Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-06-26
SECOND LECTURE ON MALARIA
Does Quinine Cure Malaria?-Is There
Any Cure for Chronic Cases?.
AGUE CURES, NEW AND OLD DISCUSSED
New Facts Of Interest to Malaria SUI
ferers.

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treatment of malaria in all of its forms
which l did not stop to prove, although
what l said was very much at variance to
what is commonly taught on the subject.
1t is the purpose of this lecture TO set
forth more fully my reasons for claiming
that the remedy Pe-ru-na is of more
value in this disease than any or all rem
edies heretofore used.
| l need only to refer every ore to their
| own observation in malarial diseases to
| prove that the usual remedies have not
as matter of fact, been successful in
curing them. Go to any malarious sec
| ton of the country and you find its
inhabitants taking regularly enormous
| doses of the medicines that are Landed
as cures of these affections, with little or
no sffsct. The various prepare tons of
| cinchona or calisaya bark, known as
| Quinine, sulphate of cinchona, sweet
| quinine and tasteless Quinine, are taken
with wonderful persistency, with SEEM
| ingly no other effect than to depress the
| heart action, lower the nervous vital
| ity. and produce a most pernicious form
of biliousness.
When travelling through the malarial
! districts it is often pitiful to see the SAL
! low, hOllow-eyed, listless, woe-begone
| victims, industriouslY swallowing huge
doses of these harmful chemical prepara-
tons, vainly hoping, through them, to
regain their health, but rarely realizing
their hopes. 1 have much TO say in ia
vor of cinchona bark in the treatment of
malarious affections, but these peculiar
chemical salts-quinine, etc.-which are
obtained from cinchOna banks, by add
ing to them poisonous acids, l cannot too
StrnnOlV
which will inevitably produce q much
worse condition of the system than the
| disease for which they are taken. To il
lustrate: Coffee is q very useful and
wholesome stimulant, producing, IN
moderate quantities, the best of results,
beueficially invigOrating the whoLs sys-
| tenn. But citrate of caffeine, gf4de by
the chemist from coffee by thsfdddition
of an ACID Is harmful nerv $hmulant,
which cS3Rot be taken an length of
time withsAt doing incalsjaable harm.
Again: @Psider oats the form of
oatmeal, p1HRerly preped, as one of
the most he4khful ap giving
cereals know but tchemist is able to
make an extra fr20ebats known as av-
ena saliva, wt5hhsE an only be taken
with danger to l4f*&hd certain injury to
health. EXactlY@ same is 1t with these
chemical extrai&3Eom Peruvian bark,
called quini44# #Mnidine, cinchonine
and cinchonifhe Rhey will either of
them invarN#y bra3h physical disaster
to any oafFwho caiaues their use,
while the Fix from eh they are taken
is an e1dHFent remedS& which, if used
with oraNary eautiohsEill do no one
But Zen the Peruvian Arks (calisaye
and cjt4hona) do not me5EeIl the re-
quIreHents in the treatmenkRf malaria,
aud faken uncombined with ther use
full ad hncts, cures only smell. fraction
of casa. 1t is not denied bat that
quinineAnd other salts of cinchoIa bark
seemingly cure fever and ague where
the chills are distinct and the patient
strong, out in the vast majority of
cases they not only fail to cure, but do
irreparable harm. To permanently
cure any case of fever and ague q rem
edy must combine two general effects on
the system. 1t must increase the powers
of the system to resist the malarial
poison and neutralize or destroy the
poison Itself. The best that can be said
of cinchons or any of its preparations is
that they stimulate the system tempo
TarIly to resist the action of the malarial
poison. Quinine powerfully arouses
the vital powers to throw of the poison,
but it is more aud more apparent to the
advocates of this remedy that it can not
destroy the poison. 1t is for this reason
that the patient must continue to take
these drugs Necessarily or be liable to
have anothfss attack. Unfortunately
the system soon becomes accustomed
to the stimulatia4 effect, and then they
will utterly fail p protect or in any way
oT ha ~
deEas; sSedily functions and de-
press thesnervous system.
In Pe-fu-na, as given in my formula
now prepased by the Peruna Medicine
companyssi 7a Vantage is taken of the
it is upon the pStuliar combination with |
the othsx.zg lAdSe$ of this remedy that |
chieffss ~ soff Z e permanent cure of |
any kind of malarious disease. In this |
compound the anti-pssadio action of |
cinchons is assisted bEa@fon (another |
South American remedy OF sfsat, value), |
so combined with other ms7iaa& ingre- |
dents as to destroy effectuany the mala-
rial poison which saturates the system. |
a person taking course of treatment |
with Pe-ru-na for any malarial affection
will find not only LIE
quicker than wild iniline, bptthaf Hfs
system is not derauged M Ef{fe slightest Y
particular by the drug. Pe-ru-na gently |
stimulates the nervous system to resist |
the malarial pois n, and at the same |
time gradually eliminates the poison itself |
from the system, which quinine or SINH
lar preparations can not do. In old cases
of malaria, where the victim has gone |
rounds of all kinds of treatment, has
hopefully swallowed everything recon-
mended for the chills, and still continues |
to have them at the slightest exposure to
cold, wet or fatigue, Pe-ru-na demon
strates its superiority over all other
medicines by permanently curing all |
such cases.
1t is simply marvellous what variety |
of remedies have been used IN the treat
ment of malaria. Nearly every different
individual has separate remedy In
my early practice / tried to keep list
of all of the medicines that were recon-
mended for malaria, but 1 soon gave Up |
in despair as the confusing list became |
too lengthy. The great number of cases of |
ma aria that have been treated under my I
directions has give me abundant oppor-
tunlty to make thorough test of the
multitude of malarial cures, and one by |
one ! have been obliged to reject them
as either worthless or harmful, except |