Year: 1878

advice, am glad TO report, very many homes
have been made happy.


The world is full of coughs and consump-
ton specifics, as all know, and pages of
almlnacs, magazines, and advertising news
papers are filled with certificates and afida-
Wits of so-called cures; but let the affidavit
bear this verify in mind No cough mixture
can reach the lungs. Lung tubercles. let
them be either of the grey or yellow variety,
can never be healed unless the carbon in the
blood is in sufficient quantity to have its
proper chemical action with the oxygen in
the air inhaled with each inspiration.


The majority, if not all, the consumption
specifics in market have in them a sufficient
quantity of opium or morphia to render them
soothing; or enough rum, whisky, or alcohol
to render them stimulative. In either case,
parties using them feel, for time at least,
that there is benefit from their use. 1t is a
fatal mistake to SO suppose. Nearly all
such preparations are injurious.


need not describe the symptoms of con-
sumption, as they are so well known and so
frequently bebeld that even the most unin-
telligent can diagnose the disease from the
hectic spots in the cheeks, the terrible, ex-
hausting cough, the puruent expectoration,
and wasting body; nor will here put down
81, th md inin MI Hy inf
ed as to its causation. 1t will be enough to
say that, when it is once seated, strenuous
efforts to check its progress must be made.
Nature herself always tries to do this; and,
with slight aid, she usually succeeds. Be
hopeful, then, ye afflicted ones.


Let us compare life to burning lamp. If
we supply oil as rapidly as the fame con-
| sumes it, the wick remains unburnt, and
the lamp throws out its given light; but, if We
fail to supply the oil needed to produce the
fame, it is a foregone conclusion; the wick
becomes consumed; the light grows dim,
flickers, and finally goes out altogether. In
other words the light dies because there is
too much oxygen, and not enough carbon.
So it is with consumptive'c life. The dis
ease he suffers from is a wasting one, an Pin
ternal fever which consumes the carbon in
| his blood more rapidly than the food he
eats can supply it. IL carbon was furnished
as fast as the disease exhausted it, the body
would not waste; if it was put into the blood
in excess Of what the disease required, there
would be an increase in the strength and
bulk of the body, instead of the decrease
Like the lamp, the supply of oil in the body
must he equivalent to the demand, or in ex
cess it. If this be not so, the life Qike the
wick) will be co sumed.


Some months ago tie little daughter
(sGed l4) of q trunkmaker in this city, one
Mr.. Garden,-I am permitted to use hi:
live; and, to have seen her at that time, one
would have supposed there was good ground
for a decision, as she was mere skeleton
had a terrible cough, expsctorated over hall
a pint a day of 9reenish, b'ood-streaked
tubelculou matter, ard was so exceedingl,
nervous that she could scarce sleep at all
night or day. She bad been docsored a long
while with cough and consumptive specifics,
and one or two physicians bad tiled their
skill on her; but without avail, her life
gradually drawing to its close. Meeting her
father (who was almost heart-broken at the
thought of soon losing her) one day, gave
him this prescription:


One-half pound fnely-cut-up beefsteak
(fresh), One drachm pulverized sugar; four
ounces rye whisky; one pint boiling water.


Mix all together, let it stand in a cool
place over night, and give flom one to two
teaspoonfuls liquid and meat-before each
meal.


This was tried, and in four or FIVE weeks
this little girl was so losy and healthy, free
from all cough and other symptoms of disease,
that it was considered almost a miracle in
the neighcorhood in which she lived.
What caused this great change Simply
the supplying of her system with more car
bon than the disease could exhaust. thereby
giving Nature the upper hand in the con-
| fct


have used this preparation ve,y fre-
quently, aud have never Houad it act other
wise than beneficial. The dose should be
small at first, until the stomach becomes
used to it, and then gradually increased.
| Let all consumptives try it who read this,
weighing themselves before they COM
nence, and again after hey have taken it for
a week or ten days. To their astonishment
they will discover that, instead of their bodies
wasting away, they will gain in strength and
flesh. And then let them be kind enough to
report the result to the Chicago Tribune Cor
the benefit of that timid class of lung sick
people who are afraid to try any remedy un-
less they pay 81 bottle for it, or double
that sum for prescription. Respectfully,
etc. r. D'UNGEa, N. D.
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