Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-04-13
DIR. JEROME PANCOST,
PROPRIETOR
st. Louis Throat and Lung Institute,
New system of Practice in Menu
phis, I'm Cochran Hall Building.
No. 1872 Main street.


If there is one class of diseases more
than another which pre-eminently claims
the attention of medical men, and the
public generally, it is that melancholy
train of diseases popularity known as
Consumption, and all those relating TO
the air passages of the head and lungs.
These diseases have become so common,
and have hitherto proved so universally
fatal, that scarcely domestic hearth
can be found that has not lost by them
the dearest one of all " The young, the
beautiful and the good have alike been
its victims. 1t spares neither age nor
sex, but extends its ravages to every eli
mate from the frozen North to hesunny
| South
The great majority of physicians have
been so long in the habit of regarding
these diseases as incurable that little
else than mere palliation of symptoms
has been attempted. The remedies
have been administered by the stomach,
while the .festeriug co,roding ulcers IN
the lungs have been left to pass through
their destructive changes uldisturbed.
That medical men have failed in the
use of the means hitherto employed is to
me not matter of surprise, and if the
same theory and principles were to
govern me in the treatment of these
dangerous classes of maladies that have
hitherto directed them, |, too, should
have little ground for hope or success.
CHRONIC NASAL CATARRH AND ITS FINAL
RESULTS.
Of all the diseases which afflict human
ity, as well as the most subtle, obscure
and difficult of cure by ordinary medical
practice, is nasal cdtdrrh. Beginning
with symptoms which resemble those Of
cold, it advances stealthily downward
till the most alarming throat diseases,
bronchial affections and lung complaints
are fully developed, or till the senses of
smell hearing and sight are destroyed,
and the destruction of the bone begins,
and what was first disease durable in
few weeks, becomes the affliction Of a
lifetime or terminates in death.
That this disease is so fatal in It's ten
dency and productive of such unhappy
consequences, none will be surprised to
learn, if he will but reflect that every
breath of air that is inhaled into the sys-
TEN by those suffering from cdtdrrh
must pass over an unhealthy and dis
eased membrane. and the air in passing
over these putrid and liberated surfaces
must necessarily imbibe the most noxious
and deadly properties, and in this man
ner every breath of air taken into the
lungs is converted into poisonous agent
of death. Chronic catarrh, in very
large proportion of cases, may be re-
garded as the foundation and forming
stage of PULMONARY CONSUMPTION, and
and other diseases affecting the air pas
sages of the lungs. Too much impor-
lance cannot be attached to the early
removal of this most disagreeable and
dangerous disease.
/ claim, and am prepared to demon
strate, that under this rational mode of
practice every disease of the breathing
organs may at certain stages of develop
ment be radically cured by the PdncoSt
ner mode of treatment which | have
introduced to popular attention. The
closest investigation is invited, and the
more careful and thorough the inquiry
the more apparent will be the truth of
this statement-that it is the only true
mode Of cure.
Doctor Pancost gives his undivided
attention to the treatment and cure of
throat and lung diseases, and from years
of experience in this difficult department
of practice, together with the remarkable
success which has attended his ne,c mode
of practice, is prepared to guarantee rad
ical cures Of catarrh, asthma, bronchitis
and the earlier stages of consumption
Bsr Consultation and examination
free.
B9T Charges moderate and within the
reach of all.
Office 1872 Main street, Memphis, Tenn,
where he may be consulted either per-
sonally or by letter,