Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-03-22


DY NJ. HILTON WILLIAMS. M NJ. C.P.
ID S. o., specialist in dises ses of the Head,
Heart.
The state of the atmosphere impresses itself
directly on the mucous lining of the nasal pas
sages, throat windpipe, bronchial tubes and
sir-cells of the lungs. Sudden changes in the
temperature of the air are Immediately felt over
the whole OF this extended surface. Coolness
and humidity render the air irritating to the
mucous membrane, irritation ends in conges.
tion. and congestion is the first stage of infam-
mation-the parent of all those chronic cstarrh-
al affections of the nose, throat and bronchial
tubes, which ultimately end in consumption.
Nearly eighty per ceut. of the cases of con-
sumption begin by congestion of the mucous
membrane of the nasal passages, throat and
bronchial tubes produced by colds. To that
extent, therefore, consumption springs directly
from the damp and changeable weather. 1t is
infammatory and purely local in its early stage
quite as much so as Inflammation OF the eyes
or quinsy OF the throat, and must be treated in
the same direct manner.
1t is a rule CT medical practice. established by
ages of experience, that every disease which is
organ or part of the body-requires for its cure
the direct application of the remedies TO such
organ or part When this can be done, the
disease is generally curable, and when it cam
not be done it is il serious, generally fatal. The
same mucous membrane il spread over the
globe of the eye. lines the tear passage and in-
passes down the windpipe, and becomes the
lining OF the delicate anu innumerable air cells
of the lungs. When cold produces in1amma-
tion of the eye in one person and acute catarrh
OF the head in another the cause the disease
and the membranes affected are alike in every
respect When cold produces sore throat in
one person and congestion OF the lungs In
action of the two cas- es or in the principles OF
treatment required for their cure. It is mu-
cous membrane that is involved in both cases
But many treat these similar diseases of same
mem brane widely different, and, as conse-
quence, cure one and fail to cure the other.
For the eye they apply eyewaashes hess and oint,
generally successful. In the nose is applied
nothing to the diseased parts and catarrh be-
comes seated and is thought to be incurable.
For an inhamed throat they prescribe gargles
and applications to the throat, and generally
cure. For the same disease a little lower down
in the windpipe and bronchial tubess-they-
make no direct application, but dose the pa
TENTS stomach, and as a consequence often
fail TO cure Would it not be foolish to pretend
to cure an infamed eye or sore throat by dos
ing the stomach? Well, 1t is just as great g
mistake to treat catarrh and diseases of the air
passages of the lungs by dosing the stomach
alone.
The fatality OF lung diseases is not due, as
many people suppose, to the malignity of their
nature or the Importance of their breathing
organs. 1t is the inevitable result OF gross neg.
lect OF the means of cure within the reach of
all. Properly treated by direct medication,
lung diseases are as durable as other msladies.
If any satisfactory result were attained by
constitution treatment alone in lung cases-if
they cured considerable proportion of such
cases-it might reasonably be doubted whether
the direct treatment of inhalation could accom-
plish better results But the fact is, they do but
very little good Even in hospitals, where the
diet, exercise and general habits, as well as
their medical treatment. are entirely under the
control of physicians, very few well defined
diseases of the lungs can be shown to have been
cured by the stomach treatment out of every
thousand cases so treated. 1t has been so uni
formly unsuccessful that most people have
| come to regard consumption as equivalent to
the hand OF death! In giving it up therefore,
| those having lung diseases abandon nothing,
| save the certainty of en- earthly grave for hope
| of life and health.
Now, look at the results attained by the direct
treatment of the lungs by inhalation In all
ordinary cases of catarrh, bronchitis and
| asthma improvement immediately takes place,
| and they go on to complete cure. In consump
| tion the disease is more obstinate, but these
| cases ultimately get well. Even in desperate
| cases benefits always result from inhalations.
| and we can point to hundreds of such cases
which were given over to die and pronounced
hopeless and yet re covered and are now living.
These facts are easily certified to by thousands
| of living witnesses at the present day.
NJ. HILTON WILLIAMS, NJ. D., NJ. C. P. S. o.,
HOLLENBECK BLOCK,
Corner Second ana Sprtng sGs. Los Angeles.
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