Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-10-04
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-
trment of the food is converted into blood, and
thence into the solids of the body. Persons with
digestion thus impaired, having the slightest pre-
disp position 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 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 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 out 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 Schenck's Mandrake Pills; but there
remains in the stomach excess of acid, the organ
torpid, and the appetite is poor In the bowels,
the lacteals are weak, and requiring strength and
Seaweed Tonic proves to be the most valuable
remedy ever discovered 1t is alkaline, and its
will neutralize all excess of acid, making the stom-
ach sweet and fresh Will give permanent tone to
this important organ and create good, hearty ap-
petite and prepare the system for the first process
healthy living blood After this preparatory treat
ment, what remains to cure most cases of consump-
ton is the free and perservering use OF Schenck's
the system, purfes the blood, and is readily alb
sorbed into the circulation, and 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
il ripens 1t is then, by the great healing and
purifying 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 diges
ton, so that the body will grow in flesh and get
strong. 1t aperson 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
tiles will heal the matter will rpen and be thrown
of in large quantities, and the person regain health
cure Consumption, and if a person is very bad if
the lungs are not entirely destroyed or even if one
lung entirely gone if there is enough vitality left
in the other to heal up there is hope.
! have seen many persons cured with only
sound lung, live and enjoy life to good old age.
This is what Schenck's medicines will do to cure
Consumption They will clean out 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-
cnes, care should be exercised not to take cold;
keep indoors in cool and lamp weather; avoid
night air and take outdoor exercise only in gent.
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 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 agant exposing themselves to
an atmosphere that is not genial and pleasant.
Confirmed consumptiyes' lungs are a mass of sores,
which the least change of atmosphere will iniiame.
The grand secret of my success with my medicines
consists in my ability to subdue inflammation instead
of provoking it, 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-
FAR, as without it cure under almost any circum
stances is an impossibility.
The person should be kept wholeso ne and
nutritious diet, and all the medicines continued
until the body has restored to it the natural quan
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
| many have been cured by this treatment whom
have never seen.
About the first of October expect to take posses
Sixth and Arch Streets where shall be pleased to
| give advice to all who may require it.
| Full directions accompany all my remedies, 80
that person in any part of the world be read
| lily cured by a strict Observance of the same,
| j. Ii. SCHENCK, NJ. ID.
Philade pha
GEO. C. GOODWIN & CO., Agents,
| n.