Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-11-23
The Cause and Cure of Consumption

| The primary cause of Consumption Ia Lerange.
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-.
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 IL will
| be impossible to cure any case of Copsumption
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 cloggng these organs so
that they cannot perform their functions and then
rouse up anu restore the liver to healthy action.
For this purpose, the surest and best remedy ia
Schenck's Mandrake Pills. These Pills cleanse the
| stomach and bowels of all the dead and morbid
slime chat Is causing disease and decay in the whole
system They will clear out the liver OF all diseased
pile that has accumulated there, and arouse It mp
to anew and healthy action, by which natural and
| healthy bile is secreted.
The stomach, bowels and liver are Thus cleapsed
| by me use OF schencks 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 lacteals are weak, and recurring strength and
support it s in condition like this that ScRencks
| Seaweed Tonic proves to be the most valuable
remedy ever discovered. 1t is alkaline AM, it, use
Will neuraliZe all excess OF acid making the etom
ach sweet and fresh; it will give permanent tone tn
this important organ and create good hearty ap-
petite 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.
ton is the free and perserverng of Schencks
The system, Purifes the blood and is readily alb.
sorbed into the circulation and thence distributed
to the diseased lungs. There it ripens all morbid
matters, whether in the form of Assesses tuber
ces and then assists Nature to expel all the dis
eased matter in the form of free expectoratiOn when
once 1t ripeFs. 1t is then by the great healing and
purifying properties of schenck's Pulmonic Syrup,
that all ulcers and cavities healed up sound
and my patient is cured.
The essential thing to be done IN curing Con sump-
ton is to get up a good appetite and II good diges-
ton, SO that the body will grow in flesh and get
strong. II person has diseased lungs, cavity or
abscess there, the cavity cannot heal the matter
cannot ripen, so long as the system is below par.
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 cav
tiles will heal the matter will ripen and be thrown
on in large quantities. and the person regain health
and strength This is the true and only plan to
cure Consumption, and if person is very bad, if
the lungs are not entirely destroyed, even if one
lung Is entirely gone, II there is enough vitality left
in the other to heal up, there is hope.
I have seen many persons cured with only one
sound lung, live and enjoy life to a good old age.
This is what Schencks medicines will do to cure
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 camp weather; avoid
night air, and take outdoor exercise only in geni.
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 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
it is precisely the same in regard to consumption.
So long as the lungs not perfectly healed just
long is there imminent danger of full return of the
disease. Hence it 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 inlame
The grand secret OF my success with my medicines