Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-10-19
The Cause and Cure of Consumption.

The primary cause of Consumption is derange.
ment Of the digestive organs This derangemennt t
assimilation mean that process by which the np.
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 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 cogging these organs
rouse mp and restore the liver to healthy action.
For this purpose, the surest and best remedy is
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 all diseased
bile that has accumulated there and arouse 1t up
to a new and healthy action by which natural and
healthy bile is secreted.
The stomach, bowels and liver are thus clean sed
by the 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 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, audit use
will neutralze all excess Q, 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 good digestion, and ultimately make good,
healthy, living blood. After this preparatory treat
ment, what remains to cure most cases of consump-
PuImoric syrup. The PaImonic syrup nonrishes
the system, purifes the blood, and is readily alb
eorbed into the circulation AMI thence distributed
to the diseased lungs. There it ripens all morbid
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 it ripens. 1t is then by the great healing aud
purfyns. properties Of Schenck's 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 dges
ton, SO that the body will grow in flesh and get
strong. II person has diseased lungs, a cavity OF
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
a 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
of in large quantities and the person regain health
and strength. This is the true and only plan t.
cure Consumption, and If person is very bad, ii
the lungs are not entirely DESTROYED or even il one
lung is entirely gone, II 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
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.
It is important that. while using schenck's med-
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.
mend patient to be careful in regard to taking
cold while using my medicines, do so for Il 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
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 il is that SO strenuously caution
pulmonary patients againt exposing themselves to
an atmosphere that Is not genial and pleasant.
Confirmed eonsnmptives' lungs 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, as many of the faculty do. An
famed lung cannot with safety to the patient be
exposed to the biting blasts of winter the chill
fully shielded from all irritating influences. The
utmost caution should be observed in this particu
lar, without it cure under almost any circum-
stances is an impossibility.
The person should be kept op a whoeso ne and
nutricious diet, and all the medicines continued
until the body has restored to it the natural quanti
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 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 be read
lily cured by strict Observance ofthe same,
j. II. SCHENCK, NJ. d.
Philadelphia.
GEO. c. GOODWIN q CO., Agents,
BOSTON