Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-11-15
DIR. SCHEMES
PULMONIC SYRUP,
SEAWEED TONIC,
and MANDRAKE PILLS,

As the proprietor of these medicines l consci-
cautiously offer them to the public as safe reliable
and certain remedies for the Cure of Consump,
ton, and with equal confidence as almost a speci-
&c for those morbid conditions of the body, which
f neglected, apt to terminate in fatal diseases
of the lungs. claim that the use of my remedies
viii cure Consumption.
do not claim that the disease can be cured
after the lungs are destroyed, for no medicine
can create ones; but maintain that the first
stages of Consumption are durable even when the
| lungs are partially decayed. When one lung is
sound l am almost certain of making a cure if
the patient will take proper care of himself and
follow my directions
1t may be asked, "How is it that you car know
so much about this disease, and pretend to cure
it when so many educated physicians who have
| madea study of it for years, pronounce it incur
able?"
The question is a fair one, and shall be fairly
answered: do not claim to know more than other
physicians about the causes nature and history
of Consumption. suppose that my views on these
points would be found to agree with those of most
educated and intelligent physicians. We should
agree that while the final cause is obscure-in
other words, while it is not possible to say lclly
Consumption selects this or that person as vie
tinl-yet the predispoSing causes are:
1st, Inheritance. Consumption is hereditary in
a wonderful degree. One parent very often en-
tails it upon the offspring and both still more fire.
Quently, that whole families are often sw ept
away, and hand the predisposition down to their
children.
ID Cold. By this we do not mean those chane es
of weather which often produce inflammation;
but long-continued aud steady cold, 50 that con-
Of iS
tends to produce long-continued debility will. in
some persons, generate Pulmonary Consumption.
Prominent among these influences are insufficient
diet living in unwholesome air, sedentary habits
grief, anxiety, disappointment, whether of the af-
fections or Z business and all other depressing
emotions; the abuse of mercury and the inhuent e
of weakening diseases. also agree with the best
doctors as to the manner in which the lungs be-
come affected. Pulmonary Consumption is also
! called TubercuIous Consumption, by which we
mean disease of the lungs caused by tubercles
A tubercle is a small roundish body which is de-
posted in the substance of the lungs by the blood
This is the beginning and first act of the disease.
Many of these are often deposited at once Each
one undergoes several changes. After producing
inflammation of the parts of the lung next to it,
ends in liberation, opens passage into the bron-
ting The place where the tubercIe grew and
ripened now becomes a cavity. and where there
are great many tubercles of course they mako
a great many of these little cavities which
gradually unite and leave great holes in the lungs
Unless stop be put to this process, it viii GO
on until the substance of the lungs is consumed
and death ensues
Or course agree with the faculty upon the
dry, hacking cough, 50 slight at first, but grad
ualIy increasing; then shortness of breath,
quickening pulse, then feverish sensations flush
ing of the cheeks and heat in the palms of the
hands and soes of the feet; the slight but grow
ing erraciatioa, with feeble appetite, hemorrha-
ges, increasing cough, disturbed sleep, feevered
tongue, then loss of appetite, expectoration CT
softened tubercle in the shape of small humps Of
yellowish, cheesy, or curdy matter; hectic fever,
brilliant eye chills, night sweats, sharp pains in
the sides, increasing emaciaton and debility,
disordered stomach and bowels, diarrhea nausea,
swollen eXtremtieS, hollow cheeks, Sunken eyes,
weakness SO great that expectoratiOn is impOssi-
bic; ten death, bringing welcome relief from
the torturesOfthiS hOrridsmOnSter.
Now, as have said. [ mainly agree with the
medical faculty on these points. But when we
come to the treatment of the disease | differ
from it totally. The doctors believe Pull
uOnary Consumption cannot be cured. There
smooth the patients path to the grave, and seem
quite reckless of the medicines they give, III 1t
the patient Is kept comfortable and e0Sy even if
fe is shortened. AS soon as tuberces begin TO ap-
pear in the lungs of patient it is common p' a
tice with many leading physic ans 10 begin osng
with Whlskey IN Increasing quantities, until the
ravageS of excessive dram-drinking added to
tie ravages of the disease and have yet to neer
OF single case OF cOnSunlptOn which WAS clLTeat
by stmulants. can say the same of Cod Liver
Oil. Many physicians send their patients away
from home distant voyages, to Minnesota or
FlOrida-anything or anywhere SO that they may
die easy. For they do not pretend to cure and
they have no remedies which will do so. Now ]
say not only disease of the lungs can be cured,
but that my medicines do cure them The PROOF
is, that By their thousands Of COnsuep tiUes
hare been and are notC being cured by them.
The whole science of medicine is based ex-
pariments. We cannot by any process OF reason
ing decide that any particular medicine will hell
or care any particular disease How was it fouut.
that outline will cure chills and fevers? Why, by
trying one thing after another, until experience
demonstrated that it We specific for that disease
! III just that way the knowledge was gained of IN,
remedies, which are almost specific in diseases o.
the lungs.
Pulmonary consumption is hereditary in my
| fathers family. His father, mother brothers and
sisters died of it, and he had reached almost the
last stages of the disease when he was prOviden-
! TALLY led to experiment with the articles which
ere incorporated in these medicines. He was cure0
by them, and lived strong, healthy man for Ove5
| forty years after his recovery. What cured hin
mas cured thousands of others all over the country
These results are not accidental. There is 10
/ such thing as accident in nature.
| WhdteUer mag be the cause, the o17glTl OF pu-
! nOnary consumption is in the blood Wheneve
from any of the predsposing causes which 1 have
/ just now mentioned, the blood becomes degene
! 2ted it begins to make tubercuOus deposits in tn
| substance of the lungs. This must be stopped q
| death will surely follow. 1t will not be enough
get rid of the tubercles, already deposited, anC
! heal up the sores already made but somethin:
must be done to stop further deposits. WhG
! shall that be? The regular faculty say nothini
can be done. Isay purify, enrich, and tor
up the blood, until it becomes SO healthy
/ 40 longer to make tubercles Can this be done
| Yes. How? By the easiest aad most natural wa
! in the world. Take man who shows to the ex
perienced eye, by many infalble signs, that con
sumption has set in. He is feeble and without a.
! petite Now, see what intend to do:
! First, I propose to cleanse his stomach an,
! b03cets of their dead, SIingy clogging matte
! This shall do with my Mandrake Pills, which err
! the best cathartic pills in the world They cor
tain no Galomel or other minerals, only vegetabl
matter. They evacuate the stomach and bowel
gently but thoroughly, and do not weaken or grip.
They act like magic the liver, rousing it out o.
its dull, torpid state, and promoting full, FIRE,
/ flow of healthy bile, without which there can b
no perfect digestion. Now that the stomach an
/ bowels are cleansed and readv-Vhat next? Great