The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1867-02-06

DIR. ScnEScK IN BosToN.--Dr. schenck was
again at his elegant rooms in Han9 ,s,, street.
last W eek on the occasion OF his weesy visit
AsnsnoI there was a great rush OF patients,
coming from almost every Po.siou VI new
ENGLAND. The Doctor, who Is wise and shrewd |
saw at glance what r comia anu what could
dav and entering the reception rooms proceed |
cd ~ address those present, giving, as will he /
seen. some very excellent counsel. The Doc |
tor deals in common sense, makes plain state |
substantially as follows
Ladies' and Ge7atle0aen.
see there are more patients here than 7
can properly attend to, and so must try and
manage to get at a number of you at a time
MANY OF you only want little advice. You
have probably seen me before. Some of YOU, /
suppose, have come a long distance. and are
apparently toofeeble to wait your turn. Those
mat wish thorough examination with the
hesplrometer will take into my private room
as soon as possible. My charges are five dol
lars lor an examination. can listen to your
lungs and tell pretty well their condition, but
II you want to know their exact state-wheth-
erlt is Bronchial, Tuberculous, Pleuritic or
pulmonary Consumption, and whether you
are durable or not, you must be examined with
the Respirometer. 1t is the only proper way
of auscutating Consumption can be cured.
Lungs deeply diseased can be healed up if the
system is got into healthy, healing condition.
The course pursued by the majority of physi-
clans is all wrong. They never cure. Their cod
liver oil and whiskey only ruin the stomach
l frequently, in riding i'll the cars, get seated
by consumptives. They have all their trans
for drinking with them, and as soon as they
get into spell of coughing they take a drink
Of whiskey, ana so they go on, and many
nm drink IN this way and he will soon lose
his appetite My first step is to cleanse the
stomach and liver, and then to create an appe-
ute. Many of you have cough, night sweats,
creeping chllls; and you all want to have them
stopped. You think you would be so much
Detter. NOW stop nothing. The cough is to
Ieiieve the lungs. Ii your lungs are diseased,
the nrst and only thing to be done is to get
the strength; and the only way to do that
Is to cleanse the stomach and liver. If
both lungs are not too badly affected, with nv
Mandrake Pills, Sea Weed Tonic and Pulmo-
mic Syrup can frequently effect the most won
derful cures A cure frequently requires gen
tie purging Tor some length of time, to get the
stomach and liver to act naturally. As soon
as the mucus and slime commence TO move, the
appetite begins to come up. The Sea Weed
Tonic being an alkaI, preserves the food in the
stomach until it is digested, preventing it from
sourIng. Now, in almost all cases of lung dis
ease, the action of the system is SO slow that
the food lies in the stomach, and sours. Blood
is made of it after it is spoiled and this is the
way our blood gets thick and bad. Canker,
sore throat and catarrh proceed from this sour
stomach. Burning out the throat with caustic
and gargles affords only temporary relief 1t
should be treated the same as when the tongue
IS coated, or sick headache. The cause is the
same My Pulmonic Syrup goes right to blood
when the stomach is kept right with the Pills
and Tonic. Now wish you to understand
that have no special remedies for chills or
night sweats. As soon as the lungs begin to
heal these will stop; but if opium, quinine and
many other things which are used to check
them go into the stomach, they disarrange that
important organ 50 much that digestion is prac-
tcally stopped. This is the very thing L am
trying to restore. If cannot get patients hum
cry. and make food to digest easily I cannot
cure them. Get up good appetite, eat good,
rich iood, rat meat, gravy-in tact nearly every
thing the appetite craves-and the lungs will
soon begin to heal No matter whether the
sore is inside outside if the system is healthy
it will heal up. You can hardly stop it, 1t is
its nature to heal. You may notice persons
that have scrofula, or any old chronic running
ulcers; they are all OF feeble or bilious condi-
ton, their digestion is poor, and they have not
healthy circulation of blood. Some three or
four years ago lady, Mrs. Bartholomew, came
to my room, 80 Bond street, New York; she had
tumor with two running ulcers on her liver,
which had been diseased fourteen years; and
they kept growing worse. She was cositive,
skin yellow, very stupid and dull liver and
stomach torpid, and no circulation. In three
months drove the disease all out of her. The
ulcers healed, and she is now a bright healthy
woman. Now there is one very important mat
ter to be attended to in curing consumption,
and that is, to prevent taking cold. Your ply
slcians tell you to go out every pleasant day.
Inns, In my opinion, is a great mistake
lung begins to heal the slightest change
Will inflame it, and the patient is
thrown back. When 1 can persuade patients
TO Keep to their rooms, L am almost sure of sue
cess. When they are able they can exercise
about the rooms to get the blood in circulation
Ihe directions which accompany my medicines
are SO explicit that any one can take them
without ever seeing me. There is not day
but what hear of some that have been cured
that never saw. Take the medicines and
guard against colds. Ii the lungs are not too
lar gone, the stomach will soon cleanse itself,
and the appetite will come. Eat plenty of good
food, and nature will heal the lungs. As said
before, do not depend on something to ease the
cough, to stop night sweats and creeping chills,
for these are only temporary. Some persons
may think, when speak of taking cold, that
my medicines may open the pores and make
them more liable; but it is precisely the reverse
OF this, for when the stomach is cleansed, per-
sons are not so apt to take cold as when the
system is locked up. Frequently when people
take a cold, if they would swallow a dose of
Mandrake Pills, it would work the difficulty
OH; but instead of this they swallow something
TO cneck 1T, which drives it back to the lungs,
leaving the seeds for tubercles to be developed
by the next slight cold into Inflammation of the
lungs have talked much longer than in
tended to, but when start get SO anxious to
convince people how easy it is to keep well and
feel lit Tor business, that do not know when
to stop. When the stomachis out of order you
are sick all over, and if you keep that right
you cannot help but be healthy and fleshy-
Look at me. Once was in the last stage of
consumption, as tall as am now, and weigh
ed less than one hundred pounds. My father,
mother, brothers and sister all died of con-
sumptlon-a family complaint-and yet here
am, Weighing two hundred and thirty pounds,
cured by the same medicines offer to you. /
40 not wish to be understood that my medi-
cines cure all. A good many die that take
them. They commence too late and their
lungs are too far gone. Their stomach and liv-
err are so much congested, and, 1 am sorry to
say, frequently by the use OF Bourbon whis-
key, to get them into action. The Mandrake
Pills contain no calomel or mercury; tbey are
perfectly harmless, and carry off the bile better
Than Blue Pills any other purgative ever
concocted. Remember these suggestions, my
friends, and know if you act upon them YOU
will be the better for It, - 800 = :