The Somerset reporter., 1898-02-17
CONSUMPTION.
what 1t Is-How 1t Arises-Ant How 1t
IL Now Treated with Success.

what 1t Is-How 1t Arises-Ant How 1t
Is Now Treated with Success.
| Extracts from DIR. Hunters Lectures on
the Progress of Medical Science in>Lung Dis
eases.)
Following the various forms of catarrhal
and bronchial disease which have described,
we come next to that lamentable complaint
known to everybody under the name con.
sumption. 1t is greatly dreaded by the peo-
pie because not understood. BY physicians
it has for centuries been worse treated than
any other affliction in the long catalogue OF
human diseases.
Formerly all medical schools taught and
physicians believed consumption to be dis
ease of the blood and general system. This
false pathology and the false and fatal treat
ment which they based upon it sacrificed
millions of precious lives. Now it is univer-
sally conceded by the profession that the old
theory was utterly untrue and untenable
Forty-hve years ago (rS5D first discover
ed consumption to be local disease of the
lungs. In 1889 | published a book on it.,
giving my researches and the grounds for my
belief. In 1855 | contributed a series Of
articles to The Specialist and Journal of Dis
eases of the Chest, of which was then editor,
COntcntllHk ludt TIC ioNai thNciJ was s''N ~'J
true doctrine of the disease, and the local
treatment the only one that opened up any
promise of its cure.
Had my views been then received and my
discoveries accepted by the profession, as
they should have been, all the sufierings and
premature deaths by consumption since caus
ed by false doctrine, heresy and empiriclsm
might have been ayerted
nd
physicians, as did the Israelites Of old, reject
ed the truth, and for forty years continued to
founder in the wilderness of error from 1851
To 1891. Like Ephraim, they were welded
to their idols and remained steadfast to their
decisions.
In 1891 all this was happily changed for
the better. The theory taught by me in 1851
was proved and accepted by the leading
teachers and authorities of medicine through
out the civilized world as the COMFY
TRUE" doctrine of the disease, and since
then has been taught in all medical colleges
ard Incorporated into all text books Tor the
instruction of students of medicine.
Thus after centuries Of opposition and de-
NAL, the LeSAL NATURE and GERM
ORIGIN of Consumption is recognized and
becomes the established doctrine OF medical
science 1t is now conceded that no Con-
sumption can arise without the tubercular
bacillus, poisonous germ OF the air. gets
into the lungs to produce It,
As the germs that cause Consumption hrst
act locally upon the lungs, and the disease
which they produce has its seat in the lungs,
it follows that it is always local germ dis
ease of that organ. 1t is an axiom OF medi
cal science that local diseases require local
treatment for their cure, and past clinical ex-
perience teaches that no germ disease was
ever vet cured without specific germlcldes aP'
piled directly to the germ infected parts
To cure any bronchial or lung disease local
treatment must be applied, and this can only
be done by introducing medicated air, gas or
vapor into the tubes and cells by inhalation.
To effect the cure of Consumption we must
kill and expel the germs and heal the ravages
they have inflicted in the lungs. The air
must therefore carry germicidal antiseptlcs
and healing remedies to act directly on the
germs and seat of the disease, or no cure will
result When properly administered this
treatment always arrests the lung disease. II
it be deeply rooted the progress may not al
ways be rapid, but the cure of Consumption
under it is as certain as is the cure OF other
serious maladies by proper treatment.
some years ago discovered, and am now
using with great success, germicidal inhalants
under which no form of germ life can live.
They are introduced by instruments, which
medcate the air the patient breathes
Asthma, Bronchitis, Chronic Pneumonia and
Consumption are arrested, broken up, and
radically cured by them.
(To be contnued.)
(Signed) ROBERT HUNTER, M. d.,
III West IS Street,
New York