The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-06-26
MediCated Inhalation !

DIR. Sproule on Medicated Inhalation for
the Cure of Consumption, Asthma, Bron-
chitis, Sore Throat. Weakness or Loss of
Voice. Catarrh in the Head. Weak Lungs
Etc.
Simply swallowing medicine into the
stomach has never been able to affect any
good in removing diseases from the nose,
throat, or lungs; and hence the old practice
of drugging, bliSterlng, cupping, ETC., has
been productive OF more harm than good.
Among the new ideas that have dawned
upon the great minds OF the world is the one
which questions the correctness of treating
diseases of the lungs and throat by medi-
eating through the stomach and general
circulation. To treat consumption and
other diseases of the lungs through the
stomach has been the practice for centuries,
but it has always failed! Thousands of rem
edies have been employed, but they We're
all addressed to the stomach, not the lungs.
ls 1T not time to give attention to a
new method for reaching the lungs with
remedies?
To practice medicated inhalation success
fully, its pharmacy must be thoroughly and
scientifically comprehended. Medicines,
when in a state OF vapor, and inhaled into
the lungs, affect the vital organization very
differently from what they do when in
their crude form or condition. and swal-
lowed into the stomach 1 will illustrate
this by a single example,: Half an ounce
of chloroform may be swallowed into the
stomach without producing fatal effects,
but that amount of chloroform inhaled in a
state of vapor into the lungs would kill ten
persons, unless properly diluted with at
mospheric air.
1t is an easy matter to explain how medi-
cine acts on the system when inhaled in
the form of vapor from a properly-con-
structed inhaler.
The medicines in this form are taken into
the lungs, and, being condensed when it
reaches there, act the same as washing an
ulcer or a sore on the outer part of the body
or extremities, thus healing up the sores or
ulcers in the lungs, and allowing nature to
reCuperate.
1t has another advantage: When taken
into the lungs instead of the stomach, it
does not derange the digestive organs,
liver, etc, but the healing and vitalizing
properties are taken directly into the sys-
TEN, without the drawbacks which are
witnessed in taking several different prep
arations into the stomach WITH a view TO
reaching the lungs.
Persons who nave flat chests, a feeble
CONSTITUTE IN, a slight hacking cough, ca
tarrh in the head, a constant tickling in the
throat or a disposition to hawk" or clear
the throat, an inability TO read or speak for
any great length of time without becoming
I" hodrse" or the voice " rough and husky"
becoming tired by a little extra exertion
shortness of breath in ascending Of stairs or
walking up hill, a cIugh on first rising in
the morning, splitting up blood matter, pains
in the chest, and a hereditary pre-disposi-
ton to consumption ~(parent or parents haV-
ing died with the disease) ali these symp-
toms should be- taken AZ 80 many warning
voices, appealing TO the patient TO beware
of that dreadful malady which destroys
millions yearly.
Now, as the old system of ~drugging,
blistering, etc, can never cure, neither
ward off the disease (as medical men them
selves acknowledged the only hope left
for the p ,tient beiug cured is " medicated
inhalation" in connection with the other
treatment | nave referred TO. Catarrh in
head. bronchitis, or long.conlinued trouble
some cough and throat, all may, and often