Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1882-02-09
From the Evening (DsilD Record, Adrian, NisA-,
January sd, iss3.
Medical Common Sense"


In a recent number OF the Record We
in a spOruve manner, a few Of
the questions which We found addressed
TO sufferers in brief but comprehensive
treatise on eItarrh. bronchitis. asthma
and consumption, and the rational, we
may say perhaps the only, principles up
on which depend a cure. II was our pur-
pose 10 refer at a convenient future time
to this valuable work, ITS author, and
his method of dealing with diseases
which have destroyed mems lives, and
inflicted more misery, death, and mourn
ing upon the human race than all other
diseases combined. We refer to con.
sumption and its less noted, but scarcely
less deadly, ancestors, catarrh and ca.
tarrhal bronchitis. Beginning with ca
tarrh, we have a notoriously bad tenant
in the physical tabernacle, tenant who
pays no rent, and will never vacate with
out vigorous and summary process of
ejectment; a tenant which, il allowed to
remain, leaves to its worse offspring,
bronchitis. its lease of the premises, and
consumption, the final inheritor and last
of depraved lineage, mortgages the
property to death, who becomes the
speedy and final owner.
The admirable and strong common
sense book we have referred to is that of
DR.. N. B. Wolfe, of Cincinnati, physi-
cianiof large learning and of twenty-five
years' practice in the treatment and cure
of consumption and its kindred diseases.
His method of dealing with these COM
plants is, to our mind, the only rational
aud natural mode of reaching the diff
Guilty, that is, by inhalation.
The reasons assigned by DIR. Wofe in
support of his practice we have given our
careful study, and they must commend
themselves to others as they do to us-as
making complete case in favor of his
process. In brief, the argument is, that
a remedial agent, introduced to the or
gans affected, through the direct process
of inhaling it, is many times more effica'
cious than when sent on long journey
around by way of the stomach, thence
through the blood, and losing on the road
most of the medical properties belonging
to it. 1t will strike the reader that ordi-
nary human ''gumption" ought to Hsug
gest as the true one, the most direct route
to the diseased organs, which is precise
ly the one traversed by inhalation. Ta'
king medicines into the stomach, to be
freighted into the lungs through long
and devious channels, is like taking a
I circuitous route to mill with leaky bag
of grain, on horseback; you SOW abund-
ance of wheat along the highway and
reach the mill with a "mighty" small
grist.
But the world moves on. and some. az
least, of the falIacies are passing away
and we are happy to note that not only
the road to heaven but to health has beer
greatly improved. Time was when mer
journeyed to paradise over a path strewr
with human sacrifices. That time ha.
passed away. Time was also. when drug
and poisons were swallowed to cure the
respiratory system of deadly ailments
That period is passing away, and the age
of inhalation is rapidly being enthroned.
The new neutrality-suspicious. we should
say "doctoring'-already has many con
verts, and its practice is daily increasing
This is we'll. At the same time it brings
into the field a class of experimenters
who, while readily grasping the theory,
are as yet unable to reduce it to correct
practice. Twenty-Five years of constant
and successful practice have taken the
eminent physician, DR.. Wolfe, out of the
list of experimenters, and rendered him
a veteran, as it were, in a comparatively
new field. From an admirably arranged
schedule of printed questions which may
be answered by mail, DR.. Wolfe, though
located at Cincinnati, is enabled to pres,
cribe his inhaling treatment, and send it
to all parts of the country by express, al
no greater cost than would be incurred in
he employment of local physician for
the same period of time. His book con
talns hundreds of testimonials to the
cures he has effected. The address is
"Dr. N. B. Wolfe, 146 Smith street, Gin.
cinnati, Ohio"