The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1867-11-21
HEALTH.
BY DIR. V. CLARENCE PRICE.

some unSuSpecJeQ or unforeseen event. q yio-
lent attack of disease takes place 1t is then
that the necessities Of the case call forth their
utmost energies; but having heretofore. or
while in the enjoyment of health, given it but
little reflection, all that regards their restora
ton appears to be involved in impenetrable
darkness. They fly to those means which |
their Imagination suggests might be useful
Or which they may hear of as being beneficial
to another, or that which may be recommend
ed by friends, without the possibility of being
even able to judge whether the application
may prove beneficial or Injurious. 1t NAV
prove successful, or it may not; if not it must
produce injury. Simple medicines by iniudi
clous administration, is often calculated to
prove Injurious, for, if no other effect is pro-
duced, time is lost, and the disease. by delay.
allowed to become more firmly fastened upon
the organ or part implicated. In no instance
should any person be allowed to prescribe or
suggest the use OF any article however sim
pie, for any disease, unless capable of fully nm
Outstanding the character of the disease and
the remedy necessary to remove it, There is
no DOUBT but that thousands are yearly, thro'
ignorant and unsystematic practice. hurled
INTO eternity The design of medicine is to
remove disease, and if of the right descrip-
ton, will move it if judiciously applied The
uncertainty of its action is not so much
the fault ofthe medicine as it is the Ignorance
OF the person prescribing it. But how do
medicines act? All medicines qualified for
the removal of disease, if too freely admins
tered muSt DrOduca moro or Iass- 6oh;Ii+,
Disease in no instance should be thrown from
the system faster than through the agency of
the stomach. By means of food. the loss
sustained by throwing off this diseased mat
ter, is re-supplied. This circumstance can
not but be apparent to all; yet how general
ly is the opposite result experienced. The
use of stimulents are generally much in use ;
scarcely do we hear Of any case of debility,
but that bark, wine and other stimulants have
! been resorted to, The use of stimulants up
on general principles we oppose. What are
their action? Can anything be more plainly
exemplifed than rejecting upon the free use
of ardent spirits on that individual, who by
habit is confirmed drunksrd? He rises in
the morning, his nervous system much i'm
paired every limb trembling and shaking :;
nor can he acquire anything like steadiness,
until he shall have taken few glasses of liq-
| uor, as he says; to quiet his nerves. Their ac-
| ton is here obvious. His nervous SYSTEM
| previously strong, by the use of stimulents
which excited them to beyond their strength
becomes soon exhausted, their energies par
TALLY paralyzed, and it now requires the same
Inc IN -
excitability. The nervous system soon wears
out under this unduly excited nervous irrita-
bility.
+ With this fact before us, who, upon reflec-
ton, can justify theus of stimulants to those
already laboring under nervous excitement ?
Such persons, the longer they resort to them,
(although, like the drunkard, for short time
they may feel what they termed
lstrengthened,) yet Will the powers of
the nervous system be gradually wasting un-
derit. Like other parts or orgcns of the body,
no debility can take place in them unless it
arises from the impoverishment or deficiency
of the fluids destined to circulate in them
Therefore, in order to cure it, we must attack
the origincl cause, The various organs are all
supported by fluids which circulate in them,
and according to the healthy or unhealthy
property, sutficiency or insuficiency of its
health strength or debinty,. Food is the on
ly natural stimulus, and that is sufficient. If
the stomach or digestive organs are Incapable
| of performing duly th0ir part, they require re-
| pairing. If the blood is thick and viscid it
requires alternating in order that the nerves
may be capable of absorbing that nutriment
| from its requisite for their support. Could it
otherwise be expected that the nervous system
should be weak, if the blood was so thick and
viscid that the nerves could not absorb the
nervous fluid from it? How soon would q
spear of grass dwindle and die if deprived Of
moisture? How soon does burning lamr
become extinguished when the combustible
materials that support it are exhausted, OF
distinctions proven t the combustion? And
can we be surprised that when such impedi
ments from the viscid state of the blood takes
place, that the nerves.. ligaments, muscles an(
cartllages, canuot be supplied from the BLOOD
with that fluid necessary for their support
that they should become weak, and a nervous
debilitated state Of the whole system exist
The simple view of the existing fact befor,
us, would manifest to our mind at once wha
course to adopt. Under such circumstance
the blood must be attenuated, rendered mort
fluid, that the absorbing vessels, which ar,
plentifully distributed throughout the Who'll,
system, may be enabled to exercise dulv .tbei
office. Diseased matter must be removed from
the blood, but in order to do this, we mus
be able to determine whatthe character of tht
morbid matter changing the blood is. 1t vii
In0t answer to guess at it, as thousands of i'm
positors and quacks do; and some of then
use t\ne medicine for every condition of The
blood. They say the blood is not GOOD, bu
utterly unable to tell why it is not, and wha
it is charged with to render it impure, |
they cannot tell what is in the blood tha
renders it impure, how can they select rem
edy capable of purifying it The deception
practiced upon he unfortunate bV ayariciou
pretenders TO medical knowledge is enormous
and the shameful imposition will continu,
until science shall be able to expose the ridic
ulous fallacies of medical SPECTATORS. w,
were prompted many years ago to undertake
the investigation of the various Character O
disease and medical agents, by critical an
ialysis of both vegetable and animal NATTER
This investigation enabled us to ascertain
with certainty the nature of that substanc,
circulating IN the system, first causing thel
supporting disease. Our ANALYSIS of MANY q
the agents employed as medicine, enabled III
to ascertain their mode ofaetion upon the flu
ids and solids of the human body-how anC
why they produce the effects which they arr
known to do. With this knowledge the true
| principles the treatment ofdiseases became
dIvested OF the mysterious ambiguity in which
they were formerly enyeloped We do moi
consider all diseases curable. If a disease ha,
attacked vital organ, and it be allowed t(
| remain until that organ be rendered incapa
Bile of performing its requisite functions f,e
fore the proper remidies are resorted to. the
! disease cannot be arrested, and death must
sooner or later ensue, The proper time to ar.
rest disease is when it is in its infancy al
least nothing is gained by delay.
| Our whole time and study is given to to +l,e
| exclusive treatment of diseases of the lungs
throat, liver heart, stomach, nerves, blood &c
termed chronic.
| have made my visits regularly for years
and will be for consultation upon all disease.
of the lungs. throat, heart, nerves
blood etc, on my next visit, at Keno.
sha, Cit v Hotel, during Saturday, the 18th o