, 1874-06-14
PROFESSIONAL.
DR.. r. HUNTER.
tIAte Of Now York;,
On Chronic Consumption.

LETTER XII
Tho most common form Of Consumption II callet
Chronic becanse Of ts slow progress to dstip9u,,t
from acute gal1opia9 consumption. which NOR
rapid 1t generally brKiua with slighs eou2A
This, for long time il scarcely than dry Aaekno
and Il by Irritation ia tho lungs. The oauAe IT tht
irritation be cold taken months before. or it ma,
be the of tubeies in the first stage OF their de
veopnent 1t is very common to find the lungs of pc,
dying Of Inflammation filled With fine tuberclos Look
ing precisely like t>ts<ed. which shows that II they
had recovered from tha Inflammation, ther would have
had consumption afterwards. Indeed. many Of those
friends whom you suppose to be PERFECTLY heattly
Carrying about these seeds OF destruction deposited
during attack OF cold last winter and only awaiting
| another e1poaure to carry them into consumption
Chronic Consumption begins differently In different
person apparently In heath an attack of
ncue catazrh and whom this subsidies 1t 1cavos the dr.
hacking cough boforo mentioned cold settle.
tho Chest gets apparently WE'LL and shortly afto.wat
IS followed By this kind Of slight cough or By stttno
Of blood thcro be neither cough blood but
only chilly fcsinG With nora o&a aush the CHEEKS
or hsat of the hands In shaking bands will sometimes
sn H. enitey 1Inyshaz l. wFon9 After
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the natural Of tho disease those ups and
downs They caused By the soIening tubcrces in
tuocesaye crops When al tho tuberc]es Tim. arc Ye
coughcd up tho patient improves until another crop
couos head, when they fail back into coudt-
tiou than befozu. 1t Is during thsse pesdc improve
cus that quack nostrus and vifntnous concoetious Of
descp nn get credit for doing good and ecctts9
the CHANGE whom in reality effect they do havo
hinder the efforts OF nature by disoreng the stomach
In this way must patients treatod and suppose thc-
dy s:; II. S lid ns h ' xssss. : Ts
50 long the people remain ignorant Of things
MADE. Doctors will continue dose the stomach for
consumption just Io1 they continued bleed
and give Tor rnost diseaes. When thor patients
refused ougoe to bare thnlr to the aneet
tn cir mouths for a1us-mass and ealom<f they
denly discovered these thuRs not in fact
were injurious rather thA1 bouocal And yet for
tures. this the regular practice Of the profession
tey for all that time doing harm Eahor thnn good!
30 that It tho present treatment Of assumption
Is just alJ"e and deal more injurious, than
the nurderons lancet and mercurial practice II tho
through the stomach there Ii for them hope They
will perish, not because the diteass ncuEnbo
tho treatment is injudicous In rny last letter
proved to you that consumption IS perfectly curahe II
taken In time and treated BY proper tnhalaons; but
case OF consumption, however aliRht oven tho
simplest OF its eoSnacscnrarrh bronchitis, aud asth
MA. -cau ever DO cured through tho stonach.
ROBERT HUNTER, ~. D.,
Otico Ss5 Wabashar.
koTE.The writer Of these letters gives bis exclusive
Et:euinn to the ThEuAt, Lungs and Heart Ho has Tor
OF twenty Inado them special study First
examination aud advice free. Hours f1um to4.