The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1893-09-07
DR.. RARTMAN'S
LECTURE ON MALARIA,
Ague Cure, New and Old, Discussed.
New Fsc's of Interest to Malaria Sufferers.

l need only to refer every one to
3hetr own observation in malarial dis.
eases to prove that the usual remedies
nave not, as matter of fact, been sue
cessful in curing them. Go to any
malarious section of the country and
you find its inhabitants taking regu-
larry emo nous doses of the medicines
that are lauded as cures OF these affec.
tions, with little or no affect. The va.
rious preparations of cinchona or cal
isaya bark, known as quinine, sui
phate of cinchena, sweet qurnine and
tasteless quinine, are taken with
wonderful persistency, with SEEM
ingly no other effect than to depress
the hearts action, lower the nervous
vitality and produce most pernlcious
form Of biliousness.
l have much to say in favor of Gin
chona bark in the treatment of mala-
rious affections, but these peculiar
chemical salts-quinine, etc.-which
are obtained from cinchona barks, by
adding to them poisonous acids, L can
not too strongly denOunce as danger
GUS drugs, which will inevitably pro-
duce much worse condition OF the
system than the disease for which
they are taken.
But even the Peruvian barks (cali.
saga and cinchona) do not meet all the
requirements in the treatment of ma
laria, and taken uncombined with
other useful adjuncts, cures only a
small traction OF Cases. 1t is not de-
MED but that quinine and other salts
of cinchona bark seemingly cure fever
and ague where the chills are distinct
and the patient str ng, but in the vast
majority Of cases they do not only fail to
cure, but do irreparable harm. 10 per-
manently cure any case OF fever and
ague remedy must com bine two gen.
eral effects on the system. 1t must in-
crease the powers Of the system to re-
sist the malarial poison and neutrallze
or destroy the poison itself. The best
that can he said of cinchona or any of
its preparations Is that they stimulate
the system temporarily to resist the
action of the malarial poison.
In Pe.ru-na, as given in my formula
now prepared by the Peruna Medicine
company, advantage is taken of the
beneficial action of Peruvian bark,
but it upon the peculiar combination
with the other ingredients OF this
remedy that chiefly rely for
the permanent cure of any
kind OF malarious disease. In this
compound the anti-perodic action OF
cinohona is assisted by cedron
(another South American remedy of
great value), so combined with other
medicinal ingredients as to destroy
the malarial poison which
saturotes the system. A person TAX
ing course of treatment with Peru.
ma for any malarial affection will find
not only that he will be relieved
quicker than with quinine, but that
his system is not deranged in the
slightest particular by the drug. Pc.
ri ma gently stimulates the nervous
system to resist the malarial poison
and at the same time gradually elimi.
mates the poison itself from the sys.
tenn, which quinine or similar prepa-
tions cannot do.
The great number of cases of mala.
ria that have been treated under my /
has given me abundan 6
opportunity to make Thorough test 6
Of the multitude of malarial cures, and 8
one by one / have been obliged to re- t
iect them az either worthless or harm. {
full, except the few which have stood t
the rigid test of actual practice. These t
| combined in the compound Pc ru.na {
/ generally find it necessary in old '
cases, to use, in addition to Peruna,
Q few bottles of Man-a.lin to restore
the action of the liver and bowels,
which have been deranged, as the re-
suit of former treatment, Having
continued the Mans lin long enough c
to thoroughly regulate these organs, 6
the Pe.ru-na Ia continued alone until |
a cure is complete, which is sure to
occur unless some serious complica-
ton has set in before g treatment t
was begun.
A book on malarial diseases and all {
other diseases of summer will be sent
free to any address by The Peru ma
Drug Manufacturing company OF Co.
iumbus, o.