hl&*£ TtCC C 6< v C C c 1- ap'CcctCL Price, Twenty-Five Cents. THE CONTAINING BRIEF TREATISES ON SOME OF THE PRINCIPAL DISEASES OP NORTH AMERICA V AND SUGGESTIONS FOR ».« THEIR TREATMENT AND CURE. WITH A BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF JAMES McCLIFfOCK, A. M., M. D., Lote Profoasor of Anntomy aud Surgery in the Philadelphia College of Medicine, and Acting Professor of Midwifery; one of the Consulting Phyaiciana of the Philadelphia Hoapital, Blockley ; late Member of the National Medical Association; Member of the Philadel- phia Medical Society; Member of the Medico-Chirurgical College of Philadelphia; formerly President and Professor of Anatomy and 8urgery in Castleton Medical College, Vermont; and also, late Professor of Anatomy and Physiology in Berkshire Medical Jpstitute, Pittsfield, M»M, etc This Treatise should be carefully preserved in every family. Tedious and painful sickness may be thereby avoided, and life itself preserved. NEW YORK: CUSHMAN CO., Operative Chemists, 295 Broadway, Entered accordinf to Act of Conrret*. t's tkt year 1855, by Uusii«an Co, #« M- C'erk't OjfLet 0/ rAe Dtitriot Court of the United SUUet for Ik* Southern DUtrict of Sno York. DOCTOR JAMES McCLINTOCK TO A. CUSHMAN. Tli's is to certify tttat 1 have placed in the hands of Messrs. A. Cushman' & Co., New York, the recipes of my "Family Medicines," with my full authority to prepare and offer them for popular use. They are such as 1 have been in the habit of recommending and prescribing for many years, and it is ny belief that the general introduction of these Remedies would be in many respects a public benefit. In securing the co-operation of Mr. Alex. Ccbhmax, who is a thoroughly-educated Chemist, and practical Apothecary of many years' exptrtioce, 1 am enabled to assure the public that they will be. prepared in the best, purest, and most perfect form, regardless of expense. S^^^^&Z^^ 2^p ALEXANDER CUSHMAN TO THE PUBLIC. K?" The. subscriber, in the course of his active practice as Dispensing Chemist during fifteen years, most of the time in the well-known firms of John Milhau, and Rushton, Clahk & Co., New York, has had daily opportunities of seeing and preparing the prescriptions of the most eminent physi- cians, among whom he would name Dr. Mott, Dr. Parkeb, Dr. Francis, Dr. Cheeseman, Dr. Reese, Dr. Whittakeb, Dr. Schmidt, Dr. Hosack, Dr. Kissam, Drs. Pratt and Yo'ungJ Dr. Beals, Dr. Green, and many others. The experience thus acquired, enables him to testify that the prescriptions of Dr. James McClintock are not only composed of the most valuable medicinal agents known to, and habitually employed by, our best practitioners, in the treatment of the several diseascefor which they are intended, but they are combined in such accurate proportions in relation to their chemical and medicinal effects, as to secure the attainment of the utmost increase of their jpwer and efficacy. For himself, he refers to his past career, as his guarantee to the Public thaf these great remedies will be faithfully prepared in strict accordance icith the. prescriptions of Professor McClintock. ■Cp^t^zCsyt' Wc\t erollegc of flljarmacB of tlje OTitji of Net»![)ork. To all whom it may concern. litems, ALEXANDER CUSHMAN has served a regular apprenticeship to the Drug and Apothecary bosmess ha« attended two full rom-ses of lectures in the School of Pharmacy of said Pol We. and after ... examination by tb. Bo.nl of Trustee. „nd the Professor is deemed qualified oprl »n dispense medicines and to conduct the bu-in.-s* of Dhuogist and Apothecaby he is therefore declared to he. Gbaduatb in the College of Pharmacy of the City of New York. "roTMECABr- ne ,s u,"9l0re declared «° "• » n 'n TeSIIM°.NJ[ *rH"»°»T are hereunto annexed the signatures of the proper officers and the seal of the said College, this eighteenth day of March, in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty seven ?-sVX;JH?CaEADY' M' D- Profewor of Materia Medica and Pharmacy LAWRENCE REID. Professor of Chemistry nnrmacy. Attest „ „ JOHN MILHAU, President AISCSI— OI.IVIK Hull, ) John Mbakim, .,„„„ H CulIUE , Vice-Presidents. Secretary. Gbo. D. Coogbsiiall, r^Sa\r^ itRnda'"d. ftrtic,,» •» prepared at our Laboratory, under the personal supervision of our Mr A CU&HMAN, whoso experience hs a Pharmnceut cal Chemist for tnanv veais en«hl«T n. tl ..V,!!^..?. °ur wr-A- tomers their entire purity and genuineness. Our ex^s^e fociHties" nable us SSthrhpJ„? ,h.~J 1° CUBJ modern apparatus to manufacture in large quantities while we,^m^S!^h,^^tSL^ ^^""^ material,, so that they may be fully depeX Vn by ^7.1^! famfi a^pUlic " ^ ^^ McClintock's Family Medicines. Tincture- Extract Jamaica Ginger. Aconiri, Concentrated Syrup Siirsaparilia. Bals. Toln. Flavoring Extracts, assorted. Belladonnas. Effervescing Citrate of Maanesia. Benzoin Cornp Tasteless CHStor Oil. " Colombaj. Pelo-Crescian for the H>iir. Camphora Florida Water for the Toilet Opii. Camph Tinct Aloes and Myrrh, (Elix. Pro.) Cantbnridea. Arnicas. Capsici. •' Auranta Cardamomi. Ointatrats, \ Att A* officinal preparations accordjnt: to the United States Pharmacopeia Trice Lists o Extracts, sic., , ««e above, or any other arttcle^ Wfci* m.y be required, will be funiUbed on> applicallon All orders for the above articlos muat be addrmsed to Sii>«tar»— Catechu. Cinchonas. Colchici Conii. Cubebae. Digitalis. Ferry Murtati*. Gent. Conip. Giiainci. Uyosciami. Tincture— Jaiapsa. Lobelia. Lavender Comp. Lnpull. . Myrrhai. Saponis Cam ph. Liniment). Scillao. Ptramonil. Valeriana). (Soap CTJSHMAN CO., Ho. 295 Broadway, New York. INTRODUCTORY REMARKS, ADDRESSED TO THE COMMON SENSE OF THE PEOPLE. The world has long suffered from the impositions of quackery. Every individual of common sense will acknowledge, upon a moment's reflection, the absurdity of the claim of ignorant pretenders, that all diseases can be cured by the use of a single remedy. A remedy too, which generally proves to be either a worthless combination of cheap drugs, or a preparation of a dangerous character. These evils have long been a source of unavailing regret to conscien- tious professional men, who have found the quiet and certain results of research and science in- competent to resist or diminish the deluge with which the country is constantly overflowed, of Universal Panaceas, All-Curing Pills, and Pain-Relievers of such mysterious properties as were never known to be combined in ono form. No absurdity lias proved too gross for as- sertion, sustained as they are by factitious testimonials from obscure or unheard-of persons. The true means of placing an effectual obstacle to the further progress of such mercenary, and highly-injurious traffic in the health and lives of the people, has at length, we are con- vinced, been discovered in the substitution of good and reliable medicines, prepared and pre- sented in a topitlar form for the first time in the history of medicine, by men of the highest standing in the profession — of acknowledged science, unblemished integrity, and long experience. It was this view which induced Dr. James McClintock to take a step upon which no physician of real eminence had previously the moral courage to adventure. He resolved to meet quackery in its own arena, and through the business-columns of the public press, to advertise the remedies sanctioned by nearly thirty years of successful medical experience, and give the world a full opportunity to choose between the products of science, and the dangerous nostrums of imposture. This was a bold determination but it has been fearlessly and triumphantly carried out. Journals of the first respectability, in all parts of the Union, have applauded this movement, and as the prestige of Dr. McClintock's professional standing and experience necessarily attaches itself to his medicines, they are everywhere coming into rapid and increasing demand. It is certainly a duty which the sick owe to themselves to ascertain before they take a medicine, whether the physician who offers it has a just claim to their confidence. Were this rule applied to the universal medicine men of our day, but a small amount of their potions would ever reach the stomachs of the public. The reader will find, however, that the biography of Dr. James McClintock affords such an endorsement of the value of his medicines, that no patient after perusing it, need hesitate to accept the ono recommended as appropriate to his particular ailment. On introducing these medicines to the public, Dr. McClintock vested their proprietorship in the hands of Messrs. A. Cushman & Co., the head of which firm is widely and favorably known as a leading chemist, a graduate and late trustee cf the " College of Pharmacy of the City of New York," and who superintends their manufacture and sale at the Laboratory, 295 Broadway, New York. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF JAMES McCLIXTOCK, A. II,, II, D, Thb subject of our memoir was born in Lancaster co., Pennsylvania, in the year 1809. In 1810, the family re- moved to Philadelphia, and his father engaged in business pursuits, whicb, after some years of prosperity, were brought to a sudden and unfortunate close by unexpected financial disasters. Poverty, however, hns generally proved favorable to the development of genius and energy, and it seems to have acted like a healthful stimulant upon tan mind of young McClintock. Arrived at a suitable age to choose a vocation, he determined to study medicine; indeed he had evinced, from boyhood, a strong predilection for the profession, and while his school- mates were amusini themselves with works of fiction, he would pore over medical works or make amateur dis- sections of dead animnls, in order to become familiar with their anatomy and physiology. At the age of seventeen he commenced his medical studies under the celebrated Dr. Eberle of Philadelphia, whose standard works on the practice of medicine are known to the profession throughout the world. The young student had received a good English and classical education, and possessed a mind capable of retaining with vice- like tenacity whatever it had once fairly grasped. His power of acquisition was also wonderful, and under the ad- mirable prec,-ptorship of Dr. Eberle he soon became a reliable practitioner. We next find him in the office of Dr. George McCli-llan, whose name stands in the foremost rank of American Surgeons. Young McClintock was the favorite pupil of that distinguished operator, and during the latter part of bis time generally assisted at the most important operations. During his pupilage, he enjoyed the advantages afforded by the practice of the Pennsylvania Hospital and Phila- delphia Almshnus.; Infirmary. He attended and practised post-obit examinations and dissections with the utmost ardor. He attended the first course of lectures delivered in tho Jcft'erson College in Prune street, in n building whicb the College had rented, and was the first graduate; of that school, after its occupation of the present site. His proficiency may be imagined when we state that at the age of twenty, and for three years subsequently, young McClintock was assistant Professor in the dissecting hall, and at the age of twenty-four delivered u course of lectures on Mil wifery in Jefferson College. During riv* dreadful epidemic of 1832, he was appointed physician to the City Cholera Hospital, and was on duty also at the Ciiy Prison. At that time he frequently saw a bundled cases daily, and his genius, aided by such im- mense experience, enabled him to discover a reinm y of astonishing efficacy, when taken in the early stages of this terrible disease, whicb, having been made public, became celebrated under the narau of Dr. McClintock's Diarrhcea Cordial and Cholera Preventive BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF JAMES MCCL1XT0CK, A. M., M. D. In 1838, Dr. McClintock opened a Dissecting Room in Philadelphia, and delivered lectures to the largest pri- vate classes ever collected in the United States. His lame was now extended throughout the whole country as an unsurpassed lecturer, and hundreds of students flocked from all quarters to listen to his eloquent and learned ex- position; of the noble art of healing. In 1839, he was appointed one of the attending physicians to the Almshouse Infirmary, which station he filled for several years. In 1841, he became Professor of Anatomy and Physiology in Castleton, Vt., and also lectured in PittstMd, Mass. In 1842, he returned lo Philadelphia, and re-established the 'School of Anatomy." This year he declined the offer of the chair of Anatomy in the Washington University, Baltimore. Space will not permit us to enumerate all the professorships and other posts of honor in the profession, which Dr. McClintock has at various times accepted or declined. In 1647, he applied to the legislature of Pennsylvania for the charter of an institution to be known as the Phila- delphia College of Medicine. The progress of this college has been without a parallel in medical history. Within two years from the time it was opened it numbered between two and three hundred pupils. As a lecturer Dr. McClintock is a phenomenon. His remarks are entirely extemporaneous. He does not even bring a note to the task. His gigantic memory comes to his aid with every detail arranged in its proper order, and his enunciation is as distinct and emphatic as his arguments and illustrations are forcible and perspicuous. As a surgeon, Dr. McClintock does not belong to the slap-dash school. He never performs an operation for the operation's sake. Ho delineates, and carefully weighs all possible and probable contingencies before he takes up the knife; but, having taken it up, firmness, confidence, and precision, characterize his every movement till the work is done. On one occasion during the; time ha occupied the chair of Anatomy nnd Surgery in the Phila- delphia College of Medicine, a woman was brought in to have her arm amputated below the elbow. The class were present and he thus addressed them : " I have told you that, in most surgical operations, quickness ought to be avoided. You have witnessed in many cases, how slow and cautious I have been. In amputations, however, cut rnpidly. — I will show you — now I begin." He took hold of the arm, the flesh was cut through, the bone sawed asun'der, and the limb removed iti twenty-two seconds. This celerity ia,no hurry with him. He knows what he is about, as well as the accomplished pianist in the mo~t rapid execution. At another time a girl of 18.—Eliza S------, of Yardleyville, Bucks co., Pa.—was brought into the arena, to have a portion of bone sawed from the head. Ho said to his class : " This is one of the cases in which the greatest care is necessary ; if too much force be used, the delicate membranes of tho brain may be injured by the saw, and fatal consequences ensue ; the life of a human being hangs on your knowledge, your calmness, your caution. With such an awful responsibility you can not be too alow." Ha used the saw slowly and gently. He picked the dust "'from time to time from the sawed furrow and gradually removed the circular piece of bone. The girl was in the bloom of youth and beauty. More than six years have elapsed since those two operations took place, and the in- dividuals are alive and well. A manly candor marks the conduct of Da. McClintock in his intercourse with his patients. He never deludes the death-stricken with false promises of amendment and ultimate cure. If a case is hopeless he gives due warning of the fact, in order that the sufferer might have time to prepare for the great change. His perseverance is indom- itable j his motto that of Richelieu, "there is no such word as fail." He despises cliques and abhors sycophancy, and hence, as may well be believed, he has made enemies among the formalists, the prucisionists, the martinets of the profession. Without the aid of patronage or favor, by the force of his own intellect, skill, and Industry, ho has raised himself to a position of which any member of the faculty might be justly proud. Such is the man who has descended — if descending it can be called — from the pedestal of professional exclu siveness, into the common arena, to do battle with Charlatanry and Imposture for the good of mankind. His ju- dicious preparations have already done more to drive out of the market the vile nostrums of quackery than the dignified sneers of the faculty could accomplish in a century. Dr. McClintock has long been known and acknowledged throughout the United States and Europe as ono of the first anatomists and physicians of the age : and from the preceding sketch of his professional career, it will ba seen that few have ever occupied a more favorable position for observing the nature of disease in all its varieties, and studying its appropriate remedies, and his standing in the profession is the best evidence that he wisely im proved his opportunities. The following resolutions from the minutes of the "Philadelphia College of Medicine," August 28tb, 1853, will show the estimation in whicb Prof. McClintock was held by his associates:— Resolved, That it is with feelings of sincere regret the Corporators of the Philadelphia College of Medicine have receiviid the resignation of Da. James McClintock, as Professor of Anatomy in that institution — a situation held by him since the organization of the College. Resolved, That as the Founder of the Philadelphia College, Da. McClintock is deserving of much praise, in add. m" another to the many excellent means of medical instruction existing iu Philade lphia; and in the opinion oi this doard, much of the success of the Philadelphia College is to be attributed to his great business energy and ca- pacity ns a lecturer and demonstrator of this branch of teaching, in which department we believe he iias n« SUPERIOR LIVING. Resolved, That we part with Da. McClintock with much regret; and with the best wishes for his future suc- sess in life. NATURE, SYMPTOMS, AND TREATMENT OF SOME OF THE PRINCIPAL DISEASES OF NORTH AMERICA. CONSUMPTION. In this country the deaths by Consumption of the lungs—amounting to about one fourth of the whole—constitute the heaviest item in the statistics of mortality. The symptoms of the disease vary so much in different individuals, both in the order in which they present themselves and in their intensity, that it is difficult to give such a general description as will apply to all its phases. Different Stages of Consumption. In the First Stage the symptoms are chiefly those of Catarrh—as a short, frequent, irritating Cough, which is commonly referred to a titillating sensation in the Throat, Languor,'Debility, some Shortness of Breath, and sometimes Hectic Fever and Emaciation. The Expectoration, if any, is of nearly transparent mucus, occasionally containing streaks of blood. There is often, too, considerable intermittent pain in the Chest and in the Shoulder joints. The pulse is, almost uniformly, accelerated. The Second Stage is distinguished by an aggravation of all the characteristics of the first. The Hectic Fever is more marked; Chills occur in the evening, followed by fever and sweats at night; the weakness and emaciation increase, and the expectoration contains small specks of pale-yellow matter resembling curds. The patient is also sometimes subject to Neuralgic Pains in the limbs, head, &c. Blood is also in many cases discharged from the lungs, either pure or mixed with the expectorated matter. In the Third, or Colliquatite Stage, the body rapidly wastes away. The night-sweats are more profuse; Diarrhoea sets in; the expectoration becomes purulent and generally of an ashy color; the difficulty of breathing is so great as to threaten suffocation ; the feet and ankles swell; the chest caves in; utter prostration ensues; and finally death ends the sufferings of the patient. It is scarcely necessary to say that the Immediate Cause of Consumption is the Formation of Tubercles in the structuic of the Lungs, and that when suppuration takes place and abscesses are thus opened in these delicate organs, the destruction of their fragile substance is very rapid. The Predisposing Causes of Consumption are many. A Scrofulous taint in the blood, is one of them, and the disease is almost always combined with other disorders. Dr. Louis states that one in every three who die from what is called Tubercular Consumption, has suffered from ulceration of the windpipe. Ulceration of the bowels is also one of its frequent concomitants. The Liver, too, generally undergoes a marked change, becoming fatty and soft; and the stomach often manifests unequivocal symptoms of dyspepsia. Mode of Cure. These significant facts with may others of a like nature, would seem to indicate a necessity for acting upon the various organs affected by different remedies. Da. McClintock has found in the course of his comprehensive practice that his Cold and Cough Mixture in the incipient stages of the disease, and the Pectoral Syrup * in all three stages, combined, when requisite, with the Dyspeptic Elixir or Tonic Alterative Syrup, to give tone to the stomach and strength to the system, have produced the most salutary effects. The Pectoral Syrup never injures, but, on the contrary, strengthens, heals, and purifies, while it affords nourishment to the impoverished blood, and gradually builds up the broken coo- * A full description of the properties and uses of the Pectoral Syrup and Cougb Mixture will be found in s Circu- lar Inside the wrapper of each bottle. PRINCIPAL DISEASES OF NORTH AMERICA. stitution. It is essentially life-giving in its nature. Its ingredients are selected from the choicest production of the vegetable kingdom, and no mineral or narcotic substance whatever is contained in it Its first effect is to soothe the irritation of the Mucous Membrane which lines the air pas- sages, and which gives so much distress by which is called & tickling of the throat. This symptom is generally relieved by the first dose. At the same time it quiets the Cough, and promotes ex- pectoration by softening and changing the morbid nature of the tough matter which clogs up the vessels of the throat and lungs, thus enabling the patient to breath more freely, and to escape the fatigue of a distressing and tight cough. Its effect upon the Stomach is Cordial and Tonic. It stimulates the powers of digestion, and thus corrects the formation of imperfect blood, while it imparts a delicate nutriment, which is perfectly adapted to replenish the exhausted veins of the Consumptive. In the Diarrhoea Stage, the Diarrhoea Cordial may be given with infinite benefit, and when the liyor is affected Dr. McClintock recommends small doses of the Anti-Bilious Fills. Without averring that tuberculous Consumption, in its worst stage, can always be cured, it is quite safe to say that it can never arrive at that stage, if met at an earlier period with the appropriate remedies from Dr. McClintock's list of Family Medicines. Pure air, moderate exercise, and a Nutritive Diet, are powerful adjuncts of the physician in the treatment of this formidable disease, and a change of climate is almost always beneficial. BRONCHITIS (Acute and Chronic). The disease, known as Bronchitis, which has of late years become extensively prevalent in the United States, is an affection of the Bronchia, or air-passages leading from the windpipe to the lungs. What is termed a " common cold" is, in fact, an acute form of Bronchitis, commencing with irritation in some portion of the air-tubes, accompanied by a tickling Cough. As the Cough increases in violence a thin frothy phlegm is expectorated, which gradually changes, with the progress of the cold to a thick yellow tenacious matter which is more easily raised. The dis charge diminishes in quantity as the disease moderates, the tickling decreases, and finally all the symptoms of irritation disappear. Such is the course of a " common cold," when the system is sufficiently vigorous to throw it off unaided. There arc comparatively few persons, however, whose constitutions will permit them to neg- lect an attack of this kind, or to leave it entirely to its own course, in a climate so variable as ours. Cold and Moisture, together with these sudden and tremendous changes of temperature which arc perilous even to the strongest organs of respiration, tend not only to produce but to prolong and intensify this disease; so that it may almost be said that every fresh cold is an ad- ditional nail in the patient's coffin. In the absence of due care and proper treatment a constant succession of new attacks is likely to occur, each aggravating the complaint and rendering re- covery more distant and difficult. It is by such insane neglect that Chronic Bronchitis is generally superinduced, as well as Consumption, Bleeding from the Lungs, and various other serious, and too often fatal diseases of the respiratory system. First Symptoms of Bronchitis. The First Symptoms of Bronchitis should be promptly and efficiently treated. These arc hoarseness, and sensation of roughness in the throat, labored breathing, a feeling of tightness and weight across the Chest, and frequent efforts to clear the windpipe of the mucus which im- pedes the free passage of air to and from the Lungs. Morning is, usually, the time when tho symptoms are most violent, and they are always rendered more intolerable by undue exercise of the voice in speaking or singing. Another common feature of the disease is Chilliness, which is superseded as the tickling in the throat or Cough increases by a degree of feverishness, attended with greater tightness, dull pain in the Chest, and coughing. Mode of Cure. In this Stage of Bronchitis immediate relief may be obtained by opening the bowels freely with Dr. McClintock's VEGETABLE PILLS, a hot Foot-Bath * at bed-time, and a dose of * On the proper mode of taking the foot-batb, see on another page. PRINCIPAL DISEASES OF NORTH AMERICA. Dr. McClintock's COLD AND COUGH MIXTURE," on retiring to rest. Half an honr after taking the latter, and when the patient is warmly covered in bed, a cup full of warm tliin gruel or barley-water will prove beneficial. The result should be free perepiration and sound sleep, from which the invalid will awake either quite well or materially relieved. If the cure is not complete, great care should be taken to avoid exposure during the day, and the " COLD AND COUGH MIXTURE " should be administered regularly according to, the directions ac- companying the bottle. At night repeat the foot-bath and warm gruel, but omit the Pills if the bowels have been freely acted upon. This treatment will seldom, if ever, fail to remove speedily any ordinary attack. CHRONIC BRONCHITIS In many case?, however, the disease, unchecked by proper measures at the outset, has to be assailed in its Chronic, or more inveterate form. This form, too, is frequently the result or terminus of some other disease : as, for example, Hooping-Cough, Scarlet-Fever, Typhus-Fever, Measles, or Small-Pox. It is also sometimes produced like asthma by the habitual inhalation of ir- ritating dust and unwholesome fumes. From whatever cause it may arise its symptoms are near- ly the same and are more serious than those of the Acute Stage. The fits of coughing are more violent and prolonged, the breathing more difficult, while the matter expectorated is more abun- dant and generally in solid distinct masses, of a dark hue, sometimes green or brown, and again tinged with blood, or streaked with pus. These symptoms, unless controlled, bring in their train diarrhoea, emaciation, fever, and night-sweats, and the patient dies with all the usual indi- cations of Pulmonary Consumption. Mode of Cure. In the management of Chronic Bronchitis the general state of the patient's health should be noted and his constitutional strength fostered and sustained. These conditions being observed there are few cases in which the disease will fail to yield to a steady course of Dr. McClin- tock's PECTORAL SYRUP. This preparation is not only pleasant to the palate, but has a bland, healing effect upon the inflamed surfaces of the bronchial tubes and all the pulmonary organs, unequalled by that of any medicine used by Dr. McClintock during a practice of nearly thirty years' duration. Under its influence the expectoration will gradually become of a more healthy character, the irritation in the air-passages will subside, the Cough diminish, the pain and difficulty of breathing vanish, and the disease, at last, be radically cured. Sometimes, however, Bronchitis is complicated with dyspepsia or Liver-complaint. In the former case the diet should by light and digestible, but nutritious. The chest should be sponged daily with cold salt-water or vinegar and water, or, if the strength of the patient will permit, the cold phmgc- bath, to be followed by brisk friction with coarse towels, may be resorted to every other day. To relieve the soreness nnd uneasiness felt in the Chest, and to excite a slight irritation upon the surface, friction over the Chest and Back with Dr. McClintock's RHEUMATIC LINI- MENT will be found very efficacious. Moderate exercise is advisable and at least once or twice a-day a half wineglassful of Dr. McClintock's DYSPEPTIC ELIXIR should be taken. If the Liver is affected, and the sufferer is disturbed by fullness and pain in the right side with ir- regular action of the bowels and turbid urine, a small dose of Dr. McClintock's ANTI- BILIOUS PDLLS will produce almost immediate relief. Should the complaint show a dis- position to return, the Pills may be continued in doses of one or two every other day until the functions of the Liver shall have been fully re-established. In using the PECTORAL SYRUP with these last-named remedies, the dose need not be curtailed, unless it should cause nausea, which it may do at first if the stomach be unusually sensitive. When this occurs let half the full quantity be taken, and the dose gradually increased until the maximum can be borne. In very obstinate cases some practitioners are in the habit of establishing running sores on the breast by means of Tartar Emetic ointment. The object is to draw the inflammation to the sur- face, but the nervous irritation consequent upon such violent practice generally saps the strength of the invalid, and counteracts the intended benefit. It has never beon found necessary to resort to such repulsive measures in cases where the PECTORAL SYRUP has been fairly and persevor- ingly tried, and strict attention paid to the rules of treatment already laid down. PRINCIPAL DISEASES OF NORTH AMERICA. ASTHMA. There are several varieties of this very prevalent and most distressing Complaint. It is often the concomitant of other diseases. Strictly speaking it is a spasmodic contraction of the breathing tubes which convey air from the windpipe to the lungs. This contraction produces a horrible 6cnsc of suffocation and of pressure and tightness of the chest. It seems as if the power to dilate that organ were departing, and every breath, the patient drew, must be his last Persons of all ages are liable to it, but it most frequently attacks those in middle-life. Among its common causes are exposure to rapid transitions of temperature, over-exertion in dancing, running, speaking, or singing, sitting when heated, in cold draughts, neglecting to change wet clothing, breathing habitually a dusty or damp atmosphere, &c. Once introduced into the system it is apt to return at intervals more or less regular, comisg on suddenly, tormenting the victim for five or six hours, and then taking its departure without leaving a trace of its presence behind. The spasms of Asthma usually occur at night, and where the disease is a fixture, they are al- ways most severe in damp foggy weather. Not unfrequcntly the patient is attacked without previous warning in the midst of a sound slumber. Then his sufferings are dreadful. He awakes panting, perhaps unable to speak, and rushes to the window for air. His feelings are so much excited that he is insensible at such times to the severest cold of the winter, and will re- main at the open sash until time has relieved the paroxysm. Asthmatic persons arc often singularly affected by certain fumes and irritating powders. Powdered IPECACUANHA is much dreaded by those habitually subject to the complaint. Often if a bottle of this substance is merely uncorked in the immediate vicinity of the patient spasms arc brought on, which in some instances have been known to continue for days. The dust arising from new-made hay it also very irritating to the organs of respiration, if predisposed to Spasmodic Asthma. Mode of Cure. It has been intimated that Asthma is often complicated with certain other diseases, among the most common of which is dyspepsia, in one or other of ifs numerous forms. In treating Asthma, then, and especially cases of long standing, we must pay great attention to the general conditio* of the system. It may be that another less demonstrative malady underlies the one we would eure, and is in fact its parent. We must not be content, therefore, with a simple alleviation of the spasm for the time being, a result brought about almost instantly by the use of Dr. McClin- tock's ASTHMA AND HOOPING-COUGH MIXTURE, but must endeavor by judicious treatment during the intervals between the attacks, so to revolutionize, invigorate, and fortify the system, as to remove the primary cause of the disease, and radically destroy the constitutional pre- disposition to it. To this end we would prescribe cold bathing, with friction by means of coarse towels, dipped in strong brine and dried, or hair-rubbers, moderate exercise, a careful avoid- ance of all stimulating or exciting influences, physical or mental, regular diet, and, finally, a judicious use of McClintock's DYSPEPTIC ELIXIR, coupled with the VEGETABLE PURGATIVE PILLS, or ANTI-BILIOUS PILLS, if the bowels or liver be torpid and inert* The general effect of the D YSPEPTIC ELIXIR is to strengthen and fortify the dilap- idated system, beginning with the stomach, which is the ehief sufferer in most cases, and the leading cause of the irregularities of almost all the other important organs. Those who are liable to attacks of Asthma, should always have at hand a bottle of the ASTH- MA OR HOOPING-COUGH MIXTURE, and on experiencing the first premonitory symptoms of a paroxysm (such as feverishness, oppression at the chest on the approach of evening, with perhaps an increased flow of limpid urine, dryness of the throat or nostrils, &c.) should imme- diately take a teaspoonful of the mixture, and repeat it according to the directions until the symptoms have disappeared. They should then commence with the DYSPEP1TC ELIXIR, using it three times a-day, and resort to every available means of strengthening the general constitution, so as to avoid a recurrence of the spasm. In cases where the attacks are sudden and violent without premonitory symptoms, it is necessary to repeat the doses of the mixture a little oftener (as specified on the label), until relief is obtained. * Soft,notices) of these remedies under the appropriate beads. PRINCIPAL rJI!-!.\Si:s OF NORTH AMERICA. HOOPING-COUGH. This is ono of the most distressing and dangerous of that stereotyped group of diseases which »ecras to be the natural inheritance of childhood. When neglected, it often terminates fatally or lays the foundation of those terrible affections of the throat and lungs which annually sweep off so many thousands of our population. SYMPTOMS. It is scarcely necessary to enumerate the symptoms of Hooping-Congh. Every mother knows them. The first stage of the complaint resembles ordinary catarrh, attended with chilliness, slight fever, a flow of tears, sneezing, and discharges from the nose, together with a dry fatiguing cough which returns by fits. In the second or convulsive stage, the peculiar features of the complaint present themselves. The cough becomes excessively violent and distressing, so much so that the patient clings for support to the nearest object while the paroxysm lasts. During these fits of coughing, which occur most frequently at night, the face becomes swollen and livid, tears are copiously discharged, the veins of the neck swell and become purple, a profuse perspiration breaks out, and suffocation "appears imminent. Soon, however, short, imperfect inspirations of the breath are effected, and then a long, slow, laborious inspiration, accompanied by a peculiar noise, which has been compared to a WHOOP, and from which the disease takes its name. The paroxysms sometimes succeed each other every five or ten minutes; at others, not more than four or five occur in twenty-four hours. Ropy mucus is brought up during these convulsions, and very often terminate in vomiting. Not unfrequently blood is discharged from the nose, and in some raises from the mouth and ears, during the crisis of the coughing fit. In the third or convalescent stage all the symptoms gradually decline. MODE OF CURE. Such is usually the course of the disease under ordinary treatment, but Dr. McClintock has discovered a means of checking, modifying, and shortening its painful characteristics, and rob- bing it of all its terrors. His ASTHMA AND HOOPING-COUGH REMEDY acts like a soothing and healing balm upon the irritated membranes of the respiratory organs, relieves all the most distressing symptoms, and accomplishes with unerring certainty a speedy euro If the bowels are constipated, as is sometimes the case in this disease, small doses of the VEGETA- BLE PURGATIVE PILLS should be administered from time to time as occasion may require. The ASTHMA AND HOOPING-COUGH REMEDY is a standard medicine throughout the Union, and is especially popular in the South. A short time ago all the principal druggists in Savannah, Ga., published a certificate vouching for its efficacy, as follows :— " It is to be hoped that all who are suffering from Hooping-Cough, will give this article a fair trial. We can recommend it. A. A. Solomons & Co., W. W. Lincoln, J. B. Mo©re & Co., J. M. Turner, J. E. De Ford." DIARRHCEA. A complaint of such common occurrence as Diarrhoea, can not require more than a very brief description here. It is characterized by excessive discharges from the bowels, accompanied by more or less pain or griping, sometimes by nausea and vomiting, prostration of strength, and other symptoms dependent on circumstances. Its most common causes arc, 1st, violent changes from heat to cold, whereby the perspiration being checked, the secretions which should find a rent through the pores, are thrown suddenly back upon the bowels; 2d, errors in diet either as to kind, quality, condition, or quantity; such as eating unripe or stale fruits, raw, wilted, or ill- cooked vegetables, unwholesome meats, &c., or any kinds of food in inordinate quantities, or too great variety at the same meal. In certain conditions of the system, diarrhoea is also produced by iced drinks, beer, milk, hot c#ffee, &c. Where there is a constitutional predisposition to the disease, these and all other exciting causes should be carefully avoided. The diarrhoea which precedes cholera is an epidemic supposed to be superinduced by a peculiar and poisonous state PRINCIPAL DISEASES OF NORTH AMERICA. •f the atmosphere; but, of course imprudence in diet renders those who indulge in it more suscep liblc of the malarial influence. The " SUMMER COMPLAINT," as the diarrhoea of children at the period of teething is usually called, is the effect of sympathetic in'itation, and should be checked when it becomes too urgent and debilitating. In the first stage of the complaint, the diarrhceal discharges are usually abundant; but they become more scanty and more watery as they continue. The seat of the disorder is the mucous1 membrane which forms the inner coating of the intestines, and it proceeds from an irritation or slight inflammation of that membrane, produced by some one or other of the causes above named. The DIARRHOEA CORDIAL of Dr. McClintock is, perhaps, the most effective com- bination for the safe and rapid cure of Diarrhoea, and its kindred maladies, which has ever been discovered, Dr. McClintock has used it in his practice for more than twenty years, and ha* never known it to disappoint his expectations. A single tcaspoonful of the Cordial has often checked, within a few hours, a diarrhoea of years' standing. Let it not be supposed, however, that the inconvenience and danger resulting from a sudden stoppage of the (s'.s-ia.Tges by com- mon astringents or opiates, ever follow the use of this medicine. On the cont»\ry, it leaves the bowels in a perfectly natural and healthy state, so that no after purgation is re >**? •aJSKV* *^l v<*? rv v