New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-05-28
GALLOPING CONSUMPTION.

shall now speak of g form of consumption, COM
mon'y known by the name OF gaiioplng or
quick consumption, because OF its fearful
It is no unusual thing for persons in their ordi,
nary health catch cold and Gle, within six weeks,
from this disease 1t ger orally begins with cold,
which ets in with severity aud Is felt from the first
threatens to end in consumption there is always
difficulty of breathing. and an oppression or sense
fever and night sweats soon make their appearance.
At the end of lew weeks, yellow. purul ent expec-
toratlon commences, and tie flesh and strength
Now. thisis so much unlike the ordinary form OF
consumption that many who die of il thought
to die of ufl Elimination: But examine the lungs
after death and the whole external surface Of the
air tubes cells and even the substances ofthe lungs,
are found filled with tubercies.
There is another form of quick consumption
with in those having habItually cold hands and
feet, small chest. AID delicate heath generals.
Such neople are always sho t-oreathed and extreme
y liable to colds They sed 2in manifest disease by
active symptoms. The cough Is very slight and the
e1pectoration more than ordinary mucous. be
truth is. they fade rapidly away and die without nav.
ing been thought seriously i'll. Ia them the tu-
bercles do not soften uicerate the lungs They
carried of by what seems an ordinary attack or
darrhea before the lungs break down.
Both kinds OF quick consumption are caused by
In the first the 1ngestion induced by the severity
of the cold swelis the mucous Inning OF the air tubes
and prevents sufficient air being drawn in ct each
breath. This leaves the blood loaded with WORKOUT
carbonacious after and from this mpurity tuber-
cles FORM the second kind the natural feeblenes3
of the chest renders such persons extremely liable
to colds and they are less aoe to bear the of the
lung capacity which colds produce. In b.th death
takes place before the tuberces soften and nse-
qusntly few OF the ordinary symptoms OF consump
the importance of the function OF the lungs is
seen in the fact that # it be suspended tor only
five minutes we are osad; Now what Is the eau as
drowning, or smotheripg. the lungs are perfectly
sound aud unipjured. Tne cause of death IN SUCH
cases is the impuri.y of the blood which bang re-
tanned for even five minutes paralyses the heart,
the brain and every vital organ. The whole object
j. paa h pOp s 70 fu no
vi ich the contains is the purifying agent en-
poyed by nature for this purpose, and no medicine
is that when the lungs obstructed by dis
feel oppressed for breath. We can MT take suth-
only cause of that shortness OF breath of which
people mplain who have weak or diseased lungs.
comes plain and ineligible. 1t is first to purify
the blood by supplying. by artificial means, more
oxygen than the lungs in their INSTRUCTED condition
can obtain from the air; and second, to remove the
obstruction itself by soothing the lntlamed MEM
the expectoration OF the mucous and phle9m Wnlcn
clogs the air passages and bronchial tubes This is
not only scentlhG ana common sense eHorI RE
the disease but 1t is the only rational Effort
which can be made
the fact is that no medicine given by the stomach
has any curative power whatever over Lhe lungs
The whole history Of medicine proves that neither
consumption nor any other chronic disease OF tne
lun2s can be reached or cured IN that way. Sir
James CLARK. Professor SWEET, and all the great
teachers and authorities this subject. ADMIT the
tot al inetfcacy of such treatment Then why are
the people kept in ignorance OF the fact? Ny own
experience is that for the lungs medicines given by
the stomach do no good and often much harm. The
patient must inhaie or he will die If all the cases
in this city were placed at once under this treat
M ent at least tine fourths of them would recever
whereas if treated in the usual way, half will be
hopeless in six months, and few alive ct the end OF
one year.
K B. HUNTER. M. D,
l65 Canal street.
Ngw Orleans, May %.
NoTE-Dr. Hunter devotss his entire attention to
the treatment of diseases of the Throat Lungs aud
Heart and can be consulted personally by letter
at his Office 65 Canal street, daily from nine to four