The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1898-01-06
CONSUMPTION.
What 1t Is-How 1t Arises-And How 1t i.
Now Treated with Success.

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Now Treated with Success.
| Extracts from DR.. Hunters Lectures on The
Progress of Medical Science in Lung Diseases.
| Following the various forms of Catar-
| rhal and Bronchial disease which / have
| described, we come next TO that lament
| bic complaint known TO everybody under
the name Consumption. 1t is greatly
! dreaded by the people because not under
| stood. by physicians it has for centuries
| been worse treated than any other attic
ton in the long catalogue of human dis
eases.
| Formerly all medical schools taught and
| physicians believed Consumption TO be a
disease of the blood and general system
| fatal treatment which they based upon il
sacrificed millions of precious lives. Now
1t is universally conceded by the PROBES
sion that the old theory was utterly I'M
| true and untenabie.
Forty-five years ago 0S5D first dis
covered Consumption to be local dis,
ease OF the lungs. In 1852 / published
a book on it, giving my researches and
the grounds for my belief. In 1855 ! con
| tributed series of articles to the "Speci-
| alist and Journal of Diseases OF the Chest,
| OF which | was then Editor, contending
that the local theory was the only 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 profeS-
| sion, as they should have been, all the
sufferngs and premature deaths by Con-
SumtIOn since caused by false doctrine,
heresy and empiricism might have been
averted.
Unfortunately for science and humanity
physicians, as did the Israelites OF old, re-
jected the truth, and for forty years con-
tinued to founder in the wilderness of
error-from 1851 to 1891. Like Ephraim,
they were welded to their idols and re-
manned steadfast TO their delusions.
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 medi-
cine throughout the civilized world, as the
"ONLY TRUE" doctrine of the disease,
and since then has been taught in all
medical colleges and incorporated into all
textbooks 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 established doctrine Of medi-
cal science. 1t is now conceded that no
CONSUMPTION can arise without the tuber-
Gle bacillus, poisonous germ OF the air,
gets into the lungs to produce it.
AS the germs that cause Consumption
disease which they produce has its seat
in the lungs, it follows that it is always
local germ disease OF that organ. 1t is
an axiom of medical science that local
diseases require local treatment for Their
cure, and past clinical experience
teaches that no germ disease was ever yet
cured without specific germicides applied
directly 10 the germ infected parts.
To cure any bronchial or lung disease
local treatment must be applied, and this
can only be done by introducing medi
Gated 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 permi-
cidal antiseptics and healing remedies to
act directly on the germs and seat of the
disease, or no cure will result. When
properly administered this treatment al
ways arrests the lung disease If it be
deeply rooted the progress may not always
be rapid, but the cure OF Consumption
under it is as certain as is the cure of
other serious maladies by proper treat
ment.
some years ago discovered, and am
now using with great success, germicidal
inhalants under which no form OF gerxa
life can live. They are introduced by in
struments, which medcate the air the
patient breathes. Asthma, Bronchitis,
Chronic Pneumonia and Consumption are
arrested, broken up, and radically cured
by them.
ITO be eontnued)
(Siqned) ROBERT HuvTpp. NJ D..
III West 45th St.
New York.
Jan. 4.
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