The New York Herald Newspaper, April 29, 1857, Page 11

3 NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29, -” cineneel Batis a cate tnbsh. anciehes etcetera THE TNEATMENT OF CONSUMPT! Lbithly theories, to which wo Lave’ before referred ourself, Sour friend or your relative will be resiored by con- sees Ee eed of tadine comended the? the disanse consists in |b: Xe some enue! es * ar the presence of & le aason nthe blcod, whick poison " * ye dhe Moxplia’ for Couanmnp- : Pernale syeleal, ty faces wenthe thio divewse, owing wen ALLOPATHY, HOMEOPATHY, WATER CUBS, | MUMS eat tabercies tthe funpes Phe con! | ai " oe sul! carried on, of, many phys. didon of the Lioed iey proposed lo change Ly iodine, aud so | ods do cheek “© frequeney Of Uke pu px und asp rover bea i according. aperience, however, has proved | sedatives were reser “A.W: 16 dunlnlah: nd eure he cous, ) Wy that thourh #& me owerty aiterstive and resolvent ny ud othes ae esaing medicines Wore SAwitealered; MEDICATED INHALATION. medicine, when eciretully a nisered tn pepe forme | nid, with the view of 6 he abscrption et wavered, emer can euard ir a were preverive » Wwe consider the nature — Bee Bete MPs Ear woes lig use tus mombes | fhe savesculor wens Fy By me Race ne PRACTICALLY REVIEWED of deaths were lessened, while ils action such pi it th a unvess meal Coutloualy employed, is always Defer bs tends. wact blood: oF OBERT HUNTER, M. D., Row ithe monotly sven in amie Mods graeme as. aetee| wlgorullng the Eh wren eevicarameng S82? inane Shin they iia ccfved Wee tm im inva Bul tarees | Hemet NE ee ire iewee than viheewise.” 2. roadway. umber repudiate kt as worthless, while ® ‘among whom J (Cotton on Con -wnplan, p 222) - «| ie the learned Dx, Stokes, of Dublia, denounce it aa injurk Trt, Watson, of King’s College, London, Jn his “Practice these pricrnty tarot im nee 9 parton of Cals poviens ve Seshingess any x ves on the Leg ti Cs one F omy Sno ah . ay bi fea Hor es BY) Dt fu dine Seprein tit operant malian teens oS by Di Mune diled’ | & brief period, and then disappears to’ give place to. a Of cpluion ait, AUINOFA Rod ACI Pradi towers with Whom tothe regimen witeh Coasnmmp: One man gives all Ma phi In this manner fodine ous and disgusting sul you may convenes in reapeet taco fo coder ik ive paticnts should fallow. lance few ‘This Ay the mont in; as the public are ant medical question #0 far ‘and the practical, “coramon sense,” yet logics ai quack mrdicine of te palienta Lecistenks and porter, anotier rewiriets all his to solenti character of Dr. Winter's serkings on Bia Gucation Cok recep ay he frat A Vere ables ant nieces” mile? And yol these medicw gentle: we hink, asualclent, apology fur, Cecupying pg, Mcsara: | Hi was to work miracles, ahd bunlsh consump from ‘our | HMt) ve tne He! 6 Bige themeciney Air tat to and Ap oe povinn b ot) | midst. Fo said the do a ved th i i practic , js tha re. Sherman & Go. No 1 Vesey siree, Aster House; price 10 | midst. Fovcaid the Uociors, un in is dispelled Now | (ulh mast ve npnnrent to the reader thai al) diincdiome be- Gents.) Ta kbow thas itaenc carailve proper whatever in consump: oe mn seets ang echools and between orthedosy nid wae ae to consump { tion. Its simply good nourishment, and nothing more, ‘The | @0sy 1p 1m However interesting medica! theories ia eS MC any | best commentary on lis elects ts to be found in its nates, Five | fer Wve aick fe co thon may be to physic eet Exeres ce Tnporianes to te puplie, is tavolved tn, the juestion, cous ap Uol t not, why hast be some ‘good and. suf reason why this malady treaimont ix ree this reh001 oF tani set, bu for whled it is preseribed, ind should be diseanded. fears, mo Where waemore cad live: oll wold, inthis elty alone, asingle wonth, than is sold now inthe whole Union in the course Of & year. “Ancther and very significant fact into be found in the bills Of moriality. ‘Th TE it will not it isa falar practice, Tit will, this a practice, A) uid fc eption to nil other diseases. If it be cura- the bills y Were neveg higher than when be ox » the highe: t » bd AG Seite iff dais in what the public | liver ofl.”’ A reaction bug taken place In the public, and. in £8 signed) 4 r, Seagate be accomplished? We take MMe ihe treatment, the | the professional mind. No intelligent, observing physician | 8°) {{ has been Lceauae hele works aro ine ft hooks of the Bhynician should cudcavor io explain. Af we enlertained the | ow prescribes the oil as w medicine. If the patient ts lowly Pe cache ne Flig ined digg or among thé people, thal conmumptlen & beyond the skill of maa | Ue bs no! ali ld A wr tes mig ar | Yew of ie cave, We have before us the splendid work of the So uproot Ahattno medicine oF method of treatment yet known | with the somach, ‘Therysiem does not reanire Wa ald. Tf) Utc'yhr, Rieeit ef thin city, published same three Venn Ago. Panne Oy ae indeed be emily no- itis lable to do Injury by insreasing the tecdenoy lo ailacks" ere ee lan inamy, Jee eee as he paren at ow ii b ress lished. tt would consist n'a mere enumerauon of the | | Or Covyren Tauranion—Theve, are three great channels poodle trust ors professorship ia dao New York Uuhersity. reat romodics which have been found must eloctual in | garough which medicines may be inioduced into the xywiem | i.athe wan a mah of olerling abLiKy ean who kuew hh Palition ot iho dintresing sympioms which characterize | Tewillbe ooserced thal thowe of which wel have ual ren | wicca ia qutiic. “Aiad he le om 6 wot Es CeEiods phiyetolana that they have stelven to deviscthabest | tf raed tinh mre tied ‘Pine aki ‘ihewe wrest ewe gab of te ate hare be amply suf to mask the disense and “make. the ‘nt comfortable, | kinds:—First, those whieh ure Intended to be bet feo | ‘eit a Din A nilohe in the temple of une. Well ut the very wary t elfect his reesvery. But belloving axwo | tis surtmee into the eyatem; and Resond, whieh act only eer wkinns aa Bole Mee sociale bipprene that inet costmpsin is-aurabiey Te becomen necessary t | anon the akin, predic a teeton, whlch, on de priatiste | ot she penctine pd A is vir Kaan Wer ofa ry Ww fw tlhe “as ut ec. “Hig © ae if Obseyve pe pe graeme pete eg tee pee rh Bem oe omeaag ee i constitute the second part, ‘Phe fullaey Of theprin- | gicians, A lew. linve. prescribed This mean of amedicatic he pitti Yonprepsicee e wit, Sips, auseenicgel epory ean jen upon which the old treatments are based shonld: be} consumt ‘but With no sudsfactory: reaults, ‘Fhe pracdee Gl. | resulia in deat if? continues he, “Uiose cases only are plainly set forth and placed in just comparison with the } a plying ferifating substances to the’ ¢hest is of very old dite. p the disease ieetrongly marked, and witel Fauionality "This will make # second | Pormerly the iron heated ta white heat was employed to progress that the iccnosin i easy, this der These pert, iThe third and last part will present an explanation of the ‘buen litle holes into the muscles of the chest, and these were E ent by inhalation, and pot Ute manner of iis em- he i yin then kept discharging by irritating olutnenis. Another pro- cess Was Co burn & little coll of calico saturated with snlipe ire, onthe chest, Of late, doctors have grown more humane, wad uve satiefied with creating # crop of large festering pustules, resembling those of smallpox, by rubbing into te ehest an ointment made from tartar emetic. Croiow oil is frequently opinion is, on the whole, well founded; circumstances, unexpected recoveries What dees tila mean but that if Che disease is s: navanced to be deieeted the case ia hopeless, or if recovery does take place it is an “ unexpected " result, which could not be articipated to follow the (eatment e:mployed? Lt n weil to atnie that Dr. Swett fa a str ent. "This will present the whole question fairly before public, and in such a manner that every person Will feel Rimself in’ position to make # choice between the several Methods of treatment set forth, without trusting to the interested reseniations of the advocates of either, After all that has Been written on this subject, anything less than an impartial | used for the same purpose; blisters, mustard plasters, and the | piity of the but hon and comprehensive review of ‘wll ‘sides of the question would | like, These applications came into use with the false theory | (he “profession, ibe present, hu: nacowercd the fmpertinent and presumptuous. Mankind have been so | which inaugurated the bleeding avd mercurial practice, wt menns of eur Y admit” sayy he, ‘as all mnst ‘accustomed to regard the symptoms of consumption as therefore, as remedies for tho cure of consumption, far | Go, that phihis a most faint disense, and that the prog- the “baud of death,” and bave so constantly witnessed the pore hurtful than beneficial, They eaunot possibly exertany | nosis is always umteverable! What docs le wean by the Yallure of every curative effort, Uut they have grown superstt- fous in regard to this disease; and their conviction of its incura- Billy “has becomo too deeply rooted and inveterate to be @baken by vain assertions or idle declamation devoid of truth. influence on the tuberewiar deposiia, or on the progress of soltening aud ulceration, Ail the gaod counter ixnitants do in, fn relleviug pain where the covering of ae lung becomes tk volved in disease. ‘The lungs themselves ravely manil diseases by pain, but the slightest irritation indhe pleura ta me wm progoosis’ He mesne that the opinton we must form of the chiances of the patient to recover is" always tatavorable.”? We eannot look for nor expeet his recovery from following any planof Weaiment employed or advised by Dr, sweu. Tf re- covery should follow such trealment, it is a success allogether g : ss ton. | ended by acute sudering. To relieve this, anyuing whlch | “unexpected.” Wailea of the readers of (he dovtoe’s eontession BEVIEW OF THE ALLOPATHIC TREATMENT OF CON: | Witt“ prdduce an irritation on tie ski is bebefictal. | win Lave tie bravery to subunit to Bis wentinew, wud run tis x. Bat Ri suvstances which will irritato. are. not equal | gaunsiecfor lifer. Tits tay seem x harsh exprension, butts Ie ‘We ube the term allopathy in the conventional sense, mer ely Decause it is necessary to distinguish the old practice from that Of the new sects—honieopathy andiwater cure. Does the ustual ractice hold out any hope to the consumptive, that by a fath. employment of ithe will be restored to health? We think not. But what says experience? Where are the evidences of fia sucoees? On eve! ‘we witness the melancholy exam- Jes of its failure. When we find, not » single nation only, but ‘entire civilized world, united in the belief that consumption ‘an incurable disease, we need go no further to ask what has the success of thé treatment employed. But why gene- Falize or take popular impressions, when we have demonstra: five proofs in the writings of the most profound and practical Bulhors in the profession, that cure by this practice is rarely Simed at. The patient imagines ho is being treated with the ectation of his recovery; but the phywician entertains no such Spluion. He knows that the course he is pursuing ts only pal- What ele can it be ealled thas running the (fy & plan of treatunenty the very. ad fwhich are th es gompelied to chiiey Billings.) ecnally beneficial. The mildest capable of affording relief él ould always be preferred to the swonger. For this reayon & mustard plaster i better than a bib and a Dlisien beter ihan eroton oi}, and eroton oll better thah tartar emetic. But fur better thon either of these is a mild siznulating and ano nor liverally (ewe! kauntiet for life to sibe veeates and ehampio om shysician cases. Dr, Swett pars w dies which are con employed in tits disease. The following sanunary will show the reader how feeble aro th from pursuing the best course known to no remedy haa ax yet been discor- mt ny ome inline heir developer Matalin, toddne ha 3 and all been forge the present {lat} popular dene liniment, If the patient is feeble and the powers of life Weck, the nervous irritation induced by the use of strov uleting oin’ments and issues is always very otjectionad le {a torture to the patient, and adds to rather than dininishes the loreal congestion of the lungs. Le dersiood that no substance rubbed int any ct rative intinence over tubercular disease of the lungs, beyond the relief they afford to pleuritic and cardiac pains, and for | hese the mildest rnbefacienta are the best, ‘Such then are the remedial means taid down In the books. The regular practice conatsts in nployment of one or other of these remedies, or in the combination of several. But Hod liver oif, ed Lo experience ve, of Worse than that—experimental. pore ay ree “ : - ly true in theory, In practice few medical men place | the same fle. 1: bas not, in my opinion, way speeitic influence i will pot be denied that the great body of the people of this | She Minty. A in inom. They use iret one inedicive wen anccier, | ouecomumption; it bie ol, im wy expericace, pertormed any @ountry honestly believe in the incurability of consumption, e's merely for form’s sake aud to w isfy the patient that they are | weadertul ewes. It is good nour!ahinent—nothing fend this convi they have drawn from the failure of the | 4° ing ever i é m pi rything for him thatcan be done, The physician is | more. and J think it w probable tiv other Kinds of ol regular praetor.” Moat pervone mene the prnetre fate | gotdaapncigied a falture, fr he knows when he preven | ens weil prepara, SyHexert the sinus benetietal tnt profession to | a ‘or that course that dt"has always failed in similar cases, | ence." (1. 100) Bloyed. by all; that all doctors within the ranks of the profes- | We do not heaitate to aay tint no hours’ physician will pretend | "A littie more than (we years bave elapse! since this opinion tyat by atch means he can efleet the cure of consumptive dis- ease.” It is only the patient who deludes himself into the beliet that he is being cured when he is taking this toate or ast alterative under the advice of his physician. ‘We have said that the remedies pointed out are only theoretl- cal remedies, Eseh author in writing a book, thinks it neces- Sary to tell Us of all he plans of treatinent, old and new, which have been recommended, but he does not endorse their use as curative. One writer favors one theory and class of remedies, and another the opposite. The aren use in the schools number of works on this subject which are regarded as txt books; if we a the description of the disease given ia in regned to cod Hivee ol] was ex) his is the universal opinion of fully uoted its eects. On the pn tive patents Dr, Swett remark “Thoso pracuiloaers who regard the deposit of tubercles as ene of the Beets of inflammatory action, und who mistake the EP of feria whieh ney crens ‘of inflam. n, have been led to adopt a practice ly stage of this dilense highly injurious to os of the pailent, Veneseetion (bicod ieting) has been resorted to, and repeated from Une to time, snd leeches have been apoited to the cheat hud tow diet recommended, With aniimoniaia, with the vain need by Dr. Swell, and now Physicsins who have cave: clive of bleeding consump Bion subscribe to this plan, and those who do not are outside of ft, and not recognized by the regular faculty. But what will ‘say when we tell them that there are More sects in the than exist outside of it? That there is no such thing A regular practice adopted by the profeasion, nnd that ead his hobby, and in thik disease rides it until he gets Patient into the grave, But let us review these in detail. ‘Taeatuuxt By Buooptettive.—Some two hundred years Dr. Morton, a distinguished English physician, and & man at authority in his day, advanced an erroneous theory, rans of which was stated ns follows: “Consumption being result of inflammation of the lung structure, bleedings fre - From this time tly repeated are the proper remedy.” each Wwe shall fiud « great deal.of uniformicy. Mut on the sub- | bope of removing the ease’ of the discase, * * * A cgwe A oecame Fery common to bleed from the arm and apply leech | ect of trent afte “contusion, here isnot w remedy in | ensue under iny motive about two years since, which wil) ime @8 over the The ‘kim was 10 subdue the iafamnmuation, | tse which we cunt Had wuiuors of equal reliance in te Pires upon younininds the eunsequenoes of the free depledon which the disease was believed to After atime ib | foosion to extravagantly praise on the one band ay curative, | which ds soinetimes |. A young man, of moderately. known that inflammation rarely if ever producee tu. | and as loudly cond ‘on the other as injurious. ‘The conse- | strong conastivuiion, was altacked with the usunb 8) of ‘and the was but not so the prac- | quence is that in their practice physicians first pregeribe.one } consumption, Yor two the discase did not ar to ‘of bleeding. This had become habitual, and it was con- | course and then the opposite. all fauls, and the patient | progress with much netivity. He wns then attacked with pul- ued, though of late fow, except in the early stages of | becomes tinportunate for relief, Wai convenient thing “ehange | 'mo fe. Me Was bled freely from the arm Uirve ‘disease, bave had the boldness to employ it. In the incipi- | of climate” always comes to tho Doctor's reliet—the patient ts | times, at short intervals, after the Demorrhage coased. Ho was ent stage it is atill employed, and to its pe ia | ondered South, of Abroad, lingers out a few miserabie months, | bled again wud for fear the hemurrha return! the powers of life many persons, merely suifering | xnd then retusns home to die: o beth physician wad friends | J. ls probable that the loss of blood from hemorr! apd ai the time from trritation of the air. ‘owe the Kubse: | congratiinte temselves that @ least “everyting was done | irom twice repenied bleedings had induced dhe reaction, Ue quent deve! ‘of tubercles. Consumption is essentially | that could have been done” for his retlet. ‘The practice o€ | Uwobbing pulse which attends anvemial He was next mvived incase of debility. ‘The powers of life are always weak be- | many physicians 1s still more stmple, they kuow they eaunet | by his physicians to pass the winter in the Weal Indies. Me it ts set up. y become still more feeble us Kadvances. | cure’ he disease and therefore only swive to reliewe the patient. | caane ns far as this ‘chy trem Vermont, where he had been Ul, f we would ave ihe patient, we must support his sirength to | Yesterday we saw ® prescripuon given to @ patient in the | and 1 was ewlled to sec inti. I found “bir, 46 pale as a corpse: utmost, at the same that we strive to arrest the disease, second Stage of consumption by « leading physician of tals | only able to sit up for i short fine, and wilh ay feeble wat Saich is exhausting him. Bleeding, then, even in the firsi | city, ‘There was no mistake in the disease, for the Doctor told | rapid pucse, 1 did not Hunk he could live tse id take me him ‘he had tubercles, and that tc Was necessary he shoul four hours, My the use of stimulants he ra’ aes, only, promraen the aystem, and brings it more fully un- the ‘Souter of whe disease, which, as acomsequence, runsa | the medicine faith be ery earett! oe he could not | Lived nenriy a week.” (p. 31) TApid course. hiswer for his recovery. Now how do you suppeye he was | Mere wehave na cumple of thet erucky and ignorance Piet it hot be supposed that this practice is not supported by | #iriving to ¢ the tuberelest | By the two fot | which, alas, too many physicians roanifest, in se many great names, Itis advocated in the works of the lowing preseriptio Door patent had been remloasly | in the Yast wa he Mead, of Dr. Dovar, Sir John Pringh or nearly three me Tere they ares— In the incipient stage dey oe atiaton De, Cheyne of Bublin, and Dr. it 1. Lag. Morph. Suiph. (Magendie, 3B) | trex, and When i has become incurable Wey ‘of New York. We mention these names Lar Hy! we Cap ‘ x om, noete hus." pie pemnone by one ind ens Gis treatment ts recommended, and. was practi “No.2 Ack Kulph, Arom. fad expensive journey. The follo Serie he years. As to its influence we hav ly ‘Tr. Opti Caing ek 20 Dr. Renton, ‘Masel, will hon at this ps ‘one opinion, and that la, that it always weakens the powers of a - pig ter in die cotable tn, th Lath pos oie ge pPRctition ot Medulra bee Lavoe ite. rresa of the disease. eae prescripions look vers respectable tn thelr Latin | tite Ruropeanihwinter resort for eonsumptives: npr pane yonrtimsaener® AAR OPO Dut let us reduce them. tito plas natin. No. Vis m | aliente nrriving with tabervulows Tugs, Fe ee satniromnienot wloeaieting, pince | simple soluuon of “morphine,” of which the patient ts directed Oe anaed Paice the tdard. Thess eee? | to take ten drops every night on retiring to everybody, hese) Left the ‘see Bernese mee nese Were Ee Dee by disorder | We presume, Known what morphine is; t ts preparauon of @stt remaining. 4 dea that consumption was mainly cuused by divert | Qpium. and ta given in this caso merels as 8 sigeping dove, No; | So that more than ane half pever dived to sev the spelt oF to Of the stomach, resulting ta imperfect chymifcation, AmoRE | Sh atture composed of eqtinl parte cf sparegoric” and | Fetum to their frenda Phoy died far from hema anon he advocates of emeticn we may mention Ue TOnservations | ‘elixir of vitriol,” of which the pation ts i to take | strangers, and deprived of all those eovsola’ Birnmonds, (nuthor of a work entitled Prive iwenty dive ‘icons tires mew a day.” Now what good could | lessen ur heavy burden of our altietioue a the Treatment of Consumption,» Dr. Tarr bly result from such treaiment” as this!” A grent deal to | ments of life. “And for what did Eee physicman, bur none to the patient. paregorie relieve pain and quiet the cough, while th Bitciol keeps up the appe Under such « course th | feels better, and if it is accompanied by a tip to. th | he may even gain » it The good then to the phrsiclan servations on the Virtues and Opei erent de Ree nase (iG) I, Thomas, Reed. asay on e ‘The, morphine wud Senne Pulmonalls,) Dr. Maryat, (Thrapeuties, or the ‘of Henli these? To nniists Dock fate wae TE Uveir phy sie! {iniorant, and , ¥ mnat have page 45,) Dr. Dimas, of Montpelier, France; he» Tita Chief Physician to the Multary Hosp fin advising many other physicians of . Giovanni de tals of the Neapolitan ‘Army, and Sufficient note to hold position asx professors in American and | ts precisely ‘eo = firmly hen wp 9 here gl uy, Dr. Bweet (lah medical colleges. These names and re a will | ving to cure him, her he ts enenced w a aoe ot ihe practice of giving emetics in consumption is | beet that he | the beneficiad influ ants, which are axidered tp all respects regu ly orthod 11 his aequaiuten Toth b—} py physicians are in the mptive Patien's, ax s mater of Cmrse, & riety’ of expr otorant medicines, Ree wmning and evening for mor shim to attri y ted mortal. Vid he but mistare, ‘Simmonds orders the Twies & ween,” sed Dr. Vis swallows procures him pre rd with more or less opium. © + * But what infin eee, teat AU fg a ge SES chow changed woud be. tis 3 Ghee can those remedies hare upon a divease like phthisiat fo the kind of emetics that are to be empio! were of the 8 ‘ They may quiet he comgh fora Ume—ihe of iy contain ane 2 third pecac, They we a Wilde Das cand thus deceive a hopeful patient widi the iden 7, use sulphate of copper, ths | ing the allow his condiden ie really improving. Rut the loug coatinned: ox oF regular we are unable to tell | rethe patient jy aware of bt peril lhest peniedies ts sure to impair and to disiurh the di- wast Son Uhl B recennry to 607 So Tare fi nen f Taorkery ef palliation tae b < Wien. benefiting Nie tangs. Many are bh th bed in this city by me ot it is ly told ye ronsumplive patients who have bitorty regretted die use fact that it * constwutly yp ~ = We has of the etiedies, When they look back on the sad experiones fn good standing In the profession. We have at th f the profession in theory and In | of the divwase fron which they are sutfieing,”* Under treatment tore than one person wha, has fuaratote erentment We ibink | Dir Wwett ne reveling absereations on trvat Boranily amt necdiewsly torvared Rg nly not, If what We have stated Ie worby of beitef, | ment, and lays bare the povert emcruceees OF the asiial Fpeve to us the vier day, Coe Curing CT aint for tt la 1 based uy hor upheld by auceesa, | practice, Wepgeieniarly recommend thle paragenph to the $e momach inskle out every mMorine, Oe one Ins Many, we know, will question whether we have not exaguo- | nitentis Helin redecton of all Comeuinplive per Blood rushes to he } rated the truth 1 make Whi practice appear worne then {t myrell, we jw ig Hut inatend of hiving dene so we nave stopped short—fa pot understand.” Nor evul short of the reality. What say the al best writers Knew anything of (ly themarivest Do they teach that these means will et onsumption. | It ta not too wns sumption? so far frem stich being the case they proclaim the oan, ciel wud enlcrilated Ferg reverse: deplore the povrets ir resou 4 pro She Bave, ne roeetnle carn oe ef tee etveanc veny that thn day wlll ecm eh i will cease Wo be trie ney Goateey we Sane OS ee isten to the confession of fl our Tae Mencensar, Tkeatanxt.—Mereury ts one of te old ofesaion, and then judge f they may requirr femedien re n for the cure of const the pipiens othe Selabrated at irene will ro " win period when it Ww Lon Ywnthor of a mi, Hn Smad) dhone, it Ue yerfictly warerstond, Wa beqan pgenta. Nig be cheek pipet pa erg ay and was Wy the aif of airingen'a: and ually ed apon with distrust, Many opent nt be sedated hy simply auioutiag Uo Uae ducing consumption when administered ther patient diseases. nnd of hastening it w 2 Phtinletp his. be milan doctrine. He Inbappily for mankin ieal treatment of thie diseane Ww crmmat of an Phig's book on the tal complcnitows co soutitons ile Ledy whieh favor the erowth og upen the tabs re to treat the set We are not to strive their softening. Th appeared, and at once revived ue practice. | ¥ came to the conclusion that they by not under ic nner of use in chronic diseases, that th in too large doses, and that by now following t of Dr. Philip they would rccomplish better Suberaten, rather than by s tndlain hed. remove the tibervies, oF to prevout tubercien are to be perraitted * Ha and Cuee remedies in eonuMon con empt, kes, physician to the Meath Hospttal, Dut than twenty years have since elapsed, during which p * | that “it unfortunately happens that the palliative tre first lo the second, and from the second to ti ut feast ing on the subject. Whai i | the ome which we must Kenerally follow; but there ean he no | sage, without our making Ue least effort to get rd of tien, Bice 2 An almost universal con- | 4 ‘ns medicine advances the cures of consumpdon | Prom the first to the last the whole treatment is one of pilin. vietion aaa praction, it ia decidedly injuriow much moro frequent’ page 400), Why must we, in | ton, The Bunost that can be expected to meen Ht i, 4 Phyaicians sill employ it as their chief remedy, but the Pie, Stokes’ opinion, pursue the palliative treatment imply | prolong the life of the palient afew weoles, or at Jrerithily. As an alterative, the majority of } Decause the ticativent known to him was uot able to ac- | months. We doubt that iteven does this Ginue to ctv u thia disease, not probably from any par | complish muro. When medicine adgances, he beileves we | we believe it more ha Geular fuith in is eMicacy, but because they must do somo. | may hope to pursue a curative one. Now, What does ne mean | his life, thing. It used to bo given ns blue pills, as caik and the | by advances, if it be not the discov Hleation of seme | are giv ride of merenry, combined with uneture if thod of treatm the same writer | and neraily wed by being combi Ihave not in i d to todine, beemuse I | the . as opin, hemlock, or hyoseyamns, whi pat as yet no case bas been nude out in Ns favor: that | gubde =o the cofveiten, enn nil na modifies ite itJurious effects. Suppo its employment ix generally adopted on the ground of false | wire than paliiat dolude themer'y fo be true, of what possible utility has it ever be Ane ogy, ANd in ienoranee of th wolewy of tubercle, ean Gmany thensunds have taken this remedy within nied, and what we might expect. | incipient sth nly jist comm twenty y nd because it wae preseribed by th horples of medicine? | ae b ehtly affected” —hey Mysitian, hivelly placed their hope of recovers upon I etty strong language to apply to the advo. | are qoinit fo get well under | her physician. “Ke Became physicians teil us te ts iyurious. ff among whom We may rank maay of the most | member,” says Dr, Swett fle penwedy in must have been so then. Alam! what & "members of the profession, in Europe and 4 been div The intimate relationship Dy. Btokes favors tha p gly | noe upon tu. yaaa | jon should have ‘alah, and lands the taerenrta) (resumen! H tn promo- A danger of employ ini his work remarks, Ina note | ting thelreure”—<p. 900) Tf thoy ¢ prevented taore injurious than another irentinen’ of conaimnption ts, | froin developing themarives, nor thelr enre be promoted } hat medicine is mercury. Pei id, no novelty in American practios. Some | medicines given by the siommch, why shonid the patient eonth y are rend saved by th b cen. how many have | nie to thke tedictwst Thix shows ut why De. Swett advises uence. When long xdmi ? ; waied by this means" (p. a). Dis professional brethren to give “ax itde medicine as pow I the charactaristios of genuine sero: Dr. Hin Principles of Medicine" vorg frankly | aitie, and thie only to combat \roubleserne, sym @orkinen eneaced in quickall mines ali fall & pre ndtimiw that pplicadon of remedies in phthisis has been No: tf you bave consumption, even in (be Ort stage gmett constmption,.at an early: —. With these facie n many cases empirical, often inert, and sometimes mixehle- | eines given by the stomach, no matter by whim they may be | wow ithas happened that physicians have con: ) vonsly active Bc } prescribed Will net prevent your disease fran progrresiog; ciemaly 10 peraiat in the administration of mer The great Lacninee nays: ‘It tn ® poputar beltef that con: upiaies and nies may mask, brit Wey der bot even retard ite | sin consamption, le beyoud human compre | sumption can he cured, if Kt Is only taken in theearis stage." | Whe ean wonder that se few cases of consumpiion recover, pat Vella va, fs a ereal erre © at every bey ref pecovery whe mpuets a} gl thowe wey have folder! 7 io th prae : As we of this re. epermls on ite progress to the inet singe, that the tubereies | tice of ti men * aystem te stromg and Viger Moe ee ene ine ciicinazen, each | Must nafien and be expelled, He believes in the entire cura. | ous, and ail the functions of the boly—the . the iver, Uivopiniona which differ essentially, and in inany | Dility of the disease, but bas no contidence either in his own | the kidneys, de.~-nre helt Peron. everything is tayer- WY Glamctrieally ‘opposed to those eateriained on | Knowledge of the proper remedies, oF in any Ireaiment known eure of # dimen the Tinea, is in commonly t stage of conmutmption. Neskdes thie, the themerlves, ins this stage, are stne!l, the obstruction radon teiling, and any dsorgaaizauon fo the profession. “Bleeding,” says he, “ean gelther prevent the formation of tubercles nor eure them when formed.” Lots, the Iatest and highest authority on cons ‘We see this © treatment of or y remark by other Class: 4 pon. reward ha lo ory thor J a a onaamp. | Erarcey ima eolurae o€ AN) punta, sums ip the treatent i reed th tha detiente on Hints! and presctives tor ia cube | #%, and even do Not eoMAL One Hew #uKEeRt lon oF FEM der Sach. ciresm: dammatery theory. aupposes that the | dy to improve ihe thoraprution of the dineasy. ile condemns to effect ita eure, wish the beat he and prescribes’ bleeding to re- | Many remedies high in favor with the profession, ax hurtful | chance of snecess Now it is precisely in sage that we ty theory, on the contrary, regarda the tone orthiews, and obecryes in re the insertion of setons, | are counselled by Dra, Swett and Girwct, and ail other ortho ‘ow nnd prvactibes tontes torniee tt The | and the anpiies nol and. tartar emetic | doe medical writers, to fold our arms wri Ao ‘te pat ars, has had many advo | counter-irrita the chest, “nelther in hospital nor in pet | give any wnedicine if must not be wo ald naiary in Po aie te nach may be sabd In fia fae | YAto practice have f, ina single instance, ween any ameliors | Vuberclen, bul nomervhing siinply. tops * ie drizes they have very | tion produced which could be attributed ‘to them.” And yot | cough, We are in shut gur eyes ’ ae pega yi fh no phystetan iT enjoyed such ample opportuntt! five jel ie to on to “, nt Ubercies: fing on organie eh’ phy Noy P° five uel lations to pasa on to etude tubercles, ant from ornde Giberes Ming on organic changer | ing impartinily of helt. effects. ‘The dovtrines of Hiroussaln | to ulceration of the Inige, of, in ofting worts, frou the first - Tarely Ta conmunp. | fd Bln theory of the inflammatory oiein of phibisie had given | last stage of consumplon; aid ail that is’ to be dome ts, ar on Absorpcen of ihe | an impetus io te employment of courter irritants, which, ne | ~ uliny ioeal rit ion by oplum, diarrten by asteini Late Tf the stom oon became Al both in. private | night eweats by mineral acids, An bka yi" practice in Paria. feed not may any: of iife by attending to the Immpdiate comforts of the nd standing in the profession, All Ameri: | ‘The “close of iife’ i a AMUEAL Wermination of anel eae OS uC on Th fn who hive trayeliad in. Barope, know | course, sid indeed is the only one Whiel any physician could mient uf thelr wnevalnese “ninige, aud t ig preeminence, Dr. Marshall Hall observes of him:= | reasonably expect to result, Ferusian bark, in powder or = “M, Uouls ceriainly cake ag. the first phesiclan of Peance, | Then let the people rightlyunderstand that consamgtion Feoked on Gus sutgeets ‘Torte aivi probably of Ettcope.” “When, therefore, we find auch an | not curable by any method of trent bn By . ne autanraty confesaing. aa he does, the worthiemsness of All those | feasion, Let them ton understand clearly tat the most that Ie SH diseases. remedies Which have been relied upon by physicians for the | xitempted is to palltate, symptoms, ant inad che padent FEaE wenrary cure of consumption, we may eafoly aseume that ordinary me- | down to the grave. That the pretended “iron mixtures Tur Serv dieation micas the patient tio hope of recovery, mnt that If b odine x¥rups,"' “ alteratives,”> “counter lrriiation,”” and t alls how held the chief fe enred wil be by Tesorting toe mote rational method of | e only so many pall atives whieh tnay sometim Gam, in 178 Tie, Wil i Ac tment | p power w cate. Let them fiatly wmde i hae been Let tw remember,” says Dr, Cowan, the learned transiator | ho peresertbes these knows fall well i i injurionts in eon © 1 ofME Louis’ creat work, “Traite do la Phtiiate,” ate | time he dors eo that they can exert no curative intl « Dr, Cowan “very raionnily ¥ | suil ia the infaney Of medicine, still standing on the shore with | the disease, and they will then be in «position w exercise fected nw nenite.” The truths is, those who © | the bonndiess oben of undiscovered trath tp our view.” and | their judgment impartially ju remard to die ieaumen ton merits eamnt nerer anon we cannot help anticipating that the eure nnd hit’ to i cannot be doubted that every patient Bod ston, oF wires. Om Unction of phthiis (consumption) are m derires recovgry. In pursuing the course they do, it thinks it « stimninnt; Savy «ibe future progress of medicine wilh confe pee he won tee right road, and all owers on the wre ive; Kinginke, @ narcotic <Transiation of Tatuls, page 06.)—Again: nor deluded mort la, how few of you know the elyht pad ie "acre by tle ida hae Ween weltten are dome aipgn the sub. | from iho wrong. Bo lewor nt Re sou Of the merita nf the 4 ho power | viiom We are stil] totally tinwequainted with any. | ferent plans of treaiment ) at many who now fend his artecle ‘ clory method of cure” —page Gut.) These | world yraerday have steutly argued tn favor of the amual nm, not of hye Dut, of the | treuumeniy not Knowing thar the ndvoralen and traciners ot 1 reat ten! KeTart Xre they met | freely ecutone Ha worthienanens, No man tn tyrlirat mnie i hy those Wil you not believe their statements? Uf | any more than in religion or polities, can Diiindly ait down nn. tar maven Of sO reyes and your aoderwtanding to the | det the gubtance ef thin cr tat pect ve schonl of physirts evMStaNee A MPAs, iH herent open to you; but if you do, then | with safety, The cdjer desired by every coneutp Another medi¢ine which, why {a it rational to strive and hope, 10 trust and believe, thal your | Uent is, we presume, ihe recovery of bis health, |1t came iv as Inegely given naw mpectti, be hot case ie to be ‘Through (reke means, Hough all others are | fied by” paluation it re very bide whine The theory w nit was tied 1B con-imp | tow? Ank y f, in sober earnest, Wheeher, in the face of | ploy®, OF what aystem he mdopia. But if his on ure, Ie Caron Uni) Ttorea, tow ciber mach, Ug Lilluaunosy, | thie tesdimdys, FOU COB Uli delude yourseds Lato the beUel thay Ghuat aeek It aot Crema a pracuce (he Rbloet ad) otetos Of wlicd EE oo ——eoOMO_O_O pone it to be fh vie of eMoting cure, but in some ne amd of medication’ which premises at least fowever hide faith he tay have in any, plat lieve it (0 be. hin duly to Ury everything eto Ms understanding, rather than die & victim Of his own prejudices agaiust ans that would have saved him, more fully into the consideration of the the profession, Because we know it to be tood by the people. Many are led to believe that, by continuing fo take certain medicines prescribed for them by their physicians, they have a fair probabtiity of re- covery. The ve ure of the disease ereates this hope, and We wie grieved to have to add, the uneandid assurance of mevlieal men swengthens and sustains It, And yet, in reality, such hope and such assneances are in direct variance with Uva eachings of the books, the confesalous of the profession, aid the experience of the world, THE HOMMOPATHIC TREATMENT. WH homeopathy enre consumption? We think not. There fx, howe aysn dificully. 4a slafactortiy discasning westion of thix character with reference te homaop re ere is nothing m the writings of ether Hannemann or Jalir, the great chrmpions of this sect, which enables ws lo judge at thelr opinions on the ae oe Com Nee nd ) inecmapechennibie. following description of “a catarrhal affee nosspuade raiment Tt the render can dy fractenee. in stich a Eaotiey jargon. he iv mental constitution than we profess to “die North American Homdopaihic sous » 136, anu lira (ramplauion from the French of Dr. by KM. Boles, Mo Do seems f down in despair, ani probably the ver We have ente oung ‘man of twenty years, bern of pothlsteal ima! inkerted from them 4 phebisien! comstitu- ml morbilli, &e., in bis infancy, and i ca, of Wopath delivered Bim, ws he anid. At twelve years he was put to lear te trade 6f tailor; during bis appeen- tices be contacter thw teh twloe y which was treated (a the ordinary mani, At seventeen yeairy he had peripneumonda, which appeared to Rave beer treated after the method Rawort. Ta the spring of 1634 be waerattacked witha cat pitectlon, for wincl: Le Was Weated allopathically, but without “RYMETONS OF THE LOCAL AVFRATtONS —' cough conding Tots Gault Cale Balok tena wih te with mat m1 “Resrm a 81 St] ION AND SeMrToMs ‘OF THe CuLst. ity ia, erian res of thukig ith walking tr the alr, Ge breading in’ speaking, Sulpihe, amet Tallon, rattle, muons aud eavernotis Gale, Sulph.; senvation of weakness of the ¢ Ree ot ‘shooting ting int the etiest t, im tive a ns i, Bop, Sain OR She, “Oubes Mc AS emO Phoepi “SYMPATHETIC SyMpToMs.—Want of te, repu to" only Muipl.s ile; dinrthaen Wik paler tn. the belly acing ny days, Buiph 3 weakness, lassitude, drawing plus io ther, Sulph., Cale., Lycoped.; continual propensity to sleep in the daytime, will fusomnia at niglt, Sulph.; eontinual fever, with horriplations, especially (n the evening, Calen ph, trangient ‘heat, greai frequency of the pecially on the chest, movement or five labor, 1, Cale, Lyeopod. ‘bef emacintion, loss irascibiliiy, propensity tion to weep, Chic. twenty medicines eo table Of symptoms, aud if we omit all but the principal symp: toms, three or four of them still concur together in represent ing the disease. “It would be dificult then for a debutant, with this very abridged table, that contains nothing useless, to choose the proper remed; ‘© may trnly kay of yhe theories of this set, as Lord Byron. metaphysical sophisms, in regard to sald of Lishop Herkeley paid ‘there was no matter,’ twas no mater what he said; ‘say his system, 'tis in vain to batier, er : for the end ry i ul forvunalely we can always: om theory to expert, enee, And this: ‘ah rall isthe Tueltest of the merits of a prac- tice,” What does experience tach us with respeet to a thy? Ittenches us that, a9 a class of practltioners, they enjoy no reputation for success in the treatment of consumy be We. believe they make no claim to be wble to cure this divease by hopaeopathic prescriptions. We know that many of the piore candid frankly confess that it is beyond their control. But if we want additional evidence, that the practitioners of homeopathy possess no skill sufficient for the cure of consump- ton, we have it in the following confession of Drs, Hartmann and’ Hempel, oof the most feared nd ‘candid writers on “The aymptoms of phthisis have been studied with so much care by pulkoiogsts that it would, seem as tho Perkele the non-materiality of “When Bish proved it hs their grand Chject bad been to base upon their accurate Raafo fuid reliable mode of treatment, | This ts however uot the case. Even with us homoopathic physicians, who imagine that a dis- tense with & Variety of symptoms is more ensily cured thaa one deficient fn symptoms, the treatment of phihisia ix just as un- certain as with allopathic physicians, T must do for the Vent, and theretore shall at once proceed to describe the wreat- a ‘This confession will explain the treatment of tha, Mo not believe they ean cure consumption; but in the language of Dr. Hartmann, they "do for the best." Iéul We are not limited to these proofs of the of homowpaihy in consumption. A fact of far more signiticance than any mere assertion fs seen in the circumstance, that nt thin’ Very moment several prominent practitioners) of this hool are actually practising inhalation. » These would searce- y hae ubandoned the, “sugar pile” and mywerious dita: tlona” if they had not found them worthless, the fact of tithe! Trend of omeropaiby. we will tale few a from nn article in the Hemaopaihle of the friends why, pte ts gg he GY ers of a ‘cohus maladies * Rovnd vo and evel of phy} wie’ ever Poon atvypred ‘dnaiud bed evttoger of ypted ing hotnaxopathy) man's uiler ignorance of their true sp oat proveeds to Leli thein that the realunent ‘ol thowe diseases by inkalaion Keems to be eifecting much Kood. proved,” says be, “quite « relief, and coy | instances we Thay hope pergggnent cure; and the theury of imhaladon, ws common xo cormouant with reason and » rehashed and rerved up b) own sage gelections, Le bs delighted with inhalation, because it principle "Hes at the foundation of tie horsmopathic thera. pel’ (pW) Having got bold of an inhwler, and pleked pwledice of the method of inhaling, he seta to wi experimenting upon ail bis unfortuaate consumpive HOC tie apparatus: and the method . nn i ne b> " hag mardi. Cints | Wax preseribing internally tor my patients, volatizing Abem for mee by imbcing them wi nioobes ap ayrup” (p, The following paragraph WUl show We result of Wiese expert ments Ns Thave said before, my own expertence with Inhalation i= suiflicient to establish ite eilicncy in the teaat: ncbial and lung diseases, further than in the cases Yih it has heen toad apparently with sucooss; wll, & renin. in the hands of ono has proved successfW may ta Preston eanaot understand why, if inhalation ts success: ds of those who undersiand it, it may not be so in imoopathe. Ilo therefore urgus upon his eitiioners tie importauce of striving to discover th » vailing myned patienta. of Inbuedings, Timmy diately aad generally fatal a hh perse iC ® proieasion whos und, Wh is posable ware Py vpy tolearn that the treatment by tnivlation our mombers in different wecbons and closes his actiele by a very sug Why may remedy be yet discovered, which, tn dated inte the Imngs, wbail prove: th spec plathiais, id ewable us to control that mnost fiwidious and mont surely fatal scourge of the b ». oh.) Li such a remedy were known to Dr. Preston, or any of hig mapa reren, two ve if Fegitimaie homeopathy had not ure of consumption, i would ne nor for tly pre a discovery to be mad pracution et te first de and then strive to steal, inbalntion, This praruee dht not originate with thetr school, and they may rely i ongh Wo sed te piracy of Whe wanent. We by iu of their d Hpeopriat wne, the fallacy, aud sien) ‘THK WATER CURE TREATMENT water care treat. ot, in Fe pthuata:stie colt douches" ink from the ir application In consumptive casea. Petes “hy pathy,” used to frankly tel! al! con, to him. for treaimen’, that “no ments As Priesnita was not a physician it wd whether he was competent to ex on cpinion so postiively, Dut so far ae it reused to this ar poariice, it entirely accotds with the subse ne of every physician connected with water en: ‘The practitioners of this sect, rewarding the dis ly incurable by every fble to de as much for conswn oma and to Improve med whh the disease, oF pr Teness of the lungs. * on, one Of the gepat li Wo cau ROL CHEY ConMUEptiON, Cetutom, aud. 80 prevent i i) This he believes poraible, tut We Very nV’ we eR ai of this practice in. ex and fn no single instance has if appeared to bonefelad intivence, even in te carly stage, when cserything favorable for testing iis merits, We have panciplent tubercles In theif progress have seen oH 4 aul falar hemort: intuerd. by the tngul plication of Water, & of feeble, reactive power, Awl when we look Or restilis, they are nowhere to be found. The app 4 Waller to the surface of the bedy iy always » = it pro: he xperiment in consumption. What eltect de« 5 ae ~- LoS uartuce of the be nated OrgRER, t ring of congesting {hit ans person im Nis wenaee supsprse Uial to conaest ofc organ Is fo ft Keen admitting uw ane ertiain to take pinoe, that tive cold app by a, Complete. fewction; the temporary, com sinerd te alwaye hurtful, But suppose, ant this is ue (ry rane, that’ pertvet renetion “sea get foun at Wh; ‘oF A fortnight will be lost in atriving mae she At te thia danger of producing renders colt bauhs, aif fulmouary caw, and parucuuasly f, whetlwt the tubercles are ae ‘a prediapenition to their deyo- bah, & be only ‘Affualons are not open to the same ob ee ot mnt be said to be, in weticlal. Tt may be weil io observe, he produced by the cx , meage of overcoming it The beat and in sate use that-can be made ef water tn comeumy dally sponging the body with tepat water, | je Mperature aa shall produce wo sense of chi 4 ‘an'oe ‘Well be wader nt the patient's home na er cure establishment. The obyect sorglt to he wevou- "ya war te elennlinesa, and te renwal of the per Juctties from the surface of the body acy om this disener, Ur Jatnes M. Gully, of the famous water cure establish Tt bas no oul © i Malvern, Kang! euthor of a work eh aw Cure in Chronie Disenses,! and deetiediy the most reliaht authors on dhe subect, thus spenka of consumption —" Tam not about to say that'in the water cure iia means exist of enee tent or cont consump! means cust ib Po PAD Uf treatment hitherto advanced, "—p. 1%) If it WILL not cure “inedptent consumption —that is th divoome tn tte smocaciag ninge—it is scarcely necessary t buy thet 1 98d do ho gord In the eoufirmed staye, when all ds ! ling to give De, Guily veemem are be he as “altogether in wh treatment nor the uicer® ons aan y ulner be remo or tubercle as Weft healed; Swerve laird betbnlh not to be withilrawn by human art. Wi b (reo exteneta We May close our review of the Water 4 arundo, MY UO PART SECOND. TON TREATMYST We that they woul! give ower trifling, not not imagine that #0 great # work a4 the eopping aud tr} a back the powerfnl course of nature can be bremght to paw ine Morbing draught or the tk 2 finns drug, hey Would be nawrired that ft musi needs be (hat this Bs Ko! Inbor, and consisteth of many rem ties, aad Ut con vn enn be 8o ne ean be done Lone Rawon poveaple to the be cetofore Om weebon et (hot atronget themsetrrs, for sive ae to fromginn That what was never y Dur by such Wye ae Were Hever yee Alter) This tar gunwe of Lord Bacon te peeniis t ee ag % K Rar: The Wwe _— 4 plojed, whether allopathic, homerpachic, or waier eure, like Sypimniky (Aled, Raed A Unde disease 19 ever Cured Hh will BO 7—TRIPLE SHEET. UW aide en ates —_ romote pir i, be the adoption of some new and compars’vely untried me. | the tanga, @ fourth op spambeante oie ‘sly opiate defireatment, ‘This opinion notsingula’ but appears to | to aatringe the mucous "to decarhonive the bioot; nad. hove been enterinined by moxt physicians WG have caro | the air paasnges, &REVEOR reg dilterent forms are by nny rind treatment of dhe disease, | ench of these hints m him “Ct ocuriione of the ingrediene at y saith Dulmounry phublita dor esnin’ | inercasinu oe Ny We Subeutaiaon Of Owe @ ‘ian afleetion whieh you seo, day after dey, eutiing | whieh they are alauon, Unen, s & pracion te of every nge, of every Sea, nud of 2, Tanke ona monk oes Tre ies ade slunple, Dut ike pene en more carefully studied on the old plan, | i com ayntemn eaelty mom Hoe ag proved a meee fafa tree of deine and dingulat, | ral dapation to the cure of nergy” ~ domme ion. Eminent observers have desertbed all its phenomeni | Uriewie *, dere. even fo lat minntest details, But what ts all this but desertp: ‘This in net what haw been bes Pyar yyy tion, Dal semnuch natural history, Will itthrow any Highton | extent sill wapposed by the public. aca? un soveret | the treatment ef th ctlont Not» particle! but we hope Heular medicwne, applicable ( ail €@™ ire of # part enlightenment m this reapeet, We mast learn the cause ‘of the | epreilic medictes, ech aaj to Hr & “led to believe that Ciscase, nor need we deapale of dix coverhg Perhaps tu | Kind of pulmonewy disense, Not» few are Ue ae cice nad Derculay' matter may yet be detected in the blood, and, asm | (Cie use inbsbwion all ether means mU— “Neng yes we further step, the means of destroying or preventing iis forma | wide, Now ail Cais ik very fooliah ane VO% “orden of the tion naceriained. "—Magendie's Lectures on the Ileed, p- Know ta these tens ace felt by 6 lcm Pi “the tune bp Professor Carawell, the distinguished pathologist, ven Wonk only toe means of hosting. ce in wee on the same subjert, Sitmay nat be foe much to hepe that by ng the abscmplion of tae tubercles. ¥ the means of 4 more Intimate knowledge of organic chemistry, we sary (6 lanpaet W the stomach, or to regalia, ta may yet be able to detect in the mucous keeretions, oF hy the: preserved just a b load, those changes which Indlenie ibe eaistence of the tuber Vdualiy, true Yo + 4 euleus diathenis, and Gna perhaps be led to d the cnuentiat nature of tubercular deposies many distinguished physicians wlmoat simul their attention (0 the lungs andto the consiten bility of ves the malady more succes ssf chauoel ‘Nerwithetanding ths tallure ot 90 and constitutional potency of inhaled rev the very basis Of ou Hestom of practic that we have contended for years that want of success which hn sumption, nud witended ev) cians, is not that the d the latter inost Hie. day are fant in the minds of the p fal le ‘The tables of Walshe nnd Louls show us ortion of the cases of aetust consumption ‘oun consumptive parents, They further pro be rally acquired under the: ration of ous influences, among the chief if. Bi pposing, then, consumption to be the resul constitutional taint, the question arises how: U duced. No constitutional malady eau spriny netion of the weveral orgarm of the body. from the non-casting out of iinpuriues whic pelled: Some orgem rust Wherefore fall ni he question the stomach the disease practically. If the stomach tails come tuberculous. Tubercies will not arise are edly more Liable to consumption Bresromach und then ion in of London, ho disting-twied phystal edies, which forms followed every Weatment in con ually every class and sect of phy- line ane is incurable or the medicines fnefiielent, but that the former has not been understood, and Injudievouaiy ‘The. idea dat coustimnp Hon’ is merely, the local mualfeniation of ui inherited or ne: quired constivational diseases bux been productive of incalou- Inble mischief. ‘This theory revived a terrible blow from the investigations of Lowls, and tie accumulating facts of each which they place linpure fect somewhere, Ehher what is taken into the bedy by the Tungs and the stomach must contain the poison, or it must arise to be determined is, whieh is that organ ! ? We think not. Some physicians have taught this doctrine, but in every instance we believe them to have been mere theorists, Certainly, they could not have studied food Into Kod, healthy nutriment, the blood may become poor ‘and watery, and the body may etuaeiate, but it will uot be- ciency of nourishment, however long protracted. Dyspepties ‘undoubs rangement Jong afer the lungs have become serious); affected, and many not null the last few weeks of life. Theory maj that cone: wholo body, but prnetoe tenches us that itean oniy be cured discover a remedy Alm is to aceompMah by! it. for the disease betore has effected tty Loealtzntion and r ther nie AES, im duced changes in themselves incurable.” (Cyclo Med.) "Phe dineaned aumtacen to ImpreErnAN 4g hope that such remedy might yet be discovered bioed with medicines which Gounterset the depeattion & have been encrally entertained, for though, Dr, Chap BrOWth Of tubrrekes bphia, a few year ago, prociatmed the iden o! To ™ a me yr Consumptom by any remeny then kucwn “a delusion,” over | eipui manos creimplosing medicace inkelauon’ Tie Beak eo he did. at uink K{Leudier_ impossible o* improbable Shit some an tn mirument, Ue secont by ditising tae vaper ‘of Weeattmeat would, hs time, be found ont. rough ti om of he pall " Ti would seem, too, tut of ta ry AK OUP knowledge of songs ere a ere 5 abide comme tmpreved, tanvmnaly turned. + cation of the feaak ll (a) Tay Dave mare thas a pin! ber lubes, a This tv sans instrament, holding wttie water, ood Otled with glaae aad Lndiwra Dis eap and a glans iaonbe ples, When umed ome itis hall dled with tapid, warm ar hot water, am the ease mag” imeeif to tent the merits of ebiorine gen rewalre; the ineiicines are thon added apd the tubes, placed ee Forbes, the disanguished editor of peation. On ir 4, (ie ale 18 @herted down thronggh the me jedico-Chirurgical Review, tll ws inom ted liquid wad thoroughly trp reg io which conditems Speason, aiialogy, and experiance, unis ws jus. | it passes tne the ucws, Eats instrument ia generally wo ractice.” ' And Professor Carpenter, | (ree times «day, sometimes four. At cack time of use it ra hanged wires. The dase of inkotiug 4 ordinarily: ie five arr quires te b +. More strongly urges upon the professicn the | tleen minutes, but where the pullent is very fer fo ee FET a ay hy Wy mminntes, wil be suRelent, in which case the inhalcr mag escgdcd sb Which may be administered chrovgh ths De ted four or five times in the course of the day, extended warface jangs by inhalation. Hav- | (‘Tem Room Varor.--Man; C ng de Mr aa cans on of volaule maticrs af. | thelrrequire Com an ees tha laf a aed lap taking smin}| poom th pauent’» house. room. showid q Fe easel be detibied 1hei auseta temnostwretye fectrjenre, and wleraih TIGE, to, peneoad fhe atmosphere are. | Nation vam Tapidiy wasted, There are the yatem through the pulmo: | mease of biling Uiiythamber: first iby cl -Y surface y other: our aim should, there: | poaiion; thw wcond by evuteration froma porectala De to the ‘Of some counteracting axents, | Rulds, orn fine dish Yor seha mubstances, phiced in which can be Introduced in the same manner, ‘The pulmonary | syd bathover a spicit lamp; aud the tied by the bs we Most tazeour ebannel for the introdnc- | mediwted pasiies ‘The navare of Ure rumedy which 4 ts of ceriain medicines that can. be raised in vapor when tt | necessary {0 uw always Rovers, Of course, (he InmaBer ig destred to affect Ute system with them speedily and power | votatitizw: Jato this room Uke patient cera onoe, twice, or fully” (Physiology, 0 OB.) tirice * day, 99 the case may require, unin from fi ‘These extracts stifflclentyy show the tendency of the profes. | minutes to hilt an hour et each viait.’ y ait dawn slonal mind towards te truth, in the recognition of the Joeal | read or amuse himself with any eecupmtion during Ure Uime be is wubjceted (0 the vapor. (2 Tun Varon the last number wo gave am iUustration of the vapor chamber, together with 9th Use ratun necessary for charging i. Tt ts aa ale Use lsining forty five cuble feet of alr; connected with it te & Kasometer capable of boiding eight cubic of ga. Patent ix placed in Ute chamber, in the common air, whee te ‘ant the whow contents of the gasometer-can be di disiot, The effeet thus produced is tinet to oon thereby increase its density; and seeondy clare Wines turin a the cage ty regu 1-4 we increase of diminish the oxygen Of the ale ab pleasure: This bs, OF adh. © aso make it dry or moiat Inhalation forees, the moat simple aud yet the moet pow Five or teu minutes once m day soon produce # change on tie hesith of the padent. In ten mines wo om Frist the pulse to Kh or lower It (0 65, by ehangiug the charae- ter of Ue gaaes tarown inie the chamber. ‘Lay Yous ov VoraTiug Manicrses.—Thene are thaee-fold: tient we have gases, second fuer. and third water vamoni tis well known reat cnuse of the roteasion tis witer that but ® small directly spring ve the di certain deletert It of an required Hat taint 1A peor | fovan Action ov Innaiap Mumerrzs—Ail medietues ro. from a healthy | ducest ta vapor, and inhaled into tho lungs, act locally upow dhe e must be « de ‘bea wad cells. ‘To thts di ‘on Ue divenged eum ota th hb’ should be ex. nal surfaces, ta Pancti is tofiamed, there ix alw Ts it} siderable increase of neeretion, snd dit is also rendered Viseid and tenacious, so much So in many caves, as to-al fempletely block wp the bronchial tabed of the diveaned pay When this latter takes place, Giat portion of the lung wi shonld be anpplied with air by the obstructed tubes, heromen Colnpsed, causing a great incrense in tie distress Of Une par tient, from sbortucss of breath. The relief ettected by polling, "and expeciorant inhalants. In wuch s euadiaen 2 Prompl’ The vapor son softens Ge viscid muco-parulemt ao trevion, and causes tke expulsion, ‘The air ta amin permitued greatest to transforma the from mere defi. than persons stronger digestion, not because they are dyspeptica, but from | to enter the collapsed portion of the lung, and the the body being so much enfecbled ta hot to be able to remus | mount o€ comfort wad. luprovenent lume sel follows the cause of Gieone, Any ‘Oiber debilitadng disease ts | ‘Now if we could xcrompliah tio more that this reliee, Kt wewe equally predisposing. If the: were the cause of true | be « great and desirable good to the patient. Mut it ty cous how does it hap Shy that the uicreased nt of air whiob be efivet is lochlization tere ut n une blood, incre ls purity, Ratpable a y by ves ithe of Us system. Th Tro tits disease have 9 de nor nll the benetit auained the local inhaled vapors. After th render them more astringe Sati Having iaproved tae tone of th air | ned musi w disease of the a by re it us # local malwy, and attacking tt In the | menibrane, we nex Ringer if bed food wnd-bnd digestion will vitiate Use blood, | view to-rusive up the siumering powers of will not bad air and defective respiration do #0 ina tenfold | andeause the cleatrizadon of ulcerations, shoul greater degree! Then fwhy ae the lesser cause wod | Tu this manner, then, we accomplish ‘aurount of umpreve- overlook the hy A Sy fus of the lunge leas neces- | ment in te Hon of the lungs, in te space of a fow ae that of the stomach? We can go for days | which could not possibly be attained by ®ay other means, food, and yet sustain no material injury; but wecan- | which at once plices the system in the best sate for exerting ge mapees Bo permeation yy respiration for | ull ius powers lo throw off the disease. f fag uf death. Ani when. | Tue ComserroTional AGRON oF I¥itaueo Mepiom ‘ony lopieatinterence | Melicing can bo said to truly cure. |The most wiiat mmcasteation, is that | cl ts to remove those influences Which peceaded by nome im. | Whaction of nature aud paralyze her powers. | We have he lunge ‘A viightcatarrh, cheouto | Wow snlualed medicines do this in thelr loca! aetion. | Hus i © | to their power of acting upon the blood and trough it oa workshop, sedemtary em: Mette ey cick | abAnrbent wyxtem, Thi we Jook chivtly for the removal of nd they are precisely the | tubercular jons, and the fini) restoration of the lumge Melick ie any | (ebenlth. We are aware that some plysicians speak of ine 1p Weidisponitiog | Istion new “purely local teentmnt,”” Lat such only ‘be the constitution individual. ‘The many causes | Weir idnorance, wot only of the practic of itiulation, but ‘witch tend lo induce pulmonary irritauion, aod Tt the air | OCUe payriviozy ul the inngs Uaomseiven Vabew with viseld phie on. andl fll the aie | ° The lungs promentan absrrbing surface, estithated by able na this, explain a Peauaney of cha. | puysiclekinis vt ftteew hundeed square ‘feet, aud by new MU tke Intgeae Ue alpha dud oienn the | lower tan auextent many limes exceeding tho enuro aurtaen bes =| yy Tris here that disease first feta | Ot the body. ‘This wurface ix designed by nature to bi ur fiself... Ax before remarked, the general benlth is often enure- | Blood in tie mon! direct manner possibie under the p Ip undisturbed, the appetic and digestion guod, the bowels | tluence of the wir. |S his surface kes Up Fegnlar, the ‘skin natural in wemperature and moisture, | Euros nudslances wit’ th contained aud 0 of the other organs, A little backing o¢ | Mt the respired wir, hos b physiete Beng of cy pie ni, tna of oh "anton: | eat Ford seh ne nea monly “® Kense renter “shortness of Breath than | ee de tole jp METIS ly—these are all the toms we have tn 1 ly, the ay ious, Weav'i have Seyeanes 9 yon Sewek hurbed, Phy Tabored’ toc streams, nm thet anny 0 Yen. the whole. lunges, just as It Dem Wil cr tn a Uitte nerve ln the root of @ tou cate structure of @ vital organ. Wh has not the finger produce fever increase Palo appetite? And whoever has seen (us, has se Heart and the stomach, three of the ton vial by a litde irritation i the end of th been known to produce lockjaw an: deaih duced ina very marked degree by a fection of matter tn the leg oF tn the grotu ie follow an abscess produced by a xiab f 7h. If a0 plenple and purely ineal ut to produce it, none ean deny wos in ennse far more lke! ye have dwell wary, but commencement a constitutional diarase, has for tie eredit of the profession or pon it, ne physician whe bases hla will ever efieet la cure, The very ayy aptive people wuller all point nt by irtuation, inuerd by to the ba Chis, OF pris in the alr pasanges aftwmed tnucous membrane luing the and in the inst stage, from wiceration wid sh ness of brea” is produced by the fi ‘and tubes by tubercles or apuia. Comes, ta part, from the tuflamed s:a:e of th chiefly, from the extension of irriva rpm suppuration, of froin nerve “Hemorrhage” or “spitiing of bl struction of the puimonary ts “Lome of flesh” from the det and chyle in. the haracteristic symptom of cons this Incal disease of the lung vf thi 0 te nees of fin its stethoscope and by perenssion, and if roles they axsure the patient (hat “though he tay have spit biowd, exp ftesh.""| We quote, the very language postin xafe doctrine we Know, aician in respeeia jor the conaisieney of the same phy iA natural on ascending stairs, wiih & disposition to sigh frequent great error of the profession to overlook this fact, and as a con of sutving t purity ue founwin which cor “the whole system ts involved in the disease.’” thizes with the disease in the ober loeal aifeetie splinter in the Oinger to the breaking of a liab—from Irritation to ulceration in the deli finger. which ever au knows the wide range of »)mpat wounds and injuries. brain saifersin a gree, the stomach lo ¢ action of the comes Gtful and irregular, When the secondary fever sets in the skim is hot, the face flushed, the pul uency, the appetite poor aud mgue furred. these sympaiules may come from a tettting local in an Unimporiaut part, aurely we ought a ~ ge that tubercies, — fr Vital An Organ as the ‘lungs, of morbid sympathies in Rome point to the heede spirations ax R proof that the consiitul every physician must know that these w cite Lose very aymptoms as proofs of te eo local origin and na first siep is to examine the hung with the rated pus, and lost A mt wre nand Absorythe | rican edition, 1402 —Art. that “the ab the Langs! After demonstra neipient consump Riven those # Are bo always present until seme | {Ne Laine mt the 4 * ask wim. | ¥ take place through the lings,” Dr. Carpenwe passe Urn afcr the sierbowcype han fevenied ie eainwnen OC tu | AMMA eerdin af Seas maticta catuced sarou te ensentially confined to the lungs, aud ail the danger to the pa prion of Uiese he cites many instances: "A far Seat ariecs troup Us progress fn’ thls organ. ft bee beea the | hays he, “is the effect of the inhalation of @e vapor of turpentine upon te urinary secretion bellu this inanner that those gases net upon the sy’ have a noxtons or potsonous effect when mingle quantities in the gimoaphere; and ft i most mslonidhlog ram the extcacedinary increase tn pe white | lug ihe cause un the larity widhy subjects exhibic when they are brought in relation willy Doce te kanes form “The moat remarkable exa : hin Kind | dy wrseuturetied hydrogen, the inba from © | of a fow hundredihs of a grain of which has been prod nf fatal cons ° © KIviE seen @ Worn In oy eae and destroy the | en the brain, the | organs, disturb A scratch has Rvery surgeon fend | very marked de- eurt be. nereased in fre- | And if all | system wit Ue very face wo f lcerating ‘ehaia | body ir palionta na @ * vant oF ae thay swored by the gawd of the eonettutionnll vewine here aeow- . s desirable ta aff “ nis is wuttt tnedie ites ppureuca la We Le —e om ered toy len mae alread; ; . we el )) inbeledom # ‘puim ’ ne ie Line four Che ane trom wh bronchial tubes, fened tubereien. up of the air Jon in ihe pleura. y ch - irritation com. oe ; Boum: | a ihem tine tut {toubiy actdee from the ob: | in another, Civmies! unen bet Ht and alkailne sl pianees takoa lace aa Pendl:y mechs ia he more oft) Pm, Fa x eo by the etOmname yet medic boy wt 1 make the etread® 2 m in Tugs, om the contrary, en which reuices thal a «ih (wih far prester porentnans svi. id them free from ba ho danger, even |} than as se win the former condthien manner in which ° recovery ineach | Se ule — Sl undergo a proces of drome A eapor eet ' ihe hae cary, may fana'fast, ‘at exarni thie city. Rat but what dows it ya who holds the sr Kreaire power cid dogma that the symptoms of consumption gre only the | Krnaser Powe Focal manifestation of m constitutional diseseri If hese are ao | the minuteness of thelr div able constitutional tint, id ‘be re than a colid, ond for Uve satwe feamom gacded aa just ax pertious to the paiient, whether iis lume | ils, or 1. Unaun ebine : M4 Sere diseased or not, Again, everypysician deciles wheter | 26 CE Taper ro te iT a tae fn patient ean re hot by th yot his cough, fF | Aetse in potency which many substances exhibit, many hopeless coneumptives couch ¥ tntle ; not by the | vroughi in friaticn With te Linod fm the gaseous form.” “hn quantity Of the expectoration, ie raaily unterst>od, when you consider that mediated tm Drovebitte the exp oration is moc ry are medicines in thelr mow delieste and attenuated Cf consumption, however incurable, Kiem—ike essence, as. ft. worn, separated Goacen are ps, for many conmumptives never dity, and subject iy no further changes. As (hey age fndeed, from any of these sym) in'o the lungs, 80 Co they pass inio the syatem, we cr monary disorganization. He» | them twenty minutes afierwoods iu every secede. Cl eave is couined Wo ® eall p ts eurable; TWIG | Reivea. op tn tne somion te the oiood: whieh We. asay pee volves @ large part die case is h ‘The teat, then, iss loreal test na are Inca, and Seah tad cee gore ot Wnt oe & rae What should the | "4 Inhalation ls hot only direct in ive Appl aiid treatement Se? What alm bas the pliysiclon in view? Isic n ut not only direct in i'8 applleation ait proms not to atay the progress of disorematza ion in the 4 while ‘ . a nell oa al there yet. remains sufficient brea'iag «wrt w jain Liter objec _ + BO Patient Clearly this is or ought to be the chiet of all bis efforia, iy Ht without f oor any Now, bow does he do this by the okt pre Tr he & an allo- a of awaliow rd patie physician he strives to svrdue ‘ie cough, to palllate the wr 0 experience pain, to improve the appetite. Novalnt mory Iwever wt » men OF an, however tempted, In other words, he oe ea set Kapka re Tiered the more irgent aytpfome. iin im (0 make the pa- neceanty._ How often does i por auftrer " Id they do so without present disgust cnject of misery ‘nad despair? Huma the, wale lence, few mien. wn Are convened, Oeil om r acAree ernie « ithe feane rejuire! for the preservation. cure scarcely deserve mentioning, i renos is if he mean v fh Preece piaina (hem—and the confessions of (heir own advocaies pot Row, tnimlation iv ¢ jereornaa S88 Ih thee favor. Homewopaihy perhaps aificda ae much tolled irainry enn, find doee leas injury Kun Allopathy, but the watee eu “1 = ae be said to do more Injury aud than eltle.r wt Welieving then, conmurmpton | atl generta, ort RAE OT . ginating in obsirieted if tia went inthe rg oan 0 Whe extent of tte Fa Lawns ty Ankaveas—-The follo io. an em 5 ap ER analogy point a | tect of a letter from Pine liv, Arkanent—We are planes te oe aly Oo clea The ee ray | ea to ace, by @ letter from the land Otlee Depaetanans cl elle is is @ logical lati 4 , bya . from the foregoing facts, may be said wocarry ita | Washingwon, that the matter of gras tin = bg pon its face. If we world cure consumption we must | We were euitied under the act of Cobgre treat the disease, not the symptom: disease we must inhale, for Were tng tts senwi—the lungs.’ No tren more than palliation, while by Ue fgets at the very rout of the liven: plain What is meant t much ignorance, rome prejudien her dice at the wame time. 3 n give medical adetce if 80, it is always deeirah f we wonid trent the ‘pleraber, iy ing thet attention whieh boul lang paid to it, s@ thet very soon an lands will be added jo those granted ta the: tte entry ot Ofty centa per sere. Dering mony from the older Rates became lation was increased here, and at the of the rich soil ea thew which were a wiht forest ® year ago. 1900, this hat Niet of vate and © ineans of reach eanis of acte have 40 {perhaps the riven Benexpry DON atts To THe AwenicaN PART THUP Jtis only two oF three weeks sinew TREATMENT RY IN ALA TION wr bad the gratiiestion of recording the magnilloent gift af Y on we mean hot ® parcrulac come | twenty Ove thousand dollars to the American poe dy, but a yarticnlar methor of } 4. of many | society, by David Hunt, Req. , of Wo have now teipediee, hat fs he m di e « tbe pleeure to Announce an additional splendid donate et re fe in til i . . Ot the same ense. Tahgied. teh from the seme noble-hewrted pli of Citlen of the loner, in the same mani f fiver by the momarh, to the object to be tee We tay swallow & purgative, 0 and though ali are taken tp the sme ‘the lungs, another to eapeciornie we mgs nd dollars, a check for which amount was | fre Ag A Ey forday. ‘This #um makes a grand total of more thas | thousand doUars which has been contriivated by Mr. Wengen toe A pasa ints rc. Ho a Ht he Rae h cen a different eit Ta ARGGT iinaleince wWelpressete coe bahalution to soode | to the philanthrope cause of colomigation. Mork to cue lelagene, Ae