Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-10-21
The Cause and Cure of Consumption.
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TIC primary CAUSE OF Consumption UcTuHRU-
Tent 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 fits forms; and hold that 1t 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 clogging these organs so
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 and bowels of all the dead and morbid
slime that is causing disease and decay in the whole
system. They will clear ont the liver of 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 cleansed
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 i is in condition like this thar Schenck's
Seaweed Tonic proves to be the most valuable
remedy ever discovered 1t is alkaline and its use
will neutraze all excess of 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.
ton is the free and perservering use of Schencks
PuImOr1c syrup. Inc Pulmonlc syrup 0OuflsneS
the system, purfes 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-
ces, and then assists Nature to expel all the dis
eased matter in the form of free expectoration, when
once i rpens i is then by ne great hea.sg and
that all ulcers and cavities are healed up sound,
and my patient is cured.
The essential thing to be done curing Consump-
ton is to get up good appetite and good diges-
ton, SO that the body will grow in flesh and get
strong. If 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, 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
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 not entirely destroyed, even if 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 Schencks medicines will do to cure
Consumption. They will clean out the stomach,
sweeen 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 he exercised not to take cold
keep indoors in cool and lamp weather; avoid
night air, and take out door exercise only in geni-
| al and warm sunshine.
| wish it distinctly understood that when recon-
mend patient to he careful In regard to tai king
cold while using my medicines, do SO for a special
| reason. a 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 are 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 ID not genial and pleasant
| Confirmed consumptives' lungs are 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 IN.
| famed lung cannot with safety to the patient be
exposed to the biting blasts of winter or 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, without 1t a cure under almost any crcum.
| stances Is an impossipility.
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 oil
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. II. SCHENCK, MI
Philadelphia.
GEO. &, GOODWIN q co., Agents,
BOSTON.