Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-09-28
Special Notices.
The Cause and Cure of Consumption

The 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.
triment of the food is converted into blood and
thence into the solids of the body. Persons with
digestion thus impaired having the slightest pre-
sposition to pulmonary disease, or if they take
cold, will be very liable to have Consumption ofthe
Lungs in some Gifts forms; and hold that it will
be impossible to cure any case OF Consumption
without first restoring good digestion and healthy
assimilation. The very first thing to be 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 ana restore the llYef 10 neaithy 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 ana decay IN the whoie
system. They will clear out the liver OF all diseased
bile that has accumulated there, and arouse it up
to IA new and healthy action, by which natural and
healthy bile Is secreted.
The stomach, bowels and liver are thus cleansed
by the of Scheuck's Mandrake Pills but there
remains in the stomach excess of acid, the organ
is torpid and the appetite is poor, In the bowels,
the lacteals weak, and requiring strength and
support 1t is in condition like this that Schencks
SeaWeed Tonic proves to be the most valuable
remedy ever discovered. 1t is alkaline, and its use
Will neutraZe all excess OF acid, making the stom-
ach sweet and fresh it will give permanent tone to
this important organ, and create good, hearty APP
petite, and prepare the system for the first process
of a good digestion, and ultimately make good,
healthy, living blood. After this preparatory treat
ment, what remains to cure most cases of consump-
ton is the free and perservering use OF Schencks
the system, puriiies 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 eXpei all the dis
eased matter in the form of free eXpectoraton, when
once it rpens 1t is then, by the great healing and
purifying properties of Schencks Pulmonic syrup,
that all ulcers and cavities are healed up sound,
and my patient Is cured.
The essential thing to be done IN curing Consump-
ton is to get up good appetite and a good digcs-
strong. If person has diseased lungs, cavity or
abscess there, the cavity cannot heal the matter
cannot rpen, so long the system is below par.
What is necessary to cure is new order OF things,
a good appetite, good nutrition, the body to grow
in flesh and get fat then Nature is helped, the cav
tiles VIII heal the matter wiz ripen and be thrown
on in large quantities and the person regain health
cure Consumption, and if a person is very bad, If
the lungs not entirely destroyed, or even if one
lung Is entirely gone If 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 Schenck's medicines will do to cure
| Consumption. They will clean out the stomach
sweeten and strengthen it, get up a 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 med-
cines, care should be exercised not to take cold !;
| keep indoors in cool and camp weather, avoid
night air, and take outdoor exercise only in gent
| al and warm sunshine.
wish it distinctly understood that when recon-
mend patient to be careful in regard to taking
cold while using my medicines do so for special
| reason man who has but partially recovered
from the effects of bad cold is far more liable to
relapse than one who has been entirely cured, and
| IL is precisely the same In regard 10 consumption
So long the lungs not perfectly healed just
long is there imminent danger of full return OF the
disease. Hence it is that so strehuOusy caution
pulmonary patients againt exposing themselves to
an atmosphere that is not genial and pleasant
Confirmed consumptives' lungs are mass of sores
which the least change of atmosphere will intiame
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 IN
famed lung cannot with safety to the patient be
exposed to the biting blasts of winter or the chill
ing winds of spring or autumn. Ii should be care
fully shielded from all irritating influences. The
utmost caution should be observed il this particu
lar, as without it a cure under almost any crcum-
stances is an impossibility.
The person should be kept on wholeso ne and
nutritious 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 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 to take posses
sion of my new building at the northeast corner 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 sane
j. ii. SCHENCk, NJ. d.
Philade phia
GEO. c. GOODWIN q CO., Agents,
BOSTON.