Huntsville gazette., 1883-09-01

PULMOMHC SYRUP,
sEAWEED TONIC,
and MANDRAKE PILLS.
AS the proprietor of these medicines 1 conscien-
tousy offer them to the public safe, reliable and
certain remedies for the Crre Of Consumption, and
with equal confidence almost specific for those
morbid conditions of the body which. if neglected,
are apt to terminate in fatal diseases of he lungs.
claim that the use Of my remedies will Con-
sumption,
do not claim that the disease be cured after the
lungs are destroyed for no medicine can create new
ones; but maintain that the first stages of Com
sumption durable, when the lungs partially
decayed. When one lung Is sound I almost
tain of making cure If the patient will take proper
care of himself and follow my directions.
1t may be asked "How isit that YOU can know 50
much about this disease. and pretend it, when
many educated physicians, who have made study
of 1t for years, pronounce it incurable?"
The question is fair one, and shall be fairly an
swered: 1 do not claim to know more than other
Consumption. 1 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 is obscureln other words,
while it is possible say sohy Consumption selects
this or that person yicdm-yet the predisposinJ
causes
1st Inheritance. Consumption Is hereditary in q
wonderful degree. One parent very often entails it
upon the offspring. and both still frequently. SO
that whole families are often swept away and hand
the predispostion down to their children.
I'd, Cold BY this we do not mean those changes Of
weather which often produce Inflammation; but long
continued and steady cold, SO that condition of de-
bility is produced. Indeed. whatever tends to pro-
duce long continued debility win, In some persons
generate Pulmonary Consumption Prominent among
these influences insufficient diet living In an un-
wholesome air, sedentary habits grief anxiety dis
appointment. whether of the affections or in bus-
ness and all other depressing emotons the abuse of
mercury and the influence of weakening diseases
also agree with the best doctors the manner In
which the lungs become affected Pulmonary Con-
sumption is also called Tuberculous Consumption by
which we mean a disease of the lungs caused by
tuberces. A tubercle is small, roundish body
which deposited in the substance OF the lungs by the
blood This Is the beginning and first act Of the dis
ease Many of these often deposited at once
Each one undergoes several changes After producing
Inflammation of the parts of the lung next to it. It
ends In liberation opens passage into the bronchial
tubes. and passes out at the mouth by splitting The
place where the tubercle grew and ripened now be-
comes cavity, and where there are a great many
tuDerces. Of course they make great many Of these
little cavities which gradually unite and leave great
noies In the lungs. Unless stop be put to this
process, 1t viii until the substance of the lungs
Is consumed and death ensues
OF course agree with the faculty upon the symp
toms and course of the disease the short dry hack
ing cough SO slight at first but gradually increasing;
tnen snortness Of breath, quickening pulse then
Ferlsh sensations flushing of the cheeks and heat In
the palm OF the hands and soies of the feet the slight
Dut growing emaciaton, with feeble appetite hemor-
images increasing cough, disturbed sleep, feYered
tongue, then loss of appetite. taken the bed then
expectoration of softened tuberce in the shape OF
small Jumps of yelewish- cheesy, curdy matter;
hectic fever, brilliant eye chills- night sweats sharp
pains In the side, increasing emaciation and debility
disordered stomach and bowels. diarrhRa nausea
swollen extremities hollow cheeks, sunken eyes
weakness so great that expectoraton is impossible,
then death. bringing welcome relief from the tortues
OF this horrd monster