The Republican journal., 1870-02-03
LUNG COMPLAINTS-THE NATURE AND
TREATMENT.

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TREATMENT.
SO common in most households is this class OF
Diseases and SO poorly their nature and proper
treatment understood by the public mind, that we
have long thought Of deNotng brief chapter TO
the subject. And this seems time the most rItlng
for it, because now and for many weeks past we
have suffered from pulmonary compalnt-uicer-
atod lungs in this casc-and which may serve as a
suitable text for the occasion.
Very many kind friends who have called to offer
their assistance and their sympathies, to whom we
would here tender our grateful Acknowledgements.
observing our severe and constant cough, were
anxious. as is natural and proper, to administer
soinethng to relieve it and by some one or anoth-
nr ~-arcey thing in the whole line of materia med
ica, ar out of it, but was recommended aS "a sure
ure for Il cough" And to our inquiry-lIow these
numerous remedies operated: Did they 90 down
into the lungs where the sores were, to hea! them
ii, Just as You would wash and heal a sore hand or
foot: And the answer almost invariably, even by
the most intelligent people out of the profession,
was that they did. And this we hay found, through
years ot observation is almost the universal popu-
ar belief an error, As we may show Of the gray
est cast sacrificing countless human lives.
3'ho lsng- or lights some call them have no
communication whatever with the outer world ex-
sept Wy md through the wind pipe; side ways nor
dowuwarls M outlet whatever mark this. In
fut Il you uc piece of rubber tube to the nose of
% tight TWO Guitrt Jug, You have very good idea
ut tae human lungs and the wind pipe. And note
this forever that nothing is designed to go, and
nor 60 without great danger into this human jug
tire iunss-but air thing in the air form,
lik,. yapor Why, when during the act of swa-
lowing, laughter, or some such act, slightly opens
the little clapper that designed to keep all solids
aud liquids out of the wind pipe. very few drops
of liquid falls into that tube, 'goes down the wrong
way" the most furious coughing and strangulation
are caused by it, And if these few drops in the
wind pipe cause so terrible effects Judge of the re-
sull Of all the cough medicines which people gllz-
lle down going into the same place as they think
Had thousanllh part of all the medicines our
Kind friends recommend, gene whero they thought
il would, we could not have lived five minutes it
woEld be ease of drowning!
4 iitte way back asked you TO mark that
here is no side nor downward outlet from the
lungs. ih. is also highly important to be known;
ior does person, especially little child,
stun up"-that is TO have a cold with the forma-
ton of phlegm in the wind pipe, when down goes
he physio = YOU wonder it don't relieve the ease
ind repeat dose after dose, till, in feeble persons
many link under the treatment. Even if this
phySic went into the wind pipe As YOU think-but
If caun0t-the effect would be to thrust this phegm
down into the lungs whence there Is no escape, AS
we irive shown TO produce strangulaton and
death. So AL your phy>cing in such eases amounts
10 lust this 1t goes right by the seat of the disease
without touching 1t at all. into the stomach and
bowels, where there is no disease but what the
treatment makes.
Non is il much different with emetirs Every
mcdicine ha. its peculiar organ to operate upon
cath4rtcs upon the bowels and emetics solely upon
the stomach. Hence these have no direct action on
the wind pipe and lungs. Yet the almost inyaria-
he practice among the people is a> soon as Il child
even little ,ickly infants. stutls up the mos, pow
ertul and prostrating emetcs. as lohcliu antimonv
for the common :. Group syrup 50 much used is
autimony and is too powerful for man-;re freely
given. The effort of throwing dSlodges very lit
tlr of this phlesm from the upper part of the wind
pipe; but With the physic it does not touch the
sea, of the disease, it fails to give any sensible re-
lief and a dozen times day, till the poor suf-
terer sinks under the harbaroIs treatment, as wc
hay often seen, are these powerful yomitngs excite
III the vain hope of doing impossible hings-making
medicines operate organs God never intended
them for. To try to make land animals live in tho
sea and vice versa would be just n, reasonable.
Then if neither cmctics, cathartics, cough med-
enes, nor any thing, except in the air form, can
ever 60 into the wind pipe an lungs, where all
cough complaints are located, what can be done?
Take first the case OF these children. Every time
they get cold the tender lining of the nostrils and
wind pipe become Slightly mtlamed, which causes Il
phlrgIny material to run out, Just every one has
from the under the same circumstances. AS
The air passe, through this in the wind pipe it makes
puTng, rattng sound, which most every one
takes for Group some horrible disease; which
belief causes all the terrible dosing before named !;
to which add pint> of herb drinks, chamber ley,
hens, gooses, skunk'S grease, and countless like
doses. Now the fact is not one time i'll thousand is
there particle of danger about such eases. They
are simply of catarrh, like the nose-lllnning
and would all get well in few days without do
ing the least thing tor them if you would let them.
This awful rafting phegm is in fact a natural cure
going 0n-unloadng the vesse, which the cold
has gorgcd with too much blood. And see how
the Creator has arranged TO ret up this. no hu-
man means can, there shall he no choking. a>
you fear. Cough is never 4 diSease-thc disease
being what makes the cough. In these children's
cases the disease is the irritation of and the sccrc-
tons IN the wind pipe; in all cough complaints
the cough is ones best friend, a kind pump to
raise up these sccretions out of the way. Another
thing far better than all your emetcs and skunk :,
grease. Breathing is double proceas-breatging
in and breathing out, in young children so or 40
times every minute. Now if you will reflect mo-
ment you will that this breathing out is actual
ly a force pump, moved by heated air from the
lungs, forcing all this phegm 30 40 times min
ute, as fast AS 1t forms, up into the mouth How
then is child going to sutfocate with two pumps
asolns to keep the breathing passages free.-except
IN those very rare cases of membraneous croup
which usually defy both nature and medical skill.
Il will save you a world of anguish and the sick
child much injury from the injurious help YOU Of
tan think you render it, by remembering this al
ways: 1t is rare that child with these complaints
ever raiscs any thing to be seen. You see by the
motions that some thing comes up into the mouth,
when the child gives a swallow, the substance dis
appears and you fancy it has gone back into the
wind pipe again; the result is every time a child
shows signs of % raising about every nurse and
mother makes rough dive into the child's mouth
and throat with any coarse cloth ut hand to pre-