The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1871-11-11
Il. s. DA us & co.
The Cause and Cure of Consumption.

The primary cause of Consumption is arrangement
of the digestive organs. This deraneemept produces
deficient nutrition and assimilation. By assima-
ton mean toat process by which the nutrirent OF
the food is converted into blood, and thence into the
solids of the body Persons with digestion tbua I'M
paired, having the slightest predsposition to pul-
monary disease, or IL they take cold will bevery IL
able to have Consumption OF the Lungs in some of
its forms and hold that it will be i'm 70 cure
any case olConsumpton without frst restoring good
digestion and healthy assimilation, 1hs yery nrst
thug to be done is to cleanse the stomach and bowels
from all diseased mucous and slime which is clogg ing
these organs that they cannot perform their iunc
IONS and then rouse up and restore the liver TO
remedy is Schenck's Mandrake Pills These Pills
cleanse the stomach and bowels OF all The dead and
morbid slime that's causing disease and decay in the
whole sy EN-. They will clear out the liver OF all
diseased bile that has accumulated there ard arouse
it up to a new and beatty action, by which natural
and healthy bile is secreted.
The stomach bowels and liver are TINS cleansed bv
the use OF Sch nck's Mandrake Pills; but there re-
mains 10 the stomach an excess of acid, the organ
is torpid and the appetite is poor. In the bow the
iaceals are weak and require strength and support
1t is in condition like this that sc6encks Seawetd
discovered 1t Is alkaline, and lis will neutralizs
all excess OF acid. making the stomach sweet and
fresh 1t will give permanent tone to tnis important
organ ana create good, hearty appetite, and pre-
parethe system for the first process OF good digestion
and ultimately make good, healthy, living blood
cure most cases of Consu nton ia the tres and 49,
severing use OF Schenck's Pulmonic Syrup. The
Pulnonic Syrup pouIishes the system, purifes the
III,
and thence distributed to the diseased lungs There
it rpens all morbid matters, whether in the form of
Assesses or iubercles, and then assists Nature to
expel all the diseased matter in the form of free ex-
pecto1ation, when once it rpens. 1t is tben by the
great healing and purifying properties of Schenck's
Puimonc Syrup, that all ulcers and cavities are he al
ed up sound and my patient is cured.
The essential thing to be done in curing Consump-
ton is to get up good appeite and coed digestion
SO that the body will grow in flesh and get strong
If person has diseased lungs, cavity or abscess
there the cavity cannot heal tie matter cannot rip
,IOra.r tha h.Ia.
essary to cure is new order OF things good Ape
tte good nutrition, the body to grow in flesh and
get fat then Stature is helped, the cavities will heal
the matter will ripen and be thrown off in large |
quantities. aud the person regain health and strength
THIS is the true and only plan to cure Consumption,
and if person IS very bad, ii the lungs not en-
trey destroyed even if one lung is entirely gone
il there is enough vitality left in the other to heal up
there is hope.
have seen many persons cured with only one |
sound lung, live and enjoy life to good old age |
This is what Scliencks medicines will DO to cure |
Consumption. They will clean out the stomach, |
sweeten ard strengthen IL, get up good digestion,
and give Nature the assistance she needs clear the
system OF all the disease that is in the lungs, what
1t is important nat while using Schenck's medi-
cines should be exercised not to take cold: keen
indoors in cool and damp weather; avoid night air
and take outdoor exercise only genial and wal IN
sunshine
wish it distinctly understood uat when recon-
mend Datent TO be careful in regard TO taking cold
while using my medicine. / do so Ior special rea-
son. man who has but partialysrecoverei from the
effects OF bad cold IS tar more liable to RELAPSE
han one who has teen entirely cured, and it is pre-
,isely the same in regard to consumption So long
rs the lungs are not perfectly healed, inst long is
here imminent danger OF iull return OF the dis
ease. Hence it Is that so strenuousiy caution pull
nOnary patients gainst exposing themselves to an
atmosphere that is not genial and pleasant. Con-
irm ed consumptives' lungs are mass of sores |
which the least change OF atmosphere Will .nflame.
The grand secret oil my success with my medicines !
consists in my ability to subdue inflammation instead
II provoking it, as many OF the faculty do. An in
famed lung cannot with safety the patient be ex-
posed to the biting blasts OF winter the chilling winds
if spring or autumn 1t should be cal Gully shielded
hould be observed in this particular. without it
ure under almost airy circumstances is an impo:s-
,ty.
The person shonld be kept on wholesome and nu-
riciOus diet, and all The medicines continued until
he body has restored TO it the natural quantity OF
esh and strength.
/ was yself cured by this treatment OF the worst
ind of Consumption and have lived to get 1at and
earty these many years, with one lung mostly gone.
have cured Thousands since. and very many have
cen led by this treatment whom L have never |
cen
About the first OF October expect to take posses
lou of my new bnding at the northeast corner of
ixth and Arch streets, where l shall be pleased to |
i've advice to all who may require it. -4
Full directions accompany all my remedies so that
person in any part Of the world can be readily
ured BY strict observance OF the same.
j. H. SCHENCK, N. D., Philadelphia.
GEO. C. GOODWIN, g. CO, Agents.
BOSTON.