Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-09-12
Special Notlres.
The Cause and Cure ofConsumption.

Tne Cause ana cure OF consumption.
The primary cause of Consumption is derange-
nent 81 the digestive organs. Tins arrangement
produces deficient nutrition and a. assimilation. By
assimilation mean that process by which the nu-
triuent of the food is converted into blood, and
thence into tie 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 will
BE- impossible to cure any case 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
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 ii 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
is torpid, and the appetite Is poor. In the bowels,
the lacteals weak, and requiring strength and
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 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 a good digestion, and ultimately make good,
healthy, living blood. After this preparatory treat
ment, what remains 10 cure most cases Oh Jump
ton is the free and perserverng use of schencks
Pulmonic Syrup. The Pulmonic syrup nourishes
the system, purifes 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 tuber
cles and then assists Nature to'expe all the dis
eased matter in the form Of free eNpectoraton when
once ii ripens 1t is then, by the great healing and
purifying properties of schenck's Pumonic syrup,
that all ulcers and cavities healed up sound,
and my patient is cured.
tuo 70 ha Il lon q n,
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 ripen, so long as the system is below par.
What is necessary to cure is new order OF things,
a 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 rlpen 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 a 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 foSn 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 camp weather; avoid
night air. and take out door exercise only in gent
al and warm sunshine.
wish it distinctly understood that when recon-
mend "A 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 not perfectly healed just so
long is there imminent danger of full return ofthc
disease. Hence it is that so strenuously caution
pulmonary patients againt exposing themselves to
an atmosphere that is not genial ana pleasant
Confirmed consumptives lungs are mass OF sores,
which the least change of atmosphere Will lntiama
The grand secret of my success with my medicines
consists in my ability to subdue inflammation instead
Of provoking 1t, as many of the faculty do An M
hamed lung cannot with safety to the patient he
exposed to the biting blasts of winter or 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 particu-
lar, as without it a cure under almost any circum-
stances is an inpossibility.
The person should be kept on wholesome and
nutritious 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