Morning journal and courier., 1893-05-15
\ New cure for ConsuMption.

Dr. Hartnett shows why inhalations of medicaments ts the respiratory tracts have proved useless in their relation to pulmo- nary consumption; he points to the dan gers attendant on the treatment of Profss- and he also refers to the lamentable re- suits which followed, on the old system of treating consumption by means of expeo- torant and other mixtures which, though taken inte the stomach, never reached the lung cells, the real seat of the disease.
 Following up these arguments, and clearly explaining the nature of the ba- cilli-the living germs which cause the disesse-and the peculiar products known to scientists as toxines, which they sx- how these toxines, which are thrown of by the bacilli in the lungs, are the pol sons which, when they are absorbed into tks system, are the real cause of the symptoms peculiar to pulmonary con- sumption. To destroy the baeilli, as we'll as the toxines they exorete, the patients are submitted to system of constant in- halation of dry air charged to the fullest extent with volatile extracts distilled from the Alpine pine, the eucalyptus globulus, or Australian gum tree, beech, orsosote, menthol and other preparations of 6 high, ly volatile nature and known AS anti septic; that is to say they have rhe pow CT of destroying bacteria or low forms of animal life and of oxiding tho products which they throw off.
 The method of effesting this purpose is highly ingenious. The instruments ueed are of three kinds. The fret is an appa- rstus composed of Altering and msdioa- ting slides, with fan and electric mo- tor, which charges the inhalation chsm- The second is a compressed dry afr in haler, devised for the purpose of home inhalation, so that patients can sit for hours daily blowing 6 constant blast of an tiseptic air into the lungs during deep in- spiration. The third is neat contrivance in the form of pocket inhaler, shaped like cigar, by which those convaleecent or not suffering very aoutely can keep up the inhalations out of doors or when at tending to their ordinary vacations.
 The effects of tine treatment are said to be very marked. After eight or ten days the patIsnt loses the feeling of las situde and depression from which con- sumptive invalids usually suffer, the ex- pectoration diminishes, the cough soon subsides, and there are cases now on rec ord of persons who are absolutely free from every symptom of lung trouble, and in the enjoyment of good health, who were but a short time ago considered hope Iessly incarable caees of consumption. One of the greatest recommendation of tho system is that it is perfectly safe, and cannot harm the most delicate con stitution. Special chambers ara now fit ted up, charged with the dry, antiseptIc air, in which patients sit for hours dai- ly. In these inhalation chambers there is artifcislly produced what nature does on a large scale in the pine and euca- lyptus forests, and it is an indisputable fact that patients suffering from con- sumption do better amid such surround ings, where the disease is never met with. than they do under any other eli matic conditions. A large proportion of cases recover in the eucalyptus groves of Australia, and in the pine woods of Col orado and British Columbia.