The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-14
CATARRH.

The prevailing cause and PERM
cious pilot that payes the way anu
prepares the soil for seeds of con-
sumption is so lightly regarded by
thousands as to be wholly neglected
and permitted to run its course.
Hence thousands are annually
brought to an untimely end through
its insidious ravages. Beginning as
a slight cold it ripens into a chronic
condition of graduating alterations
of the mucuous membranes, devel-
ops into ozena with pustulation OF
the posterior nasal cavities and sin
uses of the head. causing pains,
aches, deafness and ofttimes affect
ing the eyes, the sense of taste and
quite often doing most serious in
jury to the brain, dulling percep-
ton, interfering with study and
obtunding memory. 1t also extends
by continuity of mucuous surface
into the trachea, inducing cough,
hoarSeness and loss of voice, wax
ing worse in its progress, it invades
the lungs, producing bronchitis and
thereby prepares the soil by abra-
sion for the implanting of the tuber-
cule germs which are ever floating
in the air we breathe, and thus
paves the way for consumption, the
great fatal malady which is so con-
stantly carrying its millions to the
grave. Will you neglect and disre-
gard your danger IL you have ca
tarrh, or jeopardize your life by re-
lying upon some patent nostrum?
Surely not. We are prepared to
treat this insidius disease and we
can surely cure those who trust us
and take cur treatment.
SUMPTION.
That terrible scythe with which
death mows down it's millions, is
never ceasing in its destruction; no
age nor sex is immune to its blight
The young, the old. of every rank
and stage of earth are but as grass
to be cut down in its relentless
sweep. Through all the past ages
this terrible scourge has been the
most awful bane of the world, but
thanks to the light of science the
dawn of new era Is breaking and
the dark pail of its blighting powe-
is fading away and We begin to real
ize that there is yet hope for its
many victims Yes. let it be known,
proclaim it afar, shout it from the
house tops and the mountains. and
let every tongue help to spread the
glad tidings that there is at last
discovered ways and means of res
cuing the doomed of this terrible
disease from the shadow of its
gloom. For in truth it can be said
that there is a certain cure for those
upon whom the blighting touch has
been laid if they will but only OBJ
tain the proper treatment in time.
Do not wait till the tissues of the
lungs have been wasted and de-
stroyed, for there is nothing now
known nor ever will be found that
can restore or renew collapsed
and destroyed lung. No more pos
sible is it now than ever before to
force new foot or hand to grow
upon the stump from which such
members have been severed. Nor
is it less possible to make new
lungs grow in the place of lungs
that have already been consumed
by the ravages of consumption But
it is true beyond all question that
leoder1' methods Of treatment will
effect cure If adopted In proper
time. And it is with greatest pleas
ure, pride and gratitude that we
are enabled to announce that we
are now equipped with the latest
devised electrical machinery and
nebulizing apparatus for giving the
combined ozone and indicated in
halations, which used in connection
with the most approved medical
treatment, is every day proving
that consumption in its early stages
can surely be cured.
Our patients begin to improve at
once and oftentimes gain from eight
to eleven pounds in weight with one
months treatment. We therefore
heartily invite everyone who has
reasons to suspect that they may
be tainted with the destroying
germs of tuberculosis to call ON us
and be examined. and if truly in
fected to have us destroy the germs
before those germs have time to
destroy the lungs and to make
death inevitable. For there is not
now. nor can ever be, any cure for
consumption except in its incipient
stage. 1t is useless to try to run