Connecticut western news., 1874-04-17
Consumption.
BY R. V PIERCE, M. D., WORLDS D1spENsARY
 BUFFALO, N. Y.

BY R. V. PIERCE, M. D., WORLDS D1sPENsARY,
 BUFFALO, N. Y.
 The great prevalence of this disease, and itG fatal results, are we'll calculated to enlist our best efforts for it's cure. What is Consumption? It is disease of the lungs produced by an acrid and impure condition of the blood, which circulating through these most delicate organs, poisons and irritates their tissues and invites the scrofulous humors of the blood, causing the deposition of tubercles and establishing local scrofula. Another prolific exciting cause of the development of scrofulous disease of the lungs, or turbercular 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, and here establishes such an irritation as to invite the blood to deposit it's burden of impurities in these organs. Consumption itself is not so often hereditary as is generally supposed. That condition of low vitality may be transmitted from parents to children is unquestionably true It is this deficiency of vitality which is inherited-a weakness which makes nutrition imperfect, and leads to the deposit of tubercles.
 
 vitality would never suffer from consumption if the functions of the system were kept correct and the blood pure. When the liver becomes torpid, and but very imperfectly pours off the effete, poisonous materials of the blood, the lungs, as has before been shown, become rritated. The general health becomes broken down, and the person feels languid, weak, faint, drowsy and confused. Pain in the right side, in the region of the liver, and sym pathetic pain in the shoulders and spine, and through the lungs, is generally complained of. The patient has dry hacking cough-that liver Cough! Small minute tubercles are developed in the lungs, and perhaps exist for months all unknown to their victim. Nothing is done to remove the tubercles by the ordinary treatment. Cough is only a symptom of the disease, yet this only is aimed at in the usual treatment.
 There is no rational way to cure consumption except to purify the blood. Those poisonous materials in the blood which cause the tuber- cles must be thrown off by exciting the liver to action. Vitality must be supported, the sys- tenn nourished and built up, and the develop ment of tubercles thus prevented. Remove the blood poison by restoring the action of the liver, and the cough, which is only symptom of the real disease, is relieved. You thereby strike at the root of incipient consumption and cure the patient.
 From the properties and remedial effects of my Golden Medical Discovery, the reader will readily understand why it has been so success ful in curing this fatal malady.
 With it have arrested the hacking and harassing cough, the night sweats and hectic fever of the consumptive invalid, snatched from the jaws of death and restored to health and happiness many who, but for my Discovery, must soon have fallen victims to that relentless foe. God, believe, has instilled into tho roots and plants from which this wonderful medicine is extracted, the healing properties, by the use of which Consumption, the scourge of the human family, may in it's early stages be promptly arrested and permanently cured. I do not wish to delude, fatter, and then disap- point the afflicted by asse rting that this can be accomplished when the lungs are half con- sumed, 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 Golden Medical Discovery is em-
 
 ease, I know from ample observation and actual tests in hundreds of cases. that it will positive ly. arrest the disease and restoreh health and strength From it's wonderful power over this terrible disease, I thought strongly of calling it my Consumptive 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 Bronchitis and dU seuere coughs, and is an invaluable remedy for diseases of the Liver, and also as Blood Purifier, decided not to apply to it name which might mislead and prevent it's use in other diseases for which it is so admirably adapted. I wish to mention 8 most wonderful nutritive property which it possesses, and which so peculiarly adapts it to the wants of the consumptive and the scrofu- lous. The nutritive properties possessed by Cod Liver Oil are triaing when compared with those possessed by my Discovery. It is aston ishing to see how it builds up the solid muscle, and increases the flesh and weight of those whose systems are reduced below the usual standard of perfect health The following testimonial fully confirms all that claim for my Golden Medical Discovery in the cure of Consumption.
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