Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-09-27
PEOPLE AND COMMON SENSE.
TIE PUBLIC GIVEN A CHANCE TO
HEAR HEALTHY REASON.

A Startling Contrast Between Old-Fash-
ioned Methods of Curing Catarrh and
the Modern Method of Drs Copeland
and Hall-PIeasant Applications and
Prompt Cures.
The best possible evidence of the success
of the modern method of treating catarrh as
perfected by Drs. Copeland and Hall is shown
in their continued and constantly increasing
practice in this community. Day after day,
week after week, month after month and
year after year has gone by since they were
first established here, and each hour has
seen their practice and success increase,
until now, when they treat more patients
and with more success than any other ply
sicians in the United States. What better
evidence of the correctness of their treat
ment, or their skill and science in its appli-
cation could be offered?
That their parlors are crowded with
patients and their mails overburdened with
letters does not, however, give them one
half the pleasure and satisfaction that they
derive from the fact that they have the con-
fidence and Endorsement of the intelligent
right-thinking men and women of this COM
munity.
Some five or six years ago, before such
men as Drs. Copeland and Hall, and their
associates, gave their lives and their edUca-
tion and their ability to the treatment of
catarrh, the profession paid but little atten-
tion to the disease and, in the light of pres
ent knowledge, apparently knew but very
little about the proper methods for treating
and curing it.
At that time almost the universal practice
and authorized treatment of catarrh was by
the use of caustio applications, nitrate of
ooiI oh nd
painful, and, while they may have been
theoretically and scientifically correct, in
many cases left worse condition of the
membranes than that which they were in
tended to cure.
This, as we say, was the old-fashioned
treatment for the cure of catarrh. 1t was
harsh, it was severe, and not as effective as
that which modern skill and science has de-
vised; which soothes, heals and relieves,
without pain or irritation. Dobelles solu-
tion, lystrini, vasalene, albathol and other
of the modern cleansers and healers, have
taken the place of the scorching acids, burn
ing caustics and old-fashioned heroic ways
of curing this disease.
Methods of medicine change as well as
everything else-experience teaches only to
those who are intelligent enough to follow
her instruction. Who would think of COM
pairing the wise, kindly, intelligent physi-
clan of to-day-with his wide culture, his
knowledge drawn from the crucible of the
centuries-to the 'leech" of not so many
years since, whose whole surgery was COM
prised in knowing how to let blood, and
whose knowledge of medicines consisted of
administering great doses of calomel or
rhubarb, or salts and senna?
Our local treatment of catarrh is, putting
1t plainly, a process ofcOnstant and method
ical cleansing, healing and soothing of the
membranes, foul and irritated from the
poisonous catarrhal secretions. Catarrh is
a local as we'll as constitutional disease,
and the membraneous surface where the
local manifestations usually occur must be
kept clean and pure from the poisonous
catarrhal secretions as wound must be
kept clean from poisonous accumulations.
The sprays and applications used in heal
ing, soothing and curing the affected parts
are effective, pleasant, and occasion neither
the slightest pain nor discomfort. They re-
lieve the nostrils from their stopped-up and
irritated condition, cleanse the parts thor
oughly, restore the healthy action of the
membranes, alleviate the Inflammation and,
with the aid of proper constitutional treat
ment, in good process of time cure the dis
ease.
Would you let wound or sore grow foul
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must be kept clean and pure, and the sys-
tenn supplied with what it needs to make it
clean and pure, then healing and health
will come. This is common sense and our
modern methods of curing disease.
The harsher modes of treatment were
done away with by all-skillful and success
full specialists many years ago, and
local treatment, with the aid of proper
constitutional remedies, as used to-day
by Drs. Copeland & Hall, and by all sue
cessful specialists, is mild, pleasant and
affords instant and temporary relief, as well
as, in regular sequence, permanent and
lasting cure.
Drs. Copeland & Hall congratulate them
selves upon no one thing more than upon |
the fact that their methods are painless as !
well as scientific and effective.
In so small and simple matter as the |
removal Of polypus from the nose their
cures are accomplished without the slight
est pain or irritation. A few years ago !
doctors would drag nasal polypii out with |
fcrceps, tearing the little tumors out by |
the roots. The operation was attended with
pain, suffering and frequent hemorrhage.
To-day Drs. Copeland & Hall remove
these polypii by simple and delicate oper-
alton without the slightest pain or loss of