The Portland daily press., 1872-01-29
CONSUMPTION.

The great prevalence of this disease, and
its fatal results, are we'll calculated to enlist
our best efforts for its cure. What is Con-
sumption 1t IS disease of the lungs, pro-
duced by an acrid and impure condition of
the blood, which, circulating through these
most delicate organs, poisons and irritates
their tissues and invites scrotulous humors
of the blood, causing the deposition of tu-
bercles aud establishing local scrofula.
Another prolific exciting cause OF the devel-
opment of seroiulous disease of the lungs,
or tubercular consumption, is Chronic Nasal
Catarrh, which, extending along the mucous
lining membrane of the throat, trachea and
bronchial tubes, finally attacks the substance
of the lungs, aud here establishes such an
irritation as to invite the blood to deposit its
burden of impurities in these organs. Con-
sumption itself is not so often hereditary as
is generally supposed. That condition of
10 " vitality may be transmitted from parents
to children Is unqnestionably true. 1t is
this deficiency of vitality which is Inherited
"a weakness which makes nutrition imper-
feet, and leads to the deposit OF tubercles.
But thousands of persons who inherit feeble
vitality would never suffer from consump-
tion if the functions of the system were kept
correct and the blood pure. When the liver
becomes torpid, and but very imperfectly
pouTs of the etfete, poisonous materials of
the blood, the lungs, as has before been
shown, become irrtated, The general
health becomes broken down, and the per-
son feels languid, weak, faint drowsy and
confused. Pain in the right side, in the region
of the liver, and sympathetic pain in the
shoulders and spine, and through the lungs,
is generally comp lained of. The patient soon
has dry hacking cough that liver cough /!
Small minute tubeicles are developed in the
lungs, and perhaps exist for months all un-
known to their victim. Nothing is done to
remove tu5ercles by the ordinary treatment.
Cough is only symptom of the disease, yet
this only is aimed at in the usual treatment.
There is no rational way to cure consump-
tion except to purify the blood. Those
poisonous materials in the blood which cause
the tubercles must be thrown off by excit ng
the liver to action. Vitality must be sup
ported, the system nourished and bHilt land
the development of tubercles thus prevented.
Remove the blood poison by restoring the ac-
tion of the liver, and the cough, which is
only symptom of the real disease, is re-
lieved. You thereby strike at the root of in
cipient consumption and cure the patient.
From the properties and remedial effects
of DIR. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery,
VIII ch have in the preceding pages fully
explained, the reader will readily understand
why it has been so successful in curing this
fatal malady.
With it have arrested the hacking and
harrassiDg cough, the night sweats and hec-
tic fever of the consumptive invalid ;
snatched from the jaws of death and re-
stored to health and happiness many who
but for my Discovery, must soon have fallen
victims to that relentless foe. God, 1 be-
lieve, has instilled into the roots and plants
from which this wonderful medicine is ex-
tracted, the healing properties, by the use Of
w i'm, ty,,a 49, NtA
man family, may, in its early stages, be
promptly arrested and permanently cured.
do not wish to deude, flatter, and then
disappoint the afflicted by asserting that this
en- be accomplished when the lungs are halt
consumed, as many do who, being devoid of
all conscience, aim to humbug the afflicted,
that they may sell their often worse than
worthless compounds.
But if my Alt. Ext, or Golden Medicd
DISCOVERY, is employed in the first or early
stages of the disease, know from ample ob-
servation and actual test in hundreds of
cases, that it will positively arrest the dis
ease and restore health and strength. From
its wonderful power over this terrible dis
ease thought of calling it my Consumptve
Cure; but from the fact that it is perfect
specific for the sore throat and hoarSeness to
which ministers and other public speakers
and singers are subject, and also for Bron-
chitiS, and all setere Coughs. and is an inval-
liable remedy for diseases of the Liver, and
also as blood purifier, decided not to ap-
ply to it name which might misead and
prevent its use in other diseases for which 1t
is So admirably adapted.
1t will cure a Cough in One-half
the time necessary to .cure it with
amy other medicine. and it does ii
not by drying it up. but by remOv-
ing the cause, subduIns the irrita-
ton and healing the affected
parts.
DIR. PIERcE's GOLDEN MEDICAL DIscov-
ERY is SOLD BY DRUGGISTS EVERYWHERE.
The following we extract from little book
ou Chronic Diseases, by r. V. Pierce, NJ. D.,
of Buffalo, N. Y. Our readers can receive
this interesting and useful little book, post
paid. by enclosing one postage stamp to the
doctor