The Columbus journal., 1881-09-21
RELIEF FROM CONSUMPTION
A New Remedy Suggested by a Min
nesota Physician.

mixture can reach the lungs, DR.. r.
D'Unger says:
need not describe the symptoms
of consumption, as they are so well
known and so frequently beheld that
even the most unintelligent can di-
agnose the disease from the hectic
spots i'm the cheeks, the terrible ex-
hsusting cough, the purulent expec-
toration, and wasting body; nor
will l here put down the thousand
and one opinions already printed as
| to it's causation. 1t will be enough
to say that, when it is once seated,
strenuous efforts to check its pro-
gress must be made. Nature her.
self always tries to do this, aud,
with slight aid, she usually sue
ceeds. Be hopeful, then, ye afflict-
ed ones.
Let us compare life to burning
lamp. If we supply oil as rapidly
as the flame consumes it, the wick
remains unburnt, and the lamp
throws out its given light; but if we
fail to supply the oil needed to pro-
duce the flame, it is foregOne con-
clusion the wick becomes consum-
ed, the light grows dim, fiickers,
and finally goes out altogether. In
other words, the light dies because
there is too much oxygen and not
enough carbon. So it is with a
consumptive's life. The disease he
suffers from is a wasting one, an
internal fever which consumes the
carbon in his blood more rapidly
than the food he eats can supply it.
II carbon was furnished as fast as
the disease exhausted it, the body
would not waste; if it was put into
the blood in excess of what the dis
ease required, there would be an
increase in the strength and bulk of
the body, instead Of decrease.
Like the lamp, the supply of oil in
the body must be equivalent to the
demand or in excess of it. If this
be not so, the life, like the wick, will
be consumed.
Some months ago the little daugh-
ter (aged fourteen) of trunkmaker
in this city, one Mr.. Garden-I am
permitted to use his name-was pro-
nOunced hopeless consumptiye
and to have seen her at that time
one would have supposed there was
good ground for the decision, rs she
was a mere skeleton, had terrible
cough, expectorated over half pint
day Of greenish, blood-streaked
tuberculous matter, and was so ex-
ceedingly nervous that she could
scarcely sleep at all, night or day.
She had been doctored a long time
with cough and consumption speci-
fics, and one or two physicians had
tried their skill on her, but without
avail, her life gradually drawing to
It's close. Meeting her father-who
was almost heart broken at the
thought of soon losing her-one day,
| gave him this prescription:
One half pound finely cut up beef
steak (fresh).
One drachm pulverized charcoal.
Four ounces pulverized sugar.
Four ounces rye whisky.
One pint boiling water.
Mix all together, let it stand in a
cool place over night, and give from
one to two teaspoonsful liquid and
meat-before each meal.
This was tried, and in four or five
weeks this little girl was so rosy and
healthy, free from all cough and
other symptoms of disease, that it
was considered almost a miracle in
the neighborhood in which she lived.
What caused this great change?
Simply the supplying of her system
with more carbon than the disease
could exhaust, thereby giving nature
the upper hand in the conflict.
l have used this preparation very
frequently, aud have never found it
to act otherwise than beneficially.
The dose should be small at first,
until the stomach becomes used to
it, and then gradually increased.
Let all consumptives try it who
read this. weighing themselves be-
fore they commence, and again after
they have taken it for week or ten
days. To their astonishment they
will discover that, instead of their
wasting away, they Uill gain in
strength and flesh. And then let
them be kind enough to report the
result to the Chicago Tribune for the
benefit of that timid class of lung
sick people who are afraid to try
any remedy unless they pay one
dollar a bottle for it or double that
sum for a prescription.
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