The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-12-19
Another Ray of Hope
For Comsmmptives.
An Illinois Physician Explains How He Has
Devised a Plan to Cure Nine Out of Ten
Cases of Tuberculosis.

| air is passed through the machine
| These are highly inimical to microbe
! growth, and, while they do not de-
stroy it. then render the conditions SO
unfavOrable that the microbes will not
multiply, and the patient Is able to
throw off the destroyer.
DIR. Shepard, who has had some OF
his most phenomenal cases investigat-
| ed by wholly disinterested commits
sion. with Mayor Wayne at the head
| finally reached that place in his in
vestigatiOn where 1t was possible ia
combine the gymnastics and the anti
septics and stimulants. This he ac-
cOmplished by an inhaling apparatus.
1t consists of an ordinary spirometer.
| There are two tubes, connected with
| the mouth piece. The inhalation Is
| made through one, the exhalatiOn
through the other. two valves in the
mouth piece cutting off one tube when
the other is in use. The inhalation
! tube passes into a bottle inside the
| spirometer. The air passGs through
the bottle and picks up the antiseptics
| i'm the form of vapors. The effect is
| almost instantaneous, causing sensa-
| tion like nothing else than one would
| feel from pouring water into the lungs.
| The remedies are felt into the farther
! most corners of the lungs.
AIR IS FORCED OUT.
Having filled the lungs to their full
est capacity, the rule is to force every
particle of air out through the exhal-
alton tube. 1t passes into the spirom-
eter, which arises with small resist
ance. This calls into play every
muscle of the chest and by the activity
drives the remedies farther into the
cells than during the inhalation. 1t Is
known that for each foot in stature.
- ;,,If fr,tl n1 ctn, hkA
capa BILE of an unvarying air capacity.
1t has been found by the investigation
that as soon as this capicity Is reached
or approximately reached, either by
the complete banishment of the mi
crobes from the diseased portion or by
the development of the portions which
have not been destroyed, the patient Is
out of danger. The records Of the la
boratory prove that the capacity i'm
proves from the very beginning and 1t
is also shown that the capacity has
been increased in four weeks from a
tiny amount to 40 at each inhalation
So much for the method. A word about
the result.
Il feel perfectly safe in saying that
consumption is a durable disease" said
DIR. Shepard last night. "All cases can
be cured. if taken at the proper time.
No case need be lost If taken before the
there is nothing left for the remedies
to act upon. 1 have always had hor-
ror of foisting upon the public an un-
developed theory and feel that 1t Is
very serious matter to claim one has
cure for consumption until it has been
used long enough to know that 1t Is
cure for consumption, and that the
cure, when made, is permanent. I find
that where the treatment Is applied to
those who have hereditary tendencies
to consumption that that tendency
scenes to be completely eradicated
and the patients left in such condition
that there is really very little danger
of their acquiring the disea>r. In other
words, they seem to be immuniZed
against it.
COMMON SENSE COMBINATION.
1.-The tendency Of medical thought in
these days is to fads and sensational