The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-02-06
THE INVESTIGATION OF
CONSUMPTION.
How Easily 1t Can Be Distinguished.


Medical science has been making great
strides in the diagnosis of disease, and
in none more than in lung disease. The
above sketch shows, on the left-hand
side, healthy lung as photographed by
the X-ray, at the Inva1ids' Hotel and
Surgical Institute at Buffalo, N. Y. On
the right is a diseased lung. This Insti-
tute was one of the very first in America
to experiment and then put into practical
use the Roentgen or X-rays. It has used
this for years IN examining broken bones,
locating internal cancers, stone in the
bladder, and malformations of all kinds
Where a person is suffering from chronic
cough, photograph taken by the X-ray
will distinguish whether the germs of
consumption have started in the lungs
or not The photograph will show a
peculiar mottled condition at the apex
of the lung, or if the case is a bad one
the whole of both lungs may be involved
and show on the photograph. DR.. R.V.
Pierce, the chief consulting physician to
this noted Institution, gives his time and
that of his large staff of specialists in
chronic diseases, free of charge, to those
desiring to have a careful examination
made of their condition. He also offers
to carefully consider all cases sent to
him by mail giving description of syn1p-
x
treatment or cure. DR.. Pierce has built
up large institution at Buffalo for the
treatment of all chronic diseases, and he
has never claimed that his wel1-known
remedies (which he gave to the public
over third of century ago. were cure
ais in any sense whatever. Forty years
ago he discovered combination of roots,
herbs and barks that when made into
concentrated alternative extract he called
DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery,
and this remedy has sold more largely
in the United States in the past third of
a century than any other remedy for
coughs, colds, bronchitis, catarrh and
incipient consumption. 1t is purely
vegetable and contains no alcohol or
narcotics. By acting upon the digestive
organs it assists in the assimilation of
food and thereby increases the red blood
corpuscles, and tones up the liver, heart
and other organs of the body. Pure
blood is essential to good health, and SO
is good digestion. DR.. Pierce believes
that the person suffering from incipient
consumption should take good, long
draughts of pure air, practice breathing,
expanding the lungs frequently, on warm
days to stay out in the sunshine as
much as possible and eat heartily of
wholesome food. Consumption as every
body knows is a wasting disease-night-
sweats and poor appetite weaken the
body. Cod liver oil emulsions are nau-
seating to most victims of this dread
disease - whereas DR.. Pierce's Golden
Medical Discovery gives an appetite and
helps in the assimilation of the food4-
wholesome flesh is put on and the body
built up to normal health and strength
DR.. Pierce does not claim that his Dis
coveryD will cure the worst cases of
consumption but he does know it will
benefit every case and some remarkable
cures have been effected. Bad coughs
may lead into this dread disease SO that
it is well to take it in time and prevent
it from becoming chronic. Bronchitis is
readily cured and catarrh, which is moth
ing more nor less than stagnation of the
blood, can be readily cured by use of this
wGolden Medical Discovery" A tonic
made up largely of alcohol will shrink
the corpuscles of the blood and make
them weak for resistance; that is why
Dr. Pierce does not believe in putting
up a tonic with alcohol or narcotics.
Miss Ella Bourge, AZ Ashland Boule-
ward, Chicago, Ills, public singer,
writes: Ell am glad to be able to testify