Litchfield enquirer., 1865-02-09
PHILo B. SHERWOOD.
From HARVEY BEACH, Esq. Milford
CURE OF CATARRH.
From Hev. Fred. s. Jewell, Professcf Of State Normal School, Albany, N. r.

From Rev Fred. s. Jewell, Professcf 0f state Normal School. Albany, N. r.
 ihls may certify that I have been, since lS44, subject to violent periodical attacks of | catarrh. marked bya highly inflamed condi- tioh oI The lining membranes of the cavities of the head, producing most distressing species
 of heauache for days at d time. wholly incapac- itating me for business, and during the parox. ysms coniining me to the bed. In some in. sthlces the inflammation has extended to the teeth, occasohing toothuche 10 the throat: producing hoaiseness and partial loss of voice | and twice it has so affected the left eye as to | conline inc forN month ur more to q darken. | ed room. These attacks have been accornpan. ied by strong febrile symptoms by stoppage
 of the head. and, in the first stages, by watcry | discharges from the nose, subsequently becom-
 Ing acrid and yellow, and towards the close of
 the attack bcromng bloody and purulcnt | have tried medicines of almost every kind i external applications to the heal such as cam. | phor, ginger, hot bantlages. and Concentrations of hot vinegar snutfs of somc half a dozen kinds, and other catarrhal preparations. to- getler with internal remedies, such as altera lives, catbartics, and cosmetics. These have produced no change in the occurrence or char | accr of the disease, and, in most cases. wills little or no temporary relief. had come, aE | length. to believe the disease to be practically beyond either cure or material alleviution. Ouuel tHeSe circumstances was led. some five months ago, to make trial of pr. Lighth ills treatment. His method at once apr Toyed 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, found tue treatment reachs ing the disease as it had nsver heen reached
 before. and producing suCha modification and | alleviation of its character, as had supposed impossible l chronicle the reau1ts thus. Al- | though l have been situated several times 50 | that should formerly have believed severe
 attack of my catarrh inevitable. I have es.
 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 eraetics ; and the discharges from the head
 have resumed the original and patural condis
 tiou. That I have been able to obtain so riias
 terial relief, Is to me cause of gratitude,
 Tn that alone am repaid for whatever the exs
 pertinent may have cost me. .
 | make this statement unsolicited as S
 means of acknowledging my obligation to Dr. | Lghthill's s method of treating catarrh, and
 with view to aid any one who may have sufs | fercd from that disease in forming just opin-
 ion fits merits, and its probable utility in
 their own case. (Signed)
 REV. FREDERICK s. JEWELL, Prof State Normal School,
 Albany, N. Y., March IA, 1864.