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CONSUMPTION.
What 1t Is-How 1t ArIses-And n :.
ills Now Treated with Succ.s.

What 1t Is-How 1t Arlses-And n
ills Now Treated with Succsss
Extracts from DR.. Hunters I4o
lures on the Progress of Medical 81
ence in Lung Diseases.
Following the various forms ~ =.
tarrhal and bronchial disease which
have described, we come next TO tb.,
lamentable complaint known to eyerr
body under the name consumotion
1t is greatly dreaded by the people bo
cause not understood. By physician,
il has for centuries been worse treatad
than any other affliction in the lone
catalogue of human diseases.
Formerly all medical schools taught
and physicians believed consumption
to be disease Of the blood and Gen.
eral system. This false pathology and
the false and fatal treatment which
they based upon it sacrificed million,
OF precious lives. Now it is uniyer.
sally conceded by the profession that
the old theory was utterly untrue and
untenable.
Forty-five years ago (ls5l) first
discovered consumption to be local
disease of the lungs In 1852 rub.
lished book on it, giving nv re.
searches and the grounds for my be.
lief. In 1855 contributed a series Of
articles to The Specialist and journal
of Diseases OF the Chest, of which
was then editor, contending that the
local theory was the only true doc.
trine OF the disease and the local treat.
ment 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 sufferings and premature
deaths by consumption since caused
by false doctrine, heresy and empiri.
cism might have been averted.
Unfortunately for science and blu.
manity, physicians, as did the Israel.
ties of old, rejected the truth, and for
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 authori.
ties OF medicine through cat the civi.
lized world as the COMFY TRUE
doctrine OF the disease and since then
has been taught in all medical col.
leges and incorporated into all text
books for the instruction Of students
of medicine.
Thus, after centuries of opposition
and denial, the LOCAL NATURE
and GERM ORIGIN of consumption
is recognized and becomes the estab-
lished doctrine OF medical science II
is nov conceded that no consumption
can arise without the tubercular bac.
lus, poisonous germ OF the air, gets
into the lungs 10 produce it.
Asthe germs that cause consump-
ton first act locally upon the lungs
and the disease which they produce
has its seat in the lungs, it follows
that it is always a local germ disease
of that organ. Ii is an axiom Of med.
ical science that local diseases require
local treatment for their cure and past
clinical experience teaches that no
germ disease was ever vet cured with
out specific germicides applied direct
ly to the germ-infected parts.
To cure any bronchial or lung dis
ease local treatment must be applied,
and this can only be done by intro
ducing 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 germ icidal antiseptics and heal
ing remedies to act directly on the
germs and seat of the disease, or no
cure will result. When properly adj
this treatment always ar
rests the lung disease. IL it be deep
y rooted the progress may not always
be rapid, but the cure of consump-
ion under il is as certain as is the
cure of other serious maladies by
proper treatment.
some years ago discovered and
I'm now using with great success,
sermicidal inhalants under which no
orm of germ life can live. They are
Introduced by instruments, which
nedicate the air the patient breathes'
Asthma, bronchitis, chronic pneumo-
Tia and consumption are arrested
broken up and radically cured by
hem.
To be continued.)
Signed ROBERT HUNTER, Nd
Specialist in Lung Cases,
III West 45th ST.,
New York.
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