§ HEJ^VVOOJ) (H. J-T) ';.^ ;4"i '" N-E W- S Y M P T 0 M S '7 AND NEW REMEDIES IN CHRONIC DISEASES: INCLUDING SCROFULA I 1 3 Kjt/iAArTior cL /'" //. .NEW .* ELECTRIC SYMPTOMS OF CHRONIC DISEASES, OR CHRONIC TUBERCULA OF THE ORGANS AND LIMBS, BY WHICH THEY MAY BE EASILY AND INVARIABLY DISTINGUISHED BY ANY PERSON OF COMMON EDUCATION AND CAPACITY, AND THEIR NATURAL OH ELECTRIC REMEDIES. fVJiich, with very few exceptions in the last stage, cure all these diseases by their electric influences,__ including all the FORxMS OF SCROFlfLA^ WITH CASES t\/S^ ^ Effecting the different organs and Zimts, ,^_^ BY H. H. SHERWOOD, 31. D. ^^ ^ ==u CINCINNATI. James & Gazlay, Printers. 1836. CONTENTS. Introduction. Symptoms of Tubercula. Observations on the remedies. Cause of the symptoms. Natural remedies. Directions for the remedies. Observations on the cases. Tubercula of the eyes or scro- fulous sore eyes and ulcers of the cornea. I Tubercula of the antrum, nose and uterus Tubercula of the scalp or scald head. Tubercula of the neck, or Kings' evil. Tubercula of the tongue and i tonsils or mercurial disease. Tubercula of the breast or mamma. Tubercula of the lungs or con- sumption. Tubercula of the heart or hy- pertrophy of the heart. Tubercula of the stomach or dyspepsia. Tubercula of the intestines and mesentary or chronic diarrhoea. Tubercula of the liver or chronic disease of the liver. Tubercula of the uterus, or lucorrhoea, chlorosis and menorrhagia. Tubercula of the spine or dis- ^ ease of the spine. Tubercula of the hip joint or disease of the hip joint. Tubercula of the joints and limbs or white swellings of the joints and limbs. Tubercula of the lip termina- ting in cancer. Tubercula of the stomach or dyspepsia terminating in cancer. Tubercula of the uterus ter- minating in cancer. Buttrel aceoriin; fo n«rt of Con»«*w. i» th« v«* 180i BV H H. SHERWOOD, in »W > C •■<■(", O J v fai nits k)»inct /<» i t »»f OUu* 3 INTRODUCTION. It will'be observed by those who are acquainted with the classi- fication of diseases, that I have added to the common or acknowl- edged cases of tubercula or scrofula, a number of diseases, that are not classed as such by nosologists, or other medical writers, and the reasons for doing so may be found in the uniformity of the symptoms, and of the disorganizations presented by dissections, and in being uniformly cured by the same remedies. In the case of Mrs. J. P., in which the symptoms are given, the disease was ac- tive or passive in nearly all the organs and limbs, under the names of chlorosis, white swellings, king's evil, mercurial disease, chron- ic enlargement of the breast, dyspepsia, hypertrophy of the heart and consumption, and the new or electric symptoms were the same, and pointed to the disease in those organs and limbs, and they like a great variety of similar cases with the same symptoms, were all cured at the same time, with the same remedies, and demonstrate the correctness of this classification. I have also substituted the term tubercula from tuber a knot, knob, or little swelling, which from the natural resemblance, is ea- sily associated with this disease, for scrofula a little pig which has neither the advantage of any resemblance to it, or of any easy or very pleasant associations, and consequently as applied to this dis- ease, unfit and inapplicable. It is a swelling of the knots, knobs or little round organized bo- dies called glands, with their vessels, nerves and connecting sub- stance, of which the organs, limbs and other structures are formed with hypertrophy or general swelling of the organs, limbs or other structures which constitutes the disease. Even the thinnest mem- brane and the smallest vessels are constructed with them, as may be seen when they are tuberculated and as is proved by dissections. These bodies are the elementary organs of motion and secretion and excretion. And motion, secretion and excretion in these or- gans is produced by the motions and forces of electricity. The motions also of the Lungs, Heart and Pulse are these motions as can be seen by comparing them, and are produced by these forces. Tubercula is,generally slow ift its progress,, vejy fatal, and is he- reditary, and descends from parent to child, for many generations. k Nature, however, sometimes cures it by change of seasons or cli- mate. In describing the cases, I have been as brief as possible and have purposely avoided giving the state of the pulse and other unim- portant symptoms not necessarily belonging to the disease and have endeavored to preserve a plain and familiar style* and to avoid as much as possible unnecessary technicalities. \V Cervical Vertebrae Dorsal Ver- tebra?. Lumbar Vertebrae Os-coxyx. One of the forms of snow, form- ed with va- pors of wa- ter in the high and cold regions of the atmos- phere by electricity, as seen through a microscope. i SYMPTOMS OF TUBERCULA. Mrs. J. P. of Fairfield, Butler Co., Ohio, of good constitu- lion, light complexion, and naturally full habit, aged 22 years. Called to see her January 11th, 1835. She has a swellingon the right side of her neck and face, which commenced about the. 10th of Nov. last, and has been out of health about three years. Suspecting tubercula and without making further enquiries, and in the presence of a number of gentlemen and ladies, com- menced our e.-aniination of the lymphatic glands along both sides of the spine, and first with those of the first cervical vertebrae (joint of the neck next to the head) and pressed with the finger upon one lying close to the right side of the vertebrae, and ol the size of a very small bean, which produced a scream from se vere spasmodic pain, which, on every repetition of the pressure darted violently and with the rapidity of lightning into the ex- ternal cervical and submaxillary tubercles, and into the upperjaw, ear and right side of the head, and on her complaining of its dart- ing also into her throat, we examined it, and found two tubercles rising conspicuously in the right tonsil, and one in the gum of the upperjaw, all of which were very sore and also painful un- der pressure. We now applied pressure in the same way to Oiese cervical and submaxillary tubercles on the side of the neck and the under jaw, which produced the same kind of pain in them which, at every repetition of the pressure, darted violently along the neck and under the clavicle (collarbone,) into the upper por- tion of the right lung. We now applied pressure to the left side of the first vertebra? on a still smaller tubercle, and she scream- ed again, and pointed her finger to . le spot the pain darted to, on the upper portion of the left sid. of the neck, and on exanii- «* nation, we found there a large submaxillary tubercle, and on ap- plying pressure to this, the scream was again repeated, and she at the same time applied her hand to the left breast or mamma, and then pointed out the course of the pain from the tubercle (en- larged gland) along the neck and under the clavicle into the breast. We now examined it and found it every where literally cram- med with tubercles of the size of peas; one third larger than the right breast; color of the skin natural. The other breast is flaccid every where, and there is neither gland or tubercle to be felt in it or in the axilla of the left side. The miliary (small) tubercles along the right side of the other cervical vertebra, were sore or tender, and pressure on the up- per ones sent darting pains into the right side of the neck, and on the left side of the lower one into the region of the heart, and checked her breathing. Pressure applied now on the sides of the first, second, third and fourth dorsal (joints of the back be- tween the shoulders) produces pain which darts into the stomach and on the second, third, fourth and fifth lumbar, produces the most severe spasmodic pain, and darts violently into the uterus. Pressure on the sides of the other vertebras produces no pain or effect whatever. We now enquired at what time she first discovered tubercles or small swellings on the side of her neck? She answered, about the last of June, or the first of July last her attention was first directed to one on the side of her face in front of the ear, that was very sore, and at times painful, and that at such times, there was "soreness along the chords" of the neck, but "never thought of examining there for tubercles." We now told her she must have white swellings on some of her joints or limbs, besides that of the neck and face, when she presented her lefy arm permanently flexed in an obtuse angle. On removing the clothing from this arm, it presented a white swelling of the elbow joint and arm. The swelling of the arm is united to that of the joint and extends more than half way to the shoulder, and there is plainly felt a- long the under side of this swelling or under and inner side of the arm, a large or wide ganglia of tubercles extending from the elbow six or seven inches above it. These tubercles are of the size of peas, near the elbow, but became gradually smaller, and of the size of small seeds when they are lost in the upper part of the swelling. We enquired now, whether she had any other swellings about her, when she answered "no, that's all," but we told her it would not do,—she must have white swellings of the limbs and joints of the right side; as well as of the left, and after viewing us for » moment with an expression of hesitancy, she began to make These symptoms are the same as those produced by electricity, and are easi ly imitated, and the electric fluid in these tubercles imitate that in the clouds by passing along its medium from one in a positive to one in a negative state, and the instant it becomes positive to another, and in changing its course in zigzag lines and sometimes in passing in different directions, at the same time.—page, 15. 7 preparations to show us her right leg. It is swelled from the an- kle to the knee, and has an elastic and puffy feel, and we can plainly feel along the front and sides of the tibia, small tubercles from the size of small seeds, to that of a small pea. She now told us she would show us the other one. It is swelled and in all respects like that of the right leg. Diagnosis, Tubercula of the uterus, both legs, left arm, left breast, heart, stomach, right lung, cavity of the ear, right lobe of cerebelum, right side of the neck, upperjaw of right side, and right tonsil. On applying the stethescope to the region of the heart, we found its action strong, and it appears to strike hard against the ribs, but its sound is subdued or muffled, and its action is felt and heard under the clavicle of the right side, very nearly as plain as in its own region, but can barely hear it very slightly under the left clavicle, and left and right side of the back. The respi- ration is natural in every part of the chest, except in the upper portion of the right lung, where it is very slight and at times in- audible. Diagnosis by stethescope. Hypertrophy of the heart and tuberculated upper and front portion of the right lung. We now enquired into the history of this case which is as follows: The disease commenced about three years since, when she was living in Cincinnati, and soon after, an attack of cholera with the usual symptoms of chlorosis. Her catamenia commen- ced when she was fifteen, but appeared but twice during that year, and only two or three times a year since that time, and then only from the influence of medicine, up t» the first of December, 1833, when she was married. Previous to her marriage, they had been absent eleven weeks, but appeared in a day or two after, and have reappeared since that time oftener than before, in a proportion of about two to one, but have always been very slight or small in quantity.—About three years since a discharge commenced from the uterus which was adhesive, and of a white or milky color, and after a few months, became of a yellow color, with cheesy matter or floculi, and has continued to this time. Her feet and anlkles began to swell about six months after the discharge commen- ced, and about a year from that time, her legs began to swel- and be painful. Her back became very weak soon after the dis- charge commenced, and has continued so to this time; and she has frequently more or less pain along the lumbar vertebrae. A- bout the middle of December, 1833, and two weeks after her marriage her left arm began to swell and to be painful, and in the first part of June last, her left breast began to swell, and she soon began to feel darting pains in it at intervals of from one to five or 8 six days, which still continue and are gradually becoming more frequent and violent. In the first part of July last, her right ear began to swell, was very red, and soon became very painful, and the pain extended through the cavity of ;he ear into the right and middle portion of the head, and in three days, the swelling of the ear subsided and left a tubercle of the size of a pea, on the up- per side of the jaw, near the ear; but the pain in the internal ear and head has continued with intervals of ease. On the 10th of November last, this tubercle began to enlarge, and to be irritated, and the external cervical and submaxillary tubercles of the same side, began to increase in size, and to be painful, and soon after the throat with the gum of the upper jaw of the right side, be- came sore and painful, and in a few days after, the rir^ht side of the neck, with the lower and upperjaw, began to swell, and with the ear and right side of the head, became very painful. Her heart began to beat very hard about the last of November, and this strong or hard beating continues. On the 26th of Decem- ber she began to cough and expectorate, and this cough and ex- pectoration continues. Her stomach from the commencement of the disease in the ute- rus, has been more or less disordered with first mild and then a- cute symptoms of dyspepsia—bowels confined. The marasmus has been slow but constant, and is now much advanced with flaccidity of the muscles. We shall now copy a short case affecting one limb only, that of the thigh, to show the manner of distinguishing the disease in the limbs. Master J. R. of light complexion and tall and slender fran^e, aged 18 years; called on us, Jan. 8th, 1835. He has a deep ex- cavation in the right side of the right thigh, about two inches-be- low the great trochanter and shaped like a tea cup, but every where covered with skin, except the middle of the bottom of it, which is near the bone, and from which a bunch rises of the size of a small pea, and from which tuberculous matter issues, and the inguinal and external cervical ganglia of glands of the right side are turberculated. The most of these tubercles are large, but there are none in the groin or neck of the left side. The disease commenced about two years since with a small but deep seated abscess; but if it had been in the arm, instead of the thigh, the cervical ganglia onlv would have been tubercu- lated. Master W. W., of Union, light complexion, aged 17 years, called for advice, Nov. 25, 1835, and said he had been out of health some time. I now, without any inquiries commenced an examination of the spine, between the first cervical vertebra and 9 skull; when he observed that it hurt him, and the pain darted in- to his tongue. I then pressed on the leftside, in the space be- tween the first and second vertebrae; when he observed again that it hurt him, and the pain darted into his throat. I then pres- sed on the left side of the same space; when he again repeated the observation, that it hurt him, and the pain darted into his throat. Pressure along the other joints of the neck and back, produced no pain or effect whatever. I now told him that his tongue and tonsils were swelled, and that he had a cough and expectoration; and on looking into his mouth, found both tonsils (ammonds of the ears) much enlarged, and in a state of ulceration,—the uvula [palate] much enlarged and elongated, and the tongue twice its natural thickness. On examining the submaxillary and cervical ganglia of glands under the jaws, and in the sides of the neck they were found much en- larged. He is pale, and the emaciation is making progress. The disease commenced more than a year since, and he has been coughing and expectorating matter, more or less, during the last eight or nine months. Mr. J. H., Esq., of L., Ohio, aged 34 years, called for ad- vice, May 12, 1835. On examining the spine, I commenced between the first joint of the neck and skull, and pressed in the spaces between the joints below, one after another, and it pro- duced no pain until I had descended to the space on the right side, between the 7th and 8th dorsal, when pressure between these, and between the 8th and 9th produced pain, which on ev- ery repetition of the pressure, darted into the liver. Pressure along the joints below these, produced no pain or effect whatev- er. On enquiring into the history of this case, I found the dis- ease commenced in the liver, about six years ago, and has termi- nated in abscess, and broke and discharged through the in- testines, four different times during this period. He is now fee- ble, and just recovering from the formation and discharge of the last one, which had reduced him nearly to death, and from which he and his physician had but little hope of his recovery. Mr. H. brought with him his son, aged three years, with he- reditary scrofulous sore eyes. The eye-lids of both eyes, are very much swollen and inflamed, and the inflamation extends over both eye balls and has two ulcers of the cornea. The light is so painful to the eyes, as to render it necessary for him to hold a handkerchief almost constantly over them. The ganglia or line of glands on both sides of his neck, with the submaxillary under the jaws, are very much enlarged and painful under pres- sure. The disease commenced more than two years since, and he has, since that time, been subjected to thorough courses of 10 treatment, with the most popular remedies, without any apparent benefit.* In tubercula, or white swellings of the joints, or limbs, or any part of the head or face, the glands in the sides of the neck are always enlarged, or swollen as in these cases, and always on the same side with the disease. If a person has a white swelling of a joint or limb, or joints and limbs, on one side only, those glands will always be enlarged on the same side, and if there are white swellings of the joints or limbs on both sides, then those glands will be enlarged on both sides of the neck. These glands which are of the kind called conglobate, and with those of the axilla, groin, thigh, ham and leg, secrete the forms and secretions, which nourish the excreting glands, of which the head and limbs are formed, have small vessels attach- ed to each of the excreting glands, called absorbent vessels, which absorb from them any redundant or heterogeneous fluids they may contain, which is conveyed through these vessels or tubes, to the secreting glands or organs, and thence to the vena cavas. And when from diseases of the glands of the excreting organs, an unhealthy and irritating fluid is formed in them, it is absorb- ed by these vessels, and by its irritation produces obstructions and swellings, or tuberculations in the secreting organs. Pressure on these enlarged glands, on the side of the neck, in the active or passive state of the disease, produces pain, and if the disease is active in the tongue, tonsils, jaw, ear, brain, scalp, breast or mamma, at the time such pressure is made, this pain on every repetition of the pressure, will dart into the diseased part or the tongue, tonsil, jaw, ear, brain, scalp, breast or mam- ma as the case may be. These symptoms are therefore the natural symptoms of the disease in the limbs and head, or of white swellings of the limbs and head, which have always an elastic or puffy feel. The secreting glands, which secrete the forms and secretions for the nourishment of the internal excreting organs, are situa- ted in the internal parts of the body, along the front side of the dorsal and lumbar vertebras, and in places most convenient for these purposes. They are numerous and very large, like those of the neck, and are sometimes called dorsal and lumbar glands. There are besides, two of these glands situated near the head of each rib, and there are others also attached to the organs. The stomach with its appendages, (the cesophegus and intes- tines) and the lungs, liver, kidnies, urinary bladder and uterus, •Galen's pills and plaster were prescribed and were effectual remedies in these cases. 11 are excreting organs, and the first of these glands which lay un- der the lower cervical and upper dorsal vertebras, belong to the lungs and heart;—those under the 2, 3, 4,5, and 6th to the stom- ach; those under the 7, 8 and 9th to the liver and spleen; those under the 12th dorsal and 1st lumbar to the kidnies; those under the 2d and 3d lumbar, to the urinary cistis or bladder, and those under the 2, 3, 4 and 5th lumbar, to the uterus. There are oth- ers below these under the oscoxyx which belong to the genital organs and anus. These glands are enlarged, or swollen and ir- ritable, like those of the neck in tubercular disease of the organs to which they belong, and from the same cause, and is the rea- son why pressure on the sides of the vertebraical spaces, or spa- ces between the joints of the back, as well as those of the neck, produces pain; for when we press there, we press against them, and against the smaller glands;—round bodies or satelites which belong to them, and which are also more or less enlarged. In determining whether one or both lungs are tuberculated, it is necessary to press on the spaces on both sides of the last cervi- cal or large and last joint of the neck, and first dorsal, or first joint of the back, and if pressure on the right side produces pain the right lung is tuberculated; but if pain is produced by pressure on the left side, the left lung maybe tuberculated, or it may be the heart; instead of the lung, which is tuberculated and produ- ces this symptom, or both may have the same disease, at the same time. In order to determine which is diseased, we may enquire whether the patient has a cough and expectorates, and whether it is subject to a hard beating of the heart. If it has a cough and expectoration, the left lung is tuberculated, but if it has no cough, the heart on examination, will be found to beat much harder than natural, and the sound of its action will be loud, and precise- ly like that of the churn, in churning. In tubercula of the stomach, and its immediate appendages, called dyspepsia, pressure between the 2, 3, and 4, and some- times 5, and 6 dorsal, (counting from the last or large joint of the neck) produces pain. In tubercula of the liver, called chronic inflamation of the liv- er, or liver complaint; pain is produced by pressing on the right side, between the 7 and 8, and 8 and 9 dorsal, and directly op- posite to the lower part of the right shoulder blade. In tubercula of the spleen, pain is produced by pressure on the left side of the last named, or 7 and 8, and 8 and 9 dorsal, and opposite to the lower part of the left shoulder blade. In tubercula of the right kidney pain is produced by pressure on the right side of the space, between the 12th or last dorsal, and first lumbar vertebra, and in tubercula of the left kidney, 12 pain is produced by pressure on the left side of the 12th dorsal and 1st lumbar. In tubercula of the uterus, (womb) called lucorrhcea, chloro- sis, and menorrhagia, pain is produced by pressure, between the 2d and 3d, and 3d and 4th, and sometimes 4th and 5th lumbar, or between all the joints of the small of the back, except the 1st and 2nd. In tubercula of the genital organs, pain is produced by pres- sure, between the 5th or last lumber, and the oscoxyx. This pain produced by pressure, is always more or less se- vere, in proportion to the severity of the disease. If there is but little disease, the pressure will produce but little pain; but if there is much disease, the pain will be severe. The disease in whatever organ it may be, is always either ac- tive, or passive, and if it is active when such pressure is made, this pain, on every repetition of the pressure, will dart into the diseased organ, with ajorce or violence, proportioned to the in- tensity of the disease. These are first the natural symptoms df the disease in the limbs; and second the natural symptoms of the disease, in its ac- tive, and passive state, in the organs,—they are produced by na- tural causes;-and are very plain, invariable, and easily understood. When the disease has commenced in one organ or limb, it is frequently propagated from that to another organ or limb, as in the case of Mrs. J. P.—cases in which it is propagated from the tonsils and uvula to the lungs, and from the stomach to the lungs and from the liver to the stomach, and from the uterus to the an- kles, legs, and stomach, are very common. In distinguishing the disease in the cases of Mrs. J. P. and Master W. W. and in tracing it in the different organs and limbs I commenced and pursued the examinations as detailed in the cases as I commonly do, without any previous knowledge of them. Any person of common education and capacity, may ea- sily distinguish the disease in the same way, in any of the or- gans or limbs. Observations on the symptoms of Chronic Tubercula. It will be observed, on an examination of the cases that large tubercles, as well as those of a smaller size were always found on one or both sides of the neck, and always on the same side with the disease; except those in the cavities of the cranium or abdomen, and in those cases there was always more or less pain along the cervical, dorsal or lumbar vertebrae. This pain is some- times severe, but at others slight, and is generally described as a mere aching sensation, and is always intermittent,—is some- 13 times felt and at others not, but if we press with our fingers or thumb upon the sides of these vertebrae, one after another, such pressure will produce pain, and if the disease is active, or there is pain in the organ at the time, it will on every repetition of the pressure, dart into the diseased organ with a violence proportion- ed to the intensity of the disease; and it darts with such violence in some of its severe forms in the central organs, as to render it dangerous to apply strong pressure, as it would in such cases be easy in this way to extinguish life, and moderate pressure suffi- cient to hold the action of the heart and lungs suspended until it is removed. White swellings arise over tubercles, from infiltration of the absorbent vessels, and in the common form, are slow in their progress, with little pain in the first stage of the disease, and that of the dull or aching kind, with long intervals of ease; and have a more or less hard, and always an elastic and puffy feel. In the acute form in the organs viscera and limbs, the symptoms are the same, except it is more rapid in its course, and the pain violent and spasmodic, with short intervals of ease. CAUSES or THE SYMPTOMS OF TUBERCULA. The different organs and structures in the different parts of the body are formed with different kinds of glands, with their vessels, nerves, and connecting substance, for the different pur- poses of the organizations and it will be seen from these symp- toms that they possess an electric influence and are united to- gether by an electric medium in every part of the system. The electric fluid is united in these bodies in two different states of combination—the positive, with positive matter in the centre, and the negative with negative matter in the surface and produce motion by the forces of their repulsions and attractions and repel and attract each other with forces proportioned to their quantities in given spaces. The motions and forces of electric, gal- vanic, and magnetic matter, anJ lightning, are the same and caused B2 14 by repulsion and attraction; and they all produce heat and light, and are consequently the same fluids, modified by other matter. Repulsions are constantly succeeded by attractions and these are the na'.ural principles of motion. These motions are the push and pull or the repelling and attracting motions of the pulse, and those we use in walking and the same or jerking motion we feel in every shock from an electric machine. All the other mo- tions made by man and other animals, fiom the priest in the pulpit and the lawyer at the bar, to the dancing master and fiddler, and from these to the wood sawyer and maid at the churn; and from them to those of the animals feeding upon the plains are these mo- tions belonging to electric matter. The electric fluid in positive bodies, or those that have greater quantities of positive than negative, is repelled in large spheres in large lines from positive to negative bodies, or to those of smaller quantities of positive proportioned to its quantity in giv- en spaces, and is attracted in small lines in a negative state, from negative to positive bodies, and when those in^ a positive pass to a negative body, they move along their best conductors or mediums, and when they come in contact with nonconductors, the violence of their concisions or repulsions and attractions is proportioned to the size ofthe lines, or its quantities in given spaces. The nerves ofthe system, or electric conductors or mediums, are therefore necessarily large where they are united to the brain in a positive state, and branch, and become very small before they are united with glands in other parts of the system in a neg- ative state. In tubercula, the electric fluids are in some tubercles positive, and in others negative, and are repelled from those in a positive, to those in a negative state, and attracted from these to the posi- tive, through their mediums and produce in the tubercles the dull pains in its chronic form and spasmodic darting or lancina- ting pains when acute, and are always prevented from passing from a limb to an organ, or from one organ through an intermedi- ate organ to another, or from an organ to a limb by means of the ganglia of its medium, and this arrangement of the ganglia of the nerves makes the sympathy necessarily direct between the sur- face, head and central organs, and indirect between the head, cential organs and limbs, and is a necessary arrangement to en- able the brain to maintain its positive state, and the glands ofthe different parts of the system to transmit their separate electric fluids and sensations from one to another, and from these to the sensorum. These motions or repulsions of electric matter produce expan- 15 sions and evolutions of heat which are succeeded by darting or lancinating pains in tubercles in repulsions and reduced and ach- ing pains in attractions and contractions. These symptoms are the same as those produced by electri- city, and are easily imitated, and the electric fluid in these tuber- cles imitate that in the clouds by passing along its medium from one in a positive to one in a negative state, and the instant it be- comes positive to another, and in changing its course in zigzag lines and sometimes in passing in different directions, at the same time.—It passes into the tuberculated glands or papillae of the skin near the surface of the body—around and between the mus- cles—into those ofthe tongue, ears, eyes, brain, heart, lungs, liver, spleen, uterus and mucous and serous membranes as well as those of every other part ofthe system, but never into non- conductors or adipose substance with which they are surroun- ded. When the glands of a limb or organ begin to enlarge by the increase of their excre ions and secretions and consequent expans- ions of their electric fluids, they excite a disposition in others of other organs to enlarge and expand their fluids by direct or indi- rect sympathy as it happens to commence in a limb, near the surface of the body or in an organ and generally produce an ex- aultation in the inclinations and sesantions proportioned to the perfection ofthe glandular organization—the extent of the tuber- culations or power of their sympathies and are sometimes so strong as to resist or control the ideas excited by external objects. They are the organs of sensations which are communicated to the sensorium by their electric fluids through one set of nerves, and the inclinations are communicated from the sensorium to them by the same means through another. CAUSE OF TUBERCULA. The common cause of tubercula of the organs and limbs, is the frequent changes in the different states of the electric fluid, in the glands or elementary organs of motion, secretion and ex- cretion, from frequent changes in the electric states of the at- mosphere, and modifications of the electric fluids, secretions and excretions by heat and cold. In cloudy and damp weather the atmosphere is in a negative state of electricity, when patients with tubercula have more pain and feel more dul and heavy, than they do when the atmosphere is clear and dry and in a positive state. For when the atmos- 16 phere changes from the positive to the negative state, the body changes at the same time from the positive to the negative state. When attractions and contractions commence in the tubercula- ted organs and limbs, and produce dull or aching pains, which torture such patiens more or less, until the atmosphere changes from the negative to the positive state; when the pains cease and they arise from their cots, throw open the doors, and walk abroad with buoyant spirits. NATURAL REMEDIES FOR CHRONIC TUBERCULA. The surfaces of all animate bodies in motion, are in a nega- tive, and their centre in a relatively positive state. The glands of the skin or surface, and those of the serous membranes cover- ing the external surfaces of the organs, excrete an acid fluid, aeri-form or aqueous, in a negative, and those of the inter- nal surfaces, or mucus membranes of the alimentary canal, and other organs, excrete an alkaline fluid in a positive state, for the purpose of maintaining these surfaces, in these dif- ferent states of electricity. The intermediate glands ofthe or- gans and limbs, belonging to the excreting and secreting sys- tems, excrete and secrete other fluids, for different purposes; and these arrangements are necessary to support animal life, and when they are interrupted, the body suffers, or life is en- dangered in proportion to the extent, or violence of these inter- ruptions. Every kind of inanimate matter, is in a positive, or negative, or neuter state, and the true and natural mode of reducing or puring tubercula of the organs and limbs, is to apply a kind of positive matter (over a certain extent of the. surface, where the motion from the surface to the diseased organ or limb is direct,) 17 that will maintain itm a positive state. And at the same time admmister negative matter internally, that will increase the attractions and contractions in the organs and limbs. All the effect produced by the remedies recommended m med- ical books, if they happen to have any in this disease, is in ex- act proportion as they happen to correspond in some degree with these principles and remedies. The alkalies and the acids, and some of their compounds with other matter, are examples of positive and negative matter; and repel and attract each other under favorable circumstances, with forces proportioned to their quantities in given spaces. Those that I use called Galen's Pills and Plaster, are the most active of some of these compounds, among which are those with gold in a negative, and with Iron in a positive state. DIRECTIONS FOR USING THE NATURAL OR ELECTRIC REMEDIES CALLED GALEN'S PILLS AND PLASTER. One Pill must be taken night and morning, during three weeks, after which, one pill every night, excepting cases of children under three years and over one year aN a half, when half of a pill only must be given every night 'n going to bed, until the disease is cured, no matter what tlK state °f l^e stom- ach or intestines. In cases of children i*»Jer a year and a half old and over three months, a quarter jl'a P*'* mav be taken at bed time in any convenient vehicle. No dieting is necessary or pr'Per during the use of these pills-; but on the contrary the mos» nourishing food must be taken in all cases where the stom?~n will bear it, and it will always be borne after a few days- use of the pills. The plaster mi^t be spread very thin (it is no matter how thin) on the rough side of a piece of oil cloth, or on very thin and soft leather or on glazed cotton or linen cloth, and of a size 18 sufficient to cover the tubercles, ulcers, abscesses or white swell- ings or painful part of the system and applied to them and re- moved and renewed once in every day, either by adding a very little more of the plaster, and what will barely be sufficient to give it a new surface, or by spreading a new plaster. If on removing the plaster much of it should adhere to the skin, it may be washed off with soap, and the plaster re-applied, and this course must be pursued until the tubercles, ulcers, ab- scesses or white swellings are removed. Small vessicles ap- pear under the plaster in afew days after it is applied, filled with lymph, but they soon disappear, and others are formed and dis- appear, and require no attention whatever. In tubercula or what is called scrofula or chronic disease af- fecting the head or face, the plaster must be applied to the mid- dle and upper part ofthe back ofthe neck or upper cervical ver- tebrae—in consumption and also chronic disease of the heart (hypertrophy) it must be applied over the lower half of the neck and extend down between the shoulders over the first, second and third joint of the neck or dorsal vertebrae—in dyspepsia it must be applied over the first, second, third, fourth, fifth and sixth joints of the back between the shoulders—in chronic dis- ease of the liver or liver complaint, it must be applied from a point halfway between the shoulders, to the joints ofthe small of the back, or sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth and tenth dorsal—in chronic disease ofthe spleen (enlargement or aguecake) it must be applied in the same place—in the intestines and mesentery or chronic diarrhoea, it must be applied over the eleventh and twelfth dorsal and first and second lumbar vertebra—in the ute- rus or chronic disease of this organ or leucorrhoea, chlorosis or Menorrhagia, it must be applied over all the joints of the small ot ^e bwjk or lumbar vertebra;. In such cases, the leather or cloth tor tn, plaster may be cut five inches wide, and spread three inches -vide, leaving a margin on the sides and ends of about an inch, ^ must be renewed everv other day, by adding a little more of the olaster, and re-applied as before, and their use continued until the t;Sease is cured When white swellingof the joints or limbs over which lhese plasters are applied are cuwi, they are alwavs smaller than the corresponding well joinvs or llK|bs unlessfrom , continued dtserse the bones of a joint or Hi* have before its application become permanently enlarged. These remedies cure all the cases of tn* different forms of tu- bercula and m all their stages; to wit: Tuberculous 01 scrofulous sore eyes and ulcers of the cornea—ulcers of the ears—disease of the antrum and nose—tinea capitis or scald head—kings evil 19 in the neck—mercurial disease or chronic enlargement of the tongue and tonsils—chronic enlargement of the breast, or mam- ma including cancer in its first stage—phthisis, or consumption— hypertrophy of, or chronic enlargement ofthe heart—dyspepsia, or chronic disease of the stomach—chronic disease of the liver, or liver complaint—tabes mesenterica, or chronic diarrhoea— chronic disease of the utetus, or leucorrhoea, chlorosis, menor- rhagia, and incipient cancer of the uterus—ulcerated legs, fever sores—disease of the spine, disease ofthe hip joint—white swel- lings of the joints or limbs, and morbid alterations of structure in the synovial membranes or cases where one of these forms are complicated with the same disease in one or more organs, excepting a few only in the last part of the last stage, and ac- companied with irreparable injury or loss of substance as in ca- ses of white swelling of the thigh, which from long continued disease has become ulcerated and excavated to a great extent be- tween the hip and knee, or between the knee and ankle, and in cases where one or both lungs have become literally crammed with tubercles, or are in large clusters and in a mature state, or in cases of large excavations in the lungs and cases of a similar nature. These are all the same and different forms of chronic tubercula or what is called scrofula, affecting different parts of the svstem from the same causes, requiring the same remedies or treatment; but for which a great variety of treatment is rec- ommended in medical books founded on suppositions of various causes, for the same or different forms which sometimes palli- ate, but rarely cure any of its forms; nature, however, sometimes modifies or cures it by change of seasons or climate. There are seventy-five Pills in a box, a number sufficient, with a box of Plaster, to last a patient seven weeks, and to cure any of the recent cases of the disease in any of its forms. In cases, however of long continuance, or in its last stage, it will some- times from obvious causes which I have not room here to ex- plain, require two or three boxes of each. These remedies which I have used in my practice for more than twenty years, and during the time I have been investigating the phenomena of tubercula and about which there is no mistake are very active, but never produce any injurious or disagreeable effect upon the stomach, or any other part ofthe system, or any other that is noticed by such patients except a steady improve- ment in all the symptoms dependent on chronic tubercula. The cure commences immediately, or very soon after the commencement of the use ofthe remedies, and their action con- tinues steadily and forcibly, and cannot be easily diverted from their purpose, and the cure progresses steadily with a steady in- 20 crease of strength and flesh, unless it is retarded by colds which sometimes retard, but rarely, or never prevent a cure. I shall add from my case book a variety of other cases affect- ing the different organs and limbs, for the double purpose of showing the natural symptoms of the disease, and the action of the natural remedies ; and in a manner so plain as to enable any person of common education and capacity to distinguish the dis- ease and apply the remedies. Observations on the Cases. The number of cases published in this pamphlet amount to more than thirty, and I should be pleased to give the whole num- ber in which they have been used; but am unable to do so, in conseq-ence of not having kept an account of their number until last year (1835). Their yearly number was at first very few, and confined to the common and acknowledged cases of scrofula; but their number has gradually increased during a period of more than twenty years, and must now amount to several hundred. Their number, from the 1st of January 1835 to the 31st of De- cember of the same year, amounted to one hundred and sixty- three. The following is a list of cases during that year, affecting the different organs and limbs, viz. Neck, 18 Neck and eyes, 2 Neck, nose and spine, 1 Neck, tongue, tonsils and right leg, 1 Neck, jaw, tonsils, ear, cerebellum, breast, heart, stom- ach, uterus, one arm and both legs, 1 Neck and lung, 2 Neck and Stomach, 1 Neck and mesentery, 3 Tongue, tonsils and uvula, 1 Tongue, tonsils and right leg, 1 Nose and face, 1 Lungs, (first stage) 21 Lungs, last stage with tubercles in a mature state, I Lungs with excavations, 5 Lungs and both legs and one ankle with excavation of both lungs, i Heart, 3 Heart and liver, 4 Stomach, 19 Stomach and lungs, 5 21 Liver, 18 Kidney, (left,) 1 Liver and Kidney (right,) 1 Liver and Stomach, 4 Liver with abscess, 3 Mesentery, 1 Uterus and Legs, 3 Uterus and lungs, 2 Uterus and Stomach, 7 Joints and limbs, 31 Unknown, 1 Whole number of cases in 1835, 163 Of these cases the number cured is 154 Cases not cured, in consequence of not using the rem- dies a sufficient length of time, 3 Cases which have died, 6 Of the cases that have died the first was that of Master N. of Columbus, aged 16 or 17 years, whom I never saw, and of whose case I know nothing, except that it was about ten years since it commenced. The second case is that of Mrs. B., of M. in the last part of the last stage of tubercula of the mesentery, with a frightful marasmus. The 3d case was that of Mrs. K. of M. with cancer of the uterus in a state of ulceration, complicated with abscess of the liver, which was discharging matter through the right side in four places. The 4th case was that of Mr. W. W. of M. Michigan with tu- berculated right leg. left hand, heart, and scalp over the right frontal and right parietal bones. The leg and also the scalp ul- cerated in two places. He died of compression of the brain, in consequence of the injudicious use of nitrate of silver, which had been frequently applied by the direction of his physicians, to the upper part of the parietal bone, and penetrated through it to the brain, as shown by dissection. The 5th case was that of Mrs. S. of Cincinnati, with tuber- culated left lung in a mature state, and 6th the case of Mrs. C. of Cincinnati, with hypertrophy of the heart, and excavation ?f both lungs. In tubercula of the lungs, or consumption, the tubercles are generally found occupying the upper portion of the lungs, and the left lung mqre frequently than the right, in the propor ion of about two to one. They are frequently formed in clusters, like clusters of grapes; but at other times, are either seen thinly 22 scattered about in one, or in one and a part of another, or in both lungs; but at other times one or both lungs, are nearly every where filled with them, and are in this organ generally of the size of peas, when they have arrived to their mature state. They are the glands or elementary organs of motion and excre- tion, which begin to increase in size, by the force of the in- crease of their excretions, in consequence of obstructions to the natural course of these excretions and when their excretory ac- tion ceases, their fluids which are inclosed in separate layers of thin membrane, begin to harden, and in a few days or weeks have the color and hardness of old cheese, and cut like it. They then begin to soften in the middle of these round bodies of cheesey matter, covered with a common membrane, when the whole mass is gradually changed into a thin fluid, mixed with cheesey matter, which soon makes its way into the bronchial or air tubes, and excites cough and the expectoration of tubercu- lous matter. Sometimes however, although rarely, it makes its way into the cavity ofthe pleura, and produces pneumato-thorax. In the cases where there are only a few tubercles in the lungs, and at a sufficient distance from each, to prevent them from breaking into each other, and one or two soften down, and pro- duce a small excavation; they do not necessarily endanger life, for in such cases they may and do live many years, although they may have two or three such excavations form every year. In the cases where they are in clusters, and after one has softened down and produced a small excavation, others adjoin- ing it soften down and break into it, and in a few days or weeks, produce in this way excavations proportioned to the size of the clusters, and these may be from half an inch, to two inches in diameter, and when the whole of one or both lungs are nearly every where crouded with tubercles in a mature state, a large excavation is generally formed which might contain an orange. All these cases are curable with the natural remedies, in the first or formative 3tage of these tnbercles; but when there is a general accumulation of them, or they are in large clusters in a mature state; or in cases where they have softened down, and produc3d a large excavation, they are alike incurable, either from the injury done by their great accumulation, or from an irrepar- able excavation; but when they are in clusters not exceeding an inch in diameter, and whether they have softened down 01 not, they may, and do recover, as is proved by the stethescope, and by dissections, in cases where they have recovered from this disease, and afterwards died with another. The above observations apply generally to tubercula ofthe 23 liver, and need not be repeated. I may, however, remark, that tuberculous matter from excavations in the liver, generally makes its way into the intestines or stomach, and at other times either to the surface of the skin on the right side, or into the cavity of the peritoneum. Haemoptysis or hemorrhage from the lungs, frequently ac- companies consumption, and when blood is raised in small quantities, not much exceeding a wine glass full, it is generally exhaled from the mucous membrane of the bronchia, in place of its ordinary excretions, and is commonly a slight affection re- quiring little or no attention; but when raised in larger quantities, it is almost always the consequence ofthe affusion of blood in- to the air cells; and is an affection which from its exac' resemb- lance to the affusion of blood in the brain, in apoplexy, is now called pulmonary apoplexy. These organs into which the blood has been affused, are larg- er than natural, and are in clusters, and occupy a circumscribed space, commonly from one to three inches in diameter, in the centre of which a clot of blood is sometimes found. Hemorrhage from the lungs, may also be produced by an aneurism breaking into the bronchia, or by the rupture of a blood vessel in an excavation; but these cases are veiy rare, and quickly followed by death. It will be seen by the foregoing list of cases in 1835, that the mumber of those affecting the lungs is 37, and that of this num- ber, 21 were in the first stage, one in the last stage with tuber- cles in a mature state, and six in the last stage with excavations. And that of the whole number in this year, two only died, and those, cases in the last stage. From these data, which correspond very nearly with those of former years, the importance of commencing the use ofthe nat- ural remedies in the early stage ofthe disease in the organ, and the uncertainty of the result when in the last stage will also be seen. Of the whole number of cases affecting the neck, called King's Evil, and which must now amount to more than 200, not one has been lost, but all have been cured excepting the few now under treatment. And the result has been the same in the cases affecting other parts of the system, excepting a few only in the last stage, like those before noticed, with irreparable inju- ry, or loss of substance. The bones like the muscles and other parts of the body, are formed with glands, with their vessels and nerves, but have solid, instead ofthe soft connecting substance of the organs, mem- branes, muscles and skin, for the purpose of covering and pro- tecting some, and supporting every part of the whole system. 24 And when tubercula or white swellings commence in them, the disease goes through its natural order as it does in the organs, membranes, muscles, and skin, of tuberculatiotl and ulceration or tuberculation and then hypertrophy or general swelling and abscess. In its active state in bones of very hard texture, the pain is sometimes very violent and ofthe kind called spasmodic in consequence of their slow and difficult expansion, but there is generally but little pain, and with long intervals of ease, add when in the course ofthe disease the elementary organs of which the bones are formed, are destroyed by ulceration, the small ex- cavations once occupied by them, are very conspicuous and the channels of their vessels and nerves easily tract.d. In consequence of there being no generally known remedy for tubercula, it is the practice in this Country and in Europe and in the Hospital and Country practice, to amputate or cut off theliinbs in cases of tubercula or white swellings of the joints or limbs, whenever the disease is supposed to have advanced so far as to endanger life. The relief in such cases is however generally very temporary as the disease is commonly soon de- veloped in an other joint, limb or organ, and such patients consequently receive from such severe operations but a brief immunity from pain and death. In the case given of Mr. J. S. of Preble county, the thigh was amputated for a white swelling ofthe right knee; but the disease soon after attacked him in the left hip, and then in the left foot, when that of the hip became passive. If in this case the left leg, like the thigh of the right side,had been amputated on account of the disease in the foot, according to the common practice, the disease in the hip would have quickly become active and Mr. J. S. soon numbered with the dead. This case with that of Miss M. G. of Springfield, with acute white swelling of the heel; Mr. D. C. of the same place, with the same disease in the knee; and Master W. L. of Madison, with the disease in all the limbs and many of thejoints, with a great variety of similar cases show what is effected by the natural rem- edies without amputation. And I may here remark that on exami- ning the cases of amputation for tubercula of the joints and limbs re- ported in the London Meaico Chirurgical Review, during the last ten years, and including those that are called by different names, but really the same disease, there can be little or no doubt, but at least three fourths ofthe number, would have been rendered unnecessary, if the use of these remedies had been commenced even at as late a period as that in which they were performed, and this opinion is hazarded with the full knowledge ofthe fact that these reports were principally from the Hospi- 25 tals of London and Paris, and that these operations were per- formed by, or with the advice of Physicians and surgeons, who rank not only among the first, but as the elite of our art. The tuberculous or scrofulous, diathesis or taint, is destroyed by the natural remedies, but remains in the system after these opera- tions and the disease propagated to other organs and limbs. It will be seen on an examination of the cases, that those of Females affecting the uterus, or the Female complaints, were all complicated with the disease in some other organ or limb; and it may be useful to remark here, that the natural remedies cure it uniformly, whether complicated or not, and from rendering the blood more florid, as uniformly imparts a more florid hue to the skin. This disease in the different organs and limbs, consigns to a premature grave, its thousands every year in the United States alone of the most amiable, talented and fairest portion of our race, and an estimate may be formed of the value of these new symptoms and remedies to the community, from the well known fact, that little or no reliance can be placed on the common man- ner of distinguishing the disease, or in the remedies for it, known to the profession, or recommended in any of our medical books. A great majority of the cases that have been cured by the elec- tric or natural remedies, were first treated by other Physicians, and besides Mercury and Iodine, had been under the use of a great variety of other remedies, and when these failed, many of the patients had resorted to Root, Steam, Charm, Indian and Cancer Doctors, and to an endless variety of Elixirs of health Purifiers ofthe blood, Cough Drops, Panaceas, Catholicons and Indian Specifics; and continued their use until they became sat- isfied ofthe futility of such remedies. Some of these patients had taken from one, to thirteen bot- tles of Swaim's Panacea, a compound of Syrup of Sarsaparilla and muriate of mercury and imitation of the long known Lis- bon diet drink. And although from its frequent failure very little dependance is now placed upon it, there can be no doubt that it sometimes exercises a favorable influence upon this class of diseases. Although the materials and labor bestowed on these remedies, are very expensive, yet in consequence of their curing the dis- ease, with the same certainty that emetics and cathartics act upon the stomach and intestines; and a strong desire to check as soon as possible the now very great waste of human life, by this disease; Agents appointed to sell them, will have orders to refund the amount received, upon an affidavit made before a magistrate, that a box of them has been administered, according 26 to the directions without benefit to a patient, having the symp- toms of the disease in its first stage, in any ofthe organs or limbs, as described in this pamphlet accompanying the medi- cine if presented within three months from the time of the pur- chase. TUBERCULA OF THELUNGS. CONSUMPTION. Mrs. M. W.------, of Union, Butler county, Ohio, aged 34 years. I was called to see her, August 22d 1834. She is above the middle stature, dark complexion and slender form, but has enjoyed almost uninterrupted good health until about the first of June last, when she began to be feeble, and this fee- bleness continued and in the last week in July began to cough and in a few days after began to expectorate a thin and semi- transparent glutinous matter and it was not until yesterday morning that the appearance of this matter changed to a yel- low white colour and raised in a much larger quantity than usu- al which now gave alarm for her safety and induced her to send for assistance. Her cough too had been attended with some degree of hoarseness after a few of the first days, and had in- creased so much that it was now with great difficulty that she could raise her voice above a whisper. Her flesh is wasting rapidly, and in the last few days has had a little fever in the afternoon and evening with a flush on her cheeks and has be-* gan to sweat in the after part of the night. The catamenia has disappeared and her eye has the clear and glassy appearance and expression which gives to her counte- nance that peculiar vivacity so characteristic of consumption. She has a tubercle of the size of a pea on the upper and outer side of the left lower jaw and another of twice the size on the lower part of the neck and near the calvicle of the right side and both very sore or tender. Presure on the lower cervical vertebrae produces pain which darts from there into the chest, and pressure on the tubercle near the clavicle produces pain which darts under the clavicle, , Prescribed Galen's pills & plaster. The plaster 12 inches long 27 and five broad lobe applied over the last cervical and upper dor- sal vertebrae. One pill to be taken night and morning for one week and then one every night with the constant use of flannel cheme and drawers, and to continue her usual exercise and ex- I posure to the atmosphere. Her cough and hoarseness soon began to subside and in about four weeks they had very nearly ceased and she had gained con- siderable strength when she took a severe cold which increased her cough and hoarseness and lessened her strength, but they began to subside again in a few days and soon disappeared. October 28th. Examined her chest again with the stethes- cope and found that the respiratory murmur which at first was only heard very slightly in the lower part and only in a few places in the upper part of the lungs was now clear and distinct over their whole extent, but yet not as loud as natural. November 14th. The tubercles which were at first nearly round and hard have flattened down and nearly disappeared. The respiration is now as loud as natural over the whole extent of both lungs. She has no cough unless she gets a little cold, and then it is very slight and no more than common when en- joying good health, and has entirely lost the consumptive as- pect of her countenance and has nearly regained her usual flesh and strength. December 15th. Catamenia has re-appeared after an absence of four months, and her health in all respects perfectly restored. Her mother and two sisters have died with consumption. TUBERCULA OF THE RIGHTLUNG. CONSUMPTION —HEMOPTYSIS. D. S. of-------of spare habit, feeble constitution and light complexion, aged 46 years. He had inflammation of the right lung in December 1831, from which he recovered, and in the first part of November 1833, felt at different times a dull pain in the middle portion of the same lung, attended with a slight cough which increased gradually until the 14th of December, when on taking a severe cold it become very violent and was attended with some pain in the head, with depression of spirit. 28 These symptoms continued and on the morning of the 20th he raised or coughed up in a few minutes about a wine glass full of a thick white and greyish coloured matter and in less than 48 hours after had an attack of hemoptysis which continued about an hour, when it nearly ceased, the expectoration being now only tinged with blood. He had now great thirst, strength much exhausted, countenance pale and haggard with a slight flush upon the cheek, pulse quick and has a number of tubercles ofthe size of a pea and very hard on the right side ofthe neck and on the back part ofthe upper and lower jaw, besides a large submaxillary, one under the jaw ofthe same side. Pressure on this last tubercle produces pain which darts into the right lung and right tonsil which is so much enlarged as to produce diffi- cult and painful deglutition. He has also, an aching sensation between the shoulders, and pressure on the right side of the last cervical and first dorsal vertebrae produces pain which darts into the right lung and there is some soreness along the second and third dorsal also. Diagnosis. Tubercula and excavation of middle portion of right lung and tubercula of right tonsil. Prescribed Galen's pills and plaster, ten inches long and five broad over the cervical and upper dorsal verlebrae. His rough nnd expectoration \\ hich was sometimes coloured with blood, began to subside in about twenty four hours, and in seven weeks entirely disappeared, and his health restored. TUBERCULA OF THE NECK, INTESTINES AND MESENTERY. KING'S EVIL--MARASMUS AND DIARRHOEA. Mr. J. R. of H------- Ohio, merchant, of slender 1 abit and light complexion, aged 30 ye; rs. Called to see him No\ ember 5th, 1833. He has tubercles and ulcers on both sides of the neck, the tubercles very large and lias also an enlargement of the abdomen with irregular fever and diarrhoea and is pale and much emaciated. The disease commenced a few months since after an attack of bilious fever. His father died with the same disease in Cincin- 29 nati about two year ago, and he lost a brother with consumption in 1826, and a few months past a sister, and has another broth- er in the last stage of this disease. Diagnosis. Tubercula of the neck, intestines and mesentery. Prescribed Galen's pills and plaster. His fever and diarrhoea disappeared in a few days and his health soon began to.improve and in six weeks he was restored, and had gained during this time considerable flesh and strength. January 12th 1835. The brother mentioned above in the last stage of consumption is dead and also another sister with the same disease. The elder brother and sister as well as these last, resided in the state of Maryland and under the common treatment, the one residing here like those in Maryland would have long since been numbered with the dead. ACUTE TUBERCULA OF THE LEFT LEG SPINA VENTOSA. Master W. L----, of Somers, Preble county, Ohio, aged 5 years. Called to see him October 11, 1834. He had violent and spasmodic pain in the lower and forepart of the left leg with intervals of ease. The disease commenced five or six days be- fore, and on examining his neck we found five or six large tu- bercles on the left side. A physician had been every day in at- tendance and had prescribed the usual antiphlogistic remedies in- cluding a blister over the swelling, but the pain continued to re- turn with unabated violence; when he in the horrors of his ag- ony, continued to make the welkin ring with the melody of his voice. Diagnosis. Acute tubercula. We now took a scalpel and laid the swelling open along the course of the tibia about an inch and a half through the blister, integuments and periosteum to the bone. This operation, though a severe one was less painful than one of those turns of severe pain. We now placed a linen cloth ever it and directed it to be wet in a triple solution of sulphates of copper, iron and alumine in the following proportions viz: *C 30 blue vitrol one fourth of an ounce, copperas and alum each half an ounce, water one pint, and also to wet a roller bandage in this solution and commence at the toes and roll it moderately tight over the foot, ankle and leg to the knee and at night to re- move it and apply a fermenting poultice over the limb and in the morning to apply again the cloth, wash and bandage and to con- tinue this course until the pain ceased and then to discontinue the wash and poultice and apply Galen's scrofulous plaster with the roller bandage. We also prescribed Galen's pills, one to be taken night and morning for one week and afterwards - scribed for her, but she continued to get worse, and her flesh and strength were wasting rapidly. Prescribed Galen's pills and plaster. These alarming symptoms were checked in a few hours, her health soon began to improve, and in three weeks 48 her cough, fever, night sweats, and diarrhoea had disappeared, and in another week her health was re-established. This wa9 a case of rapid consumption, and she would not have survived under the common treatment more than one or two weeks longer. TUBERCULA OF THE UTERUS AND RIGHT LEG. Mrs. H. of Union, Butler county, Ohio, of the middling size and good constitution, aged 46 years. Called to see her August 17th, 1833. She has a large fun- gus ulcer on the right side of the right ankle. The foot and leg swelled as large as the skin will admit, which has a shining appearance, and the ulcer black and depressed from the sur- rounding averted edges of the skin. It is in form perfectly round and as large as the circumference of the top of a large tea cup, and is to the depth of half an inch, a gangrenous mass of fungi which emits a horrible smell. The swelling commen- ced about three months since. Her countenance is pale and sallow and she has leucorrhcea, with which she has been affected more than two years, and she is now feeble and emaciated,—Is suffering severely with dull and lancinating pains in the ankle and leg, and is confined to her bed. She has a number of tubercles on the right side of her neck, and pressure on two ofthe lumbar vertebrae, produces pain which darts into the uterus. Prescribed Galen's pills and a grain of Quinine, three times a day with a large fermenting poultice to the foot, ankle and leg, to be renewed morning and evening and Galen's plaster over the lumbar vertebrae. August 22d. The swelling of the limb is very much reduced and the gangrenous fungi have sloughed out and left a large and round chasm half an inch deep, the bottom of which is covered with fungus or round elevations of a red color surrounded with a white colored mat- ter, and the edges ofthe skin every where averted, & besides this formidable ulcer, the whole of the back part of the ankle from an inch above the bottom of the heel to four inches above the ankle, is now one mass of fungus or loose and spungy ulcers, the skin having entirely disappeared. 49 The limb was now washed with a solution of chloride of mercury; and adhesive plaster, spread very thin on strips of cot- ton cloth, two and a half inches wide and long enough to reach round the limb and lap over two inches and a sufficient number of them so spread to cover the limb from the lower part of the ankle to a point seven inches above it. I commenced apply- ing these strips by making one end of the strips stick fast to the side ofthe heel, and then drew it round below the ankle mode- rately tight and then took up another and fastened it as before, and lapped it on the first about an inch, and drew it on and let it lap over the end of the strip as before, and so with the remain- der of the strips until they were all on. I then took a roller bandage, wet in the above solution, and commencing at the toes, rolled it over the foot, ankle and leg to the knee. Directions were now given to keep the roller wet with the solution and remove it and the strips of plaster and wash the leg and ulcers and re-apply new strips of plaster, and the roller in the same way night and morning, and in case the limb should become more painful to remove them, and apply the fermenting poultice for twelve hours, and then again apply the wash, strips of plaster and roller. September 8th. The swelling of the limb has subsided, ex- cept a little about the ulcers, and they have commenced healing from their extreme points towards the centre. Her health has improved so much as to be able to sit up the most of the day, and the quinine directed to be discontinued. October 3d. Her leucorrhcea has disappeared and the ulcera- tions reduced to about one third of their original dimensions. The same course of treatment was continued with little varia- tion and in about two months they healed entirely, when her health was fully re-established. The manner of applying adhesive strips of plaster as was pursued in this case was first recdmmended by Cooper in cases ofthe common ulcerated legs, and it cured some cases, but the disease generally returned again after a few weeks or months* When however the disease is treated like this case with Galen's pills and the adhesive strips of plaster, the diathesis or taint in the system from absorption from these ulcers is destroyed and the disease does not return. The adhesive plaster I use in these cases is much better and cheaper than that obtained from the shops and is made by boiling Rosin and Lard in water an hour in the proportion of one ounce of Lard to every pound of Rosin and when nearly cold may be made into rolls of any con- venient size. The Rosin must always be good and free from impurities. The plaster must also be spread very thin and 50 very even and always applied precisely in the same way as in this case. When it cures the disease if it is not of more than 7 or 8 years continuance in from 5 to 7 weeks. TUBERCULA OF THE EYES. SCROFULOUS SORE EYES--ULCERS OF THE CORNEA. Miss E. A. S----, of S----, Hamilton county, Ohio, aged eight years. I was called to see her, February 6th, 1833. She had scrofulous sore eyes. The eyelids were very much thick- ened and swollen, and the membrane that lines the inside of them and covers the eye ball was very much inflamed; and she had two small ulcers on the sight of the right eye, (ulcers of ihe cornea,) and for the last two years has been almost blind, and could barely distinguish day from night; and for six weeks of the time has been entirely blind. She has not been able to bear the light to her eyes, and has consequently kept them con- stantly covered. She had a number of tubercles of different sizes, on the right side of her neck, and is pale, feeble and emaciated. Five physicians had prescribed for her, at different times, without any apparent benefit. And besides a great variety of the common tieatment, had been subjected to a thorough course ofthe most modern, including a seton two inches broad in the back of the neck, together with a powder composed of calomel and some astringents, finely levigated, and blown through a quill into her eyes. Prescribed Galen's pills and plaster. Her health began to improve in a few days from this time, and continued to improve, and in about twelve weeks the inflammation had entirely disap- peared from her eyes, and her eyelids were then as thin as they ever were; and her health good. 51 TUBERCULA OF THE SPINE. DISTORTION OF THE SPINE, LUMBAR ABSCESS, WHITE SWELLING, &C. Master J. S. of Sycamore, Hamilton county, Ohio, aged twelve years. I was called to see him, October 24th, 1832. He had tubercles of different sizes, on both sides of his neck, and it is now six years since they first appeared, and his health began to decline; and he had now a distortion of the spine, (back bone,) ninth dorsal vertebrae, which formed an obtuse angle backward; and the lumbar vertebrae, (joints of the back bone be- longing to the small ofthe back,) from this point to the os coxyx, inclined to the right side, so far as to form nearly half a circle; which, with the whole left side ofthe back, was occupied with a large lumbar abscess. The distortion of the spine commenced three years before, with white swelling on the right side of the spine. He had also a white swelling of the left thigh, and a very great enlargement of the abdomen, produced by an en- largement of the mesenteric glands. The lumbar abscess had been discharging serofulous matter about two years, which now amounted to more than half a pint in every twenty-four hours; and he was so much emaciated as to make his face, chest and limbs, except the left thigh, appear precisely like a skeleton covered with a thin skin. He had a severe cough, and was expectorating freely, and had hectic fever, night sweats, and diarrhoea, with irregular vacillating pain in the chest and stom- ach, which was much increased by the little food he was able to swallow; and he was now, and had been for the last two months, so feeble as to be unable to move his head, body, or limbs, excepting only feeble motions of his arms. Three phy- sicians had prescribed for him, at different times, without appa- rent benefit. Prescribed Galen's pills and plaster. His health in a few days began slowly to improve, and the quantity of matter discharged from the abscess gradually became less, and his cough, expectoration, fever, night sweats, and diarrhoea, gradually disappeared, and his appetite and strength improved. In May following, the discharge from the abscess was reduced 52 to about a teaspoon full in twenty-four hours, and the lumbar vertebrae had resumed their natural situation, in a line with the dorsal; and the enlargement of the abdomen had disappeared; and on the first of August he was able to walk. There was in this case a loss of bony substance in the dorsal vertebrae by the ulceration and the matter formed by it passed down along the facia of the soas muscle, and through the groin into the upper part of the thigh and produced the swelling or abscess there. There was also a loss of bony substance by ul- ceration on the left side of all the lumbar vertebrae, and the mat- ter discharged from these produced the lumbar abscess, and these losses of bony substance was the cause of the distortion ofthe dorsal, and of the obliquity of all the lumbar vertebrae. TUBERCULA OF THE JOINTS AND LIMBS. ULCERS, WHITE SWELLINGS, ABSCESSES, AND CARIES OF THE BONES. Master W. L. of Madison, Butler county, Ohio, aged eleven years. I was called to see him, May 29th, 1833. He had scrofulous tubercles, and a scrofulous ulcer on both sides of his neck, a white swelling of the left arm, between the shoulder and elbow, and another ofthe left thigh, and another of the left leg and another of the left ankle. He had also a white swelling of the right knee, and also of the right ankle, and an- other of the third joint of the fore finger ofthe right hand. The white swelling of the left arm was discharging scrofulous mat- ter, from abscesses in four places, that of the left ankle in two places, and that of the right ankle, and that ofthe hand, in one place each. The disease commenced about a year and a half before; first with white swelling ofthe right knee, and the other swellings and ulcers and abscesses gradually appeared as the disease ad- vanced. He was now confined to his bed and unable to walk, was feeble and emaciated, entirely deaf, and suffered much from pain, mostly at this time in both ankles and the left leg. Pre- scribed Galen's pills and plaster. The pain in his limbs began tQ subside in a few days, and his health to improvej a piece of 53 bone two inches long, half an inch wide, and three eighths of an inch thick, separated from the bone, and was removed from the left arm. The white swellings gradually became less, and in six weeks he was able to walk about in the fields. The swel- ling of the thigh terminated in abscess: I opened it, and it dis- charged about three gills of matter, and then healed rapidly. November 1st, 1833: The white swellings have all disappear- ed, and the abscesses and ulcers healed, and his general health is good. His jaws were so nearly closed as to only admit a finger be- tween them. All the teeth on the under jaw of tb« left side came out, and also a part of the jaw bone the whole length of the jaw in which the teeth were set; and there has come out of the same place an entire new set of teeth, and he can now open his mouth as wide as ever he could, and besides there has come out of the rooff" of his mouth a number of small pieces of bone. Pieces of bone also came out ofthe upper end of the tibia (shin bone) ofthe right side, from the left ankle joint, the left clavicle, (collar bone,) the mastoid process of the right side, (bone that projects under the ear,) and from the under jaw bone of the right side; and the right leg was drawn back so as to form nearly a right angle with the thigh, and the left so as to form an obtuse angle. TUBERCULA OF THE KNEE AND MESENTERY. Mr. D. C, of Springfield, Hamilton county, Ohio, farmer, aged thirty nine years, came to me October 15th, 1832, with white swelling of the left knee, and enlargement of the abdo- men, which he supposed to be dropsy, but was evidently caus- ed by enlargement of the mesenteric glands. His health had been declining more than a year, and the enlargement of the ab- domen commenced about a year, and the swelling and pain in the knee, which now rendered him a cripple, about four months before. Prescribed Galen's pills and plaster. In five weeks from this time, the swelling ofthe knee and enlargement ofthe abdomen had disappeared, and his usual good health restored. TUBERCULA OF THE NECK AND MESENTERY. Master T. I., of the city of Cincinnati, aged 18 months. I was called to see him about September 1st, 1830. He had a s'-tofulous ulcer under each ear, which were discharging scrof- ulous matter very freely, and a number of tubercles of different sizes, on both sides of the neck, and an enlargement of the abdo- 54 men, with diarrhoea. It was now more than a year since the disease commenced, and he had irregular fever, and was feeble and emaciated. Five or six physicians had attended and pre- scribed for him, but the disease grew worse. Prescribed Galen's pills and plaster. His health began to improve in a few days, and in about six weeks the ulcers were healed and the tubercles had disappeared, and his health was in all respects restored, and has continued good. COLOUR OF THE SKIN IN CHRONIC TUBERCULA. In the foregoing cases of chronic tubercula ofthe limbs, neck, head and face there was little or no discolouration of the skin and there is little or none of the membranes which cover the tuberculated organs. There are however rare cases of this dis- ease in which a red colour of the skin is sometimes produced by accidental causes, and in order to prevent these cases which are incurable by other remedies, from being mistaken for anoth- er disease, the following case is presented. Miss M. G. aged 10 years was brought to me January 26th, 1836. The lower half of her nose is swelled and of a scarlet red colour. The lower half of both cheeks, upper and under lip and chin are also swelled and of the same scarlet colour, and they all have a smooth and shining appearance except in some places along the cheeks where they are tuberculated and along the upper lip where tubercles have ulcerated and are discharg- ing matter. The disease commenced about five years since with pain and then a thin or sanious discharge from the nose, which from its frequent application to the skin produced the swelling, ulcera- tion and scarlet colour of this part of the nose and face. She has a black and very intelligent eye and is apparently a perfect beauty saving the frightful deformity produced by this disease from which she has suffered long and sometimes severely. The line or ganglia of glands on both sides of her neck with the submaxillaries under the jaws and the parotids are tubercu- lated. The tubercles very large and painful under pressure. Pressure on a small tubercle ofthe right side of the first cer- vical vertebrae produces pain which darts into those under the jaw and into the throat of the right side and into the nose. 55 Pressure on one of the left side of the same vertebrae produces pain which darts into those under the jaw and into the throat and face of the left side* I now examined the mouth and found both tonsils tuberculated and the tongue one third larger than natural. A number of physicians have as usual attended and prescribed for this patient. Diagnosis. Tubercula ofthe nose, face, tonsils and tongue. Prescribed Galen's pills and plaster. The disease began to subside in a few days, and at the end of 10 weeks it had entirely disappeared, and the colour ofthe skin natural. One plaster was applied in this case over the first cervical vertebrae. One over the lower part of the lower jaw and upper part of the neck of both sides and one over the swelled and scarlet portions of the face. She wore the plaster on the face 4 or 5 weeks only, and on the neck seven or eight. FINALE. I have thus given the new and natural symptoms of chronic tubercula and the new and natural remedies founded on the nat- ural causes of motion in animate matter, which cure the disease by merely changing the natural motions in the organs and limbs, and are consequently perfectly safe for patients of all ages and conditions. And it may be useful to observe here that the demand for the remedies employed in the cure of the foreeoing cases from casual or accidental knowledge of them has become so great as to employ me almost constantly in their manufacture and at the price of 10 dollars, for a box of each. They are now for the first time, by the solicitation of a great number of friends, advertised in the public journals and an assistant employed in their manufacture. And in order to pro- tect us and the public from a counterfeit and spurious article that may be attempted to be passed for the genuine; these reme- dies will be accompanied with this pamphlet, and the top of the boxes containing them will be covered with labels made from the same plate with those on the last page—all of which are protected from counterfeits by the laws of congress. 56 GLOSSARY. Abscess, A swelling containing matter. Antrum, Cavity under the cheek bone. Axilla, Armpit. Catamenia, Monthly discharge from the uterus. Cerebellum, A part of the brain. Cerebrum, A part of the brain. Cervical, The neck. Cervical Vertebrae, The seven uppermost joints ofthe spine. Chlorosis, Retention, or suppression ofthe monthly discharge from the uterus. Clavicle, Collar bone. Cranium, Skull. Diagnosis, Distinguish the disease. Dorsal, Back. Dorsal Vertebrse, Joints of the back between the cervical and lumbar vertebra?. Excavation, A hole. Excretions, These are formed by the excreting system and are convey- ed to the surface of the mucus membranes and skin, and then ex- pelled from the body. Expectoration, Discharge of matter from the lungs. Expectorates, Raises or coughfs up matter. Flacidity. Soft and flabby Glands, Round organised bodies with vessels nerves and connecting substance. Ganglia of Glands, Knobs of, or a line of glands, (kernels.) Hemorrhage, Discbarge of blood. Hypertrophy, Swelling. Inguinal, Appertaining to the groin. Intestines, Bowels. Lung, The lungs, (lights.) Leucorrhoea, A discharge from the uterus of a whitish and sometimes of a yellow or greenish colour. Muscles, Distinct portions of flesh of different lengths and forms with which the body and limbs are moved. Marasmus, Emaciation. Menorrhagia, Excessive monthly discharge from the uterus. Mesentery, The caul. Oedematous, A soft inelastic or doughey swelling which when pressed with the finger leaves its mark for sometime. Oesophegus, Gullet Spine, Boney column ofthe back composed of 24 bones called verte- brae, 7 cervical, 12 dorsal and 5 lumbar. Stethescope, A tube, or accoustic instrument to distinguish diseases of the chest by the different sounds in its different diseases. 57 Secretions, These are formed by the secreting system and are conveyed from every part of the body to the heart and centre of the circu- lating system. Tonsil, Organs called glands (amonds of the ears) situated on each side ofthe throat. Tubercle, Enlarged and diseased gland. Tibia, Shin bone. Uvula, Palate. INDEX. Page. Introduction, 5 Symptoms of Tubercula, 5 Observations on the symptoms, 12 Causes of the symptoms, 13 Cause of Tubercula, 15 Natural remedies, 16 Directions for useing the natural or electric remedies called Ga- len's pills and plaster, 17 Observations on the cases, 20 CASES. Tubercula of the lungs or consumption, 5, 26, 27, 39, 44, 47 " ofthe neck, intestines, and mesentery, 28 " of the stomach, 33, 34, 35 " of the liver and stomach, - 30 " ofthe stomach and uterus, 37 " of the liver, 9 " ofthe left leg, 29 " of the right hip joint, 32 " ofthe left hip and foot, 33 " ofthe heel and ankle joint, 46 " of the joints, limbs, and jaws, 52 " of the knee and mesentery, 53 " ofthe tongue, right tonsil, right side of the neck and right leg, 40 " of the uterus and right leg, 48 " of the antrum, nose, stomach, uterus and cerebrum 38 " of the nose, face and tonsils, 54 " of the tonsils, uvula and tongue, S " ofthe intestines and mesentery, 36 " ofthe neck and mesentery 53 " ofthe scalp or scald head, 31 " of the Eyes, 9, 50 " of the neck and spine, 45 " of the spine and lumbar abscess, 51 '« of the lip terminating in cancer, 42 of the uterus terminating in cancer, 43 58 THE END. > J These symptoms are the same as those produced by electricity, and are easily imitatei', and the electric fluid in these tubercles imitate that in ilie clouds by passing along its medium from one in a positive to one in a neg- ative state, and the insiant it becomes positive to another, and in chan^ ■ g its course in zigzag lines, and sometimes in passing in different direction, at the same time.—page 15.