Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-11-27
The Cause and Cure of Consumption.

The primary cause of Consumption is derange-
Ment of the digestive organs. This arrangement
produces deficient nutrition and assimilation. By
assimilation mean that process by which the n,i-
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 it W i'll
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.
scheneK's Mandrake Pills. These Pills Aean.e 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 it up
to new and healthy action, by which natural and
healthy bile is secreted
The stomach, bowels and liver are thus clean.ed
by the use Of schenck,s 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. 1t is in condition like this that Schenck $
Seaweed Tonic proves to be the most valuable
remedy 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
healthy, living blood After this preparatory treat.
ment, what remains to most cases of con sump-
OF
the system, purifes the blood, and is readily alb
sorbed into the circulation, and thence distributed
to the disease ed lungs. There it ripens all morbid
matters, whether in the form of Assesses tuber-
ces, and then assists Nature to expel all the dis.
eased matter in the form of free expectoration, when
it rpens. 1t is then by the great healing and
purifying properties of Schenck's Pulmonic Syrup,
that all ulcers and cavities 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 II person has diseased lungs a cavity or
abscess there the cavity cannot heal, the matter
cannot rpen, 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
of in large quantities, and the person regain health
and strength. This is the true and only plan to
cure Consumption, and if 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
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,
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 Schencks naedi-
cines care should be exercised not 10 take cold !:
keep indoors in cool and damp weather; avoid
night air. and take outdoor exercise only il seni-
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
1t Is precisely the same in regard to consumption.
so long as the lungs are not perfectly healed just
long is there imminent danger of fun return of the
disease. Hence it Is that so strenuo,asly caution
pulmonary patents againt exposing themselves to
an atmosphere that is not genial and pleas ant
Confirmed consumptives lungs are mass of sores
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 H.
famed lung cannot with safety to the patient be
exposed to the biting blasts of winter or the chill
ing winds of spring autumn. It should be care
utmost caution should be observed in this particu
lar as without it a cure under almost any crcum
stances is an impossibilty.
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
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.
j. II. SCHENCk, NJ d.
Philadelphia.
GEO. G. GOODWIN 4 CO., Agents,
BOSTON.