ing the disease as it had never been reached i before, and producing such a modification and alleviation of its character, as had.shpposed impossible. chronicle the reaults thus. AL though have been situated several times 90 that should formerly have believed a severe attack of my catarrh inevitable, l have ss. 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 fern entations, or emetics and the discharges from the head have resumed the original and natural condl. tiou. That have been able to obtain SO ma. terial relief Is to me a cause .ofgrat4tud9s In that alone am repaid for whatsver the ex. pertinent may have cost me. :,.,-- .4 :. ..r
 make this statement unsoiicited,: ktsia means of acknowledging my obligation to Dr. Lighthill's s method .ot treating catarrh, end with view to aid any one who: may have suf- fered from that disease, in forming just epiA. ion of its merits, and its probable utility iA their own case. (Signed)
 REV. FREDERICK S. JEWELL.
 Prof State Normal Schoel
 Albany, N. X., March IA, 1864. r'