Morning journal and courier., 1883-02-03
A Plea for WtIsonia.

| the public as specifies for catarrh, the large l majority of them composed principally ] of what are known in the history and classi l fcation of drugs as 'tantiseptics," or such at correct and destroy the offensive fetor of ca | tarrhal discharges. Among them may be enumerated dilute carboic acid, kreosote an6 various other emollient preparations witt I which the carbolates are mingled, astringents of different kinds, such as tannin, cinchona, quinine, stramonium, kino catechu, myrrh &c., &c. By their astringent qualities the discharge is arrested for time, but soon to return, for reasons to be given presently. All of these are used as nasal injections, and added to the list are the several kinds of ca tarrhal snuffs. Meantime the patient is be- ing dosed with the preparations of malt,
 whose name is legion, and with all the tonics
 that the art of the druggist can supply, so that he is literally dosed and douched and snuffed and stuffed ad ibitum. The same applies equally to the host of remedies for rheumatism, dyspepsia and other diseases, and their very number is the best argument against the use of any one of them. Why Is it that the local application of these so- called specifies do not cure catarrh? :? Simply because the remedy is applied to the result of the disease only. The discharge from catarrh-''humid catarrh"-like the false membrane of diphtheria, is merely the out ward indication of the disease that prevails within. There Is also catarrh without fluid discharge-dry catarrh, but they equally result from the presence of 8 poison in the blood, the best evidence of which Is, that if not arrested catarrh will gradually pervade every part of the body, and its undermining influences will be perceived in the arrest or perversion of the function of one organ after another, the patient meanwhile growing weaker and weaker as the disease advances. In answer to the numerous inquiries made to us to explain upon what foundation rests our RIoIVp7 fN %hna nf "a dR1- ces in the cure of disease generally, we reply that, in the first place. an abundant expert ence is proving the fact to us day by day, and it may be easily verified by whosoever may be willing to investigate our incontesti- ble evidences. These are constantly accu- mulating, as one living witness after another gives us his or her voluntary testimony, and are gradually putting us in possession of such records of the relief and cure of disease as are unprecedented, and an impartial and un- prejudiced comparison with which we hereby invoke and defy. Among them may be emu merated many cases of chronic disease of long standing, and not few pronounced in curable. In the second place, we respond to another inquiry, viz: How we can under take or expect to cure diseases generally by the use of one agent To answer this by proper scientific reasoning would require more space than is here permitted. In as few words as possible we will state our be- lief that by far the largest majority of dis. eases are attended with and maintained by certain notifications and changes in the integral clements of the blood, whereby it's health giving properties are interfered with and neutralized by reason of the introduc tion of foreign clements which may be the potential factors of disease. The great nervous system also becomes enervated and by the same noxious influences and the various symptoms with which physi- clans are well acquainted, and which charac- terize the many forms of disease, soon be- come plainly and easily recognized. To re- store the normal quality of the blood the physician gives emetics and purgatives to exr pei the foul humors, tonics to rebuild the waning strength, sudoriics to set the great sewer of the body, the skin, in active opera. lion, and all the other innumerable applian- ,es of his art, whether he be of one profes- | sional creed or another, and both antagonis- tic, and In very many instances, no doubt, the normal conditions are restored In say ng this last we desire to express our hearty appreciation of the good work that is con- I 'tantly being done by the profession general 1 y; at the same time we offer to their accep- ance great instrument for the cure of dis case, and invite their operation in bestow- ng it upon suffering humanity by making it ! ,ne of their many resources, when all others ! ,hall have failed. And now to reply to the ! crucial lnqulry-How do magnetic currents, |
 
 body, restore it to health RecolIecting what has been said concerning the morbid | changes which disease produces in the blood | currents, and in the transmissions of the ] normal nervous energies, we believe and de- l dare that the failing powers of the nervous l ,ystem are reinyigorated and reanimated by l currents of magnetism, because, l n our belief, the natural properties of the | brain and all it's nervous connections, yheth- | sr by the fundamental cell-structure, eontin- | 1ity of white and gray matter, Ganglionic or | nervous associations, all of these natural l powers, we say, are essentially magnetic as | respects the subtle force which animates | hem, and which they in turn radiate to all l md every part of the system. Being so, | what can revitalize them when disabled by l disease so surely as the bestowal upon them 1f their own native and familiar energy. the I now lost but sorely needed life giving princi- pie, magnetism So it is with the blood :; | he clements which constitute it have been 1emagnetized by the noxious principles in srodueed by disease-producing causes. What ! is the inevitable result Every portion, | however infnitesimal of the body now re. ,eiVes blood united to nourish it. The va l rious organs are interrupted in the discharge | of their functions, poisonous materials, l which 1t is their duty to eliminate from the | body, are retained, and disease becomes | fixed here, there, everywhere. By the vital l zing influences of CONTINUOUS currents of | the blood is rehabilitated and re- | 1ewed as to the quality of it's integral ele | nents it's impurities expelled, irritations, | ,ongestions and infammations, with their I sequele removed, the functional powers of ,he organs restored and the result is health ?