Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-03-26
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On the Influence OF Cold
In THE
Production of Diseases of the Lungs
AND ON THE
COMPARATIVE MERITS


OF THE
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-eells of the lungs. Sudden changes in the
temperature OF the air are Immediately felt over
the whole of this extended surface. Goodness
and humidity reuder the air irritating to the
mucous membrane, Irritation ends in eonges-
ton, and congestion is the first stage OF infiam-
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 cent. of the cases of con-
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
liufiammatory 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 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 curable, and when 1t cam
not be done it is, If 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 windptpe, and becomes the
lining of the delicste and innumerabe air cells
of the lungs. When cold produces infamma-
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 a sore throat In
one person and congestion of the lungs in
ano'h her, there is no difference in the diseased
action OF the two cales, or in the principles OF
treatment required for their cure. IL is mu-
cous membrane that is involved in both cases.
But many treat these similar diseases oil same
mem brane widely different, and. as e9hse- he
quence, cure one and fail to cure the otner.
ments directly to the fnaamed parts and are
generally successful. In the nose IS apPi1ed
nothing to the diseased parts and catarrh Pc
comes seated and is thought to be lncuraDie.
For an infamed throat they prescribe gargies
cure. For the same disease little lower down
in the windpipe and bronchial tubes-they
make no direct application but dose the pa
TENTS stomach, and as consequence often
fail to cure Would it not be foolish to pretend
to cure an inhamed eye or a sore throat by dos
ing the stomach? Well, it is just as great a
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 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 curable as other maladies.
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 1t 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 all
ordinary cases of eatarrh, bronchitis and
asthma, improvement Immediately takes place,
and they go on to complete cure. In consump
llon the disease is more obstinate, but these
cases ultimately get we'll. Even in desperate
cases Dement'S always result from inhalations,
ana we can point to hundreds of such cases
whlch were given over to die and pronounced
hopeless, ana yet re covered and are now living.
Inese facts are easily certified to by thousands
OF living witnesses at the present day.
M. HILToN WILLIAMS, M. D., NJ. c. P. So,
HOLLENBECK BLOCK,
Corner Second and Spring STA, Los Angeles.
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