Mexico weekly ledger., 1878-12-05

advising the use of an exceedingly
plain prescription. In doing this, l
trust 1 may be spared the charge of
acting from sinister motives, as was
the East when / recommended the use
of cinchona in the cure of drunken
ness, and through which advice, |
am glad to report, very many homes
have been made happy.
The world is full OF cough and con
sumption specifics, as all know, and
pages Of almanacs, magazines, and
advertising newspapers are filled with
certificates and afiidavits Of so-called
cures, but let the afflicted bear this
important verify in mind: No cough
mixture can reach the lungs. Lung
~tubercles, let them be either of the
gray or yellow variety, a never be
removed except by absorption-can
never be healed unless the carbon in
the blood is in sufficient quantity to
have its proper chemical action with
the oxygen in the air inhaled with
each inspiration.
The majority, if not all, the con-
sumption specifics in the market have
in them a sufficient quantity of OPT
UNI or morphia to render them sooth-
ing; or enough rum, or whisky or
alcohol to render them stimulative.
In either case parties using them
feel, for a time at least, that there is
benefit from their use. 1t is a fatal
mistake to SO suppose. Nearly all
such preparations are injurious.
1 need not describe the symptoms
of consumption, rs they are SO well
known and go frequently beheld, that
even the most unintelligent can dag
nose the disease from the hectic spots
in the cheeks, the terrible, exhausting
cough, the purulent expectoration,
and wasting body nor will l here
put down the thousand-and-one opin-
ions already printed rs TO its causa-
ton. 1t will be enough to say that,
when it is once seated, strenuous ef-
forts to check its progress must be
made. Nature herself o1,cdgs tries to
do this; and, with light aid, she usu-
ally succeeds. Be hopeful, then, ye
afflicted ones.
Let us compare life to a burning
lamp. If we supply oil as rapidly as
the flame consumes it, the wick re.
mains unburnt, and the lamp throws
, out it's given light; but, if we fail tc
supply the oil needed to produce the
flame, it is q foregone conclusion, the
wick becomes consumed, the ligh'
grows dim, fickers, and finally goe!
out altogether. In other words, tn
light dies because there is too mucl
oxygen, and not enough carbon. S,
it is with a consumptive's life. TIL,
y disease he suffers from is a W1stin
one, an internal teUer which consume
the carbon in his blood more rapid,
than the food he eats can supply it
ID If carbon was furnished as fast as tn
pe disease exhausted it, the body acoul
IL not wdste; if it was put into til
II blood in excess of what the diseas
y required, there would be an increas
ID in the strength and bulk of the body
7; instead of a decrease. Like the lam
g the supply of oil in the body must /
70 equivalent to the demand, or, in e1
cess of it. If this be not so, the lii
(like the wick will be consumed.
Some months ago the little daugl
= ter Gagged 14) of a trunkmaker ]
tv this city, one Mr.. Garden,-I al
,r permitted to use his name-was Pre-
nounced a hopeless consumptive
mr. and, to have seen her at that tim
n one would have supposed there w.
M good ground for the decision, as 81
81 was a mere skeleton, had a terrib
of cough, expectorated over half a phi
ce a day of greenish, blood-streaked t
berculous matter, and was so e,
;s- ceedingly " that she cou
Id scarce sleep at all, night or day. 81
ma had been doctored a long with cous
he and consumption specifics, and OIL
,vs or two physicians had tried the
sst skill on her, but without avail-h
,ds life gradually drawing TO its clos
10. Meeting her father (who was almo
Ter heartbroken at the thought of losi,
Eat her) one day, I gave him this p.
,h- scription:
nd One. half pound finely cut-up bee
be steak (fresh);
,ed One draclrm pulverized charcos
In Four ounces p~ulverized sugar;
the -Four ounces rye whisky;
out One pint boiling water.
Ind Mix all together, let it stand in
be cool place over night, and give frs
I'm, one to two teaspoonfuls liquid a
ext mcat-before each meal.
at This was tried, and in four or q
is weeks this little girl was 20 rosy n
Tor healthy, free from all cough and OIL
symptoms Of disease, that II was @