Litchfield enquirer., 1865-03-02
CURE OF CATARRH.
From Rev. Fred. s. Jewell, Professor Of ae State Normal School, Albany, NY.

From Rev. Fred. 8. Jewell, Professor Of aF State Normal School Albany, N. F.
 This may certify that I have been, since l844, subject to violent periodical attacks of catarrh, marked by a highly unframed condi. tion of the lining membranes of the cavities of the head, producing most distressing species of headache for days at a time, wholly incapAc. itating mesfor business, and during the parox- ysms confining me to the bed In some in- stances the inflammation has extended to the teeth, occasioning toothache; 10. the throat, producing hOarseness and partial loss of voice and twice it has 80 affected the left eye as to contine me for month or more to darken. | ed room. These attacks have been accompan- jed by strong febrile symptoms 1; by stoppage | of 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
 phors ginger, hot bandages, and Concentrations
 of hot vinegar snuffs of some half doaen
 kinds, and other catarrhal preparations, to. getherwith 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 length. to believe the disease to be practically
 beyond either cure or material alleviation, l Under these circumstances was led some 1 five months ago, to make trial of pr. Lghth 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 a disease of such long standing,
 aggravated by nervous debility and dyspepsia,
 and constantly induced by the accidents ofmy
 professional labor, found the treatment.reach.
 ing the disease az it had never been reached
 before, and producing such a modification and 1 alleviationsof its character, as had supposed | impossible. .h9 chronicle the reaults thus Al.
 though have been situated several times 50
 that should formerly have believed a severe
 attack of my catarrh inevitable, have es.
 caped 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 .ernetics and the discharges from the head l have resumed the original and natural condi-, | tiou. That | have. been able to obtain 90 ma. I terial relief Is to me cause of gratitude. l In that.alone am repaid for whatever the OK : pertinent may have cost me. i.fa' naai 9tou l I make. this statement unsolicited. as a
 means of ofackhowIedg;n my obligation to Dr. l Lightiiill' s method iEofa treating catarrh, and l with view to aid any one who may have sui. 1 fered from thatdlisease, in forming just opin-
 ion ofits merits, and its probable utility in REV. .iFREDERICKS s. JEWELL, 5aa H &niisYalGg Prof State Normal School. a, 1 Albany, N. ,Y., March IA, 1884.