Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-10-06
The Cause and Cure of Consumption

The primary cause of Cons unption is derangc-
ment al the digestive organs This arrangement
produces deficient nutrition and assimilation BY
assimilation mean that process by which the nu-
trment OF the food Is converted INTO blood, and
thence Ito 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 furms 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 he done is to
cleanse the stomach and bowels from all diseased
mucus and slime which is elogging these organs
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 aud bowels of all the dead and morbid
slime that is causing disease and decay in the whole
system. They will clear out the liver all diseased
bile that has accumulated there, and arouse it up
to new and healthy action, by which natural and
healthy bile is secreted.
The stomach, bowels and liver thus cleansed
by the use OF Schencks 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 are weak, and requiring strength and
Seaweed Tonic proves to be the most valuable
remedy ever discovered. 1t is alkaline, and its use
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 good digestion, and ultimately make good,
healthy, living blood. After this preparatory treat
ment, what remains to cure most cases ofconsump-
ton is the free and perserverng use OF Schencks
Pulmoric syrup The Pumonic Syrup nourishes
the system, puTides the blood and is readily alb
sorbed into the circulation, AMI thence distributed
to the diseased lungs There 1t ripens all morbid
matters, whether in the form of Assesses or tuber
Giles and then assists Nature to expel all the dis
eased matter in the form of free eXpectoraton, when
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 good diges
ton SO that the body will grow in flesh and get
zfpn | ,t.ars has Al snI 90 itv
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
tiles will heal, the matter will rlpen and be thrown
of 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 II 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 aud strengthen it, get up good digestion,
the system OF ali 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 door 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
it is precisely the same in regard to 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 strehuously caution
pulmonary patients againt exposing themselves to
an atmosphere that is not genial and pleasant.
Confirmed consumptives' lungs are amass of sores,
which the least change of atmosphere will infiame.
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 m
famed lung cannot with safety to the patient be
exposed to 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 cure under almost any crcum-
stances is an inpossibility.
| The person should be kept on a wholeso ne and
| nutritious Diet and all the medicines continued
until the body has restored to it the natural quaint
| 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 /
| 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 same,
| j. H. SCHENCK, NJ. d.
| Philade phia.
| GEO. c. GOODWIN g. CO., Agents,