The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1871-01-25
aB- DE. Schencl< Advises Consumptives
to 80 to Florida IN Winier.-Havipg for

VIII i"sI enuty-uYe years QeVStcd my whole
time and attention to tha study OF lung die-
eases and consumption, I feel that under
stand fully tho course thSt ought to be pur-
sued to restore n tolerably bad case Of diseased
lungs to hoalthy soundness. The first and
most important step s FOR the patient to
avoid taking cold, and the best of all places
on this continent for this purpose in winter.
| is Florida, we'll down in tho State where tho
| temperature is regular, aud not subject to
such variations as in more Northern latitudee.
Palaika is point can recommend. A coed
hotel is kept there by Pctcrman. Laet win
| ter l saw several persona there whose lungs
| had been badly diseased, but who, under the
healing influence Of the climate and my mcdi-
cincs, were getting we'll.
One hundred miles further down The riyor
| is point which would prefer to Palalka, as
| the temperature is more even and tho air dry
and bracing. DIellonyillo and Enterprise are
located there. I should give decided pre-
ference to D1cllonville. 1t is two miles from
river or lake. and it seems almost impossible
10 take cold thcro. The tables in Florida
19nga might DC, DC better, and patients complain at
| a return OF appetite, and when this is the caee
hey generally increase in flesh, and then the
| lungs must heal.
Jacksonville, Hibernia, Green Cove, and
many other places in various parts OF Florida,
can be safely recommended to consumptives
in winter. My reasons for saying 30 arc that
patients arc less liable to take cold there than
where there is less oven temperature, and it
is not necessary to say that where a consump-
i've person exposes himeelf to frequent colds,
Grc nc ,5 CERTAIN m to to dc shortly; Therefore. my
the reach of prevailing East winds and fogs.
Jacksonvillc, or almost any other Of the 10
caliiics have named, will benefit those who
arc troubled with torpid liver, q disordered
| stomach, dcranged bowels, sore throat or
cough, but for those whose lungs are diseased
moro Southern point is earnestly recon-
For fifteen years prior to 1869, was profes-
sionally in New York, Boston, Baltimore and
Philadelphia every week, where saw and cx-
amincd on an average FIVE hundred patients n
week. A practice so extensive, embracing
every possible phase Of lung disease, has ena-
blcd mo to understand the disease fully, and
hence my caution in regard to taking cold.
person may take vast quantities Of "Schcnck's
Pumonlc Syrup, Seaweed Tonic and Man
drake Pills" ;" and yet die if he does not avoid
| taking cold.
In Florida. ,noary everybody is using
Schcnck's Mandrake Pills, for the climate is
more likely to produce bilious habits than
more Northern 1atitudes. It is well eatnb-
lished Liz fact that natives Of Florida rarely die
OF consumption. especially those ofthe South
ern part. On the other hand, in New Eng
Ian land, onethird, at least, OF the population
States 1T does not prevail 80 largely, still
there arc many thousands of cases there.
y What a vnst per ctntage of life would bo eaved
gard to taking fresh cold as they are abont
scarlet fever. small-pOX, Nc I;ut thcy arc
not. hcy take what they term little cold,
will wear OH III few days. Thoy pay no at
tention to il, aid hence i, lays the foundation
for another aud anoic, stil), until the lungs
are dseaAed beyond nil hope for cure.
| My advice 10 persons whose lungs are
affected even slightly is, to lay in stock OF
Sclcnck'a - i'nlmonic Syrup, Schenck's Scawccd
! Tonic and Schenck's Mandrake 1.ills and 60
to Florida: recommend these particular
medicines because am thoroughly acquaint-
cd with their action. know that whcie they
are 'eed i'll strict accoTdance with ny lircc-
This accomplished, nature Will do the rest
The physician WHO prcscribea for cold, cough
or niEht-swcats, and then advises the patient
! TO walk or ride ot every dnv, will be sure to
have Corps" on his hands before long.
| My plan is Ia give my three medicines = in
accnrdanc" with the printed dire ctions, tx
Mdn'lrah" Pills is necessary. My object is to
give tone to the strinach--to get up 4 good
appetite. 1t is always good -ig, when n
patient lent, bes,;s ,, to grow hungry lave hopes
graiitcaticn of that relish comes good Llnod,
and with it more flesh. which is closely fol-
lowed by hcnling OF the lungs. Thtn the
cough lo"stns and abatcs, the creeping chills
and cla!nmy night-sweats no longer PROSTATE
and annoy, and the patient gets well r1ovid-
ed he avoids taking cold.
| NOV theTc arc many ycODeuMpilVee VINO nave
not the means TO go to Florida. The question
may he asked, is there n" hope Tor such?
Certainly there is. My advice to snch i.. and
ever has been, to stay i'll warm room during
the winter, with d Temperature of about
seventy degrees, which should TO kept
regularly at that point, by means of a thcr-
moincter. Let such a patient take his tx.
ercise within tho limits Of tho room by walk
ing up and down az much as his strength will
permit, in order to keep up healthy circnIa-
tion Of the blood. have cnred thousands
by this aysem, and can do SD again. Con-
sumption ia as easily cured as any other
disease, If taken i'll time, and the pro:,er kind
OF treatment IL pursued. The fact Htands
undispntcd on record that Hchenck's Pulmo-
nic Syrup, Mandrake Fills, and Seawced I onic
have cured very many Of what cot med to be
hopeless cases of consumption. Go where
you will. You will b. almost certain to find
some poor consumptive who has been rescued
from the very jaws of death by their uso.
SO far az tho Mandrake Pills arc concerned.
everybody should keep n supply Of them ON
hand. They act on the liver better than ca!o.
mel, and leave none OF it's hnrtfn effects be-
hind. In fact, they are excellent in sll caecs
where u purgatiye medicine is required. II
yun have partaken too freely Of fruit aud
darll.ua cnsIcs, a dose OF the Mandrakcs