The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1871-11-01
The Cause and Cure of Cou,umu,;o,

The Cause and Cure of Consumption.
The primary cause of Consumption is arrangement
OF the digestive organs. This arrangement produces
deficient nutrition and assimilation. By assimia-
ton mean tDat process by which the nutriment 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 predsp)sition to pull
monary disease or If they take cold, will bevery IL
able to have Consumption OF the Lungs in some OF
its forms; and hold that it will be impossible to cure
any o1Consumption without first restoring good
digestion and healthy assimilation. he yeTv first
thing to be done is to cleanse the stomach aud bowels
from all diseased mucous and slime which is clogging
these organs SO that they cannot perform their func
tons, and then rouse up and restore the liver to
healthy action For this purpose the surest and best
remedy is Schenck's Mandrake Pills. These Pills
cleanse the stomach and bowels OF all The dead and
morbid slime that is causing disease and decay in the
whole sys EN-. They will clear out the liver of all
diseased bile that has accumulated there. and arouse
it up to new aud healty action, by which natural
The stomach bowels and liver are thus cleansed by
the use OF Schancks Mandrake Pills; but there re-
mains in the stomach an excess OF acid, the organ
is torpid and the appetite poor In the bowels the
lacteals are weak and require strength and support.
1t is in a condition like this that Scbencks Seaweed
Tonic proves to be the most valuable remedy ever
discovered. 1t is alkaline and its will neutraze
fresh; it will give permanent tone to this important
organ and create good, hearty appetite, and pre-
parethe system the first process OF good digestion
and ultima ely make good healthy, living blood
Alter this preparatory treatment, what remains
most cases of Consumption is the free and per-
severing use OF Schencx's Pulmonc Syrup. The
Pumonic Syrup pouIishes the system, purifies the
BLOOD and is readily absorbed into the circulation,
and thence distributed to the diseased lungs. There
it ripens all morbid matters, whether in the form OF
assesses or tubercles and then assists Nature to
expel all the diseased matter in the form free ex-
pectoation, when once it ripens. 1t is then, by
great healing and purifying properties or Schencks
Pulmonlc Syrup that all ulcers and cavities hs al
| ed up sound and my patient is cured.
The essential thing to be done in curing Consump-
ton is to get good appetite and good 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 tlle
en-, so long the system is below par. What
essary to cure is new order OF things good appe-
tile, good nutrition, the body to grow in flesh and
get fat; then Nature is helped the cavities will heal
| the matter will ripen and be thrown off in large
This is the true and only plan to cure Consumption,
and if person IS very bad, it the lungs not en-
trey destroyed or even If one lung is entirely gone,
there is enough vitality lett in the other to heal
there is hope.
1 have seen many persons cured with only one
sound lung, live and enjoy life to good old age
| This is what Schenck's medicines will do to cure
Consumption. They will clean out the stomach,
sw s aTd I IT, gee up good dgestian
system OF all the disease that is in the lungs, what
ever the form may be.
cnes, should be exercised not to take cod keep
indoors in cool and damp weather; avoid night air
and take outdoor exercise only in genial and VAIN
sunshine.
| wish it distinctly understood mat when recon-
mend natent to be careful in regard to taking cold
while using my medicine. do so Ior special rea
son. man who has but acknowledgements from the
effects of bad cold is tar liable to reaps
than one who has eeen entirely cured and it is pre-
csely the same in regard to consumption. So long
as the lungs are not perfectly healed, inst long
there imminent danger OF iull return OF the dis
ease. Hence it is that so strenuousiy caution pull
monary patients ag anst exposing themselves to an
atmosphere that is not genial and pleasant. Con-
frDed consumptives lungs are a mass of sores
which the least change of atmosphere Will :n1ame
The grand secret OF my success with my medicines
consists IN my ability to subdue inflammation instead
OF 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
of spring or autumn. 1t should be carefully shielded
from all irritating influences. The utmost caution
should be observed in this particular without it
cure under almost airy circumstances is an imposs-
| bility.
| The person shonld be kept on wholesome and nu-
trcious diet, and all the medicines continued until
the body has restored it the natural quantity OF
| flesh and strength.
was myself cured by this treatment of the worst
kind of Consumption, and have lived to get rat and
hearty these many years, with one lung mostly gone.
| have cured thousands SINCE and very many have
| been cured by this treatment whom 1 have never
| seen
About the first of October expect lake posses
sion OF my new building at the northeast of
Sixth and Arch streets, where shall be pleased to
give advice to all who may require it,
| Full directions accompany all my remedies SO that
| person in any part OF the world can be readily
| cured by a strict observance OF the same.
| j. II. SCHENCK, M. D., Philadelphia.
GEO. C. GOODWIN. & CO., Agents.
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