The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-12-08
Consu1aption..Can Il be Curea3

Consusaptaon--can It be cured2
The permanent cure Of pulmonary
affections, and more especially the dreaded
disease, consumption, has bafFled medical
skill in many cases. and the latter disease
is, BY nearly all practitioners considered
uncurable. DR.. Robert Hunter, of Chicago,
claims to be able to treat consumption sue
cessfully and as his modus operandi may
be of interest to those suffering from this
terrible malady. we clip the following from
the Chicago TEI6uae. of October 9th 1877.
Chicago, natural home of all that is
intelhgently progressive, has broadspread
fame for its quickness to appreciate and
make permanent use Of everything which
can tend toward human advancement.
Our city now has it within its power to
possess an institution which will both
enhance its cosmopolitan reputation and
add to its attractiveness and material well
fare. The project is in good hands, and
as 1t develops we can guarantee that it will
prove worthy of the practical attention and
co operation Of our most enterprising citi-
zens.
The plan is for large in6rmary Or hos
pital for the treatment of sufferers from
all forms of pulmonary affections. The
word hospital is used in this connection
rather for the want of better one than t
exactly indicate the character of the enter
prise. TIE establishment would not be {
hospital in the ordinary sense at all; bu
would be a spacious and elegant retrea
where all victims of throat and lung dis
tempers would be cared for upon a sys, en-
at once novel, pleasant, and sensible. DR.
Robert Hunter, one of tho most eminen
authorities and successful practitioners il
disorders of this character in America, ha
perfected plans for grand Sanitarium. il
which ladies aud gentlemen, young and old
children and adults, afflicted with pulmon
airy complaints, may be easily and per
maneutly cured.
His project, to state the case 10 q nut
shell, is to establish the climatic and othe
surroundings of consumption-defying land
right here in Chicago, This he vii
achieye by the erection of noble building
Iquadrangular in form, and OF sufficient are
1 70 allow a grand court 10 the centric O
perhaps one hundred feet square. Thi
court will be covered with stained glass
through which the genial sun will pass t
the space below, as well as into the privat
rooms opening off the court. Here vii
reside the patients, with all the congenia
surroundings Of charming society, an ap
propriate and varied cuisine, balsamati
shrubs and choice exotic plants.nmedicate
atmosphere, and the personal attention 0
DR.. Hunter himself. assisted by com
petent corps of experienced professors,
II The plan is as feasible as it is brilliant
j Here would be no Punishment to distan
countries, with the attendant dangers an
exposures of prolonged travel and the COLI
indifference of strangers, for the poor sui
ferers. Instead, there would be SAT-
and convenient haven Of refuge for then
in great city of their own nation. The!
would be among friends, with luxuriou
surroundings, and under the treatment O
a conceded master of their maIadies. 10
stead of having 10 go to Santa Barbara
Denver, Milan, and San Diego, thost
places with many additional advantages
would be brought to them, to all practIca
effect. Recovery and increased longeyit
and health would be the certain result.
Europe, older and more experiences
than we, has many resorts for the specia
cure of throat and lung diseases. LondoI
alone contains tour. The United State
has, as yet, none. bat DR.. Hunters superI
project will give US one on grander scale
and with more improved accessories, thai
exists anywhere in the world. Chicago
central geographical location, unrivalet
accessibility, and other sterling advan
tages, make it pre-eminently the point 70
Ill I'll
within this imposing resort, the bronchia
and consumptive sufferer coulo laugh a
the worst assaults of boisterous winter, an
could defy the changes oftemperature an
raw air without, until new health an
strength should be insured.
Of Dr. Hunters fitness for this grea
work we need hardly speak. His contri
buttons to the literature OF his professio
= are known the world over, and are stand
ard alike among medical men and the pei
pie. We have now on our desk a fres
treatise by him, just published by D.
e Cooke q Co., in which he epitomizes til
Y chief causes of all pulmonary aff1iction
g and gives the condensed observation
regarding their origin and treatmel
u gathered during his long and successful ba
o Ting with them The treatise is conc;s
+ forcible and interesting, and we partic
larly commend it to the attention of a
sufferers from the scourge, consumption
or its scarcely less terrible allies, bronchiti
asthma, and cstarrh. DR.. Hunter b.
lieves, and has proved in his practice, tn
these fearful diseases are perfectly curabl
holding that, except in the most advance
cases, health can be again secured.
No man living knows better what
II writes about. No man living is bett
Ie fitted to discuss and treat these dread di
3, orders, or to superinteud the constructiC
= and management of the projected graz
sanitarium for the relief and cure of pt
d. monary sufferers.
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