Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-10-17
The Cause and Cure of Consumption.

Inc primary cause OF Consumption is derange-
ment of the digestive organs. This arrangement
produces deficient nutrition and assimilation. By
assimilation mean that process by which the nu.
trinent OF the food is converted into blood, and
thence into the solids of the body. Persons with
digestion thus impaired, having the slightest pre-
disposition to pulmonary disease, or if they take
cold, Will be very liable to have Consumption ofthe
Lungs in some oi its forms and hold that it will
be impossible to cure any case of Consumption
without first restoring gooi digestion and healthy
assimilation The very first thing to lie done is to
cleanse the stomach and bowels from all diseased
mucus and slime which is clogging these organs so
that they cannot perform their functions, 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
system They will clear out the liver of all diseased
bile that has accumulated there, and arouse 1t up
to new and healthy action, by which natural and
healthy bile is secreted.
The stomach, bowels and liver are thus ceansed
by the of Schenck's Mandrake Pills; but there
remains in the stomach excess of acid the organ
torpid, and the appetite is poor. In the bowels,
the llcteals are weak, and requiring strength and
support. 1t is in condition like this that Schencks
Seaweed Tonic proves to be the most vauableI
remedy discovered. 1t is alkaline, and its use
Will neutralize all excess OF acid making the STOP
ach sweet and fresh it will give permanent tonsto
this important organ, and create good heartyap-
petite and prepare the system for the first process
healthy, living blood. After this preparatorytreat.
ment, what remains to cure most cases Of consump-
ton is the free and perserverng use OF Schencks
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the system, purifies the blood and is readily alb.
sorbed into the circulation, and thence distributed
matters whether in the form of Assesses or tuber
cles. and then assists Nature to expel all the dis
eased matter in the form of free expecforaton when
once II ripens. 1t is then, by the great healing and
purifying properties of Schencks Pulmonc Syrup,
that all ulcers and cavities are healed up sound
and my patient Is cured. FL
The essential thing to be done IN curing Consump.
ton is to get up good appetite and good diges.
ton, SO that the body will grow in flesh and get
strong. II person has diseased lungs, a cavity or
aDscess there the cavity cannot neal, the matter
What is necessary to cure is new order OF things,
good appetite a good nutrition, the body to grow
in flesh and get fat then Nature is helped the
tiles will heal the matter will ripen and be thrown
off in large quantities and the person regain health
cure Consumption and if person is very bad, if
the lungs not entirely destroyed. even if one
lung is entirely gone, 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 a good old age.
This is what Schenck's medicines will do to cure
Consumption. They will clean out the stomach,
sweeten and strengthen it, get up good digestion,
and give Nature the assistance she needs to clear
the system of all the disease that is in the lungs,
whatever the form may be.
1t is important that. while using Schenck's medi.
cines care should be exercised not to take cold
keep indoors in cool and amp weather; avoid
night air, and take out door exercise only in gent
al and warm sunshine.
I wish it distinctly understood that when Irecom-
mend patient to be careful in regard to taking
cold while using my medicines, l do SO for a special
reason. A man who has but partially recovered
from the effects of bad cold is far more liable
relapse than one who has been entirely cured, and
il is precisely the same in regard to consumption
So long the lungs not perfectly healed just SO
long is there imminent danger of full retnrn of the
disease Hence it is that SO strenuously caution
pulmonary patients agaiIt exposing themselves to
an atmosphere that is not genial and pleasant.
Confirmed eonsumptives' lungs are mass of sores,
which the least change of atmosphere will inhame.
The grand secret Of my success with my medicines
consists in my ability to subdue inflammation instead
of provoking it, many of the faculty do An
famed lung cannot with safety to the patient be
exposed the biting blasts of winter the chill
ing winds of spring or autumn. 1t should be care
fully shielded from all irritating influences. The
utmost caution should be observed in this particu-
lar, as without it a cure under almost any circum-
stances is an iE.possibllity. g.
The person should be kept op wholeso and
nutrclous diet and all the medicines continued
until the body has restored to it the natural quant
ty of flesh and strength.
was myself cured by this treatment of the worst
kind of Consumption, and have lived to getf at and
hearty these many years, with lung mostly
gone | have cured thousands since, and very
many have been cured by this treatment whom 1
have never seen.
About the first o! October expect to take 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 read
lily cured by strict observance of the same,
j. II. SCHENCK, NJ. ID.
Philade phia
GEO. G. GOODWIN d CO., Agents,