Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1864-09-06
FROM REV. FRED. s. JEWELL, PROFESSOR OF
STATE NORMAL SCHOOL, Albany, n. Z.

STATE NORMAL SCHOOL, ALBANY, n. Z.
This may certify that have been, since |
1914, subject to periodical attacks Of ca
tarrah, marked by highly inhamed con-
dition of the lining membranes of the cav
tiles of the head, producing q most distress
singspeeies of headache for days at time,
wholly incapacitating me for business, and
during the paroxysms conhning me.tO bed.
In some instances the inflammation has ex-
tended to the teeth, occasioning toothsche,
to the throat, producing hoarseness and
martial loss of voice and twice 1t has 80
effected the left eye as to confne me for a
month or more to q darkened room. These
/ attacks have been accompanied by strong
febrile symptomsj by stoppage of the head,
| and, in the first stages, by watery discharg-
es from the nose, subsequently becoming
| acrid and yellow, and towards the close Of
| the attack becoming bloody and pUrulent.
| have tried medicines of almost every kind;
external applications to the head such as
| champion, ginger, hot bandages, and 70
mentations Of hot vinegar; snufs Of some
| half @ dozen kinds, and other catarrahla
preparations, together with internal rene
| dies, such as alternatives, catharties, and
cosmetics. These have produced no change
in the occurrence of character of the di-
sease, and in most cases, with little or no
temporary relief, had come, at length to
| believe LQ6 ulbedS6 70 DC DS-
yond either cure or material allsviation.
Under these circumstances l was led,
some five months ago, to make q trial Of DR..
| Lighthill's 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 nerv-
ous debility and dyspepsia, and constant
| ly induced by the accidents of my profess
sfennl labor, found the treatment reach
ing the disease as it had never been reach
ed before, and producing such a
modification and alienation of its char
acter, as I had supposed impossible.
chronicle the results thus. Although
I have be en- situated several times so that
l should formerly hove believed a severe
attack of my catarrh inevitable, have Is
capped thus far; the symptoms threatened
stack have been very light, and have
e yielded to the remedies applied by Doctor
1ighthill, without need Of recourse to the
old lamentations or emetics; and the dis
& charges from the head have resumed the
original auG the natural condition. Ieount
upon a complete cure. That have been
able, however, to obtain so material ar ellie.
is TO me a cause of gratitude. In thA,
alone am repaid for whatever the experl.
ment may have cost me.
make this statement unsolicited, as
5 means of acknowledging my obligation tC
| DR.. LighthiH's method of treating catarrh
and with view to aid any one who may
have suffered from that disease, in foEmin(
: a Just opinion OF its merits, and its probable
d utility in their own case.
[Signedl Rev. FREDERICK JEWELL,
Prof. State Normal School.
ALBANY, N. Y, March IA, 1854.