Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-06-09
CURES YOU WITH AIR.
ELGlN PHYSICIAN PERFEcTS 4 RE-
 VARIABLE INHALER.
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 A form of artifcially saturated medi- cated air is the apparently successful cure for lung trouble now being offered by Dr. ". A. Shepard of Elgin. The air is charged in that manner in recogni- tion of the fact that rare air of noun talnous regions is beneficial to persons afflicted with weak lungs The doctor took the cue for the remedy he says he has worked out from that truth, and his announcement of his method is it null tiplies several times over the benefits re- eelved from 8 trip to the mountain dis tricts
 The prospective patient who enters Dr. Shepard's office is introduced to & brass and nickel plated, queer looking cylindrical shaped apparatus about IS inches high, to which are connected two tubes for the purpose of inhaling and exhaling. The physician considers the latter as important duty on the part of the consumptive as the former, and he has attached mechanical contriyance which registers in cubic inches the lung power shown.
 The healing air passes through bot tie partly filled with q medical solution and from it receives the charge which is to do the good to the lungs
 The composition of this solution, how ever, Dr. Shepard guards. Its strength and intensity vary with the condition Of the patient
 That is all the information he will give to inquirers He has worked for ap- proximately six years in developing this branch of the profession, and not until lately though. has he reached point where his labor has brought him suc- cess. Of 100 cases he says he has cured or relieved one-tenth were of the fatal stage, three-fourths of the total were men and women in the second stage and the balance in the first
 He admits no failures in the ineipient stage
 A commission of three, appointed by Mayor Charles H. Wayne, and consist. ing of A. H. Lowrie, editor of the Elgin Daily News; George 8. Bowen, presi- dent of the Scientific society, and once prominent and wealthy Chieagoan, and Colonel J. H. Wilcox, Grand Army man, has questioned the people who say they have been cured and has made fiattering and favorable report to the chief executive.
 It is an interesting fact for Dr. Shep- ard to refer to that he was once q con- sumptive and was made q well man by his own discovery. The story he told to the correspondent was that he had gone to New Mexico half dozen years ago in search of relief for his lungs. While there he thought over the matter and touched upon a scheme i'll his own mind which it occurred to him would result in cures. He returned to Elgin and rigged up rough instrument and he declared it did for my lungs just what the climate of the far western country did "
 Dr. Shepard is now 8 robust man. The method he employed he explained as follows
 Inhalation and exhalation taken to- gether dilate the air cell, putting every air cell at work The poisonous matter that accumulates in the air cells ia thrown off by the latter process. The poison that is the product of the bacilli in the lungs is got rid of by coming in contact with the prepared air, and the force that is used by the patient tends to expel it from the region of the lungs. The bacill then weaken and shrivel up and the lungs are without decayed ma terial. With my mode of treatment you take less air than would be necessary ill the high altitude of the mountains and you derive more benefit
 ''In instances where lungs are heredi- tarily weak the apparatus strengthens them. The treatment saturates the air as thoroughly as the throat can tolerate and loads it as full of medicine as pos sible. That is where its benefit lies. '
 Dr. Shepard has had his apparatus patented, and he said that had been taken by his fellow physicians as an un- pardonable affront. They do not like 1t either, he said, that he keeps secret the make up of the solution.
 He sells or rents HIS apphHauuS' os oii0 people choose. They can't treat them selves in their homes even if provided with the medical solution.
 After the doctor had treated several people in the town they drew up peti- tion to the mayor asking him to inves- tigate the matter, and If he found the doctors medicine efficient to proclaim 1t so. Mayor Wayne said his publication of his commission report was ln ae- cordance with that request. It spoke for itself, he said, and as the Investigating men were well known he didn't believe their statements would be questioned, MT. Bowen, former resident of Chlea- go, said the personal investigations or the two other men and himself had as- tonished them.
 ''We spent one evening in Dr. Shep- ard 8 office, he said, 'and there met number of those most successfully treat ed. The next day we probed still further