St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-07-11
eLEATLY AGGRAVATED.

tiOnately worse. The physician who was
treating me made an especially careful dag
nosis of my case and pronounced my bron-
chial tubes to be affected. He treated me
for this, but without any special good. In
fact, it appeared to me and my friends that
was growing worse all the time.
81 grew Respondent. My disease had as
sumed such a character that it looked to me
to be incurable. I could scarcely make my
self understood when talking; my breathing
was difficult and was accompanied by
rough sound, andI ate scarcely anything at
all. Ny appetite was gone.
''Along in March, when had about given
up all hope, got hold of one of DR.. Nc
Coy's pamphlets, and after reading it con-
cluded to go and see him. He examined
me, and said that I had catarrh of the
throat and upper part of the lungs, that L
was, in fact, in the first stages of consump-
ton. He began treating me. To-day I
can talk as well as you, and you can dis
cover no traces of my disease at all. l now
follow my occupation of auctioneer without
experiencing any difficulty from my throat.
The speaker was Marcellus G. Ketchum
of 1922 Wright street. Dir. Ketchum is
tine-looking, intelligent gentleman of about
80 years of age, and has been for long
time in the employ of 0. j. Lewis & Co.,
the well-known auction and commission
house at Alt Broadway and $40 st. Charles
street.
Catarrh is the forerunner of consumption.
The symptoms which Mr.. Ketchum de-
scribed are the symptoms of consumption
in its early stages.
In his opinion that catarrh is often con-
sumption in its early stages. DR.. Mccoy is
found to hold view similar to that held
by DIR. jacob, the famous New York
authority. The symptoms as described by
him will be seen to be almost exactly like
those related by Mr.. Ketchum as his own.
DR.. jacob of New York, in speaking Of
consumption says: ''We consider catarrh
of the upper parts Of the lungs, accompan-
led by rough breathing (that is the noise
heard in the bronchial tubes, a sort of
cracking, as the bursting of bubbles), as
distinct symptom of the beginning of con-
sumption. This trouble (catarrh) is US
uallY to be found at the top of the right
lung, and if with it there is imperfect ex-
pansion of the chest. slight dullness and re-
traction, sinking in the space just below
the collar bone; then with these there is a
flat chest. prominent shoulders, great and
persistent pallor or paleness of the skin,
constitutional (generaD debility. tendency
to catarrh and an occasional Slight cough,
you may be sure that the disease is con-
sumption in its early stages"
In an issue of another date the Republic
can of the same city has the following;
JOHN BOYLE, ovERsEER OF STREET DE
PARTMENE
Mr.. Boyle, well known official of the
city of st. Louis. said to reporter: IT
had, I suppose, about the worst case of
catarrh that ever tackled q man. 1t had
been gaining on me for some years, and I
began to think that I would have
to give up active life altogether. I felt
that was becoming enfeebled in body and
mind. All the time was suffering from
an irritating cough and hawking up of
phlegm. lost my appetite and my sight
grew bad. My nose was sore, and there
was occasional pain across the back part OF
my throat and my forehead. 1 consulted
two doctors and they said that I had an in
durable case of catarrh. Both of them re-
lieved me temporarily, but that was all.
Two months ago went to DIR. Mccoy.
To-day feel as if l had never known what
sickness was. He cured me in that spase
of time"