The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1878-08-24

Sufferers from con-
sumption will be interested in method
of treatment described in q recent num-
Der of the Medical Record, which 1t is
said has cured from 60 to IS per cent.
of the cases treated. Six cases are de-
scribed; all had been treated by good
physicians according to customary
methods. At least half of the patients
had vainly tried q residence in the West
and South. The lung were deeply dis
eased. They were steadily growing
worse, and seem to have been advised
that their malady had become serious.
Under the new treatment four of these
patients recovered, and are again ac-
lively engaged in their business pur-
suits. One, whose case was greatly
complicated by other diseases, after
making good progress toward recovery,
suffered fresh misfortune from a pleu-
rite abscess breaking into his lungs,
but has since begun to regain health.
One that had been supposed to present
the most favorable case of the six when
first presented for treatment, failed af-
terward to gain strength, and died gen.
tly while asleep. The time taken for
recovery under the new treatment seems
to vary from six months to a year, but
relief from the more distressing symp-
toms was obtained in all cases in y much
shorter period. The theory of cure is
to clear the lungs by q mechanical treat
ment, chiefly of manipulating the mus
cles of the throat so as to cause more
forcible breathing; second, to establish
perfect digestion; third, to promote a
process of healing the tubercles, so that
they shall become chalky or calcilied
masses; fourth, to compel the
patients to take plenty of fresh air, sun
light and outdoor exercise. To secure
perfect digestion, a special diet is order
ed in each case, and the food is changed
as the power of assimilating it improves ;
that part of the treatment was fully sue
cessful in each of the six instances de-
scribed. To promote the calcifying of
the tubercles, the salts of lime, which
are found in most vegetable and animal
life, must be supplied in soluble con-
dition; the theory is that too much heat
in ordinary cooking destroys the natur-
al combination of these salts with albu-
men, and renders them insoluble 10 a
weak digestion. In regard to outdoor
exercise, this is regarded as so impor-
tant that the patients must go out in
rain, snow, damrness or even night air
or dew; and in the 20 years of the Doc
tors practice, he knows of no instance
Of catching cold from such exposure.
Only strong head winds and extreme
hot weather need be guarded against.
The patients sleep with the windows
open, summer and winter.
NEURALGIA AND BILIOUS HEAD
ACHE.-Curiously enough these two dis
orders have formed the basis, by their
cure in a very simple manner, of the OBJ
tainment of flood of light regarding a
previously unrecognized source of many
other departures from health in the hui
man body. In the other in which these
two disorders are named l succeeded in
curing them, as far back as 1859 60, by
liberal administration of whiting,
(grOund and washed chalk, the carbon
ate of ime), continue as long as found
necessary. In the case of the neural
gia, the cure was affected in about three
weeks 0hough the disorder was of a
years standingl by taking piling tea
spoonful of chalk in half a glassful OF
water three times a day. In the case OF
the bilious attack, it was removed ef-
fectually-and not to return any more
in the course of few days, by the same
treatment. Encouraged by this sue
cess, commenced regular system of
experimentation, with view of ascer.
tanning how far this simple method of
treating patients for a then hitherto I'M
perceived and unsupported acid source
of disease in the human frame might be
made available for subduing it, and
found that it may be employed to great
advantage in the successful treatment
of diseases generally. In the course of
this experimentation l can not have dis
tributed, now, much less than three tons
of chalk, the greater part of which has
been taken under my directions. Those
who are in the habit of taking much
spirituous liquor are those who derive
the least benefit from this remedy; vet
it is invaluable for use after casual ex-
cesses of this sort. have discovered
sixty diseases or SO, curable-some of
acute nature, and others of long stand
ing and chronic, with manifest prior
tendency to further degenerations.
Among these are catarrh, chronic bron-
chitis, pulmonary hemorrhage, uterine
hemorrhage, latter miscarriage, diarrhea,
liver complaint, discharge of
albumineus urine, uric acid gravel, Ca
tarrh of the bladder accompanied by
anuria, dyspepsia, whooping cough,
typhoid fever, govt, fever and ague,
diseases incidental to chill
dren during teething, including fevers
and looseness of the bowels, and even
the rcctum, which is sometimes the pain
full sequel of the latter, smallpox in
children lin grown persons it has been
in this disease much less efficacious),
colo, piles, chronic headache, sore
throat, cramps, anemia, toothache,
looseness of the teeth, ulcers in various
parts of the body, erysipelas, burns Tex
ternal application, also, made poultice
of with water, and kept moist, for severe
bruises), epilepsy, etc. Mixed first with
water to the consistency of cream, and
afterward with about as much more
sweet-oil, and applied twice day to the
face of q person afflicted, even badly,
with smallpox, itprevents pitting. Add
to the list palpitation of the heart,
cold feet and hands, excessive, perspira.
lion of the feet, dropsy, and the two
diseases first named, and it will be seen
that it comes the nearest to fulfilling the
conditions which would be requisite to
constitute that day-dream of the past, q
universal remedy of any thing yet dis
1t is at least a very general
one; and the success so far obtained
With it proves that sufficient Importance
has never been attached to the known
presence of acid in considerable excess