Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-02-05
PROFESSIONAL.
consul
AND
IT'S TREA EHT
BY
Jerome PanCOst. ND

AT THE HEAD OF THE DISEASES
Of cur climate stands cOnsumption-at
their head both as 10 respects prevalence
and fatality. Small POL, YeJt0ig FeUeT
and Cholera are terrible in their vista
tions, but what are al their aggregated
slsughJsrs compared with the csaseless,
silent march Of this fell disease which
spares neither age nor sex, but extends
its rayages to every Climste from the
frozen North TO the sunny South.
We do not deny that Consumption is a
general disease requiring constitutional
treatment, bus It has also a local develop
ment in the lungs hrst, i'm the form Of
albuminous tumors, called tubercles, and
then af.er their sofJening breaking down
and discharges; of these, in the more for
midable shape Of uleerous cavities, which,
beginning at the summit Of the luugs, de-
YOUR them down TO their base.
Can It be reasonable TO apply no remsdy
directly to this local disease? Not so
does our profession deal with other local
diseases. To acute iuhammatiOns on the
surfacs Of the body, we apply hot or cold
lamentations, cts, 10 l6prOus or scaly affsc-
tious Of the skin, the proper local apple
tiOns for these complaints; to weak and
intismed eyes, sulphate of copper, sui
phate of zinc, nitrate Of silver and the
various preparations of opium to open
q
the vegetable and mineral sstringents, al
tsrstiYe and Etyptic lotions, etc. These
are but specimens of the thousands of
cases in which We use local remedies with
the most gratifying and satisfactory re-
suits.
Why then, when the mucous membrane
which lines the air coils Of the lungs, bs-
comes iuhamed through all their
branches, should we neglect by the inha-
lstlOu Of the proper medicated vapOr to
apply a remedy directly upon the whole
inismed surfaoe2 Why, when tubercu-
lar matter is beginning to be deposited
upon the surface Of the air cells and the
small bronchical tubes, should not the
VapOr go directly TO these parts and
cause, as 1t does, the immediate expul-
sion Of this offending and dangerous
mstter2 Uneducsted common sense sees
the ressonableness Of these suggestions
at glance.
Many persons with pulmonary diseases
die OF sutOcstiOn, not because there is
not musculsr strength to eXpel the mat
ter which IS stranglIng him, bu t because
the lungs below the large pellets OF mu-
cJUs which plug up the bronchial tubes
cannot b5 ind stsd and have, therefore no
means Of driving out the offending sub
stancS-yet a proper msdicated YapOr,
drawn in with the breath, would either
y
piring m6mbrano9 to cast IL OF. If the
reader we're to place a stethOse0pe direct
ly over the disease, upon the breast Of
patient in the last stage OF consumption,
and should then ask him to. talk, the
words spoken would seem to rise up
through the instrument and enter well
into the ear. This, in tech
nical language, is called Peet0TiIogUg, a
word signifyiDg chest talking. II i'm
plies a cavity In the lungs.
If now, the patient be requested to
cough, gurgling and splashlng sound
will be heard. This denotes that the cav
ity is partly filed with fluid which Is
dashed about by ths air, ex plosiv ively
driven through it by the sound lung be-
low. Here then, We have an excsvated
ulcsr with sll its filthy contents, CON-
posed Of pas 8lHcOUS serum and dissolved
lying in it day and night to ag-
grsva-e its unhealthy condition.
What is m9re reasonable and what is
more necessary than that ssOothing alter
alive or astring8nt vspOr should be drawn
into this cavity to cause its sides to heal
and its sbs0rbanIs TO remove this poison
GUS tuid. a surgeon who should permit
an ulcer upon the surface Of the body to
remain Ia that condition without a local
dressing should be deemed unit to prsc-
tics his profession.
! lThe PANCOST new. system of prae-
tice for the treatment and cure Of Ca-
tarrh, Throat and Lung diseases, not only
embrace all that is valuable in inhels-
tions Of msdieated vspOr and atOmizs-
ton, but other applications OF far greater
utility and importance.
Es~Cal personally for examination II
possible to do so the treat tment can then be
conducted at home under my
instructions, otherwise write for "List OF
QUESTION:" Address,
JEROME PAECOST, NJ D.,
65 Adams Street. Memphis.