Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-04-07
EACLESON & CO.
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DlIlGICul TlduS vi AICdtulCul,
DYM HILTON WILLIAMS. NJ. D., M. C. P.
ID 8. o., specialist in diseases of the Head,
Throat and Chest, including the Eye, Ear and
Heart.
The state of the atmosphere impresses itself
directly on the mucous lining of the nasal pas
ssges THROAT windpipe b5Snchisi tubes ana ta
temperature OF the air are Immediately felt over
the whole of this extended surface. Goodness
and humidity render the air irritating to the
mucous membrane irritation ends in c0nges
tion, and congestion is the first stage of iut1am
mation-the parent OF all those chronic catarrh
al affections of the nose throat and bronchial
tubes, which ultimately end in consumption.
Nearly eighty per cent. 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 ehangeable 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 rule of medical practice. established by
ages of experiencSthat every disease which is
local-that is to say, has its seat in any one
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 durable, and when it can
not be done 1t is, II serious, generally fatal The
same mucous membrane Is spread over the
globe of the eye. lines the tear passage and 1n-
ternal surface of the nose, covers the throat,
passes down the windpipe, and becomes the
lining of the delicate and innumerable air cells
OF the lungs. When cold produces inhamms'
ton 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
one person and congestion OF the lungs in
ano'her, there is no difference In the diseased
action of the two cases, or in the principles Oh
treatment required for their cure. IL is mu-
cous membrane that is involved in both cases.
But many treat these similar diseases OF same
membrane widely different, and, as conse-
guence, cure one and fail to cure the other. 1ef
ments' directly to the infiamed parts and are
generally successful. In the nose is applied
nothing to the diseased parts ana cstarrn h he Pc
comes seated and is thought to be incurabie
For an inflamed throat they prescribe gargles
and applications to the throat, and generally
cure. For the same disease nttle lower oown tl
lin the windpipe and bronchial tubes-they
make no direct application, but dose the pa
tients stomach, and, as conseq uence otten
fail to cure Would it not be toolisn 70 pIeteno
to cure an infiamed eye or sore throat by dos
ing the stomach2 Well, 1t is just as great q
mistake to treat catarrh and diseases OF the air
passages of the lungs by dosing the stomach
. The fatality of lung diseases is not due, as
many people suppose, to the mal1gnity OF theiI
nature or the Importance OF their Dreaming M
| leet Of the means OF cure within the reaen o.
all. Properly treated by direct medication
| lung diseases are as curable as other maIadies,
| If any satisfactory result were attained by
| constitution treatment alone IN lung cases-il
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 al
/ their medical treatment, are entirely under the
control of physicians, very few well defined
/ diseases of the lungs can be shown to have beer
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 Il
the hand Of DEATH In giving 1t up, therefore
/ those having lung diseases abandon nothing
save the certainty Of an earthly grave for hop'
of life and health
Now, look at the results attained by the direc
| treatment of the lungs by inhalation. In al
| ordinary cases of catarrh, bronchitis anC
asthma, improvement Immediately takes place
and they go on to complete cure. In consump
tion the disease is more obstinate, but thes
cases ultimately get well. Even In desperate
cases benefits always result from tnhalationf
and we can point to hundreds of such case
which were given over to die and pronounce
hopeless, and yet recovered and are now living
These facts are easily certified to by thousand
of living witnesses at the present day.
M. HILTON WILLIAMS, M. D., NJ. c. P. s. o.
HoLLENBECK BLOCK,
Corner Second and Spring Bts., Los Angeles.
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