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On the Influence OF Cold
In THE
Production of Diseases of the Lungs
AND ON THE
COMPARATIVE MERITS
Different Plans of Treatment,

DY M. HILTON WILLIAMS. M. 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
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 conges-
ton, and congestion is the first stage of in1am-
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-
sumption begin by congestion of the mucous
IL ng 5S % thst
extent, therefore, consumption springs directly
from the damp and changeable weather. 1t is
inflammatory and purely local in its early stage
quite as much so as inf animation of the eyes
or quinsy Of the throat, and must be treated in
the same direct manner
II 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
disease is generally durable. and when 1t 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 in
ternal surface of the nose, covers the throat,
passes down the windpipe, and becomes the
lining OF the delicate and innumerable air cells
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
another, there ts no difference in the diseased
action OF the two cafes, or In the principles o.
Treatment required for their c9Fe' .h ~ - eases ne
But many treat these similar Gisbsses OF genle
mem brane widely different, and, 50 conse~
5uence, cure one and fail to cure tug ssae[. a
ments directly to the inhamed parts and arg
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 infiamed throat they prescribe gargles
and applications to the throat. and generally
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
to cure an infiamed eye or sore throat by dos
ing the stomach? Well, 1T is just as great a
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 mslignity 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 maladles.
If any satisfactory result were attained by
constitution treatment alone in lung cases-if
they cured considerable proportion OF such
cascs-it might reasonably be doubted whether
the direct tSeatmento 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
tnelr medical Il treatment, are entirely under the
control OF physicians, very few well defined
diseases OF the lungs can be shown to have been
cured e. by the stomach treatment out of every
thousand cases SO treated. 1t has been so uni
1ormly 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,
n fnva Auk1. 4.
of life and health FO
Now, look at the results attained by the direct
treatment OF the lungs by inhalation. In all
ortalinary cases of catarrh, bronchitis and
ast9ins, 5 IN Improvement Immediately takes place,
ino ino tney go on to complete cure. In consump-
Ion the disease is more obstinate, but these
Eases ultimately get we'll. Even in desperate
,ases benefits always result from inhalations,
% lhd we can point to hundreds OF such cases
"nlch were given over to die and pronounced
Iopeless, and yet recovered and are now living.
Inese facts are easily certified to by thousands
u hyiAg witnesses at the present day.
VI. hilton WILLIAMS, NJ. D., NJ. c. P. So,
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