The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-02-16
CONSUME TION.
What IL Is-How 1t Arises-And How IL IL
Now Treated with Success.

Extracts from DE- Hunters Lectures on the
Progress of Medical Science in Lung Diseases.l
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 consump-
ton. 1t is greatly dreaded by the people be-
cause not understood. BY physicians it has for
centuries been worse treated than any other
affection in the long catalogue of human dis
s.
Formerly all medical schools taught and
physicians believed consumption to lie disease
OF the blood and general system. This false
pathology and the false and fatal treatment
which they based upon its sacrificed millions of
precious lives Now it is universally conceded
by the profession that the old theory was ut
terly untrue and untenable.
Forty-ive years ago 18Jt first discovered
consumption to be local disease of the lungs.
In 1852 published a book on it, giving my
researches and the grounds for my belief. In
1893 l contributed series of articles to The
Specialist and Journal of Diseases of the
Chest, of which | was then the editor, contend
ing that the local theory was the only true
doctrine 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 pre-
mature depths by consumption since caused by
raise doctrine, heresy and empiricism might
have been averted
Unfortunately for science and humanity
physicians, as did the Israelites of old, rejected
the truth, and for forty years continued to
founder in the wilderness of error from 1851
to 1871: Like Ephraim, they were welded to
their idols and remained steadfast to their de-
lusions.
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 throughout the
civilized world, as the 'ONLY TRUE" doc
| trine of the disease, and since then has been
taught in all medical G lleges and Incorporated
into all textbooks for the instruction of sta
dents of medicine
NAL, the LOCAL NATURE and GERM ORR
GIN OF consumption is recognized and becomes
the established doctrine of medical science.
1t is now conceded that no Consumption can
arise without the tubercuar bacillus, poison
GUS germ of the air. gets into the lungs to pro-
duce it.
AS the germs that cause Consumption first
act locally upon the lungs, and the disease
which they produce has its seat in the lungs,
1t follows that it is always local germ disease
OF that organ. 1t is an axiom of medical science
that local disea es require local treatment for
/ their cure, and past clinical experience teaches
| that no germ disease was ever yet cured without
specific .germicides applied 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 antiseptics and
healing remedies to act directly on the germs
and seat of the disease, or no cure will result.
! When properly administ tered this treatment
always arrests the lung disease. If it be deep
! ly rooted the progress may not always be rapid,
! but the cure of consumption under it is as GER
tain 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 i've.
They are introduced by Instruments. which
medicate the air the patient breathes. Asthma,
Bronchitis, Chronic Pneumonia and Consump-
ton are arrested, broken up, and radically
cured by them.
TO be continued
(Signed), ROBERT HUNTER, Md,
III West 45th ST.,
New York.
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