The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-09-05
SCHENCK'S PULMONJr
SYRUP.
POSITIVE CURr
Sc,or.r,s S,o w -. FOR CONSUMPTION.
ICED Tonic and Mandrake Pi;lS
ERE AUXILIARY REMEDIES

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equal confidence, as almost a specific for thos
morbid conditions of the body which, if neg
lected, are apt TO terminate in dangerous or fata
diseases OF the lungs. Liver Complaint ant
Dyspepsia are generally regarded as forerunner
of Consumption, and when these diseases mani
fest themselves they require the most promp
attention.
The value OF Schenck's Pulmonic Syrup, se
Weed Tonic and Mandrake Pills has been teste,
in innumerable cases. My own personal expe
rience gives me the best assurance of the eli
cheney of this medicine. Many years ago wa
given up by physicians as one who was in tn
last stage oil Consumption and was taken Fl on
my home in Philadelphia to my friends il
Moorestown, N. j., to die. ! was wasted ava,
to mere skeleton. ] was confined to my bed
and my ply slcian (who had attended my father,
family, declared that ! could not live "A week
Then, like drowning man catching at straws
heard OF and obtained these preparations
which, to the astonsnment of every spec
tator, soon made perfect cure. 1t seemed
to me that l could feel them penetrating
my whole system. 1t soon ripened the
matter in my lungs, and | would spit
up more than pint OF offensive yellow matter
every morning for more than week. As soon
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cough, fever, pain, and night sweats all began
to leave me, and nv appetite became so great
that it was with difficulty that | could refrain
from eating too much. l soon recovered my
strength, and have been increasing in flesh ever
since. 1t astonished all who knew me- and all
oeileVed that was too far gone to make nv
recovery possible. Many people who knew me
then are now living, and occupy places of honor
and trust in New Jersey and Philadelphia, who
can easily satisfy the most incredulous relative
to the truth of these statements. My disease
was hereditary; my father, mother, brothers
and sister all died of Cons sumption, and | alone
am left.
Now enjoy the bes. of health, and have TOR
years weighed more than two hundred and ten
pounds. Immediately after my recovery
removed to Flemington, N. j., and for several
years made the Pulmonic Syrup and gave it to
the afflicted. II made such wonderful cures that
the physicians of the place were astonished at
its effects, and advised me TO turn nv attention
to the science of medicine, and especially to
The study OF this disease. In fact, was driven
to it by the application of great numbers
oil people who came or sent to me from all parts
OF the country, calling on me to cure them.
after all other human assistance was unayall-
able,
Since my recovery my medicines have been
extensively used for more than t,0enty fUe gears;
and so well have they endured this long proba.
tion that their reputation and popularity have
constantly increased.
In order to understand hOao these medicines
effect the cures which are ascribed to their
agency, it is necessary TO have some acquant.
ance with the pecdliariies of the disease.
Pulmonary Consumption (Ph'hiSis P,,lmon.
diS) is characterized by emaciation, debility,
cough, hectic fever, and puruleut eXpcCtoratiop,
This disease has always been the greatest
scourge OF the huImian race, and it has destroyed
more lives than famine, sword, and pestilence.
An English writer, some years ago, computed
that out of population of eleven millions in
the isle of Great Britain, ffty-fve thousand
annually died of consumption. The same
fatality attends the disease in this climate. One
principal cause of the great mortality which
attends Pulmonary Consumption is the false
Theory that it is incoUable. This mischievous
error causes many cousumptive patients to de.
spar as soon as the nature of their aillIction
becomes manifest, and when they are hopeless
of cure, they resign themselves to what they
suppose to be inevitable fate, and die without
making any effort to prolong their lives. "Our
doubts are traitors,n says Shakespeare; con-
are often victimzed by the foregone
conclusion that ther cases are beyond the reach
of medicine.
EPulmonary Consumption is, in most cases
complicated with disorders of the liver and
stomach. "Beiore the attack of this disease
(says a French physlclan), change takes
place in the condition of the blood, which be-
comes degraded in quality, and endowed with
a lower degree of vitality" This change is
caused by the imperfect action Of the liver,
for one of the offices of that organ Is to strain
and purify the blood. Schenck's Mandrake
Pills act on the liver more promptly and effec-
tuahy than any other medicine. Hence they
are often prescribed by men in the first stages
of consumption, and in many other cases
when the torpid or disc lsed condition of the
liver requires the use of this uurivalled purga-
tive. Concerning the use OF these pills, more
will be said hereafter; in the present connection
it may be observed that their operation corrects
that morbid condition OF the blood which al Ways
precedes an attack OF Consumption, and is
therefore, presumed to be one of the principal
causes OF the attack.
In the next place it is found that Dyspepsia,
or lapguid indigestion, is often torerunner
OF Consumption, and in numerous instances it
accompanies the disease through all its stages.
Dyspepsia is regarded BY many medical writers
as one of the prominent causes of Consumption,
and they have good reasons for this suppositon,
for the absence of nutrition in the blood leads
10 the formation OF tupercles, and dyspeptic
diseases deprive the blood of its nutritive pro-
pprties