Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-03-23
On the Influence CT Cold
IN THE
Production of Diseases OF the Lungs
AND ON THE
COMPARATIVE MERITS
OF THE
Different Plans of Treatment.


Different Plans of Treatment,
DY NJ. HILTON WILLIAMS. NJ D., NJ. C.P.
ID s. 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
| sages, throat windpipe, bronchial tubes and
| air-cells of the lungs. Sudden changes in the
| 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 eonges-
tion, and congestion is the first stage of inflam-
maton.the parent OF all those chrome 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 chsngeable weather. 1t is
Iinfiammatory and purely local in its early stage
I-quite as much so as inflammation of the eyes
| or quinsy CT the throat and must be treated in
| the same direct manner.
1t is a rule of medical practice. established by
ages of experience, that 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 1T can
not be done it is, IL serious, generally fatal The
| same mucous membrane is spread over the
globe of the eye. lines the tear passage and in
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 inflamma-
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
respect. When cold produces sore throat in
one person and congestion of the lungs in
| ano' her, there is no difference in the diseased
action OF the two ea,es, or in the principles of
cous membrane that is involved in both cases.
But many treat these similar diseases of same
membrane widely different, and, as eonse-
quence, cure one and fail to cure the other.
For the eye they apply eyewashes and oint-
ments directly to the intiamed parts and are
generally successful. In the nose is applied
nothing to the diseased parts and eatarrh be-
comes seated and is thought to be 1ncurable.
For an infamed throat they prescribe gargles
and applications to the throat, and generally
cure. For the same disease little lower down
in the Windpipe aud proncnlai tubesEthey
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. it is just as greet a
mistake to treat catarTh and diseases of the air
passages of the lungs by dosing the stomach
The fatality of lung diseases is not due. az
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 other maladies
If any satisfactory result were attained nv
constitution treatment alone in lung cases-if
they cured considerable proportion of such
the direct t-eatmentof 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
tormly unsuccessful that most people have
come to regard consumption as equivalent to
the hand OF death! In giving ii up, therefore.
those having lung diseases abandon nothing
of life and health.
Now, look at the results attained by the direct
treatment OF the lungs by inhalation In ali
Ordinary cases OF catarrh, bronchitis and
asthma, Improvement Immediately takes place,
ana they go on to complete cure. In consump-
ZION the disease is more obstinate but these
cases ultimately get we'll Even in desperate
eases oenehts always result from inhalations,
ana we can point to hundreds of such cases
Whlch were given over to die and pronounced
hopeless and yet recovered and are now living.
l lnese facts are easily certified to by thousands
OF Ivlng witnesses at the present day.
M. HILTON WILLIAMS, NJ. D., NJ. c. P. s.o.,
HoLLENBECK BLOCK,
Oorner Second and spring sts., Los Angeles.
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