Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-09-30
The Cause and Cure of Consumption

The primary cause of Consumption is derange.
nent 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 OF its forms; and hold that is " ill
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 sureet and best remedy is
Schenck 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 liverof all diseased
bile that has accumulated there, and arouse it up
to anew and healthy action, by which natural and
healthy bile is secreted
The stomach, bowels and liver are thus clearsed
by the use OF Schenck's Mandrake Pills; but there
remains III 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 aRt
support. 1T is in condition like this that Schencks
Seaweed Tonic proves to be the most valuable
remedy ever discovered. 1t is alkaline, and its
Will neutralize all excess o. acid making the stom
ach sweet and fresh it viii 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 perserYerng n Schenek's
Pulmoric syrup. The Pumonic Syrup nourishcs
The system, pulilies the blood and is readily alb
sorbed into the circulation AMI thence distributed
to the diseased lungs. There it ripens all morbid
matters, whether in the form of assesses tIber
Giles. and then assists Nature to expel all the dis
eased matter in the form of free eXpectoraton, when
it ripens 1t is then, by the great healing and
purifying properties of sehencks P4imonic Syrup,
that all ulcers and cavities are healed up sound,
and my patient is cured.
The essential thing to be done IN curing Consamp-
ton is to get mp good appetite and good diges-
ton, so that the body Will grow in flesh and get
strong. II a 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
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 to
cure Consumption, and if Il person is very bad If
the lungs are not entirely destroyed or even if one
lung is entirely gone if there is enough vitality le
III the other to heal mp, 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 win do to cure
Consumption. They will clean ont the stomach,
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.
1t is important that while using schenck's medi-
cines care should be exercised not to take cold;
keep indoors i'll cool and amp weather; avoid
night air, and take out door exercise only in GEM
al and warm sunshine.
WISH 1t ulStlHCiN UNDERSTOOD tIidl when TecoIH-
mend patient to be careful in regard to taking
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 liable
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 strenuously caution
pulmonary patients againt exposing themselves to
an atmos phere that is not genial and pleasant
Confirmed consumptives' lungs are a mass of sores,
which the least change of atmosphere will in1lame.
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. II should be care
fully shielded from all irritating influences The
utmost caution should be observed in this partcu-
lar, as without it under almost any eircum-
stances is an inposslbility.
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 quanti-
ty.of flesh and strength
was mysercured by this treatment of the worst
hearty these many years, with one lung mostly
gone l 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 corner OF
Sixth and Arch streets where shall be pleased to
give advice to all who may require it.
Fun directions accompany all my remedies, so
that person in any part of the world can be read
lily cured 10y a strict observance of the same,
j. IL. SCHENCk, NJ. ID,
Philade phia.
GEO. {. GOODWIN d CO., Agents,
BOSTON.