Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-09-27
Special NOtlces.
The Cause and Cure of Consumption.

The primary cause of Consumption is derange-
hent OF the digestive organs. This arrangement
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 ill
be impossible to cure any 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
mucous 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
Schencks 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 out the liver of all diseased
bile that has accumulated there, and arouse 1t up
to new and healthy action, by which natural and
healthy bile is secreted.
The stomach, bowels and liver are thus cleansed
by the of Schenck's Mandrake Pills: but there
remains in the stomach excess of acid the organ
Is torpid, and the appetite is poor In the bowels
the acteas are weak, and requiring strength and
support 1t is in condition like this thai ScRenck,s
Seaweed Tonic proves to be the most valuable
remedy ever discovered. 1t is alkaline, and its use
Will neutralZe 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 OF Schenck's
Pulmonc syrup. The Pumonic Syrup nourshes
the system, purifes the blood, and is readily alb
sorbed into the circulation, and thence distributed
to the diseased lungs. There it rpens 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 eXpectoraton, when
once it ripens 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
n nor has 4. -ul l.n.r
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
ltes WI 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 to
cure Consumption, and if a person is very bad, if
the lungs are not entirely destroyed or even if one
lung is entirely gone if there is enough vitality left
i'll the other to heal up. there is hope.
have seen many persons, cured with only one
sound lung, live and enjoy life to a good old age.
This is what Schenck's medicines will do to cure
Consumption. They will clean out the stomach,
sweeten ard strengthen it, get up good digestion,
the system of all the disease that is in the lungs
whatever the form may be.
1t 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 utdoor exercise only in gen
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. 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 as the lungs are not perfectly healed just so
long is there imminent danger of full return OF the
disease. Hence it is that strehuously 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 infame.
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 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 circum
stances is an impossby.
The person should be kept on a wholeso and
nutrcious diet, and all the medicines continued
until the body has restored to it the natural quant
ty of flesh and strength.
WAS myself cured by this treatment of the worst
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. II. SCHENCK, NJ. d.
Philade pha.