Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 8, 1886, Page 8

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SATURDAY, MAY 8, 1886 PRIVATE, diseases of years, or w tone of i fects of thes 80 often that they dand | iy g OMAHA MEDIC cured. To il ~ OMAHA MEDICAL and 'SURGICAL INSTITUTE al organs | €V hdis. | ments of all. wor | study of these di vous ! stion, sem- (sperma- pwed nong DR. McMENAMY, PROPRIETOR. Corner 13th St. and Capitol Ave, OMAHA in all their 1 nd complications, most unlimited exp. ment to ind 3 reliel after all first to make a tudy ot this class of dis- wewing ing vital o cific y case. pli thousands suffering the of- | men, or, ppointed | an opinion. HOW 0 Weknow th TO I such w mast given up T they INHALATION, The treatment of diseases of the air passages of the head and lungs, such as asthma, bronehitis, catarrh, tuberculosis, cte, has undergone a groat change since Prof. Von Nei- Roaiaca i\ Eom meyer, of Germany, bronght.be-‘ Que trowtmant of fore the publie and medical oussager. for pa- profession the new method of home. ° ™ ™ medication by inhalation. Ilis invention is a simple apparatus containing certain chemicals, Ey means of which any medicine may be converted into & vapor or spray, inhaled through a tube, and thus be brought into direct contact with the mem- branes or parts of the respiratory organs' diseased, thereby clensing, disinfecting, neu- tralizing, soot]ling and healing, It is a well- known physiological fact, that when we take medicines into the stomach, they have to be absorbed into the blood, and through the cir- culation, reach ihe parts aftected; but in tak- ing medicine into the system by inhalation, we mnot only bring it into immediate con- tact with the diseased parts, but as the blood in its passage through the lungs absorbs joxygen from the air we breathe, it also takes up the medicine contained in the vapor in- (haled into the lungs, and thus the vaporized lor atomized medicine acts both locally and ’constimliom\]]y For the benefit of physi- cians who, through ignorance, may pronounce \the treatment of diseases by inhalation un: ‘acientific, I quote from Flint’s Practice of |Medicine, a standard work on that subject; prge 216 He says: “A late improvement in JAnhalation consists. in the pulverization or \stomization of liquids by means of apparatua iadopted for that purpose. Medicated liquids {may thus be employed much more efficiently than by any other method in chronic inflam- mations of the air passages. The objects to be effected by the topical apglication of spray or atumized medicated liquids are as follows: i 3st—To check protucs cxpectoration by an astringent effect, and 8o modity favorably the inflamed condition of the membrane.: 2d— To promote mucous secretions and expectora- tion. 8d-—To produce a sedative effcct on {the inflamed membrane. 4th—As an anti- ‘septic and alterative.” | Dr. Felix Von Neimeyer, of Germany, in |his work translated by Humphreys, of New |York, says: “The introduction of the inhal- ling apparatus marks a new era in the ther- {apeutics of the treatment of diseases of the air {passages. Inveterate bronchim, pharyngeal, laryngeal and nasal catarrhs, which have re- sisted all methods of treatment, are now readily cured.” Every physician should understand inhala- tion; it is a part of the medical profession, and in time will become as familiar to the profession and public as taking medicine into the stomach now is. The preparation of medicine for inhalation requires care, skill ohd study. Different diseases require differ- ent remedies. It is noi the vapor, but the medicine atomized and inhaled by means of the vapor, that cures. We have all the medicines uscd by inhalation, also the inhaler used in the princi{:‘nl cities of Europe and America, and have had a larger experience in treating diseases by this method than auy physician in the west, DISEASES OF THE EAR. Vortical section of the ear showing its {aternal stracture. Hearing is one of the most important of our senses, Good hearing is requisite in every department of life tor the rapid inter- change of our thoughts, ideas and wants, and its loss or impairment a misfortune, which makes itself felt at every step, and seriously REACH LA ntial. Call plainly writ nd we L our “privat history of your THE D SURGICAL EB. b & strect throe blocks to the Institute. If you conie by way of the St. Paul Railroad take the Thirtéenth street car, which s our door, or take omnibus or car- 0. E OMAHNA MEDICAL AND SUR- NSTITUTE permanent med d by thoroug rons of ac and exper { tate building s f on the orner of Thirteenth st ot and Capitol building, of over 1 and Consultation 4 s, and the board- ing dep: atients, (The Insti- tute Hotel), in chnl'g[' constituting the_larg rhly cquipped Medi blishment in the W acknowledged fact that wl over mmunity are found 1 skillful and experienced in the of fevers and othe [ the most intelligent them, ns 1 ly | ventions in m N ct that many of the |l y discovered and most valuable rem- ies are totally unknown in many sce- tions of the coun That while the public are in m of the and a; ulture, ded the old, cumbersome ostors, the most Medicine, isin ands of men ve- and have machin o. appreciation of these t the Omaha Medi, shed by skilled d inventions in and Surgery, and that much-sought boon, Health, thus placed within the o any medical or surgical « « 1 day or two in a " payable to Omaha Med, and e Established for the Treatment of all Chronic and Surgical Diseases. seeing has certain unmistaka ns or symptoms which, when told to the o - | scientific piy: s oper often without When you make up your mind to visit ug, make a memorindum of our exact address and thus trouble or delay. If the patient is erippled or deform: we should be advised of his e vance o that our ay work out of 1 too long. drafts, etc., urg. Instis atis makers ¢ the way so as not to detain Make all money orde tuie. All who desire any information upon I 1 obtain it by writing us and enclosing stamp for many chronic cases suceess- nt, when > sent us, fully interferes with our usefulness and success ii all relations of life. The most common causes of loss of hearing or deafness, are cold draughts of air, bathing, especially if water is allowed to enter the ear, vivlence to the ear, loud reports, throat affce- tions, scarlet fever, influenza, catarrh, diph- theria and diseases of the skin, brain diseases, fover, quinine, if used for a long time. The diseases most often met are inflammation of the auricle or cxternal ear, inflaimmation of the canal loading to the tympani, or ear drum, lypus, inaflmmation of the glands, hardeu- Ing ear wax, inflammation of the tympani or ear drum, inflammation of eustachain tubes, arising from catarrh or throat affections, sralysis, or atrophy ot the auditory unerves, ottorrhea, or discharge from the ear Oar method of examining the ear with Otoscope, There are a large number of persons suffer- ing to a greater or less extent from deafness, owing, In a great measure, to meglect in #cking competent medical advice and treat- ment, npon the first appearance of disease of the organ, or to improper treatment. The majority of the diseases of the ear are chronic, eommencing very insiduously, give scarcely any pain, end impair hearing so gradually that it is not detected ur‘il in the second stage. To treat deafness successtully, the treatment should be directed to the cause which produces it, as deafness is nota dis- ease, but the effecta of a diseased condition. The curability does not depend upon the ago of the person affectod, nor the degres of deaf: ness, but upon the source from which it emanates, he new method of treatment consists of the introduction of gasses and warm vapors, impregnated with such medi- cinal substances as each particular case re- quires, by means of ap| ro})rintc apparatus, sounds, ear catheters and electricity, and is not attended with any pain or inconvenience. The Pnuring of powerful liquids, caustics, ete., nto the ear has been abandoned as not only painful and useless, but as positively dangerous, | —— CATARRH. Catarrhis a chronicin- flammation of the mu- cous mem- \ brane lining 5 the air pas. Z. ~feages of the Our Office Troatment of Catarrh. head,at*end. ed by a profuse fetid discharge, which is thrown off through the nose, or dropped into the throat, and then hawked up or swallowed into the stomach. This dizease prevails extensively, and is frequently Pruductive of serious consequences, often leading to deafness, weak eyes, sore throat, bronchitis, lung diseases, headache, ete. The manner in which catarrh may pro- dnce these diseases may be more readily ex- leined when it is understood that the whole interior of the body is lined with one contin- uous membrane, just as the skin covers the exterior, This-membrane commences at the edge ot the lips and nostrils, proceeds through the nose and mouth, to the throat, from which it extends upward to line the Eustachian tubes (the tubes leading to the ear), and pro- ceeds downward to line the windpipe and bronchial tubes, to the air-cells of the luugs, From the nose the membrane extends through the tear-passages, until, under the name of Conjunctiva, it spreads over the eyelid and front part of the eyeball. Inflam- /mation of this meinbrane produces at first a peculiar dryness and irritation, followed by a discharge of thick, viscid, opaque, stringy [mucous. Taking into consideration that this imembrane is continuous; that, in faét, parts |of the same membrane line all of these pass- ‘ages, it will be readily comprehended how a disease of one part can extend to or affect another, \ causes deafuees, or Diph- elic theria .auscs car auu tyu uiBCuses. The symptoms of Catarrh are too well known to make it necessary to enumcrate them. The cure of this disease is much more easily accomplished than formerly. Vaporized medicines are, by means of inhalers, bronght into immediate contact with the inflamed membrane, allaying the inflammation and healing the uleeration. | We use the celebrated Vaporizing Inhaler or Chemical Atomizer for the cure of (Catarrh in all its torms, Bronchitis, Asthma, chronic sore throat, etc.. ete. DISEASES PECULIARTO FEMALES. Discases and derangements peculiar to fe- males are very common, and few are aware of the alarming extent to which they prevail, owing in a great measure to delicacy on the art ot the sufterer in making her condition Enown. 1t is supposed that one-half of the women in this country enjoy sound health, Uterine derangements are prevalent in all classes of society, and too often escape even the attention of the family physician, whe trequently treats his patient for some acuta symptom, while in rchlty she is suffering from some uterine disorder, which is un- known, perhaps, even to herseif. For instance, she consults the physician for some acute poin in her back or side, which the doctor ex- plains as perhaps neuralgia, some liver com. plaint or stomach disorder, because it is ac- companied by indigestion, ete. The patieut sometimes mentions, incidentally, as if of no particular consequence, that she also has the “whites,” and the physician prescribes an astringent injection, ‘remarking that it will soon be all right, and neglects to inquire into the real cause of the leucorrheea. In this way the real disorder (probably some menstrual irregularity, displacement or dis- ease of the womb,) which produces the “whites,” is unnoticed, and left to become chronie. Thus female diseases, which were rarely heard of by our progenitors, are now more common than any other class cf disor- ders. In fact, 80 common have these dis- treseing complaints become, that many, among them some physicians, have como to believe that the peculiar organization of wo- men, her delicacy of structure, and her special functions, are of such a character that health with her is the excePtion, and disease the general rule. That 18 not the case. Naturally women are not more subject to disease than men, The true reason for the frequency of diseases peculiar to females is the neglect of the patient to make her disease known, and ignorance of the proper treat- ment by the physicians calletfupun. We have treated many cases with perfect success after other physicians have pronounced them incurable. In no class of disease has this treatment undergone so great a change in the last fow years as in these distressing condi- tions. The days of cumbersome instruments and appliances, caustics, etc., have passed away. We now use restorative medicines, subduing inflammation, allaying irritation, and healing, thereby restoring the parts to their natural condition, instead of destroy- ing. H %ntil within a few years, the subject was in profound darkness, and thousands of wo- . men sank and died for the want of help, which a proper understanding of their caces would have given, Until the vaginal speculum was invented, by means of which thoe female organs coutd be thoroughly examined, very little was known of the conditions existing in these troubles, The sufferer from«“Female Weak- ness,” as it was called, was believed incurable, and after o truitless attempt to build np the genera) system with tonics, mervines, ete., they gradwally faded and died without the true cause ever being known. Bince, how- ! sver, examinations guvo +begn possible, this, branch of study has developed into a science, with a field g0 broad that medical men have' been obliged to become specilists in order to apply all the knowledge that exists relative| to these diseases. i Many diseascs of females commence from, cold, over-wark, exposure, or any other cnnlej that produces congestion or irritation of the membranes or appendages of the womb. This condition gradually leads to inflamma- thon which develops into Leucorrheea, and if; Bng continued, causes weakness and debility in ‘the parts, The ligaments holding the womb in its natural position become relaxed,' elongated or stretched out, loose their con- The Council Bluffs office of the Omaha Medical and Suréica.l Ifistitutefii; ldcéte;(i;a.t 234 Broadway, CouncAilA Bluffé, in chra.rgewof Dr. C. M. Coe, late of Chicago hos- al----established for the benefit of our n iving them an opgofi:unity of receiving scientific treatment at home. 2] ess-all letters to Omaha Medical and Surgical Ins umerous patrons residing in Council Bluffs, and dastitute, Thirteen tractile power and allow the organ to drop down, become displaced. This condition is known as Prolapsus or falling of the worb, version or retroversion, as the case may be, the long continued inflammation, congestion and displacement causing ulceration with all its attendant train of nervous symptoms; in the body of the womb, forming metritis, or obstructive dysmenorrheea, or menorrhagia, or in the ovary, causing neuraigia, dysmen- errhaa, ovaritis, hysteria, etc. These con- ditions may thus all come from what was in' the first place a simple congestion of the pari affected, caused perhaps by exposure, cutching cold, or other causes. [ By appropriate treatment used understand- ingly, this condition is readily overcome and the parts restored to their natural healthy condition. Nearly all cases are curable. Many sink into the grave for want of proper treatment. . HEMORRHOIDS OR PILES. In annouacing our ability to properly treat and cure this painful disorder, it is only necessary to make a few remarks in regard to its origin and cause. i | The circulation of the blood requires two kinds of vessels: Arteries, which are dense, strong, elastic tubes, to carry it out from the heart, to all parts of the body; and veins, the walls of which are thin and easily compressed, to return it to the heart. These vessels per-i meate every tissue in the body; and any pres-’ sure exerted upon them will compress the veins most. ence the blood can not return through the compressed veins as rapidly as it is thrown out through the arteries and capil- laries, therefore accumulates or is dammed, up in the veins at and beyond the place of ogstruction, thereby distending them, and thus piles are produced. The pressure or cause of distention may be constipation, contraction of the upper fibres of the ephincter muscle, stricture ¢ the rec- tum, impediment of the portal circulation, (or the passage ot the blood through the liver) inflammation of the mucous membrane, pro- lapsus of the bowels, ete. The continunance of any of these causes may produce hard and peinful tumors. When the pressure is great, inflammation may follow, or the tumor may burst and Beed freely. These are known as bleeding prles. In some persons these tumors are forced out at each operation of the bowels; after the blood-vesscls are once distended per- manently, and kept so by the constant power of the heart driving the [v)loud into them, and though the cause may be removed, the tumor remains, are of constant occurrence, and de- mand the attention of the specialist. Hemor- rhoids (or piles) are a very common and troublesome complaint. Are situated either internal or external. Are hard, soft, sen- sible or insensible, ; Symptoms: Piles may be indolent or in- flamed. The location and character of the pains vary in different cases, being some- times confined to the tnmors themselves; at others, extending upward into the intestines, or down the thighs. The(}min may be itch- ing, acking, throbbing, darting, shooting, constant or only when at stool or sitting. These symptoms are fre%ucu(ly complicated avith irritation of the bladder, frequency of imicturition, and pain in the back, and, in fe- males, uterine irritation, with mucous dis- charge. Fissure of the anus, prolapsus ani and stricture of rectum are less common but pot less serious. Now, the only rational ‘method of curing piles is to cause contrac- tion or obliteration of the blood vessels, thus cutting off the supply of blood from the pile tumors, they will rapidly atrophy, or dry up, the blood vessels being closed or grown to- igether they will never again open, and a per- manent cure is thus effected. “This is done by injecting a certain remedy into each pile tumor by an instrnment invented for that ‘purpose, it is entirely free from danger, al- ‘most painless, and we have never yet failed jin effecting a permanent cure, Bodenhamer, & celebrated author on Hemorrhoidal diseases (Piles) in his new work published 1884, page 246, says of this 'mefl.\og : “The profession in general are not yet sufficiently acquainted with its modus ‘Ppemudi to pronounce judgment as to ity merits or demerits. From the great excite- ?meut lately manifested concerning this new method, some are inclined to raise the er: Eurcka!l and to believe that it like Aaron’s rod is destined to swallow wup all othen methods.” th street. corner Oa.nito% avenue. Qmaha. to come and investigate * full'description of symptoms TREATMENT BY CORRESPOND- ENCE. This paper is likely to fall into the hands of many of our friends of other days, our patients whom we treatéd long ago, or those who have heard of us thronghi other persons i(v us cured, who may wish to consult us. 0 them, we nced hardly say that every year of the many that are n w past, has added much to our experience, and something, loubtless, to our skill; or, that our success 8 of late more uniform than ever before; it 18 probably enough for them to know how to reach us and lay their troubles betore us, This can be done safely and satisfactorily by mail, and observing carefully the following directions: Write plainly at the top of your letter the name of your Posr Or¥icE, County and StaTe. Give your age, height, weight, sex, and state whether single or married. Describe your present symptoms plainly, in your own language. Ladies or gentlemen, whether married or single, should not hesi- tate to write us full particulars concerring their condition, as no one sees patlents’ let- ters but the doctor; give full particulars as to past and present condition of health, ap- petite, stomach, bowels, whether loose of cos- tive, and whether the feet hands or head are unusually cold or hot. If you have a cough say whether it is loose or tight, whether worse while lying down at night, or getting up in the morning or after meals. nd if you have reason to believe you have rhen- niatism, kidney, bladder, or urinary diseasq, send us by express, (charges prepaid), a small (clean) bottle of your urine. Most of the troubles described in this paper can be treated by correspondence, as a long exfi;er- ience has taught us how to manage these things well by mail and exprese. In corres. ponding with patients, we always use a plain envelope, and 1n sending medicines by mail or expregs, there is no mark on the box or package indicating who or where it is from, or the nature of its contents. The directions we give are so plain that they cannot be misunderstood. n receipt of your letter (with stamp enclosed to pre- pay snswer), we will tell you candidly what can be done in your case. Again let us urge the absolute necessity ot writing your name, post office, county and state plainly. When ordering medicines by express, give the name of the express office when different from that of your post office address . DEFORMITIES.' (’ If you have a child with a crooked foot, Jeg, or back, it is evidently your duty as a parent or guardian of such child ‘to do all in| Jyour power to have the deformity corrected.| The child is wholly dependent upon you, and| oan do nothing without your consent and adetance; while it is small it will bear the in-| firwity without a murmur, but as it grows to| manhood or womanhood, it will feel very keenly your neglect, and will heap reproaches upon your head during its life for allowing it to grow up a maimed and helpless creature when opportunitics are time and again presented for its relief. A few dollars can- not be weighed in the balance against such a disability, and your Elen that you had not | o . means at your immediate command, will not be allowed by your child, as a sufficient ex- cuse for your eulpable neglect. The time to correct deformities is when the patient is !young and growing, when the bones are com- aratively soft and yielding Children are i ike twigs, if they are crooked from any \cause they will grow and remain so. Then |let us urge upon you the necessity of prompt (action in g0 important a matter, time is :everything; do not idle it away in fooling and {temporizing with this or that thieg or rely ‘upon the hopeless falacy that it wili grow |streight. By our new mode of treatment, cl_b, reel, or crooked feet, can be made as perfect in ap- pearance and use as though no deformity had ever existed. This may seem mysterious or /doubttul to those unacquainted with the new \discoveries in surgical work. We effect a cure in one-fourth ‘the time (usually occupied in the treatment of such {cases, with the best treatment the old method ever did or can afford. We do it with one-tenth the pain or suffer- ing. We care not how careful the physician |may be or how well padded the apparatus, for the old prineiple is radically wrong, aud is a paintul failure. i