The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1875-03-13
FEARFUL MORTALITY FROM
CONSUMPTION.
The SCourge of Our Race" on
the Increase.
Is There No Hope tor the Victims
OF this Malaly"

The astounding TACT that nearly one
hundred thousand persons die yearly in
the United States alone from Consump-
ton and other diseases OF the lungs
should awaken deep interest in the
minds ol all.
When, about twenty wears since, the
yellow fever, which was then raging in
New Orleans, extended up the river and
appeared in many Of the cities on the
Ohio river which it had never invaded
before, condition OF excitement border
ing on terror seized upon all. Even
when few sporadic casts Of ASiatic
cholera occur in our midst similar
condition oi the public and individual
mind is produced.
Yet Consumption silently steals away
more lives every year, north OF New Or
leans than cholera and yellow fever have
claimed in the last half century, or prob
ably since the first year Of American IN
dependence. Every year that rolls into
the past casts the pail over the cmaciaIed
and liirlcss remains OF one hundred
thousand Of this class Of invalids, and
carries silent sorrow and mourning into
hundreds OF thousands OF households.
You have doubtless heard Of and smiled
at, ii not ridiculcd, the iatalism Of the
bigolcd and ianatical Mussulman Of Tur-
KEY and India, who cxcaims, Gala ack-
bar w--God is willing-at every incident
Of his life, whether it be u blessing or u
curse; who believes that every circum-
stance OF his life, and particularly his
diseases and the manner OF his death,
were forc.ordaincd by God ut or before
his birth, and that neither his own nor
any other human agency can prevent or
modify them,
II mot Mussulmcn In name We are GER
tainIy III fatalistic about consumption as
our eastern believers in fatality, The
victims OF consumption are in our midst.
They are Of our people; in many eases OF
our own family circles. Day by day We
see tlem losing COOr, strength and en-
crgy, dropping and dying. Yet how little
real effort do We make to either prevent
or cure it.
With u carclGssncss that Is character
istic OF lis Us people, We neglect its trst
EARNINGS, refuse to change habits or 0Ccu-
pations which are bringing it upon us, or
deceive or allow ourselves to he deceived
into feeling Of security by @dtowing
mixtures Of various kinds, drcnching the
stomach with nausrous drugs and de-
stroying the objective powers, when we
should breathe OO,hihgand healing vapOrs
| into the organ alice ed.
| wish to awaken an interest upon this
subject | have spent nearly fifteen years
in studying and treating consumption and
other ailments OF the breathing organs.
At the commencement Of my professional
carccr turned my attention to lnhala-
ton, and every years experience since
then has tended still more to convince ne
Of it, great value. In fact that no form Of
disease Of the breathing organs should he
treated without its assistance.
have cured thousands Of people with
II after all else had failed, and Ns long as
| live and practice my profession shall
continue to use it in al such ailments.
BIT to be able TO Use 1t successfully n
physician must devote lifetime to II as !
have done. ! have invented and con.
slruclcd most Of the instruments | en-
ploy. Ny medicines are prepared under
my own supervision, and no truth which
experience has taught me nor effort |
can make shall be neglected or spared II
they will benefit my patient.
JAMES A. HUNTER, NJ. y,
30. 1917 MARKET ST.
WnEEIlNG, ". VA, March IL, 1875.