Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-10-03
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 nr-
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-
disposition to pulmonary disease, or if they take
cold will be very liable to have Consumption ofthe
Lungs in some of its 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 oiogging these organs so
that they cannot perform their functions and then
rouse up and restore the liver to a healthy action
For this purpose the surest and best remedy is
Schencks 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
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to new and healthy action, by which natural and
healthy Bile is secreted.
The stomach bowels and liver are thus cleapsed
by the Use Of Schenck's Mandrake Pills but there
remains in the stomach an excess of acid the organ
is torpid and the appetite is poor. In the bowels,
the ltcteals are weak, and requiring strength and
support ii is in condition like this that Schencks
seaweed Tonic proves to be the most valuable
remedy ever discovered 1t is alkaline, and its
VIII neutraze all excess o. acid making the stom-
ach sweet and fresh 1t viii give permanent tone to
this important organ and create good, hearty APP
kete, and prepare the system for the first process
OF good digestion, and ultimately make good,
healthy living blood After this preparatory treat
ment, what remains TO cure most cases of cOnsump-
ion l. the free and perservering use OF Schenck's
the system, purifes the blood, and is readily alb
sorbed into the circulation, AMI thence distributed
matters, whether in the form Of assesses tuber-
cles, and then assists Nature to expel all the dis
eased matter in the form of free expectoration, when
once 1t rpens. IL is then by the great healing and
purifying properties of Schenck's Puimonic 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 a good appetite and a good diges-
BODY
strong Ii person has diseased lungs a cavity or
abscess there the cavity cannot heal, the matter
cannot rlpen, so long as the system is below par.
What is necessary to cure is new order OF things
good appetite, good nutrition, the body to grow
in flesh and get fat then Nature is helped the
tiles will heal the matter will rpen and be thrown
OFF in large quantities, and the person regain health
and strength. This is the true and only plan to
cure Consumption, and If a person is very bad, If
the lungs are 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.
l have seen many persons cured with only one
sound lung, live and enjoy life to good old age.
This is what Schenek'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 Schencks medi.
cines care should be exercised not to take cold !;
keep indoors in cool and lamp weather; avoid
night air, and take outdoor exercise only in genf
al and warm sunshine.
4 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 who has been entirely cured and
it is precisely the same in regard to consumption.
SO long the lungs not perfectly healed just so
long is there imminent danger of full return ofthe
disease. Hence 1t is that SO strenuously 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 inname.
The grand secret of my success with my medicines
consists IN my ability to subdue inflammation instead
OF proY99klng It, as many of the faculty do An m
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 in this particu
lar, as without it a cure under almost any circum-
stances is an impossibility.