Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-03-26
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The second thing is, the patients must STAY
IN warm room until they get well; it is a..
most impossible to prevent taking cold when
the lungs are diseased, but it must be pre-
vented or cure cannot be effected. Fresh air
and riding out, especially in this section of the
country IN the fall and winter season. are all
wrong. Physicians who recommend that
course lose their patients, if their lungs are
badly diseased, and yet, because they are in
the house they must not sit down quiet; 1hey
must walk about the room as much and a. fast
as the strength will bear, to get up a good cir
culatlon OF blood; The patients must keep in
Rood splrlts-De determined to get well. This
has great deal to do with the lppetite. and is
the great point to gain.
To despair OF cure after such evidence of its
possibility IN the worst cases, and moral Ger
tainty IN all others, is sinful. DIR. Schenck's
personal statement to the Faculty of his own
cure was in these modest words:
MANY years ago was in the last stages of
consumption; confnet to my bed, and at one
time my physicians thought that 1 could not
live a week: then, like drowning man catch
ing at straw, heard of and obtained the
preparations which now offer to the public.
and they made . perfect cure of me- IL Seemed
to me tnat could feel them penetrate my
whole system. They soon ripened the matter
IN my lungs, and would spit no more than a
pint Of offensive yellow matter every morning
fer long time.
''As soon as that began to subside nv eough.
fever, pain and night sweats all began to leave
me, and my appetite became so great that it
was with difficulty that I could keep from eat
ing TOO much. soon gained my strength, and
have grown in flesh ever since
~ was weighed shortly after my recovery"
aided the Doctor, then loOking like mere
skeleton; my weight was only ninety-.eVen
pounds; my present weight is two hundred
and twenty-five (225) pounds, and for years I
nave enjoyed uninterrupted health"
DIR Sehenck has discontinued his profession
al visits to New York and Boston. He or his
son, DIR j. II. Schenck, Jr., still continue to
see patients at their Office, No. Is North Sixth
street, Philadelphia, every Saturday from A.
animation with the Respirometer will be
charged $. The Respirometer declares the
exact condition of the lungs, and patients can
readily learn whether they are durable or not
The directions for taking the medicines are
adapted to the intelligence even of a child
Follow these directions, and kind Nature will
90 the rest, excepting that in some cases the
Mandrake Pills are 10 be taken in increased
doses; the three medicines need no other ac-
compartments than the ample instructions
that accompany them: First, create appetite
Or returning health hunger is the most well
come symptom. When it comes, as it will
come, let the despairiDg at once be of good
cheer. Good blood at once follows, the cough
loosens, the night sweat is abated. In a short
time both Of these morbid symptoms are gone
forever.
DR.. schenck's medicines are constantly kent
IN tens of thousands of families as laxative
or purgative, the Mandrake Pills are standard
while the PulmoHie Syrup. as a
cnrer OF coughs and colds, may be regarded as
q prophyiacterie against consumption in any
OF its forms
Price of the PulmOnic Syrup and Seaveed
Tonic, 81. so bottle, or $3.50 half dozen
Mandrake Pills, 25 cents box. For sale by
al druggists and dealers.
WIN. H. LEICKHARDT,
NaShvfIlo A