Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1882-05-18
For the Democratic Northwest.I
DIR. WOLFE'S
G. ON mon Sense.
LETTER XII.

LEIIEh All,
INHALATIoN-A TREATMENT FOR CON-
sUMPTIoN-How CURES ARE EFFECTED,
ETC.
1t has long been a desideratum with
the medical profession to discover some
effectual mode of applying remedies di-
rectly to diseased surface. of the lungs,
for il has always been believed that, when
admissible, local applications should be
employed. The propriety of treating dis
eases of the lungs and air passages by in
halation is apparent. If we inhale medi-
Gated vapors we bring the remedy in di-
rect contact with the diseased surface.
What proof have we that medicines can
through the lungs? Let us see.
Inhalation of chlorine will arrest ul-
GERS and dry up secretions of the mem
brane lining the bronchial tubes. See
4 Ballard's statement. The use of expec-
torrent and emollient vapors will produce
the opposite effect. No remedy by the
stomach will produce such results. If
the patient is sitting up at two o'clock in
the morning, choking with asthma, ar
anti-spasmodic inhalant will procure re-
lief in few minutes. If the case be one
of chronic bronchitis. and the secretion
is profuse and semi-purulent, the use of
baIsamic and astringent inhalants will
diminish the quantity and impove the
quality of the expectoration. These are
facts patent to the observation of every
medical man who is competent to test
them. The power of chlorine and iodine
to cure consumption is proven by the
fact that people in advanced stages of
pulmonary disease who enter factories
in which the atmosphere is charged with
the vapcrs of these chemicals, inhaling
them rapidly get we'll; and, also. that
the workmen have entire immunity from
lung diseases,
While large majority of the medical
profession say consumption can not be
cured, we are not astonished that man
i kind should echo the pernicious senti-
ment. To combat this falIacy, I will ad-
duce the testimony of a few able physi-
clans to prove it can.
Sydenham, perhaps the greatest physi-
clan that has appeared in Europe since
the time of the Arabians, afirms that he
had repeatedly cured phthisis (consump-
tion), not only in its incipient stage, but
after night ,sweats and diarrhoea had ta-
ken place. Laennec, the discover of the
stethocope, and physician in the largest
hospital in Paris, examined thousands of
bodies after death, and says he met cases
in which large portions of the lung had
been destroyed by tubercles in which
the cavities had entirely healed. Sir
James Clark, physician to the queen Of
England, in his great work on eli
mate and Consumption" admits fully
the durability of the disease.
Professor Graves, of Dublin, pointed
out one form of consumption in which
the tubercle could be entirely dispersed
by gentle salvation, which statement
is corroborated by Professor Stokes, Bel
lingham, and others, in the Lancet. DR..
Piorry, of Paris, renowned in France for
his success in curing consumption by
friction and inhalation. DR.. Maddocks
is at present celebrated for his success in
curing consumption, and has much to
advance the science of inhalation which,
is his principal mode of treatment. Both
he and Sir Charles Scudimore have writ
ten acceptable books, in which many
cases of consumption are cited that have
been perfectly cured by Medicated Inha-
lations. The reports of the Brompton
Hospital, under DR.. Elliots0n, shows fa-
| yorable results from this practice. Pro.
fessor Sweet pronounces Medicated inha-
lation the most scientific and successful
practice ever employed in treating con-
sumption.
Our own great physician, DR.. Rush,
says, in reference to "lnhalation," that
"too much can not be said in favor of
| this simnle svstem of conveying remedies