The morning times., 1896-04-17

Few diseases are local in their extent.
! The man who is sick with any sort of
| disease is likely to be sick all over. ! f
| lie has liver complaint, his nerves are out
! of order; there is no telling where his
| trouble Will be greatest. One nerve COM
municates all its troubles to all the rest.
When the optical nerves are affected
nervous headache frequently enSueS. Con-
! sumption is not only III mans lung, but
| it is all over his body. He loses lung
! tissue, but his W hole body is was ting
away at the same time. The worst trouble
| is his lungs. The lungs are like the front
| rank in battle. They bear the brunt Of the
| fight, but defeat affects the whole body.
| The formation OF tuberclcS i'll the lungs is
made possible by impure blood The
J disease cannot thrive on impure blood
| If the blood is supplied with matter
| that VIII eXtefminate the germs OF con-
| sumption, if it contains the material to
make it rich and pure, there Will be
| nothing for the tuberCles TO feed on ..
| They can't spread unless they are fed
| with impurities. If the blood contains
| material that is continually working TO
| exterminate the germs and detach the
| tuberculous matter, it will be raised as
| it is detached-w be gotten rid of by
| eXpectora ton, and if the blood is pure
and strong, the spot left by the detach-
| ment of the tubercles will heal in a
| healthy way, and in this way the lungs
| will gradually become free. Then, as
/ long as the blood is kept pure and whole
some, there is little chance of the disease
| again gaining headway.
The method OF operation is very much
the same in a simple cold on the lungs, or
| in Inflammation of the bronchial tubes and
| nasal passages. Inflammation causes what
| we call cold. If we cure the inflamlna-
ton, the cold will disappear. When there
| is Inflammation in the lungs, we have what
| we call cold on the lungs, and there is
an accumulation OF impure mucous natter
which, in the worst cases, fills consider
able portions OF the lungs. If the blood Is
| supplied with material to cOuuteract the
| inflammation-tO soothe and heal, the cold
| will disappear.
| Changes Of climate-changes Of air, are
| undoubtedly good things for consumptive
| patients, but better than these is a medi-
| cine that will purify and enrich the blood
! a rational medicine that is at once a
germicide, an antiseptic purifier and a
tonic. To make pure blood, the digestion
! must be good. AS long as there is i'm
proper assimilation, insufficient nourish-
ment, and imperfect digestion, the blood
| will be weak or impure, or both. When the
| digestion is good a nd the proper food is
taken, the blood will be rich aud red-full
| OF vitality and purity. The right sort of
| food may mean medicine. Drugs are nat
ural products, just as is the best Of food.
| The most useful drugs come from trees and
| plants, roots and herbs. They are designed
TO supply, in a concentrated, convenient
| form, the things that are lacking in food.
IF we always ate exactly what the body
| needed, the body would always be rich
| and pure, and there would be no need Of
medicine. People eat one thing and alb
stain from another because they say they
need one thing; that it agrees with them
and the other doesn't. The thing that
agrees with you is what you need. 1t may
be what is called a food, or it may be what
is called a medicine-in fact, there is no
difference.
When there are consumptive germs in
the body, the body needs something that
will kill them and counteract their effect.
1t makes no difference whether this comes
in the form OF porridge or in the form Of
pills. The patient gets well, if he gets
the right thing. People tell you that it
is unnatural to take medicine-as matter
OF fact, it is unnatural to take it. If the
body is crying and suffering for just one
thing, there can certainly be no virtue in
Withholding that thing, only for the reason
that it is called medicine. The man who
dies OF consumption now days is the vic
tim OF mistake. Ninety-eight per cent
of all cases of consumption can be cured.
Apparently hopeless cases of consumption
are being cured every day. Hundreds Of
cases have been cured after unprogressive
physicians have 6telared them hopeless.