THE MOST WONDERFUL CURES! Effected by the Newly-Discovered System of Electro-Vital Eemedies and Treatment, as practiced by the ■ '•v... ■•'•',■ The Pulmometer, or Lung Tester INVENTED BT ANDREW STONE, M.D., Physician to the Troy Lung and Hygienic Institute. SEE NEXT PAGE. 8548 DR. STOHE TREATS . . CHRONIC DISEASES OF EVERY BIE AND NATURE. Nervous Debility, leading to early physical degeneracy, or Marasmus and consumption of the blood and vital fluids in the young of both sexes; Constitutional maladies and derangement of the vital functions which follow the change of life in women, known as the Grand Climacteric. Liver Disease, Dyspepsia, or Indigestion, Biliousness, Jaundice, Lowness of Spirits, Despond- ency. A Morbid Condition of the Blood, Humors, and Cutaneous Eruptions, Scrofula, or King's Evil, Goitre, and impurities of the blood of every nature; Constipation of the Bowels, or Costiveness, Chronic Diarrhea, Fever and Ague, Ulceration of the Rectum. Kidney Diseases : Diabetes, Gravel and Stone, Urinary Obstructions, Incontinence of the Urine, Morbid Irritability of the Bladder, and Urinary Affections of every nature. Nervous Headache, Neuralgia, Rheumatism, Gout, Stiff Joints, Paralysis, Palsy, Benumbed Feeling in every part of the body, Loss of Strength or Motion, Painful Affections of every nature. Deafness, Amaurosis, Diseases of the Eye and Ear of every character. Epilepsy or Falling Fits; Hysteria, Chlorosis, Dropsy, Prolapsus, or Falling of the Womb, Leucorrhea, or Catarrhal Discharges from the Womb, Ovarian Tumors and Dropsical Effusions; Nausea, or Sickness at the Stomach, Vomiting, following pregnancy, and Diseases of the Sexual Organs. Ulcera- tions and Diseases of the Throat and large Tonsils; Laryngitis, or Clergyman's Ail, Bronchitis, Congestion of the Lungs. Palpitation, Thickening of the Yalves, Enlargement of the Heart, Dropsy and Rheumatism affecting the Heart Case, Pleurisy, Dropsical Effusions in the Chest, Bleeding at the Lungs, Consumption, both Bronchial and Tubercular, and every disease leading to the development of Consumption. §2^- Every invalid so affected should lose no time in writing us a history of the case", and putting him or herself under treatment immediately, before the complaints become incurable. We will reply by return mail, and'give you the most conscientious advice. *6 (&440 1*44* ■£*<^f&K*^ THE MOST WONDERFUL CUBES! EFFECTED BY THE Newly-Discorered System of Electro-Yital Remedies and Treatment, AS PRACTICED BY THE Troy Lung and Hygienic With an original description, embodying the views of the new and pro- gressive Philosophy, of the Curability of CONSUMPTION, CATARRH, BRONCHITIS, LAKYNGITIS, ASTHMA, AND THEOAT DISEASES, By the Inhalation of Cool Medicated Vapors, AND A GRAPHIC DESCRIPTION OF THE CAUSES OF LIVER COMPLAINT, SCROFULA, NERVOUS DEBILITY, PALPITATION, AND DISEASES OP THE HEART. BY ANDREW STONE, M.D., Physician to the Troy Lung and Hygienic Institute; Inventor of the " Pulmometeb ' or Lung Tester, etc., etc., etc.; Author of " Pulmonary Consumption that Fatal ' Destroyer of Man: Its curability demonstrated on natural principles combining Medicated Air, Medicated Inhalation, and Natural' ' Hygiene ;" " The Early Physical Degeneracy of the American People ;" and numerous other worlcs. ILLUSTRATED WITH PLATES. PUBLISHED BY THE TROY LUNG AND HYGIENIC INSTITUTE, Bowery Place, Ida Sill, Troy, 2V. 1". 1868. Entered, according to Act of Conere»i, in the year 186t>, hy Akdhiw Stom, M.D.. in the Clerk', nffic. »r «k« tv . ■ U>urt of the United State, for the Southern District of New-York. ' ' l"e Uerk * °ffice of the District So the iMemorg of ittu Departed ttHfe. For twelve years of our early earthly pilgrimage, you walked with me, hand in hand, sharing the joys and sorrows incident to the toils of professional life, as pioneers in the great West. With glowing anticipations and hopes of the opening future, we bade fare- well to parents, kindred and friends, and the homes of our nativity, to try our fortunes in this new, and to us, unexplored country. It became our lot to encounter and experience bitter sickness and suffering, which made shipwreck of health, physical constitution, and submerged our hopes. The sudden blighting of three opening buds of earthly promise proved a shock too great for your enfeebled constitution. You yielded to their contin- ual yearnings for a mother's care, and left me to toil on in the discharge of the great mission that has ever been dear to my heart; healing human suffering and woe. Dark was the horizon that then obscured my earthly vision. Hope died within the heart, and life lost its charms. An abiding, inherent trust in the righteousness of God's moral government, at length caused these clouds to break and pass away, and give place to the consoling assurance that all was well; and though my mission should encoun- ter bitter strife, conflict, and persecution, the strength developed would be equal to the emergency. Your name shall ever be my talisman. With an unfaltering confidence in your fidelity, unawed by fear, I will still buckle on the armor of faith, know- ing that when I go down with the tabernacle, you, with our loved ones, will stand with open arms, waiting at the gate to receive my spirit and guide it in triumph to the vestibule of that spiritual temple, the grandeur and harmony of which will never be impaired by envy nor mercenary design. HP Terms for making analysis of Urine and full report of case, Three Dollars. INTRODUCTORY. PATIENTS RESIDING IN ANT PART OF THE COUNTRY CAN BE CURED AT THEIR HOMES JUST AS SUCCESSFULLY AS AT OUR INSTITUTION. Very many invalids think that, though their diseases are of a chronic nature, they can not be cured except directly under the eye of their physician. Hundreds of patients of this class have written to us, conveying such impressions, asking the question, if they could so be treated and cured at their homes by having the treatment sent to them. We beg leave to assure them, most emphatically and conscien- tiously, that we make our treatment just as successful—in the large majority of cases, we mean—as though we saw our patients. But the objection is made by many, that we can not understand their complaints, their nature, or their seat and extent, without seeing them. We beg leave to again assure them that this idea, also, is a very erroneous one. We possess the remarkable facilities, brought in conjunction with the knowledge gained from extensive scientific in- vestigation, and from vast experience in treating thousands of cases of chronic disease during the last 40 years, to make the diagnosis of each case as certain, as clear, and as correct as though we saw the patient in person, and did not adopt the system of analysis. And still more so do we do this, and can we do it, if the conditions are complied with on the part of the patient for a scientific and correct investigation of each case—we mean that, by a chemical analysis of the urine, the means are rendered far more certain to us and to the experienced chemist, than though the patient was seen personally, without making such an investigation. In the first place: where there is but the slightest deviation from good health in one organ, it will be manifested in the urine: much more so ie this the case where the disease has become seated, and be- ir HOME TREATMENT. come general in the disturbance of other organs in their function; especially when the Liver, the Stomach, and the digestive organs are the seat of disease or morbid derangement, as is more or less so in every case of a chronic nature. To such an extent of perfection has the science of urinary patho- logy and chemical analysis of the blood and the urine been carried, that every disease, of whatever nature, will specifically show itself in some morbific agent—a deviation of deposits and compounds, or triple compounds; and where an examination of the reports from the interrogatories covering these points on the part of the patient is made, even the comparative waste of tissue, the loss of flesh or muscle, the general decay can be determined, as well as the exact disease of each organ, or the amount of structure involved in the de- cay. A disease of the Liver is made certain; so, also, of the Lungs— where there is tubercular deposit in the Lungs, it will be discovered in the urine, by throwing down yellow urate of ammonia. Again : Gravel and Calculi which frequently form in the Gall-bladder, pro- ducing Gall-stones, also in the Kidneys and the urinary bladder, is generally composed of urate of ammonia, and uric acid—that which you will frequently notice deposited in the bottom of your chamber- vessel, which is of a pink or reddish cast. What class of diseases is now more prevalent in the United States, especially in those sections where lime stone water is used, than diseases attending the kidneys and urinary organs ? But very few suffering invalids, who have not seen the process of analyzation; who have not taken pains to investigate this matter personally in their own cases—which each one can do by putting a quantity of their urine—that made in the morning—into a bottle, allowing it to stand undisturbed for a week or two, and notice the enormous quan" tity of poisonous sediments which will collect at the bottom of the vessel—we repeat, but very few invalids realize the importance of chemical analysis to determine the causes of their awful and myste- rious sufferings. One will be tortured by frequent neuralgia—aching, lancinating pains in the temple, the brow, and the nerves of the face—and there will be no caries of the teeth, in these cases, to cause them; and in various other parts of the body: in the chest, in the pleura, in the joints, and frequently about the heart: these pains will go as sud- denly as they come, in many invalids, while, in others, they remain permanently. Other invalids will labor under an extreme sallow countenance, or the countenance assumes a purple or livid cast, with- HOME TREATMENT. V out the least indication of the flush of health upon the cheek; the mind will become beclouded, memory will fail, dullness of the head will be a constant at- tendant. Some will be subject to ex- treme depression of spirits, desponden- cy, devoid of all hope ; life itself loses all its charms, inducing, in some cases, even self-de- struction. No course of treat- ment for these affec- tions can be pre- scribed, with the certainty of remov- ing the cause in the blood, or in the nu- tritive functions, without a chemical analysis being made, or correct replies given to the ques- tions that cover this class of symptoms. Says Dr. Bird, the distinguished author of " Urinary Pathol- ogy"—"The exam- ination of the urine, in disease, is now re- garded as one of the most important aids in diagnosis, and which it would be alike injurious to the welfare of the pa- tient and the credit and reputation of the practitioner to avoid." We deem it as essential, then, in all complicated cases, in order VI HOME TREATMENT. to treat the case directly successfully, and not have it involved in uncertainty, to make an analysis of the urine. A large quantity is not necessary: one or two ounces of that first passed in the morning, called the "blood urine" inclosed in ounce vials that are thick and strong, can be forwarded by mail, packed in a small tin or wooden box, with perfect safety, when not convenient to forward by Express. It can thus be sent with but little expense, which must be prepaid in all cases. Our Institution possesses a complete and most expensive cabinet of philosophical apparatus which enables us to prosecute the analy- sis expeditiously, and to obtain the certain results in a very short time. We are, therefore, enabled to make immediate returns, or to make up the course of treatment necessary in each case. We possess a microscope of immense power by which the minutest atom of any poison that may exist in the blood and the system will be detected in the quantity of the secretion analyzed. The cut on the last page illustrates our microscope used in the examination. As a further illustration to convince the suffering invalid that we can just as successfully treat such cases, not seeing them personally, we refer to that of Mrs. Sawyer, (see page ,) who was so success- fully treated in this manner after her case had baffled the skill of the physicians personally attending her. The reason why such mysterious, complicated cases are never treated successfully by the village physician in indiscriminate gen- eral practice is, because they prescribe for symptoms only; for they are not posted in this important science; they never trace effects back to their causes in the blood or derangement of the nutritive functions; and therefore, a cure is rarely obtained. Hundreds and thousands who linger along, suffering for 30 or 40 years, might be cured in a short time and restored to health, and become a comfort to their families, and useful members of society under such a discrimi- nating, scientific system of diagnosis as is adopted at our Institution. IMPORTANT CAUTION. We here wish to caution invalids against the indiscriminate use of quack nostrums and patent medicines, prepared and put up for sale by apothecaries and medicine-venders, advertised with glowing de- scriptions of their value and adaptability, made more alluring by a splendid engraving and showy vesture, or other indiscriminate drug- taking. Thus it will be seen from our explanation given above, that all such drug-taking must be perfect quackery and shooting in the dark without any definite certainty of its reaching the cause of the HOME TREATMENT. Vll disease; it can not be known whether the medicines taken so indis- criminately are chemically adapted to neutralize or eliminate the poisons in the blood; but in hundreds of instances, instead of cor- recting the disordered state of the blood, or removing the cause, the patient is made much worse; besides being subjected to a heavy expenditure of money, as is the case with many who apply to our Institution for treatment after all their means have been exhausted. BLOOD AND CONSTITUTIONAL TREATMENT. We hope that the suffering invalids and the readers of this valu- able book, who are anxious for true light in regard to the curative science of medicine, will understand that the success of all treatment must be based upon purifying the fountain; removing the first cause— meaning, to purify the blood, and to treat first physiological princi- ples; namely, the Liver, the Stomach and digestive organs, which organs alone, can make blood. You will see, then, that we can send this treatment, upon correct, scientific principles, to all parts of the country, and accomplish these results by direct correspondence. THE IMPORTANCE OF PHONOGRAPHY IN TREATMENT BY CORRESPONDENCE. Our Institution employs the most accomplished short-hand or phonographic scribes, competent to record our ideas and dictation at the rate of 175 words per minute. We read, personally, every letter from our patients; every case is duly recorded upon a diary by us, and no sooner are the wants of our patients received, than the answer is dictated, the letter is written out in long-hand, in our own language; hence, we are enabled, with these superior facilities, to treat any number of cases, and to keep up an immense correspond- ence. We do know that a correspondence so kept up with patients makes a more favorable impression upon their minds than the prac- tice pursued by the country physician, of simply looking at the tongue, feeling the pulse, leaving a pill and being off; for the pa- tient can read deliberately our views of his case and symptoms, logically and convincingly given, at his leisure; when, as is often the case, he feels a little nervous and uneasy, and more inclined to be mwell, as will happen some days, he goes and deliberately reads )ver and over again our letters of explanation and instruction, he takes fresh courage—it renews him with fresh hopes and aspirations for health and life; he prosecutes the hygiene and gymnasium, and VIH HOME TREATMENT. the medicated bathing, he exercises with renewed courage and de- termination, and the cure is carried on more effectually, more speed- ily and permanently than can be accomplished by a physician who personally visits a patient, and only goes through the old-school rou- tine of feeling the pulse, looking- at the tongue, and giving a pilL THE HOME TREATMENT OF THE PATIENT LABORING UNDER CON- SUMPTION, ASTHMA, DISEASES OF THE THROAT, THE LARYNX, THE BRONCHIAL TUBES, AND ALL AFFECTIONS THAT HAVE THEIR ORIGIN IN THE CHEST. We are aware that many people have no conception or idea of administering medicines by inhalation or breathing into the lungs; for they are so situated in obscure country places, and have always been accustomed to the simple ways of country practitioners—who do not practice this important system—that they think the process is something that is complicated and necessitates them to come from home to our Institution to adopt it. The process of inhaling the vapors is just as simple, and is adopted with as much facility as talcing food or medicine into the stomach. The Inhaler, or instru- ment from which you inhale the vapor, is, as you will see in the cut, very small. A few drops of the liquid are put upon the sponge, the mouth-piece is applied to the lips, and you breathe as naturally as you breathe the air; in fact, you breathe the atmospheric air at the same time in order to carry the vapor into the lungs. So the Inhaler can be taken up as a matter of pleasure and pastime, as well as for curative purposes, often as the patient wishes, at any part of the day, as the inhaling vapors are pleasant and inviting to the taste, instead of being repulsive, as medicines which are given by the stomach generally are. Again: The Inhaler used is so small and convenient that it can be taken in the pocket and carried to the field or the work-shop, or used in a carriage or the cars by that class laboring under Bronchi- tis or throat diseases, who wish to prosecute the treatment and busi- ness at the same time. And here is one of the most striking induce- ments to adopt our system of treatment: It does not demand any waste or loss of time, unnecessarily. Even where medicines are to go along with the inhaling vapors, they can be taken into the stom- HOME TREATMENT. ix ach without exciting disgust or nausea—important considerations which we always keep in view in preparing our medicines—and we also give the remedies in such small, concentrated doses that, where medicines are required by those who are traveling, or at work from home, they can be taken with them without inconvenience. OUR TREATMENT DOES NOT INTERFERE WITH THE VOCATION OR BUSI- NESS OF THE PATIENT. And here is another of the remarkable advantages gained by our progressive system. We have studied for many years to develop the virtues and re- medial properties of medicines in a concentrated form, to avoid of- fending the stomach—to use the language of the late lamented Dr. Mott: " Horse doses of medicines that have so long characterized the old-school system." To make our system better appreciated, the victim has only to go back and think of the bowlfals of salts and senna tea, with which it used to be, and now is, the practice to gorge the stomach; also the table-spoonful doses of jalap and calomel, mixed up with molasses or apple-sauce to mask somewhat its disgusting sight and taste—to disguise it as much as possible to get it into the stomach of the vic- tim without vomiting; in fact, we have, in more instances than one, seen vomiting induced by the mental disgust produced at sight of the dose, before it reached the lips. In view of this barbarous system, is it any wonder that the pa- tient was invariably made worse by such practice, instead of being made better? What little appetite for food and nourishment re- mained, was destroyed; he was deprived of all natural relish for food and sense of taste by the nauseous, noxious nature of the remedies he had to swallow. We beg leave to assure you that, on this point, in anticipation of our treatment, we will relieve you of every anxious doubt. As we before suggested, all medicines that we do give by the stomach are made palatable to excite and produce an appetite where it does not exist, and to restore healthy action to the nerves of taste, and a natural relish for food. So truthfully characterized are these advantages in our remedies, that patients frequently tell us that our medicines taste so pleasant they beget a natural longing for them as regularly as they take their meala. X HOME TREATMENT. DOMESTIC OR HOME TREATMENT FOR CATARRH AND THROAT DISEASES. If the patient will read our full section under the head of " Ca- tarrh," he will find how much more favorable than otherwise is the treatment we adopt for the cure of these very general maladies- The application is simply made by snuffing or insufflating the " li- quid'''' into the nostrils from the palm of the hand; and for the dis- ease of the throat so low down that the " Catarrh Remedy " does not reach it, he is furnished with a pleasant, stimulating, healing throat-wash or gargle, so concentrated from the virtues of specific remedies that it will cure even Quinsy sore-throat and Diphtheria. Enlargement of the tonsils, and elongation of the uvula are at once brought down to a normal state, and ulcers of the throat are healed, and the offensive and noxious secretions—the result of such disease and ulceration—are at once removed and cured without exciting pain or suffering. DOMESTIC TREATMENT FOR THE VICTIM OF NIGHT-SWEATS, HECTIC FEVEE, AND COLD CHILLS. To arrest at once, and remove all of these debilitating and harass ing affections, our treatment is as instantaneous, happy, and com- plete as the effect of medical inhalation is to relieve a cough. In every consumptive case, we put up the specific remedies—the Tonic Astringents, the Tonic, Astringent, Medicated Bath, and all other specific remedies that each case requires—with ample and plain directions in both print and writing, for the patient to obtain im- mediate relief; in fact, we strike here, in these symptoms, at remov- ing first causes at once, which, we find, in almost all cases, have been entirely overlooked, or neglected to be mentioned by their at- tending physician. In hundreds of cases of our patients, apparently far gone in Con- sumption—the night-sweats were very debilitating—we found they were caused and kept up by lying on sultry and oppressive July and August nights, upon sweltering feather beds, which heated and re- laxed the muscles already made soft and flabby by disease—literal- ly pumping out, as it were, every drop of blood from the veins by inducing secretions of the skin—perspiration. HOME TREATMENT. XI DOMESTIC OR HOME TREATMENT FOR HEMOPTYSIS, OR HEMOR- RHAGE OF THE LUNGS. Here is another feature involving important considerations and many anxieties on the part of the patient at a distance. As he has already spit blood, or bled from the Lungs before com- ing under our treatment, he indulges great apprehension, causing much unnecessary mental suffering, and no little physical prostra- tion by constantly fearing the liability to bleed suddenly without immediate personal aid to stop it. This feature of each case we are prepared to meet, always giving the necessary directions, and furnishing the specific remedies in the course of treatment to imme- diately arrest hemorrhage, and, in fact, prevent further liability to it without any necessity for calling in a physician. A TROPICAL CLIMATE AND BALMY ATMOSPHERE AT THE WINTER HOME OF THE PATIENT. A more gloomy and appalling impression can not be made upon the feelings of the Consumptive who has been sustained by his phy- sician through the opening spring, that bloomed so cheerfully and hopefully for others, by the promise that the warm weather would dispel his cough and all his pulmonary affections, than to see that season pass, to see the summer come and go, and the cough, instead of being relieved, becoming more harassing, and as the chill winds and blighting frosts of November develop anew the chills and dis- tressing symptoms that seemed somewhat to abate with the close of the last winter—and he had reposed with full confidence and feel- ings of safety in the assurance of his physician that all would be well—judge, I say, of his astonishment at the announcement which now comes—from him who had been looked upon as a " priest of the holy flame of life and health," that his only hope for recovery is in leaving his home, with all its comforts and immunities, bidding- farewell, perhaps forever, to his friends, and resort to a southern or foreign tropical clime. This is another of the most unrighteous, unhallowed, and unprin- cipled make-shifts on the part of country and general practitioners, who know so little of the true pathology—cause and nature—of Pulmonary Consumption, as to conceal their consummate ignorance under the vail of false hopes and assurances of their patient's and pa- tron's recovery—either for the purpose of bringing in a long bill, or because they are so dishonest that they are ashamed to acknowledge xii HOME TREATMENT. their ignorance; and now, when they find that their skill is baffled— that they can not longer deceive, and in order to be relieved of the responsibility of having him die on their hands at home, or of making the humiliating confession that Consumption by their imperfect system of treatment is incurable—they send their patient away to languish in a foreign land, deprived of the kind care and nursing he would have received at home, and to have in its place the cold attention of stran- gers purchased by money; and then to die "unwept and un- mourned"—"a stranger in a strange land." Expatriation, or change of climate, I condemn, from my own ex- perience in visiting Florida, and which is condemned by the best living physicians—Sir James Clark, physician to Queen Victoria, Sir John Forbes, Dr. Flood, and many other eminent physicians—who have visited Naples, Rome, Jamaica, and other parts of the world, and tested it in their own persons and their patients. They all con- cur in condemning it. So far as it is necessary and desirable to mitigate the effects of the hard, harsh, winter climate of our Northern States upon the Lungs and respiratory organs of those laboring under pulmonary affections, our patients are instructed to prepare for themselves, at their homes, the Medicated-Air Chamber, a cut of which will be seen. This is advised in all aggravated cases, in addition to the direct inhalation of our medicated vapors with the Inhaler, where it is necessary that the air should be kept soft to prevent all further irritation of the deli- cate air-cells, in order to effectually carry on the process of healing. To medicate the atmosphere of the chamber or room of the invalid is attended with but trifling expense and without trouble, as the medical agents are diffused in a pan or evaporating dish which sits upon his stove or may be suspended in the fire-place, if the room is warmed by such. In this manner a constant evaporation is kept up so as to saturate the entire atmosphere of his room with the healing, benign influences of the vapor. He can, under this system, pursue his business, and can enjoy tho society of his friends, and all the blessings and privileges of his home, and can read the papers, engage in cheerful conversation, prosecute his intellectual vocations, or every variety of practice or pursuit found necessary for his interest or his comfort, at the same time that he is enjoying this tropical climate in his own home. What a progressive science, then, is medicine! He who spends the best years of his life, and exhausts the energies of his constitu- tion in developing means equal to the emergencies and sufferings of his fellow-beings, justly appeals to their confidence. HOME TREATMENT. xiii CHEST-EXPANDER. In addition to the foregoing most valuable aids for the cure of Pulmonary Consumption, the patient is furnished with a Chest Ex- pander, affording great auxiliary means to his restoration; for, with most all such patients, the chest is naturally narrow and the lungs thin and incapacitated for the performance of their full function of vitalizing the blood; hence the advantages, and, hence, also, the great necessity of gently expanding the lungs by easy, physical, muscular exercises of the arms and chest to cause the patient to breathe deeply into the lungs. This great result is obtained by a simple, philosophical apparatus, which the patient contrives in his room without expense; and during the long winter months it affords him one of the most pleasurable and exhilarating exercises to divert his mind and pass his time agreeably while the curative pro- cess is going on. THE ASCENDING MEDICATED DOUCHE. MEDICATED INJECTIONS AND SUPPOSITORIES. In the great catalogue of chronic maladies to which the American people are extremely liable, and which many suffer from for a life- time, is costiveness, or constipation of the bowels. Every one knows that, in order to possess health, the function of the bowels should be daily performed. Every one, too, realizes a great indisposition to his health when the bowels do not perform their functions regularly. Of the five great emunctories of the human system, designed to keep the body in health, none are so liable to be deranged in their regular function as the bowels, or alimentary canal. Why this is the case seems to have taxed the acumen and the skill of many of the ablest physicians who have written on the subject. The causes ascribed for it are as vague as their philosophy respecting Tu- bercular Consumption. To our mind, the cause is a very simple one. As before suggested, we can not go into detail i:i this brief work, but when under treat- ment, we advise the patient clearly of every cause which must be re- moved in order to get rid of the effect; assuring him here, for his own good, independent of any consideration of pecuniary emolument— for it would be directly opposed to our interest in that respect—that the more he takes pills and physic to get rid of it, the more he would resemble those Pharisees or bigoted Christians who generally have a superabundance of self-righteousness—the larger the stock the worse it works for their welfare and happiness. xiv HOME TAEATMENT. These wholesale pill-venders and manufacturers of pills who tell such glowing stories, execute as great a destruction of human life, and as recklessly so, as Napoleon and all those other great generals who have sacrificed their immense armies for ambition—their own aggrandizement or self-interest. Thousands of poor credulous victims are literally physicked out of the world, because they have constipated bowels, and see nothing beyond the apothecary-shops or a box of pills. They are, like al- lopathic doctors, continually contending with effects without remov- ing the causes. Actuated by the most benevolent motives, to aid that portion of suffering humanity whose situation in life is such as not to allow them to possess a knowledge of the laws that govern function, and save them from all the immediate consequences of constipation, and from doing themselves such great injury by the constant use of pills and drastic purgatives, Ave offer them the Ascending Douche or hand- pump—the cut of which see on page— The immediate cause of constipation is a torpor or inaction of the Rectum or lower bowel. So the seat of constipation is within a few inches of the verge of the body. Now, a very little thought or reflection will prove the erroneous and unscientific practice of heap- ing drastic purgatives, like aloes, gamboge, jalap, senna, salts, rhu- barb, and a thousand other such agents into the stomach above, to irritate that organ and the lining membrane and the sensitive nerves that are distributed over some 30 or 35 feet above the seat of dif- ficulty, inflaming and raking up the entire mucus surface of the stom- ach and lining membranes of the bowels to such an enormous extent. This should explain to every intelligent reader, who has the least reflection, the awful mischief which is done by such a blind and un- scientific practice. All that is required to produce a natural function of the bowels, in a case of habitual constipation, is to stimulate and dilate the rectum with some mild injection, generally simple coolish or tepid water is all-sufficient; which can be thrown up in one minute with the utmost ease by the victim himself, and the bowel made to act, the contents ejected, and the whole system relieved in less time than it takes to tell the story, without any injury to the constitution, and without any inconvenience whatever. It is one of the greatest aids of art, of a simple device, with such little pecuniary expense, that science ha? ever invented. And such a Douche as we offer you for the sum of $10, with careful usage, it being metallic and of durable material, will last you a lifetime; when, on the contrary, we know of many HOME TREATMENT. XV who have paid from $50 to $100, and even $500, in the course of time for pills and physic; saying nothing of the headaches and the poisonous state of the constitution, by carrying about such effete matter in that body which the Apostle considered worthy to be called the " Temple of the Holy Ghost"—saying nothing of the in- capacity for labor or business, the precious hours of life that have been lost, which, otherwise, might have been employed to discipline the mind for nobler and higher efforts in this world, and a command- ing position in another, which these bitter consequences have defeat- ed—saying nothing of the " blue-devils," the horrors and desponden- cy which result from this continued, pernicious habit. For piles, for the morbid sensibility of the nerves of the rectum, for ulcerations and fistula—the sequel of constipation—the Douche is considered a most necessary aid to bring about a cure. For the purpose of removing the grand cause of constipation, or torpid, ir- regular action of the liver, that important fight and information is given to the patient; every individual, immediate, or internal pre- disposing cause is clearly pointed out to him, to be scrupulously avoided in the future, while our vitalizing medicinal agents are given to again establish a healthy action in the liver above, and cleanse the fountain; and in a little time, under our treatment, the patient finds no trouble in having his bowels moved at the proper time, daily, without the aid of the Douche or medicines; and an observ- ance of the laws of Hygiene, which we have pointed out, insures him a continued safeguard against it his life long. We shall name here the great advantages and superior claims that our Douche has for various other important purposes; namely, because it also combines the advantages of making medical applica- tions to other concomitant diseases which are so very common. By that, we mean Prolapsus Uteri, or falling of the womb; Leucorrhea, or catarrhal effusions and morbid discharges from the womb; ulcera- tions of the Vagina and the neck of the bladder, in females. Now, the only true philosophy to be adopted, successfully and practically to cure such diseases, is on the same principle as applying medication in the shape of inhaling vapors to the lungs. The lungs are isolated from the stomach; hence the absurdity of throwing med- icines into the stomach, which was designed for food and nutrition alone, for the purpose of mitigating and curing disease of the air- cells, which are breathing organs, only. So, in the case of local fe- male weaknesses and diseases, must the medication and treatment be applied to be effectual. . The habit and system of practice that has been so long, and u xyi HOME TREATMENT. now, so much in vogue, of putting medicines into the stomach to ele- vate the Uterus—being poised in the Vagina—would tax more than the brightest genius to conceive how it could be done. The organ is dislocated like the ankle or shoulder-joint. What would you think of a surgeon, who, when you sent for him to come and replace an ankle that had been dislocated, should spend the time so uselessly as to al- low the patient to suffer excruciating agony, while he put several doses of drastic medicines into the stomach with the idea of putting the joint back to its socket ? But such is the practice of the large mass of phy- sicians, absurd and preposterous as it is in its nature. Our treatment, for restoring Prolapsus Uteri, and correcting all the complications attending these organs, is so successful and so well perfected in its system, and easy of application, that the patient takes the remedies at her home, and cures herself soundly in a few months without the aid of a second person, and with but little, if any trouble or loss of time. What a noble science and study is medicine to the enterprising and intelligent physician who sees life and human health in the great organic laws and principles which must be studied to be understood! and when understood, he perceives at a glance that all disease is want of harmony—the misuse of those laws that govern the organism, that so perverts the function as to cause ill health and the consequent suffering. To him, the cure must consist in selecting with great judg- ment and discrimination the right agents for each sufferer, to restore the member to a normal condition, and establish the vital harmony. " Verily, he studied from the life, and in the original, perused man- kind." THE HYGIENE FOR THE HOME TREATMENT OF THE PATIENT : THE GREAT SECRET OF OUR SUCCESS. We need not dwell at any great length to have our patients and numerous applicants lor treatment to understand why the old-school system of practice has ever been one of great uncertainty, alluring its victims with false and blighting hopes of cure. It is this: Their prescriptions have ever been made without recognizing the omnipotent laws of health, which ever take precedence of the feeble aids of art; namely, Hygiene—meaning the absolute laws of health. When we calmly and rationally look back from the present stand- point of progressive medicine, in the light which modern science has developed, and witness the perfect jargon of theories which have been taught in the medical schools for centuries, and the thousands and thousands of contradictory volumes, how to cure such and such HOME TREATMENT. xvii diseases by just such medicines—many of the prescriptions recorded in the books, were they but read now in the hearing of a rational person or the patient, would excite intense disgust from their loath- some filthiness—I repeat, when we witness these abominable prac- tices, is it not sufficient to cause every sensitive and delicate person to shudder and stand aghast ? Within the present century—even within the last ten years—have some physicians made themselves notorious by prescribing excrement as a specific for Consumption! Does the reader doubt this? Let him turn to the excellent vol- ume of valuable clinical lectures delivered at St. Mary's Hospital, in London, by the eminent Dr. Chambers in 1864. It is a humiliating fact that there is not a chair or professorship in one of the Medical Colleges in the United States for the purpose of disseminating a knowledge of Hygiene ! but there are schools for promulgating different doctrines, views, or opinions about diseases, as you see evidenced every day in the books and in the papers re- specting cholera, diphtheria, putrid sore-throat, or those which travel as epidemics, and have their seat or origin in atmospheric causes, and are governed by laws as absolute as those which move the planets in their orbits. Instead of your learned physicians and pro- fessors investigating and developing the laws by which cholera and such epidemic diseases are governed, they are occupied continu- ally in promulgating vague theories and making prescriptions for man- ifestations and symptoms only. Is it to be wondered at, then, that, when one of these epidemics sweeps like a tornado over the globe, bearing death and dismay in its track, it laughs to scorn the effeminacy and inefficiency of all their efforts? Let our readers and our patients understand, then, clearly and distinctly, as the first starting-point to obtain success, that they must consult and reverence the omnipotent laws that govern their physical organism. Upon this platform we base our hopes of success in treat- ing you; and though we have every confidence in the efficiency of our remedies, they must be administered in perfect harmony with these laws, to which we bow in reverence and in humility. To make the idea clear and distinct for the comprehension of our readers and patients, we shall ask the question: What good would obtain for us to administer medicines to relieve effects if first causes are not continually looked to ? We endeavor to cure a disordered state of the blood, which is being contaminated—in 49 cases out of every 50—by the patient confining himself, every night, in a small— xvm HOME TREATMENT. perhaps V by 9—sleeping-room, without one breath of pure air through it to carrv off the noxious exhalations, or deadly carbonic-acid gas which is continually being exhaled from Ms lungs. Here, then, is the first law of human life and human existence. Let it sink deep into the tablet of your memory. To make it clear, I will again ask you the question, What is that which we demand at birth, which constitutes our fife, and the last thing for which we die? Is it not air—pure air ? Will you understand, then, that we can not cure you of Consump- tion, or any other disease of the lungs, or aggravated disease under which any other organ may be laboring, until you comply with this first great law of your physical organism; namely, ventilation and pure air? You can easily do this by obtaining our large volume, and reading the two valuable sections it contains, at full length, on this subject. THE SECOND GREAT LAW OF HYGIENE. AJlow me, then, to come to the second great law of the physical organism, and which you are so recklessly violating every hour of your being; especially so must you have done to produce Scrofula and Pulmonary Consumption. Well, what is that second great law of Hygiene ? It is the law OF TEMPERATURE. But yesterday, a gentleman came with his wife, a distance of some three hundred miles for our advice and treatment in her case. It was a cold January day, the thermometer standing 10° below zero. The case was one of incipient Tubercular Consumption; in other words, the lungs were well studded with tubercles in minute particles, resembling millet-seeds—the first stage. But judge of our surprise! she had on no woolen undergarments to protect her frail body; her feet—lower extremities—were covered by thin cotton stockings and prunella shoes; her arms more gaudily attired in ac- cordance with the tyrannical law of fashion which seeks to subvert the omnipotent law, with loose sleeves and bare exposure of the arms; the temperature of the body, or extremities, at least, as cold as the finger of Death ; blood but little better than water, divest- ed of vital principles, chilled almost stagnant in the veins, and driven from the surface and the extremities, by her reckless exposure to cold, becoming more stagnant—congesting in the lungs—the cause of tuberculization. Well, let the interested, and the invalid or patient pause here with me but a few moments for a little calm, common-sense reflection. HOME TREATMENT. XIX Can human beings live and bid defiance to the laws of omnipotent wisdom ? How long will they seek to legislate God Almighty off his throne ? When will your eyes be opened ? When will you learn wisdom to bow in humility to his laws, and seek with the same hu- mility of soul to develop character enough to bid defiance to the tyrannical laws of fashion ? What would be thought by females of men if they should be seen through the cold winter exposed to all the inclemencies of our climate in the snow, wet or mud, or on the cold pavements, clad in thin cotton stockings and prunella shoes ? They would deem them, and very justly so, fit subjects for an insane asylum. Well then, does God make a special law to exempt the female sex ? The melancholy rav- ages of disease and early sacrifice of life with them conclusively an- swer the question. Will our patients, then, understand by this that it is a definition of the second great Hygienic law of their being; namely, the Law of Vital Temperature ? the third great hygienic law. This law comprises food and nutrition; in knowing what to eat, and how and when to eat it; for, as it is suggested in the section under the head of Dyspeptic Consumption that Consumption, with all its forms and with many other kindred diseases, often proceeds from errors of diet and imprudences in eating, so, to know what to eat—that which is the most healthy, the most nutritious, easiest of digestion and assimilation, and the best calculated to nourish and repair the waste that is constantly going on, and build up the sys- tem—forms the main foundation upon which to rear our hopes of permanent cure. Before ulcers and caverns in the lungs can be healed, or a de- struction of tissue or structure in any part of the body can be sup- plied and restored, the material must be furnished in the blood; and, in order to make blood, comprising the normal elements to fulfill that grand intention, such food and nutrition as the stomach of each in- dividual is capable of digesting and assimilating must be pointed out by the physician. We therefore look with as much anxiety, solicitude and caution to the ingesta, or food, of our patients, as we do to the medical prescriptions. XX HOME TREATMENT. THE FOURTH GREAT LAW OF HYGIENE COMPRISES SLEEP AND REST. A judicious regard should be paid to the selection of proper time or hours that ought to be devoted to sleep, which restores the recu- perative energies of the system more than double that quantity taken at unseasonable and unnatural times. The Americans, as a nation, have almost abrogated the law in regard to the hours or time that should be devoted to sleep. Hence, it tells upon the constitution in the national, as well as the individual decay. The fearful marks of early decrepitude, the lack of vital stamina, is depicted in the coun- tenance and constitution of the young wherever you go, and on every side; especially in populous towns and cities, where day is literally turned into night and night into day. THE FIFTH GREAT LAW OF HYGIENE. This law comprises exercise, bathing or ablution, or that due at- tention necessary to be paid to establish or keep up a healthy func- tion of the skin. By bathing, we would not have our patients nor the invalid to think we mean the Hydropathic system that erroneously and fool- ishly captivated the minds of that class who are always fond of in- novation or something that is new. They catch at an idea and run it to the utmost extreme. Whatever good it may contain is entirely overlooked in the excitement which some minds always crave for their support or sustenance. They rush into every thing with a wild enthusiasm so long as it is new; but as soon as the excitement is over, it is abandoned entirely, and then the reaction takes place; but reason and reflection often come too late to repair the mischief they have done themselves by the indiscriminate use of cold water, regardless of the condition of the invalid. What we mean to adapt to our patients as an absolute law of Hy- giene, is no more than the judicious selection of water or a medicated bath for the purpose of healthy cleanliness, which is next to godli- ness, and for the maintenance of a healthy function of the cutaneous nerves—the nerves of the surface. We advise the Medicated Bath because it comprises that which is designed to stimulate and nourish and sustain the drooping ener- gies of our patient, or to check and stop at once those colliquative night-sweats which are fast carrying his frail body to the tomb. We believe in a judicious selection of every hygienic or medical agent, adapting them with nice discrimination to suit the needs of each case or persons at the time the prescription is made; for, no HOME TREATMENT. xxi Booner is any one great agent, however necessary and natural to the constitution to sustain life and health, carried into an abuse, like the Hydropathic system of cold-water treatment when applied with a rush, with an insanity, because it was new, than the saddest re- sults follow, and, instead of becoming water-cures, they become water- kills. We throw out here, in this brief work, those judicious hints which are calculated to embody some important cautions for the casual reader to adopt, that he may be saved from the rashness of adopting any such practice on his own responsibility. To come back to the agent of exercise—especially passive exercise on horseback or in the carriage, or when that can not be obtained, a judicious adaptation of gymnastic exercises embodying health. Physical training is always pointed out most clearly to our pa- tients— we place great reliance upon it as an auxiliary to oarry on and complete the cure. In a word, we leave no stone unturned, nothing forgotten that we can advise or think of to suggest all means and facilities that shall make our patients comfortable; to relieve the tedium of their lonely hour; to dispel the cheerless nights of restlessness which they had before too long experienced; to mitigate their distressing symptoms, and to bring their condition from one of a suffering nature back to a healthy one; to prolong life and make it hopeful and happy. In view of all these superior claims, and many others that we caa not mention here, which our progressive system has developed, and which we offer the invalid and the suffering in all parts of the world, over and above, and far in advance of any thing that he can find hi the retired rural districts. Before closing, in order to have you understand, clearly and dis- tinctly, how much more rationally and consistently, and in accord with nature and the constitution is our system of treatment than the old-school system, we would here briefly state the principles of our practice: DR. STONE'S ELECTRO-VITAL SYSTEM. First: Medicines, to aid the system to resist and throw off dis- ease, must act in harmony with the electro-vital principles of \he constitution; that is, they must impart electricity to the brain and nervous system. Second: They must restore to the blood such vital elements as the blood is deficient in, in order to establish the phenomena of health and physical strength. xxn HOME TREATMENT. Third: The equipoise or equilibrium of the various functions of the body is maintained by two opposite forces—Positive and Nega- tive Electricity. Fourth: The normal condition of the blood, to generate and sup- port the current of electricity or nerve fluid, consists in a due propor- tion of two fluids; namely, Acid and Alkaline. When the acid principle in the blood predominates, it will imme- diately cause derangement to the general health, manifested in skin diseases, cutaneous, scaly eruptions, boils, cracked hands, accumula- tion of dry matter in the scalp, or scabs, rheumatic or neuralgic pains, thirst or febrile affections of the brain; when the determination is in- ternal, fluxes; as, diarrhea, bloody dysenteries, catarrhal inflamma- tion and mucous discharges from various parts of the body, and a thousand other anomalous forms of diseased action, become mani- fested. The appearance of the urine, where the acid principle is predomi- nant in the blood, is dark or high-colored, and deposits a pink or red- dish sediment, and often an amorphous mass of thick muddy sedi- ments, where the disturbance is great. This condition of the blood, when aggravated, will also give rise to the concomitant affections )f pain in the loins, the back, and in the kidneys. i When the alkaline principle preponderates largely m the blood, prostration of the nerve forces and vital energies are immediately manifested in languor, lassitude, general nervous and physical de- bility, tremor, palpitation, imperfect digestion and assimilation, ob- struction in the secretion of bile, labored and oppressed breathing, inability to fill and expand the lungs, attended with disturbance of the mental faculties, an exertion to think, almost inability to remem- ber, great confusion of ideas, pale lips and pallid countenance. In this alkaline condition of the blood, the urine, for the most part, will look white or milky, pale and destitute of coloring matter. Fifth: In presenting such a perfect harmonious system to your claims, the result of profound application, and possessing a knowledge of the laws that govern human health, you will not fail to perceive that medicine, under such conditions, becomes a scientific certainty; it is no longer a "shooting in the dark;" it is not a hap-hazard, in- discriminate jumbling together a mass of opposite substances or poisons into the human stomach, and left, as it were, for that organ to select and be the intelligence to properly adjust each particle and element to the blood, or in the proper order: this never can be the case; for the stomach and human system in that respect must be ever a passive agent, and be controlled by the intelligence outside. HOME TREATMENT. Xxiii Under such a system, calculations of a cure can be estimated and obtained with as much permanency and certainty as a mathematical problem. All that we require then of you, in order to thoroughly understand your case, and comprehend the nature of the treatment demanded, is for you to answer the questions annexed, or such as touch your case, clearly and honestly. PERSONAL CONSULTATIONS AT THE INSTITUTION. There are those who are willing and have the means to do so, to make any pecuniary sacrifice to be cured. Such are anxious to see us personally, and have a thorough personal investigation of their cases. We admit that, in many instances, there is much advantage in a personal examination—in solitary instances it becomes absolute- ly necessary. In doing this, the double Stethoscope is brought to our aid, and we can readily determine the extent of mischief in the lungs and air-passages by the abnormal sounds which indicate a dry or moist inflammation, ulceration or caverns, or the extent of tuber- cular deposit; and this with percussion, mensuration or measurement, and a personal, physical inspection of the chest and its conformation and mobility, and the testing of the vital capacity with the Pulmo- meter, all tend to enable us to fathom the extent, and determine the true condition of the case, and pronounce the prognosis of cure at once. The Institution has superior accommodations with large and well- furnished apartments for boarding those who absolutely require local treatment for the cure of deep-seated ulcerations of the throat, and in any case where institutional treatment is necessary. Our facilities for the treatment of female weaknesses and diseases also are unsur- passed. This department is under the direct supervision of Mrs. Dr. Stone—the Matron of the Institution. CAUTIONS TO PATIENTS AFFECTED WITH PULMONARY COMPLAINTS AGAINST GOING OUT IN VERY COLD WEATHER. It is highly necessary that we caution victims in such dangerous mal- adies in regard to venturing out long distances from home in severe cold winter weather, or when the weather is liable to extreme changes. We do this because we have noticed many melancholy results of such patients recklessly exposing themselves, and going long distances for the purpose of seeing us personally; by such means, producing immediate congestion, by driving the blood from the surface and the extremities, there not^ being sufficient inherent vitality in the sys- XXIV HOME TREATMENT. tern to produce reaction; hence, some have died almost instantaneous- ly, away from home. Those patients who endeavor to come a distance to consult us per- sonally, should select a time when the atmosphere is temperate and mild, and the weather appears to be settled. They should be prepared against any emergency of the journey with extra garments and facili- ties to guard against any liability whatever to suffer from cold ex- tremities, or from draughts of air, or from the exposure to which they will necessarily be subjected in traveling from the house to the cars, and from the cars to the hotel. There are other serious liabilities ; as that of their being put into damp beds which have not been occupied for a long time, and perhaps the clothing is damp or chilly from absorption of the atmosphere. Many invalids are hastened to the grave by such exposure. Every such invalid, traveling from home to, or returning from our Institu- tion, should take every precaution; he should exercise sufficient de- cision of character, wherever he is, to command the conditions to suit his delicate state of health. CAUTIONS AGAINST TRAVELLNG IN THE CARS IN VERY DUSTY, DRY SUMMER WEATHER. We have known many patients to be thrown into hemorrhage, or bleeding at the lungs, by traveling in the cars to visit us when it was extremely dusty. Such victims should never expose themselves to ride in the cars, or in vehicles on ordinary roads, even, to any ex- tent ; and where you contemplate a journey of this nature, you should wait until after a rain, and then immediately take the cars and prose- cute the journey before it becomes dry and dusty. The sharp gritty dust which is produced by the locomotive and the cars becomes seri- ously irritating to the lungs and the air-passages, and does ten times more mischief than all medical treatment can correct. Our charges for a full three months' course of treatment for the lungs and respiratory organs, for the blood, the stomach, the liver, and deranged digestive functions generally, including the specific kidney remedies, is $35. This includes the inhaler and inhaling va- pors ; but for the first month, if the patient wishes to pay in install- ments—$15 only; if the remaining $20 is paid at the end of the first month, he secures the whole course at the price named. There are cases so very complicated—of such long-standing— where the blood and constitution are so seriously deranged requiring additional treatment, and very expensive remedies—the charge in such cases is additional. HOME TREATMENT. XXV We furnish treatment in other cases, where the inhaling vapors and such expensive remedies are not required, at proportional rates, putting up $5, $6, $8, and $10 packages of liver and kidney remedies, or blood remedies, as each case requires, with necessary advice. Dur- ing a course of treatment, a correspondence is continually kept up with the patient, he keeping us advised of symptoms and the prog- ress of cure, and we furnish him all the remedies and advice re- quired to complete the cure. QUESTIONS. 1. Give your name. -Age. 2. Give your Post-Office Address, County, and State. 3. Give your nearest Express-Office. 4. Where were you born ? In America or where ? 5. What is your occupation ? 6. Are you single or married ? 7. What is your height ? 8. What is your weight now ? What was it at the time your sick- ness commenced ? 9. State the color of your hair, to determine temperament. When convenient, send a small photograph: it is a great guide to me. 10. Do you inherit scrofulous, consumptive diseases on either side of your parents ? 11. Do you inherit Cancer or other malignant disease ? Or Insanity ? 12. Are you of slender or broad figure? Spare in flesh or well de- veloped ? 13. Have you a stooping or erect gait? 14. What is the measure all around your chest, from under the arms? 15. Is your chest full, or contracted and flat? 16. What is the color of your eyes, and complexion? 17. Have you lost either of your parents, or grandparents with Con- sumption or any other malignant diseases ? 18. To what diseases is your family most subject; Asthma, Short breathing, Palpitation, Humor, Scrofula, Salt Rheum, Skin diseases of any kind, Dropsy, Headaches, Rheumatic or Neuralgic pains, or Dys- pepsia ? , 19. Are you troubled with enlarged tonsils ? Sore throat, or Catarrh of the Head, or Nostrils ? 20. Have you a cough ? If so, is it dry or moist ? attended with QUESTIONS. xxvii expectoration or raising of matter? Or, are you given to hem, or clearing the throat ? 21. Is the Uvula or Palate elongated? 22. Have you a weak voice? Hoarseness, or loss of voice? 23. How long has your cough continued, if at all? 24. Have you ever raised blood? If so, how? And what quan- tity? 25. Can you lie or sleep on either side with freedom of breathing and without uneasiness ? 26. Does it pain you to take a long deep breath to fill the lungs ? 27. Have you daily chills, or fever, or night-sweats? If so, when do they occur ? 28. Are you confined to your bed, or the house? If so, how much ? 29. Are you really able by an effort to go out ? 30. Have you Dyspepsia, or distress at the stomach after eating? Or sour stomach ? Or attended with belching of gas ? 31. Have you palpitation or uneasiness at the heart? 32. Do you get numb, or subject to stoppage of circulation? 33. Are you subject to nightmare, or bad dreams? 34. How is your appetite, good, bad, or craving? 35. Does your food sicken you, or cause vomiting? 36. Do you eat fast, or slow? 37. Have you a faint sunken feeling at the stomach? Or an ex- hausted feeling in the chest ? 38. Are your bowels regular or costive ? Or subject to diarrhea ? 39. Are you subject to piles? Blind, or bleeding? Or Fistula? Or weak back, or pain in the loins ? 40. Have you rupture ? 41. Are you subject to worms? Pin worm or Tape worm? 42. Is your urine excessive in quantity ? 43. Do you have frequent desire to urinate ? 44. Is the urine cloudy, or white, or milky ? 45. Does it scald, or irritate you ? 46. Does the urine deposit brickdust, or pink, or white sediments in the bottom o the vessel or vial ? [Where the urine is not sent for analysis, it should be put into a bottle, and allowed to settle, to obtain the requisite information. That first passed in the morning should be used.] 47. Do you have pain in the small of the back? Or region of the kidneys ? 48. What is the condition of your sldn? Dry, moist, rough, or other- wise? xxviii QUESTIONS. 49. Are you in the habit of bathing ? 50. Are you subject to cold feet, Or extremities ? 51. Are you given to habits of drinking ? The use of tobacco, either smoking, chewing, or snuffing, Or other pernicious habits ? 52. To what cause do you ascribe the loss of your health? 53. Have you ever used Calomel, Mercury, or mineral medicines? 54. Are you subject to depression of spirits, or despondency of mind ? 55. Are you passionate or emotional in your nature ? 56. In taking medicines, do pills excite disgust ? FOR LADIES ONLY. 57. Are you regular or irregular in your monthly periods ? Are they scanty, profuse, or suppressed ? At such times, have you nervous or sick headaches ? Are they attended with pain in the abdomen or back? 58. Are you troubled with whites, or catarrh of the womb? 59. Have you a sense of weight or a bearing down in the ab- domen ? 60. Are you troubled in the side or back? Or have you a weak back? 61. Are you a mother? If so, of how many children? 62. Of how many children have you had miscarriages ? If so, what was the cause ? 63. Have you got up well after confinement ? Or otherwise ? 64. What is your physical condition now ? [All other symptoms that indicate local disease or suffering should be clearly and unreservedly named.] ittt Jfrfw» INDUCEMENTS FOE MAKING: CONSUMPTION AND PULMONAEY DISEASES A SPECIALTY. PERSONAL CONSIDERATIONS FOR THE SPECIAL BENEFIT OF INVALIDS, OR THE HUMANE INQUIRER AFTER TRUTH. The Author of this brief work, inherited by parentage, paternal and maternal, two of the most fatal forms of Consumption; namely, on his mother's side Tubercular Consumption, and on the side of his father, that form of Consumption in which the blood has a tendency to become watery, poor, and vitiated, with a constant liability to dropsical effusions to any part of the body, but especially to the chest, known as Hydro-Thorax, or Dropsy of the Chest. His mother, when thirty years of age, was prostrated extremely low with Tubercular Consumption. She bled extensively at the lungs, had a severe cough, hectic fever, night-sweats, and all the ag- gravated symptoms that attend Pulmonary Consumption. She was confined to her bed for a long time, and given up to die; from some mysterious and hidden cause, she recovered entirely, when all medi- cal treatment had failed, and the best counsel of those days had con- signed her to the tomb. After this, she enjoyed good health, became robust, did an abund- ance of hard work, and lived in the enjoyment of good health, free from any Pulmonary symptoms, until her sixty-eighth year. At the age of nine or ten years, the Author—an unusually am- bitious youth—was devoted to severe physical labor, assisting his father in various mechanical and manufacturing interests. With- out being restrained by any prudent caution from his parents, he severely overtaxed his physical frame, strained his chest, and rup- tured a blood-vessel in the lungs at eleven years of age. This, at 2 INDUCEMENTS FOR MAKING CONSUMPTION AND first induced vomiting of blood, the hemorrhage was so great. He was at once prostrated and confined to his bed for thirteen long weeks, attended with slow fever, and entire loss of appetite; to both of which, he can now look back and see that they were in duced more by the barbarous and incorrect treatment of his medi- cal attendants, than by the wound itself. He was so extremely debilitated, and so low, that, for several consecutive days, he did not speak a loud word. After lying in this extreme condition for a long time, with a coun- sel of three physicians, who administered every thing their judg- ment devised, they gave him up to die, and abandoned the case to the kind care and nursing of his mother. She, at this extreme pe- riod, conceived the idea, that, if an appetite for nourishment could be obtained, recovery might take place, and attempted, entirely upon her own responsibility, to administer a mild emetic, in a cau- tious manner, which resulted harmoniously with her grand concep- tion, and produced at once, a relish for food. Food, and very nu- tritive aliment, that had produced extreme disgust for long months before, were now taken with a perfect zest, and his appetite became so clamorous that he could scarcely be restrained, under the child- ish weakness which such long sickness and prostration had induced. Suffice it to say, that his convalescence was rapid, his emaciated and skeleton form began once more to assume proportions, and to put on tissue; the arteries and blood-vessels were once more filled with the vital fluid, which went bounding through the system, giving pulsation and activity to a heart that had long lain almost paralyzed and dormant. The hue of health again returned to his cheek, the lips assumed a florid cast, the eyes, that had been so long dimmed, now became brilliant with lustre. The limbs that had almost lost their power of motion, regained strength to move and gave pleasure and buoyancy to life by agreeable exercise. In going once more into the out-door world, from which he had been so long excluded, his joy and happiness knew no bounds. It seemed to be a new world, filled with every thing inviting. To hear the carols of the birds, and witness their activity and merriment, inspired new life. The verdure of the spring, the opening buds upon every shrub the green leaves, the sprouting com, the genial sun, all combined to inspire new life, and the balmy atmosphere was breathed with ? relish and animation, that life never before possessed. Not wishing the reader to lose the great point of interest in giving this brief personal narrative, we shall here ask his attention, as we pass along, for fear it will be overlooked. He was greeted on every PULMONARY DISEASES A SPECIALTY. 3 side by friends and neighbors and playmates, congratulating him on his unexpected recovery; and those eminent {?) JEsculapians, who had hopelessly abandoned him to his fate some months before, called with great interest to learn if it was really so that recovery had taken place. It seemed to them to be a miracle; and now, when the Author looks back from the present stand-point, amid the great developments that time and the progress of medical science have made, he does not wonder that they considered it a miracle. Then, they were so sublimely ignorant of the nature of their art, that they could not see that fife and health possessed a more intrinsic, healing, powerful balm to sustain vitality, than all their noxious, poisonous drugs, which they had so lavishly heaped into his stomach. The fact that we wish the reader to keep in mind as he passes along, and of which we aim to make use practically, hereafter, for his good, and for suffering humanity for all time to come, is this: Life a?id health are possessed inherently in organic law, and not in noxious drugs and medicines, as people were then, and are now edu- cated to believe ; and to impress this fact—that my recovery from Consumption, which was considered inevitably fatal, was accom- plished by virtue of the absolute laws of life and health, in spite of the great prostration, debility, and physical suffering produced by the barbarous system of drug-giving. We mention it here, to prove the important fact, that Tubercular, Pulmonary Consumption is just as curable as any other of the dis- eases that ever occur, or to which the system is liable, when kept free from the noxious and poisonous system of Allopathic treatment that has submerged humanity, for centuries before the Christian Era, in untold sufferings and premature death, and which is carried to an awful extent at the present day, among the bigoted and self- conceited of the faculty of the medical schools, who remain enthralled by their conservative, tyrannical, man-made creeds and laws, which can not be fathomed by human wisdom or human ingenuity; the immensity of which will only be realized when, in that future day, the great books that John the Divine saw in the isle of Patmos, and so clearly described, shall be opened, and every man's motives and conduct shall be revealed. But to prosecute further the thread of this narrative. It seems to be a wise order in the arrangement and economy of Omnipotent Wisdom, that the noblest and most useful purposes can be developed only in the face of great opposition or untoward circumstances- knowledge, the most precious, comes from circumstances the most appalling. The writer, then, could not but look back from this 4 INDUCEMENTS FOR MAKING CONSUMPTION AND stand-point in the progress of his eventful life, and perceive, as he sincerely believes to be the case, the hand of Omnipotent Wisdom depicted during this period of physical suffering. Every intelligent reader of the history of the events of the world, knows that every important discovery that has been made, or truth that has been first promulgated to the world, has ever subjected its Author to the se- verest persecution and tyrannical hardship; and in other days even to martyrdom itself. This same fact is equally true in the de- partment of medicine—the healing art—as in other sciences, or the Christian religion itself. Another fact not to be lost sight of—that all the promulgators of a great truth, a great light, or an impor- tant development, have been taken from the humblest spheres of life. Jesus himself was a lonely Nazarene, and had the honor of being cradled in a manger. Galileo and Copernicus met with their share of bitter persecution and banishment. Michael Ser- vetus, who first discovered and promulgated a correct knowledge in relation to the circulation of the blood, the function of the heart and its vital structure, suffered martyrdom at the hands of that cruel theological tyrant, John Calvin, who boasted in after years, " I stilled Servetus, that barking dog!" Yes, he possessed that savage destructiveness to immolate him on a fire made of green fagots to prolong his physical misery as a reward for the moral courage of his discovery.* The Author, then, feels unbounded gratitude to his Supreme Maker for being possessed of sufficient moral stamina to withstand and bear up under the most writhing and cruel persecutions and slander, from his fellow practitioners. He would be willing to covet, did it not honestly belong to him; for he conceives that there must be something as a stimulus for great moral effort beyond the paltry consideration of the "almighty dollar." What greater consideration,—what greater prize opens to the view in the life and pilgrimage of one who feels and knows that his mis- sion is to suffering humanity; to one tried by the ordeal of prolonged physical suffering, who has endured almost every pang, and has * If the reader wishes to pursue this subject further, he will read of the development of Steamboats, Railroads, Electricity, and the thousand other inventions which have been brought to successful application, only through the most strenuous opposition of a fanaticism, that decries all innovation and improvement. This fact is still further illus- trated in the case of Harvey, who carried Servetus' discovery to greater perfection, and met with such opposition and persecution from his brethren, that he lost all hi* prac tice. But consider the operation of this law: his very opposers and persecutors subse- quently claimed the credit that belonged to Harvey alone. PULMONARY DISEASES A SPECIALTY. 5 kept up, as it were, a running fight with death itself for fifty years, and yet sustains himself in the body, when Father, two sisters, and an only brother—all of his family—have been laid low by this fell destroyer ?—So conscious is the Author that his mission is to promul- gate and establish correct views in relation to the curability of Con- sumption, though every form of envy, slander and persecution that human ingenuity can devise, are promulgated against him in Troy, where he and his Institution now are. His claims for meritorious success, extending, as they do, over the entire United States and even the Isles of the ocean, hundreds of interested sufferers, hearing of these newly developed doctrines and wonderful cases of cures, under much skepticism and their old influ- ences, are led to write thousands of letters annually to the citizens of Troy, inquiring after our merits; and hundreds, of whom we have been made aware, who, from long distances have attempted to visit us personally, after arriving in Troy, and casually, as it were, in- quiring for us and our Institution, have been turned away, not pos- sessing sufficient moral courage, after the slander they have heard, even to call upon us. This shows the humiliating, and, to the suf- ferer, unfortunate fact, that the large mass of mankind possesses so little character of their own, and so little knowledge of human na- ture, not to know that it is the same now as in the days of Jesus ; and that mankind are governed and guided by the same selfish and sordid motives, now as then; and that they do not realize that the- same truth holds equally as applicable now, as in the days of the Saviour, verifying his assertion that " A prophet is not without honor save in his own .country;" and that, though the claims of Jesus were so extensive throughout the whole of Judea, and his marvel- ous works created such a wide sensation as to be everywhere spok- en of and admitted, when he went home to Nazareth, his power for the performances of miracle ceased, for the want of faith among those who had known him to be the Carpenter's son. And, in Troy, more human ingenuity, as it were, is taxed to invent falsehoods and slander, of the most obscene and degrading nature, to promulgate about us, to prevent us from obtaining patients, and the credit that Ave deserve for our great cures. This name of humbug and robbery is sounded broadcast. In reply to this, to correctly enlighten the minds of that portion )f humanity Avho are interested to understand the perversity of , nankind, the dishonesty of life, the chicanery that is practiced in Ihe various departments of business that springs from opposition or rivalry, we wish to convey the important idea and fact, that no such 6 INDUCEMENTS FOR MAKING CONSUMPTION AND system of persecution and slander can be got up and carried on on a large scale, unless the victim of their envy possesses some meritorious qualities or is an humble agent in the hands of Pro\idence for the purpose of disseminating and establishing some important truth or fact which they can not gainsay. It is a homely but true adage that "those trees that bear no fruit are not stoned." "Birds always peck at the SAveetest fruit." But let us repeat: we wish to impress the important truth indeli- bly upon the tablet of your mind, that, if there Avas no merit, or no jewel for contention, there would be no room for envy or persecu- tion ; and an error not noticed, dies of itself, for want of succor and support. A spark not blown will instantly expire. A momentous truth should be sufficient to sustain the humble per- secuted, knowing that there is something in the nature of moral truth that never can expire. Sustained by the inexorable laAVS of Omnipotence, its progress is omvard—it outrides all opposition, and, in the end, silences the persecutors themselves. How long have you been in Troy ? Where did you come from ? Where did you practice before you came to Troy?—are questions asked every day. Undoubtedly, a satisfactory answer to these and other questions would relieve the minds of many who are interest ed—physically so—in our claims; because, as Ave have suggested before, the mass of people do not stop to inquire or think for them- selves : the same holds good in relation to their lives as to their other interests; and, therefore, they look no deeper than the surface of things, but conclude that one's residence or stopping-place, or Avhere- abouts has to do, or to sway, or to decide great and eternal princi- ples. Intelligence, merit, worth, are claims which have to be devel- oped in every man's brain by his own exertions and industry. The sick, the suffering, the consumptive, the invalid look at intelligence as a commodity that can be bought or sold for a little paltry gold; but God, in His all-pervading wisdom, has so devised that all must be the Architects to develop their own talents. The schemes of every one, in this respect, are, emphatically, the same. The laws that govern human intelligence, the development of human wisdom, the acquirements of human knowledge, are the same that govern human health and life. They are the same in every part of the globe. It would be a libel upon Omnipotence himself, to publish the idea that the conditions for human health or intellectual develop- ment are not the same for the poor as for the rich!—for the plebeian as for the patrician!—for the down-trodden African, as for the proud Anglo-Saxon! PULMONARY DISEASES A SPECIALTY. 7 Such ideas Avere suitable when, in the darker ages of the world, priest-craft and bigotry swayed the human mind, and tyranny gov- erned empires, usurping the government of wisdom and equal justice. The era has dawned when men are beginning to think for them- selves ; and he, who Avill not think or inquire for himself, but will pin his faith or modes of belief upon another, who perchance, in ninety-nine cases in one hundred, is a dishonest scoundrel at heart, or a tyrant in his earthly possessions, will be held in contempt for not possessing the dignity, as he does the image, of man, and Avill bring upon himself the suffering and humiliation that a lack of character and self-decision always does and always will do. In the language of Sir Henry Drummond, " He, who will not reason, is a bigot y he, who can not reason, is a fool; he, who dares not rea- son, is a slave." But, we will not break the thread of this interesting narrative here, and leave the reader in the suspense and anxiety of uncertain anticipation. We came to Troy in the summer of 1856, leaving our office in Broadway, New-York, where we had been making Pulmonary and Throat diseases a specialty, as we now do. But in the extensive scope of our practice, we had been several times called to Provi- dence, in Rhode Island, Bristol, and several other places on the sea-board, to gratify, and prescribe for, a large number of appli- cants in Consumption. The field for Consumption on the Eastern seaboard is immense. Our new vieAvs, and neAV system of practice by medicated inhala- tion, and the success attending it had preceded us, similarly to the fame of the Saviour, where'er we went. We were thronged and overtaxed with labor; the hard climate, and bracing salt-water air of Providence did not agree with our delicate constitution and phthisical inherited disposition. In our second visit, we were suddenly, and seriously attacked with a Pleurisy on the right side, which prostrated us in the midst of a course of lectures, which Ave were then delivering. From this Phthisical attack, nervous spasmodic asthma in its utmost rigor, developed itself. As soon as we became convalescent and able to ride, Ave again returned to our office in New-York, and recovered—after several re- lapses from Fever and Ague, a disposition to Avhich Ave obtained during a nine years' residence and extensive practice in Illinois, from 1838 to 1847. After our recovery from this first attack in Providence, we were 8 INDUCEMENTS FOR MAKING CONSUMPTION AND again induced to visit that city, to satisfy the importunities of many of our patients, and many others who Avished to consult us. We had not been there long before this hard climate, combined with the fatiguing exertions to which our practice subjected us, pro- duced another most violent attack of Pleurisy on the left side. We contended successfully for two or three weeks, mitigating and sub- duing the pain, and keeping up, with much difficulty, hoAvever, and attending to our office business until our breathing had become so laborious, breath so short and accelerated that it quickened Avith every little exertion. On making an examination of our own case, we found that the left chest was nearly filled to the nipple Avith water. We were compelled, from perfect prostration, to take to our bed, Avhere we Avere confined eleven days, and then Avere removed only that the bed might be changed; and for five weeks to be lifted from a couch into a chair. We give this narrative for the important light it is designed to throw upon the peculiar predisposition, and liability to dropsical effusions, which we inherited from our father, of which we spoke at the outset, and which will follow us through life. At the same time that we mention this important fact, for the benefit of the in- terested reader, we wish to express, also, the fact of being sustained, during this extreme prostration and suffering, when the left Lung was, for weeks, entirely submerged with water, by the correct judgment exercised in our own case. Directly in opposition to the judgment of two physicians, who were in daily counsel and visi- tation, and who ordered water gruel for us, because they thought, erroneously, that the extreme acceleration of the pulse Avas occa- sioned by internal inflammation, we ordered the tonics Ave required— beef-tea, London porter, etc.; knowing that the inflammation had been subdued long before they were called in, and that it resulted from debility, and want of balance in the circulation and nervous action. By adopting the course our judgment dictated, we were sustained, and restored to strength and the power of action. Returning to our office in New-York during the hot weather, Ave found the confined atmosphere and the heat too oppressive to think of obtaining health, or making convalescence complete, if we re- mained in the city; hence, we were induced to visit Troy, as we then determined, only for a few weeks, for the purpose of exercising on the hill Avhere we could get pure air, and at the same time, to some extent, carry on our practice, not having any conception of being induced to stop in such a small, circumscribed field, as it has PULMONARY DISEASES A SPECIALTY. 5 proved to be; but such was the success of our treatment with con sumptive patients, Avho had far advanced Avithin the last stages, and Avere given up to die by their physicians, that this success, combined with the solicitations and importunities of our friends, induced us tc make a permanent establishment of our Lung and Hygienic Insti tute. " There is a divinity that shapes our ends, rough hew them as we will." As the humble and persecuted Jesus has the immortal posi- tion, in the great apocalypse of life and the Avorld, of being born in obscure Nazareth, and of being cradled in a manger, so, the Au- thor has the dignified honor of being born on humble Cape Cod, and there receiving his first and great impetus in life and human pil- grimage. It so happens, in the mystery of God's providence, that the blood which animates his veins, and gives action and individu- ality of being, was transmitted directly from the " Pilgrim Fathers," Avho had experienced in their mother country, under a feudal gov- ernment, a tyranny and oppression which sought to subdue both con- science and earthly possessions. They possessed, in a Avonderful de- gree, that moral courage and resolution of purpose, always neces sary to resist and throw off the yoke of bondage, and sought theiti an asylum where they endeavored to disseminate the immortal truths: the right of every man to life, liberty, the pursuit of hap- piness, and the enjoyment of conscientious convictions, free from tyranny and persecution. It is too frequently the case with short-sighted man, when suffer- ing any little physical indisposition, sickness, or the disappointments that must necessarily follow the conflicting cares and toils of life, to murmur and find fault Avith Providence. This is as unwise as it is ungracious and wicked in its tendency. It betrays an obliquity of moral vision—a want of faith and fortitude in the infinite good- ness, and wise aims of the Supreme Creator. The Author, when experiencing the severe attack of sickness al- luded to, though but in childhood, felt no cause for murmuring, but realized a placid and even happy frame of mind and submission in the consciousness that all was right. " God from all creatures hides the book of fate."—The infinity of His wisdom and purposes is revealed in this, that, were His agents, whom He has chosen to disseminate such important light and neAV truths, to see the trials and persecutions which await them in theii mission, they would sink under the awful magnitude of the burden. This paroxysm of physical sickness and prostration in his youth proved the most important epoch of his life. It was then that he 10 INDUCEMENTS FOR MAKING CONSUMPTION AND became impressed with a longing desire to make the healing art his future study and profession. This desire Avas intensified by the conscious belief that he had endured prolonged and needless suf- fering, not only in his own person, but also through his anxious parents and friends suffering untold anxiety, as Avell as the loss of their time, and unnecessary expense at the hands of his medical at- tendants, from their culpably erroneous judgment, so recklessly exer- cised. Consequently, his medical studies Avere commenced at the early age of thirteen, and prosecuted with all the vivacity and ardoi of which his delicate constitution would permit. The study of anatomy, that displayed and depicted the wonderful machinery of man—its complicated mechanism—its many complex or- gans, all connected, one with the other—the Brain; the Nervous Sys- tem ; the Osseous and Muscular Systems; the Heart, propelling, with the power of a steam-engine, the vital current through the almost in- numerable arteries and veins, sustaining the harmunious action of the varied functions Avhich constitute the phenomena of physical life,—was, to him, one of surpassing wonder and interest, revealing, at once, a faith in a great superintending, all-wise Creator, who, alone, in the omnipotence of His wisdom, was capable of devising this structure. Whatever doubts, if any, had crept into his youthful imagination of the great superintending cause, this—this alone,— he said, with joy and gratitude, is sufficient to dispel. His desire for renewed and constant application Avas, therefore, in- creased by the unfolding of scientific discovery, on the one hand, and the sublime aspirations to be filled with a more extensive knowledge of the great first Cause, on the other. Instead of rapidly or hurried- ly pushing through a brief course of studies, and abruptly ushering himself upon the credulity of the business community, as is too com- monly the case with discipline in the Western world, his studies were prolonged for many years. At length Ave passed our examination and took our degree at the Massachusetts Medical College, in Boston, in 1837, and were then ready to enter the great field of active professional duty. With all the indomitable energy that characterizes a true-born New-Eng- lander, we embarked for the West, and commenced a career of ac- tive practice in Illinois, where acute diseases of a malarious charac- ter are rife, and Avhere the types and forms of diseased manifesta- tion are so widely different and varied in their nature, and the ag- gravation and fatality of their character, from those of the old set- tled country, as to surpass all conception, especially, on the part of one so long accustomed to the lingering, chronic maladies that fre- PULMONARY DISEASES A SPECIALTY 11 quently attend our New-England citizens through a reasonable course of fife, without seriously compromising the constitution itself. We mention this for the great information it is designed to impart to the reader, that, in order to be a great, comprehensive, and skillful physician, one must be posted, practically, in every form of disease to which the human system is liable; for the human system is a whole, though made up of many parts. Like other well per- fected yet complicated machinery, every organ is connected with another organ, and the functions of human life and health can be harmonious only in the full integrity of each. It Avould be well if mankind generally heeded such valuable in- struction, and popularized it in the daily practical walks of life now, as it Avas well understood and definitely taught by Saint Paul him- self, two thousand years ago: " If one member suffers, all the mem- bers suffer with it." While we believe it to be imperative, in the progressive nature of medical science, and the almost innumerable diseases to Avhich the human system is liable, for every one to make a specialty of some particular class of diseases in order to develop great success, yet, that specialty can only be perfected upon a thorough general knoAvledge of the laws that govern the whole. For the special benefit of the invalid, and the sufferer Ave shall illustrate this point; for Ave be- lieve that a knowledge of medicine and medical science is for the mass; and until mankind study and possess a knowledge of the laws that govern health, sickness and suffering and premature death will be the consequence; for health is the result of the fulfilment of the law: disease, the legitimate result of violation or infringement. To teach the doctrine that these laws are capable of being fathomed and under- stood by only a few, is as absurd and as preposterous as the sense- less dogmas which originated in the darker ages of the world. It is like the many baneful precepts and dogmas which are now prac- ticed to the destruction of our race; as the administration of quick- silver, arsenic, and antimony; bleeding and blistering, torturing and debilitating with jalap and calomel, and exhausting the vitality of the system, which should give place to the neAV and progressive views, which, only, are in harmony with the laAVS of health and the animal economy; to sustain the system by nutrition and tonics, and build up the vital fabric, instead of pulling it down. Can not the inconsistency, the barbarity, and absurdity of the first be perceived n contrast with the rational nature of the latter ? Let me pause for one moment and ask the interested reader, the invalid, and suffering who are longing for relief, thirsting after 12 INDUCEMENTS FOR MAKING CONSUMPTION AND health, if such information is ever imparted to them, or they have ever heard, as a general thing, of such information being imparted by their physicians, of the laAVS of hygiene—until a very recent pe- riod at least, and only in solitary instances at best. Read the books of Allopathic practice, the descriptions of disease, the prescriptions for diseases, from the days of Hippocrates—the father of physic— doAvn to the latest Author in the old system of medicine—I ask you if it is any thing but drug-giving'—emetics, physics, cathartics, blistering and leeching ? So seldom is the instance that the physicians mention to the suffer- ing patient, at the bed-side or otherwise, in long-lingering maladies, that he has to look to the laAvs of hygiene for restoration, that the very name of hygiene, to the ear of the mass, is but jargon or dead language; so much so that we are daily asked by our patients, when we lay doAvn our broad and thorough system of hygiene for their rigid government, Avhen prosecuting our system of treatment—"Doctor, what do you mean by hygiene ?"—as though such simple information as light, sun- shine, heat or temperature, food or sustenance, exercise, and rest or sleep, is too intricate to be comprehended by the intellect and percep- tion that God has given to all. Is it not as clear as the effulgence of the sun at noon-day ? But Ave endeaA'ored to illustrate to the interested reader that, for the specialist of medicine to be profoundly successful, he must be pro- foundly intimate with the great laAvs that govern the animal econo- my, as manifested in every variety of disease; hence, our arduous la- bor in the Western field of practice, which shattered a constitution already delicate, and rendered us subject to the peculiar fevers and diseases of the country, so that, at length, to prolong life, we had to abandon it, has been of the most imminent advantage, since we have adopted pulmonary diseases as our great specialty. We wish to make this point clear to the reader, for we labor for the good of suffering humanity; not for the present generation alone, but for all future time. Ah! for that time, when the lips that now dictate these words shall be mute in the tomb; and the hand that will to-day administer the balm of relief to the present suffering, shall be pulseless and dead. Every day, in aggravated cases of Pulmonary affections, do we not see manifested extreme suffering by cold chills, and nightly, periodical, colliquative SAveats ? so much so are these aggravated symptoms attend- ing Pulmonary affections of every nature, Avhether Catarrh, Pneumonia, or Pleurisy, or chronic Consumption itself, constantly on the increase, PULMONARY DISEASES A SPECIALTY. 13 Aat it demands our daily and hourly attention, from the great num- ber of our cases of patients. It Avas in our western practice, where periodical diseases were manifested in their utmost virulence, that we first learned a correct knoAV- ledge of the laws that govern the phenomena of periodical chills, fever, and SAveats—where we first learned the only true system of practice—where we first became convinced of the important neces- sity that where periodical chills, that depress the Adtal energies of the patient, occurred, invigorating vital tonics Avere absolutely de- manded. But we ask you, in all earnestness, to look about you and inquire: Is this the case, even at the present time, with physicians, as you generally find them ? As we have said before, we acknowledge no- ble exceptions; for medicine, within a feAV years, has made rapid strides,—no other science, probably, has developed so many improATe- ments; such new consistent light. But these advantages and this light have been embraced by only a few; hence, you will find your physicians throughout New-England—throughout all the old por- tions of the United States—still clinging to their nauseating, debili- tating, depressing system of practice. But the Author has not yet fully explained to the anticipating reader, the prominent reasons for adopting pulmonary diseases as a specialty. Our extensive experience in active general practice was so great—our opportunities for witnessing the devastation to health and constitution, produced by the Allopathic system—that in Avhich Ave were seemingly unfortunately educated—so numerous—it ap- pealed to our reason and reflection with an intensity and solicitude, that we had never before realized. The important inquiry would then constantly suggest itself, amid the scenes of woe and suffering: " Can such appalling effects produced by medicine be consistent, and in harmony with the great laws of health?" Can any thing curative, restorative and life-giving in its nature be so diametrically opposite—devitalizing and prostrating, at the same time? The poor, emaciated, distressed mortals we were called to witness, with mouths salivated by mercury; Ptyalism, so great as to exhaust the Adtal fluids of the body by the quart in a day; and so sore, so mor- bidly sensitive, that to take nutrition for the sustenance of vitality was a torture! Ah, more! We have seen Western practitioners so reckless in this system of poisonous medication, with mercury, as to witness many a case of gangrene of the mouth, and fall of the lip, loss of the teeth, and caries of the jaws! Humiliating as it is to make the confession, it seemed to us, when reason was appealed 14 INDUCEMENTS FOR MAKING CONSUMPTION AND to by such strong and forcible arguments, that Ave had been misled for many years in allowing ourself to conform to the blind, heathenish dogmas we had heard emanate from our professors, "ex cathedra" and been instructed in the authors they had taught us to read. But at length, as it is said by Lord Bacon, " Nature is often hid- den, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished." So a new light, for the first time, seemed to daAvn upon our imagination—the voice of reason, though it may lie long dormant, Avill at length be heard. We weighed the subject, and revolved and re-revolved it with all the casuistry that marks a devoted pilgrim, Avhose only hope of moral salvation is in his rigid devotion to the Virgin. The test of true greatness of soul is humility. Our convictions of the erroneous na- ture of former professional tenets were complete, and with all hon- esty of purpose, and decision of character, we avowed them to the world. When in fellowship with the church—by that we would have our readers understand, Avhen we Avere actively devoted to the regula- tions and dogmas of the old school system—Ave were held in due fellowship, and high estimation by our professional brethren; but like the noted rigid devotee, Avho has the boldness to throAV off the yoke of bondage that so long held him in chains to their slavish theological errors, so, in our case, the grand excommunication was at once promulgated, and for the first time in our professional career of nearly forty years, we became a " quack" and a " bold impostor." The eventful circumstances of a shattered constitution, in our own case, and that of an endeared companion, the subjugation of two lovely children to the fatalities of the indigenous diseases of the Western climate, caused us to bid adieu, at once and forever, to that otherwise lovely country, which, Avere it not for these awful draAv- backs, might be considered a paradise on earth. But so long had been our residence there, inducted into neAV habits of fife, so simple, so free from the trammels and restraint that characterize the extra- vagances and luxuries of our Eastern cities, we had become weaned from our native home—our father land. The consideration that we had become subject to chills and fever— fever and ague—the intermittent, frequent attacks of Liver disease, peculiarly developed in a miasmatic country, induced us to turn our attention to the balmy skies and tropical climate of Florida. There Ave Avent with our family, expecting there to spend the remnant of our earthly pilgrimage. After long weeks of toil, privation, and much exposure, we accomplished what, perhaps, no other Yankee ever did: We drove our own team by land, through the center of PULMONARY DISEASES A SPECIALTY. 15 the entire Western States, to the extreme point of East-Florida. But mark: Here Avhere we had indulged the fondest expectations, and brightest hopes for the future—where, like the old Spanish knight— Ponce De Leon—Ave had gone for the "Elixir of Life," it proved the lixir of death. We had but just arrived, when, within a few days )f each other, two lov^ely blooming, beautiful, fond children were cut doAvn by the deadly malaria of the climate. It is not in man that walketh to direct his steps. Hope and al- most aspiration for life itself, seemed to die within us. The fondest anticipations that had been contemplated in the opening buds of lovely promise, were blighted as by a November's frost. Ah! the Avorld seemed no longer to afford any allurements. The coral reefs, which, under other circumstances, would have intoxicated us, near- ly, with their inviting science of geological strata, opened but to entomb our fondest and loveliest offspring. The beautiful magno- lias and evergreens, that at first fanned and refreshed us Avith their fragrance, were noAV made to wave as the cypress o'er the tomb of buds of promise and talent. But in all great earthly afflictions and despondency, there comes a hope, welling up from the deepest fountains of the soul, never be- fore felt or thought of, to prove the star or compass to guide the mariner through the conflicting storms of life. " The darkest hour precedes the dawn of day." From the sombre clouds that o'erhung our brow, the guiding impression was for our " pilgrim land." Thither, with a heavy heart, Avith lingering thoughts of the graves we left behind, we proceeded. The circumstances of months of fin- gering illness, of immediate cerebral prostration, induced by the aw- ful affliction, afforded leisure for calm deliberation and decisions for future guidance. We therefore devoted anew, many months to re- vieAving our professional education in a series of colleges of a devel- oped and progressive character. We spent a whole course at the Eclectic College of Cincinnati; two entire courses in one of Massa- chusetts. We once more walked the wards of old Massachusetts General Hospital, and witnessed the skillful operations of Warren and his able co-laborers; we found that we possessed minute dis- crimination of judgment under our new light and new instruction, sufficient to embrace and dissect out every tenable progressive idea in medicine and surgery, and exclude that Avhich was erroneous. We prosecuted our inquiries further and more onAvard. Having felt but too keenly the errors and mistakes of our early medical educa- tion, we endeavored not to be too precipitate again. Something more than money or earthly possessions was at stake: human life 16 INDUCEMENTS FOR MAKING CONSUMPTION AND organized by Omnipotence, and designed for the development of great and wise purposes, was of too momentous consideration to be sacrificed by false and injudicious discipline. We therefore, at- tended tAVO full courses of lectures under the able professors of the New-York University College, and the College of Physicians and Surgeons. We spent two full seasons at the Eye and Ear Infirmary, Avhere four skillful and celebrated surgeons presided three days in the week, administering to from one to tAVO hundred patients daily. We walked the Avards of New-York Hospital and Bellevue under the skillful tuition and administration of Drs. Buckley, Post, Metcalf, Sayre, and our namesake—John O. Stone—a bright ornament in the galaxy of surgical and medical science. We prosecuted our inquiries and our education still in other fields and departments. We attended the hospital for little orphan child- ren at Randall's Island, and that of Blackwell's Island, Avhere we re- ceived instruction of the most valuable character from the placid hand of the noAV lamented Dr. Kelly, who then presided there, but immediately aftenvard Avas lost in the ill-fated steamer GlasgOAV, when on a AToyage of professional inquiry to Europe. But here we must bring this personal narrative to a close, how- ever much it would be to our pleasure to prolong it more minutely; hoping that our numerous readers will relieve us from the charge of too much egotism and arrogance, when Ave assure them, that we have given it to disabuse their minds of the unhallowed odium, slander, and persecution that have been heaped upon us by rival physicians A\Tho cling to the old and bigoted system of practice. To illustrate our motive for at this time making Pulmonary dis- eases our field of future labor and professional duty, as it embodied the greatest amount of fatality of any class of diseases, we will make an extract from our large work on that subject, to which Ave have before referred: On entering active practice, the victims of tubercular consumption brought to my notice constituted an appalling number. These facts elicited my deepest solicitude, regarding its very general prevalence and fatality. But why should I be consulted as to its cure, so long as my in- struction from the schools and the books I had read on the subject all pronounced it incurable ? The thought seemed to force itself upon my mind, as by spiritual impression: hoAV were you cured ? Hoav was your mother cured be- fore you ? Shall the numerous victims noAV appealing to you, and imploring you for aid, be doomed to hopeless disappointment, and PULMONARY DISEASES A SPECIALTY. 17 science and art go begging and confess an inefficiency for the ills of life? Those questions haunted my mind by day and by night. An in- Avard monitor seemed to rise up and chide me when I even cautious- y expressed the ambiguous opinion of authority of some gray-headed veterans of the profession to a doting mother, respecting the forebod- ing symptoms of her daughter, now menacing a fearful development, at a period of life when hope had filled her breast with the most glowing anticipations for the future. Under such circumstances, when a mother or tender parent notices, but too keenly, the seeming dissolution spreading over a loved form, exquisite as angel beauty can picture, not in imagination but in reality, on earth even, there will spring up in the breast, as the deepest sentiments and evolutions of the soul, a murmur, a chiding disposition, that questions even the goodness of Omnipotence itself, in removing, so prematurely, the ob- ject of earth's dearest affections. To one not studied, not read, nor deA^eloped into the more progressive philosophy of a demonstrated reality, in the continued spiritual existence outside of the frail form on earth, now so melancholy dilapidated, and, consequently, can not se« the just penalty for sadly, though ignorantly it may be, Adolating the imperative laws of physical existence, the horizon of disappointment obscures the future, and extinguishes the hopes so ardently anticipat- ed here. In my new profession, therefore, what a panorama for moral reflec- tion Avas daily opened to my view! a profession that had fired my youthful ambition, as one promising laurels of victory in the oppor- tunities to satiate the clamorings of a preponderating benevolence. Could nature be true to create contingencies and sufferings in her off- spring, and provide no alternative and no relief for the emergencies ? Questions like these would suggest themselves to my mind, and bo renewed with every fresh opportunity or case. Many and many a time were my ears greeted with murmurs, re- pinings, and doubts of the benignity of the Creator, called forth from parents, from the early physical suffering and premature dissolutiqn of their children, by this fell destroyer, in the morning of their exist- ence. This unhappy and unwise strain of thought and reflection ob- tains, for the most part, in the parent of years, and the sufferer whose head has been silvered by the frosts of many winters, who ^ften become and are more irrational than the youth, or tender age ' f adolescence, who, from the conscious innocence of its own nature, yields up life—even when dissolution is the penalty of laws they have 1 oth innocently and ignorantly violated—with a meekness and sub- 18 INDUCEMENTS FOR MAKING CONSUMPTION AND mission produced by the kind ministrations of fond parents and friends, and a confiding trust in an abiding Providence. Instances of submission like these teach a faith, hoAvever obscure in its nature, more enduring and instructive than maturer age is wont to discover. Why is this ? Because it is a faith of instinct coexistent with life that governs the innocent young, Avhich too often becomes blunted or obliterated in the distracting cares and passions that develop in future life, Avhen the vortex of pride and its vanities swallow up the nobler sentiments. Such were the pathetic appeals constantly made to my professional capacity, in behalf of the numerous and almost innumerable number of victims of Pulmonary Consumption. I could not yield credence to the assumption that Omnipotence had permitted a physical ill without a provision for its mitigation at least. I possessed the prac- tical illustration of my OAvn and my mother's cure, spontaneously, by the inherent resources of the constitution, as evidence that nature could cure Pulmonary Consumption, stay the bleeding wound, and heal the ulcerated cavities—even when tlnvarted by officious inter- ference : then would she not be more likely to do so when kindly and consistently aided by art? The evidence being but too palpable that the system hitherto practiced—giving medicines by the stom ach—was but a blind mission to the lungs, and nothing short of fail ure and ill-success could attend this method. Being convinced of this fundamental error, it was easy, then, taking reason as my guide, and looking to the natural function of each organ, to perceive that the lungs, being breathing organs only, alone could be reached ef- fectively and with certainty by remedies administered by breathing or inhaling them in the shape of vapors. It is a cheering prospect that the effulgence of true science is break- ing through the somber clouds of prejudice and darkness in which bigotry has enveloped our dormant race; that we are beginning to realize much encouragement from some of our more intelligent brethren, who have throAvn off the shackles and trammels of conser- vatism, and conservative institutions—have throAvn themselves into the great ocean of progression and future development—Avho see and embrace the true light of a knowledge of modern pathology in re- gard to the curability of Consumption and many kindred diseases which have hitherto been considered incurable. We are most happy to recognize them as our brethren, and to take them by the hand and walk in the great field of humanitarian needs. They are bright stars in the medical galaxy, who can see something in their noble and meritorious profession beyond the ephemeral al- PULMONARY DISEASES A SPECIALTY. 19 lurements of the " almighty dollar," or the more ephemeral honors Avhich cling to caste.—They can see God and human progression; they can see humanity; they can see human suffering and human needs in the great field of medical science and requirements. Many of our medical brethren have put not only themselves, but their Avives and families under our treatment, where they have considered themselves insufficiently informed in regard to pulmonary pathology, having made other branches their specialty. 'm®& J OUK PLATFORM. THE VITALIZING SYSTEM OF PRACTICE OPPOSED TO THE DEVITALIZING OR ALLOPATHIC SYSTEM. We forever denounce the old school Allopathic system of practice and treatment of diseases, Avhich is based entirely upon theory. The- ory always implies a Avant of knowledge—uncertainty—speculation and doctrine or scheme of things which terminates in speculation or contemplation, Avithout a vieAV to practice; implying something vis- ionary. —Webste r. The animal or human body is like a building constructed of perish- able materials, Avhich need continuous renewal, to maintain the use- fulness of the structure. There are tAVO departments carried on simul- taneously—the constructive and destructive. Upon their harmony and completeness depend the perfection of life, which we call health • or, in other words, health consists in the harmonious or due balance of the reciprocal functions of supply and waste, of nutrition and ex- cretion ; or, in other words, healthy life consists of the continuous, and equally balanced repetition. And to be still more explicit— perfect physical health consists in the harmonious action of every organ of the body, one Avith the other, in the maintenance of each function, which, in health, is pleasurable—a derangement of whichj is disease—deficiency of health—pain. Now, life is a renewal, and can not be in excess ; hence, it follows to a moral and scienti- fic certainty, that the old school system of practice of administering life-destroying agents and deadly poisons; as, mercury, quicksilver, calomel, corrosive sublimate, arsenic, antimony, or tartar emetic, sulphate of zinc, acetate of lead, lunar caustic, caustic of potash, Spanish flies, and many other deadly mineral, inscctiferous and vege- table poisons too numerous to mention, as well as their concomi- OUR PLATFORM. 21 tant practice of bleeding, or debilitating, cupping and leeching, blis- tering and torturing Avith the actual cautery—red-hot iron—and ex- tremely debilitating and depressing the vital poAvers by depriving them of sufficient nutrition—this constitutes the allopathic system of practice at the present day; with but feAV modifications of improve- ment, as it ever has been—a system, which every rational person can plainly perceive is barbarous in its nature, and destructive to life. Notice the difference : The animal, or human body is likened to a building constructed of perishable materials, which need continuous renewal, to maintain the usefulness of the structure. The attention of the true physician must be directed to the maintenance of life in the body, by a judicious administration of the nutritive elements Avhich nature designed for the sustenance of the body; which nutritive ele- ments, only, can be assimilated into healthy blood, capable of repair- ing the waste of the structure—the system—in harmonious concert or combination with the absolute laws of Hygiene—oxygen, fight, tem- perature, or warmth, etc. We base our system, therefore, for uniform success, upon that sci- ence which expounds the nature and qualities of our daily food, and its manner of assimilating, Avhen submitted to the digestive powers of man. All medicines that we administer, combine those agents which compose the elementary principles of the system. As the system is composed of sixty-four primary elementary agents, our remedies, therefore, are selected from a perfect knowledge of chemistry to con- tain such elements as each specific case or constitution requires to be supplied with, to make up the deficiency. Where great debility of the stomach and digestive functions, and prostration of the nervous system exist, or where iron is lacking, as in the blood of those who are pallid or bloodless, tonics, or invigorating agents are adminis- tered ; and so, each appropriate remedy, having its specific function, or affinity for a particular organ, is selected according to what organ may be found deficient in vital structure, or harmony. Will the intelligent reader contrast the modern improved system of treatment, founded upon an intimate knoAvledge of chemistry, and the laws that govern the animal economy, with the deadly o-r destructive system of the old, allopathic, or conservative school of medicine and practice. The only hope, then, for the patient is in discarding, at once and orever, this traditional and barbarous practice that has doomed its nillions to horrid suffering and untimely graves, and adopting the modern, rational methods of treatment, in harmony with the laws of life and health. IJM § Milan LIVER COMPLAINT, OR DISORDERS OF THE LIVER LEADING TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF PULMONARY CONSUMPTION, It is generally understood, that Pulmonary Consumption, Dyspepsia, or Indigestion and Liver Diseases, form the three great characteristic features of disease, that prey so univer- sally upon the health, and si- lently undermine the physical constitution, and consign to an early grave almost count- less numbers of our race. While this fact challenges neither question nor contra- diction, but few of the great number that participate in their melancholy ravages, ever stop to inquire into the origin, seat, or starting point in the animal economy for all this. The Liver is the largest gland, or organ of any kind, in the human body; in foetal life, for the first Aveeks or months, it is found to be equal to that of the body in size. The immense size—the number and magnitude of the parts Avhich compose its com- plicated vascular machinery, all tend to impress us with the conviction, that the Liver performs a wonderful function in the animal economy, and Figure 27 shows the Gall Bladder; 28, the Gall Duct as it empties into the duodenum ; 29, a branch of the Hepatic Duct; 80, the Hepatic Duct, as !(■ enters in the Gall Duct. LIVER COMPLAINT. 23 that, Avhen this great function is interrupted, the harmonious action of the Lungs, the Heart and Stomach, all must be disturbed or de- stroyed. In health, it is well known, that this organ is greatly under the influence of the passions. A fit of anger will frequently jaundice completely the skin, while grief, and other depressing passions, will change, deteriorate, or entirely check the biliary secretions. One of the important offices or functions of the Liver, is the secretion of bile from the blood, to purify the blood of certain noxious and effete principles derived from the continual waste of the body, and the changes of its tissues. The bile, it is well knoAvn, contains a very large portion of Carbon and Hydrogen, and it has been very reasonably inferred, that the Liver is one of the organs employed by nature, for cleansing the superabundance of these elements from the system. Again, the use of the bile, when the Liver is healthy, is highly es- sential to mix with the pancreatic fluid to carry on healthy digestion and assimilation, and also, as a stimulus to the boAvels, to increase their healthy, daily function, or motion also. From the very import- ant nature of these functions, then, it will readily be seen that when the Liver is diseased, its healthy function is arrested, and various dis- orders immediately begin to be manifested; the lips soon become pale, the countenance salloAV, dark or pallid from the poisons left behind in the blood; here then, is the first seat and origin of that fatal destroy- er of our race, Pulmonary Consumption. The next feature of mor- bid disturbance in the chain of animal economy, is bad digestion and malrassimilation; hence, the body wastes in tissue for want of healthy supply. Soon the whole alimentary canal—the bowels, are disturbed or arrested in their most important function, and what then is the consequence? Constipation! The most noxious, poisonous secretions of the bowels lie undischarged, and this poisonous matter is in turn absorbed again into the blood. Soon then, the tongue puts on a yelloAV or bilious coat, the teeth a corroding sordes, the breath becomes tainted, and gives off a most disgusting fcetor, the eyes be- come dull, the conjunctiva coated, and the orbs are surrounded with a dark or purple halo. Further in the melancholy sequel, the teeth decay, the eyes lose theu- lustre, the mucous membrane of the mouth and throat canker, Catarrhs are frequent from the slightest exposures, the secretions of the nostrils are foul; this extends downwards, fol- lowing the law of continuity, the whole membrane of the Fauces, Larynx and Trachea take on the diseased action, and lead it down- ward throughout the Bronchial tubes, and every clustre of air-cells be- comes diseased, and tubercular deposit now begins to take place; 24 LIVER COMPLAINT. hence, both Bronchial, Laryngeal and Tubercular Consumption is the legitimate consequence, and all, from what ? A disordered Liver. But go back with me, reader, and view the first diagram of these organs of secretion, digestion and assimilation, and see how intimate- ly they are connected to derange each other in turn, in the manner I describe, and then vieAV again in turn, the diagram of the Lungs, situated in the cavity of the chest above the Liver, and see how the Lungs can be diseased by the Liver in another Avay also: viz., a nerve called the pneumogastric, gives one branch to the Lungs, and one branch to the Liver and Stomach, so Avhen the Liver is loaded, its tubes and ducts filled with poisonous secretions, this gastric branch becomes diseased thereby, and its baneful synrpathy is im- mediately transmitted to the Lungs by the branch passing to them ; hence, Pulmonary Consumption, that has so long, for centuries, been thought to arise in the Lungs, in truth, arises, invariably in disordered Liver, and the Lungs are diseased in the tAVO ways de- scribed above. Again, Marasmus, or a wasting consumption of the juices and tissues of the whole body, obtains from the disordered assimilation of food from the poisoned condition of the Liver secre- tions. The Liver then, is that very important organ, so large and the first to be diseased, to cause all this chain of morbid action, and too often melancholy issues. Let the invalid, the patient, and every one who reads this, under- stand that the Liver, as an important organ in the animal economy has been entirely overlooked by the faculty, and its great frequency to be diseased, but little suspected by the laity. I have spent thirty years of my life in studying and investigating its anatomy and phy- siology. Nine years' active practice in the Western States, exposed me to the deadly miasm that made me a victim of Liver disease in very complicated forms; to obstruction, congestion, enlargement, and the formation of biliary Calculi, or concretions of gall stones that near- ly took my own life. They produced entire obstruction of the gall duct for two days, attended with excruciating agony and spasmodic breathing, before they were caused to pass through. The liability to this disease and its concomitant ague, caused me to leave a mias- matic country. We have, time and again, Avitnessed and treated abscess of the Liver, Chronic Congestion and enlargement, torpor and induration, morbid sensibility and acute pain, neuralgia and rheumatism, asthma and extreme shortness of breath, chronic cou^h and foul expectoration, all from disordered Liver. Again, we have seen obstinate indurations and abscesses of spleen or ague cake, with LIVER COMPLAINT. 25 thickened pylorus and cancer of the stomach, all originate in disor- dered secretions of the Liver. It is highly important for the benefit of the invalid and the general reader to be informed, that, aside from obstruction or suppressed se- cretion, torpor, the Liver is subject to many other derangements and diseases — to fatty degeneration, atrophia or decay, softening, as well as induration, Schirrhus or cancer, Scrofulous enlargement, acute and chronic inflamation. Consider also that, the Liver when in health performs the wonder- ful function of secreting from tAventy-four ounces to four pounds of bile in a day! What then must be the consequence to the general health when this quantity of bile, to a great extent, is suppressed and alloAved to accumulate, either in the large veins of the Liver, prove stagnant and become tarry and tough in the Gall-bladder, or, lie back in the blood to poison the great fountain of life itself? What a shock must the Lungs, the Brain, and the whole constitution sustain! To cure Consumption, then, we must look to, and cure disordered Liv- er. While we may address our remedies directly to the Lungs, by inhal- ing medicated vapors with great and good results, all will be una- vailing for a permanent cure, without, at the same time, removing the disease in the Liver and correcting its disordered secretions, that are irritating the pneumogastric nerve, and poisoning the very foun- tain of life with its polluting streams, which are emptied into the stomach, the grand laboratory of that vital pabulum. Fortunately for suffering humanity, I have succeeded, after thirty years' extensive practice and experience in this department of my profession, in discovering a perfect specific. The remedy I use with such astounding results, is from the pure vegetable kingdom; it will not poison, contaminate or injure the blood or the human stomach as the old school remedy, calomel and mercury have done, which has been a Sampson to destroy more than it has ever cured; verily it has slain more than it ever made alive. The benign effect of my discov- ery is, that it will not injure, but will prove a perfect specific in every case where complete disorganization has not taken place. This remedy is the concentrated extract, or ultimate alkaloid of veg- etables, so prepared as to be taken in minute doses, with the desired effect, without disturbing the stomach, without sickening, weakening, or prostrating the patient; on the contrary, the patient is immediately invigorated by its electro-vital magnetic action, for it acts to energize the pneumogastric nerve, and the solar plexus of nerves, and arouse the nerve forces of all the vital functions of the body. The lungs begin to oxygenate the blood, the blood is purified, the heart is thereby 26 LIVER COMPLAINT. stimulated, and the new crimson current is throAvn out Avith fresh vigor through the Arteries, to every part of the system, distributing fresh nutriment and power to every muscle and every nerve. HaAdng accomplished the great fundamental object of establishing healthy Liver, I then administer to the patient my Oxygenated Blood Solvents, by means of Avhich, all morbid sediments and mate- rials of the blood are dissolved and caused to be eliminated by their proper emunctories—the Kidneys and the skin. For be it knoAvn to the reader, that during all this long period of diseased state of the Lia^er, the Kidneys have been made to do a double duty on account of the torpid function of the Liver, in secreting all the morbid prin- ciples that have been taken from the blood, and in doing this double duty, have become debilitated and irritated, so they, in turn, are func- tionally disordered by excess of labor or duty; like a kind horse that has been half starved by its inhuman master, and hap, been made to labor beyond its strength and ability, by the stimulus of the whip instead of food, until his strength has become exhausted. For, be it further understood by the reader, that during all this time, the Kid- neys have not only been performing their OAvn duty and that of the Liver, but they have taken the task or duty of three functions, viz., that of the skin, liver, and kidneys. We noAV come to a sympathy of associated action, which is of great importance in the animal economy, but which has hitherto been entirely overlooked. It has long been acknowledged that a vast chain of sympathies subsist between the skin or external surface of our bodies, and the various internal viscera. Every one has re- marked the consent between the skin and the Lungs, betAveen the skin and the Stomach and between the skin and the intestines; but no one suspected an intimate connection between the skin and the Liver. To go back then to r«pair the mischief done to the Kidneys by their excess of labor, over whose strainer surfaces, pounds and gal- lon s of morbid materials have passed, of an irritating, corroding na- ture, such as urea, uric or lithic acid, lime, and often that most deadly poison, oxalate of lime, which frequently forms in the blood by mal-assimilatiort, and phosphates and triple phosphates of ammo> nia, magnesia, and lime, until the delicate tissues of nerves, which make from the spinal cord, situate in the loins, are very much irri- ated. To these, we say, we go with our Kidney Sanative, a rem- edy having its function upon these important organs, through the medium of the blood, we thereby soothe and allay irritation, and re- store tone and healthy condition by the Magnetic and restorative ac- LIVER COMPLAINT. 27 tion of the remedy. Diseases of the Kidneys we treat, therefore, with the most extraordinary success. (Read copies of Letters from Franklin Sawyer of Milbridge, Me., and of Judge Thomas L. Smith, of XeAV-Albany, Ind., and others.) Diseases of the Kidneys, or disorders of the most important function, urinary secretion, are fast becoming the most prevalent as Avell as the most afflictive maladies of the body, for this very reason, viz., that the anatomical structure in the male especially, is so pecu- Sections of a Kidney in a state of disease, represent- ing a condition very often found after death, where the Sections of a Kidney in a state of Kidneys have been diseased. health. liar that disease can not long obtain, without inducing the keenest suffering, or prolonged irritation, that eventually wears out its A'ic- tim by depressing the nervo-vital forces of the system. Prevalent, I say, from perverted habits and the development of a thousand new sources incident to refined, luxurious, artificial and unnatural modes of life. But let us show still farther, the relation that a diseased Liver has, in developing one other and most direful form of Consump- tion, that of Diabetes. Diabetes is a disease known by excessive se- cretion of Avhite, pale, or limpid urine of a sweetish taste. The ex- cess of secretion is so great in many instances, as to exceed in quan- tity all supply taken into the stomach by several pints in the day, hence, the rapid and general emaciation or marasmus of the vital tis- sues, the ghastly visage and skeleton-like form it soon develops. Now, this wonderful morbid action that seems to be located at the Kidneys, really has its seat in a peculiar disease of the Liver. In this condition, the Liver takes on a wonderful change of secreting 28 LIVER COMPLAINT. sugar, or turning all its secretions to sugar; the saliva in the mouth is constantly of a mawkish sweetness. Chlorosis, that mysterious form of disease peculiar to females, denoted by great blueness or paleness of the countenance, often com- bined Avith a most sickly sallowness, characterized by a ATery vitiated appetite, a morbid craving for disgusting and unhealthy articles of food, proceeds from disordered Liver, from perverted secretions, poi- soning the very fountain of Life. Hysteria, Hypochrondriasis, that mysteriously changeable form of nervous affections which assumes so varied and often contradic- tory features, yet entails upon its victims the most enduring mental, as well as bodily anguish, without reciprocations of charity from others, proceeds entirely from disordered Liver. The chain of mor- bid actions and sympathies is too great, too extensive and altogether too wonderful and numerous to begin to enumerate in a brief circu- lar. The patient, a victim of this class of morbid ills, should at once seek our discriminating skill, and avail herself immediately, of our scientific prescriptions and guidance to health, before, Avhat noAV may only be functional derangement is converted, by delay, into structural, or organic mischief and disease. But Ave should be de- feated in our benevolent intention of guiding the invalid, and the A'ictim of morbid impressions and sensibilities, to a key to unravel their seat, nature, and cause, if we failed to mention in this brief trea- tise, that the numerous nervous headaches, and diseases of the brain congestions, inflammations and insanities, spring from disordered Liver. VITIATED BLOOD from Constipation.—Again, Ave should fail in rendering important duty to mankind, did we not mention the train of direful ills inflicted upon thousands from constipation of the bowels; the fecal secretions lie too long in the upper intestines they become absorbed into the blood, producing sick and nervous headaches, fetid breath, decayed teeth, congestion, inflammation and ulceration of the throat, developing Catarrhs, and terminating in the Lungs, in Consumption, or in other Avays, develop piles ul- ceration of the rectum, inflammation of the mucous coat of the blad- der, and again, reacting upon the stomach in irritative dyspepsia, and deranging the pancreatic secretion, so from its morbid nature mal or bad assimilation of the food obtains, hence folloAvs in turn again, in another and most obvious manner, the cause for impure or bad blood. What then can be more appropriate than a BLOOD AND LIVER PHYSICIAN? To successfully cure disease, we must strike at the cause, we must fathom its seat, we must unravel LIVER COMPLAINT. 29 its hidden or mysterious nature. The nucleus must be broken up, the fountain must be cleansed, the stream of life will then run pure and uncontaminated; the wonderful anomalies of diseased action that assume so many diversified casts and forms will disappear, and health, the Goddess of health, will once more resume her throne and smile in triumph at the conquest. What a philosophy is that, that can scan and unravel the obscure nature of such myster- ious diseases, and subjugate them to the control of science or human will! Look, reader,patient, invalid, once more at the diagram, and see Avhat a capacious organ that stomach is! Let such an organ be constantly perverted, and what a task-master will it become to the immortal intellect sitting enthroned in the cerebrum, the brain above ? But where is the God-like intellect, and sagacious mind, when it acts through a diseased, a disordered function ? The gigantic and strong - minded become cowardly and effeminate. The Gastric juice and secretions must forever be vitiated, Avhen the secretions of the Liver are morbid, and its function perverted. Let all then, that Avould ever expect to realize the blessing of health, seek at once to make healthy the Laboratory of the pabulum of human life ! To cure or remove disease, is to fathom the LaAV that governs disease. None can practice successfully without! I have made the important discovery by which the law that controls or develops each disease, is understood. Every thing in creation moves in a Cycle. Treatment administered in accordance with this law, equalizes the nerve forces, unloads congestion, resolves inflammation, and restores the circidation upon which, every Aital function depends. I have made the most important and wonderful discoveries in medicines, that act in harmony with this Law, in curing diseases and disorders of the Liver. The peculiar sphere or function of each medicine being known, from my great experience in treating Liver disease, the prop- er remedy can immediately be given to remove each variety of dis- ease indicated, and the nerve forces become aroused into new life by the magnetic action of the medicine. But how long has the HEART in its wonderful function been over- looked in the chain of morbid sympathies by the disease or obstruc- tion in the Liver ? Physicians almost invariably, in prescribing for palpitation, oppression, or disturbed function of the heart, have con- sidered it to be the center of disease, when, in fact, the remedies should have been addressed to the Liver. The blood returns from the extremities back through the Liver to again enter the right side of the Heart to be oxygenated, but it meets with obstruction in the large vein of the Liver, (cava,) then the Heart throbs, and beats, and 30 LIVER COMPLAINT. flutters, because it has not the blood for it to act upon; remove the obstruction, the Heart will resume its healthy function. By this ob- struction above named, both bleeding and blind Piles are caused; for it is only the inflammation and congestion of the Hemorrhoidal vein that causes the Piles; Avhen they bleed, the vein bursts from over-distention, caused by the obstruction in the Liver. Remove the obstruction in the Liver, and the Piles will be cured. Although Piles require local treatment as Avell as general, our prescription is magical, and wonderfully curative in a very short time. Many people go through life suffering continually, and frequently the most excruciating agonies, from Piles, and to rid themselves of them, they are constantly taking Pills, which are composed mainly of the most drastic and irritating purgatives, as Gamboge, Scammo- ny, Aloes, Jalap, and other articles equally as irritating. The ef- fect is, instead of curing or even mitigating their condition, to con- stantly aggravate them; hence, they are never cured; for the very means they use for that purpose, is the cause of terminating what at first was but a symptomatic effect of obstruction in the Liver, or bile-ducts into a permanent organic disease; hence, results the long continued chronic inflammation of the rectum—the lower bowel— Douche of the Institution. Dr. Stone's Ascending Douche. which at length invariably terminates in ulceration and fissures of the rectum, and too often in fistula in Ano. Many on reading the word fistula, will shrink with horror at its name. Well may they, it is a disease painful and direful enough under the best treatment, but LIVER COMPLAINT. 31 how much more to be dreaded when compelled to resort to the only remedy that Allopathy and old school practice have afforded, viz., the knife. For the sake of suffering humanity, let us pause one mo- ment, and consider the wide difference between our modern and im- proved system of treatment, and the barbarous methods above men- tioned, that have so long and now too much prevail, be it said to its shame. In the first place, for Piles, all proper remedies should be judiciously and discriminatingly addressed to the Liver, while the Piles should be treated locally, only with the ascending Douche or Medicated Douche, the small, neat, compact, and wonderfully con- venient instrument above figured. The figure on the left represents the one in our Institution, the other figure, is such as we keep to furnish the patient to treat himself at his home; it affords the most ready and convenient facility to lave the inflamed surface of the mucous membrane of the rectum, and applying himself, locally, medicated applications to soothe and cure the diseased condition, without put- ting it in at the mouth and raking the whole mucous surface of the alimentary canal, thirty-six feet before the medicine reaches the lo- cal spot. Would victims of this painful disease adopt this practice, how many instances of painful ulceration and fistida would be pre- vented ! In the cure of fistula, our modern improved system of treatment is . equally as benign and fortunate for the sufferer. The knife is en- tirely discarded in our treatment; we possess the happy discovery that will cure, locally applied, so mild, that but little if any pain is felt during the whole time that the healing process is going on. We are now successfully treating a case in a female, that barbarous Sur- geons have made two unsuccessful operations upon, besides discov- ering on their part, either very little judgment or feeling in the cut- ting operation.—They evinced as little discernment of skill in not knowing her constitution, or else they would never have dared to have put a delicate female, inheriting a strong scrofulous and tuber- culous diathesis, and then having tubercles formed in the Lungs, under the depressing influence of both chloroform and the knife at the same time. It is perfectly astounding to see what unnecessary cutting and carving of human flesh some seemingly inhuman men will adopt, when they can dupe a docile victim to submit, whereby they may gain some fame, at the expense of pain and misery of the poor patient. When Avill Physicians profit by the judicious obser- vation of the celebrated Lis Franc ? " Never is surgery so beauti- ful and brilliant, as when obtaining a cure without the destruction 32 LIVER COMPLAINT. of an organ; without plunging the bistoury into quivering flesh, and Avithout causing the effusion of blood ?" REMARKABLE CURE OF FISTULOUS CONSUMPTION. The case of Mrs. Jane K. Maling, referred to immediately above, who was twice unsuccessfully operated upon—with the knife in the hands of two country surgeons, as an attempt at a cure of a tuber- culous fistula situated immediately at the extremity of the spine. To give the reader some little idea of the preparatory history of the case, Ave will introduce a copy of an application made by her friend, Mrs. M. E. Luyues, Avhose husband was our patient, and under very satisfactory treatment. Kennebuxk; Port, Me., August 21st, 1863. Dr. Stone : Mrs. Maling has been an invalid for several months, and failing to get relief from any physician to whom she has applied, has thought best to present her case to you. Last November a swelling made its appearance near the back passage, Avhich appeared to be an abscess gathering; on the fourth Aveek it began to dis- charge. We called in a physician; he said it was a fistula; it has discharged quite freely until within the last month. In May, about the time she intended having it operated upon, she Avas taken with a bad cold and cough. She has had several attacks of pleurisy; the first was in May. She is now just recovering from one, but still feels very weak, and her cough continues, and we fear (very correctly) there is a trouble about the Lungs. If you feel that you can help her, we would be veiy glad. Yours Respectfully, Mrs. M. E. Luyues. We immediately replied to Mrs. Maling, warning her of the great danger of an operation, and against all attempts at healing the fistu- la for the time being, while the lungs and membranes of the chest were involved in acute disease, and giving her the strongest assur- ances that we could, in due time, heal the fistula, when her consti- tution should have become sufficiently renovated, and with very ne- cessary treatment by medicated inhalation that the Lungs demanded at first, to Avarrant us in stopping such a drain upon the constitution so as to not seriously compromise their integrity by so doing. Not- withstanding our advice, Mrs. M. allowed herself to be overmuch persuaded by two physicians who were afterwards called in, to sub- mit to an operation—the first having failed, with all the moral hero- ism that characterizes a noble-hearted Avoman, she submitted to the LIVER COMPLAINT. 33 second operation under the knife, and the depressing influence of chloroform at the same time. Both.operations failed to cure; tha fistula still continued to discharge in spite of such barbarous prac- tice. At this period, of her case, being fully convinced of the judi- cious nature of my counsel, she embarked on a journey to Troy in company Avith the Rev. Geo. Wingate,—in the absence of her hus- band at sea,—to visit us in person. She arrived at our Institution in the latter part of September. On making a thorough examina- tion of her case, we discovered that Mrs. M. inherited a strong pre- disposition to Tubercular consumption—her father and mother both having died with it. Auscultation discovered the Lungs to be much studded with tubercles, with one small Cavern already developed. Subsequent to the operations, hemorrhage from the Lungs, to a small amount, had taken place. Her lungs were in a very delicate state, her vital capacity very small—but ninety cubic inches. The nutritive functions were much impaired; her blood was poor, deficient in vital principles, with a tendency to dropsical effusions, and attend- ed with a bad cough. Instead of attempting to heal the fistula, we looked upon it as an effort of nature to throw out morbid matter from the system that im- peded the harmonious operations of her vital machinery, and, there- fore, rather encouraged the discharge than othenvise. We adopted suitable tonics and blood restoratives to be administered by the stomach, to bring up and recuperate the waning powers of Life. We administered proper, healing, medicated vapors by inhalation and breathing, to the Lungs to put them in a situation for the resources of the constitution to heal in due time, and with a Avell devised, cau- tious system of Hygiene for her guidance, as a chart and compass, 4 our patient returned home to pursue the treatment. Her progress was immediately onward to the goal of health, and notwithstanding the hard and exposed winter climate of that portion of Maine near the seacoast, and our great fears for her in that respect, still her progress to health was unexpectedly rapid. By the February following, Mrs. M. had recovered from the cough; the expectoration of blood and ulcerated matter had entirely disap- peared ; the fever and cold chills had subsided; her appetite was good, and under the use of tonics and a nutritious diet, she had gained several pounds in weight. We noAV felt encouraged that the fistula nnVht be healed with safety to the Lungs. We therefore furnished he patient with suitable healing applications, which achieved a re- sult aided by the kind influences of the inherent powers of the con- stitution, which nature could not accomplish while thwarted by the 34 LIVER COMPLAINT. barbarous interference of the knife. Without going further into minute details of the case, Ave will copy Mrs. M's. letter to us, under date of March ninth, 1864, six months after coming under our treat- ment. Kennebunk Port, Me., March 9th, 1864. Dr. Stone : My Dear Sir : As I am out of medicine, I thought it best to Avrite you for more. My health is very good. I do not know but Avhat I feel as well as ever I did. I can stand quite a day's Avork. The fistula has healed entirely; it does not trouble me any. I oavc you a debt of gratitude that my pen can but poorly express. If it Avill aid you to benefit other sufferers as you have me, I permit you to make use of this letter, or, Avrite out the case to publish as you see fit. I remain your ever grateful patient, Jane K. Mallng. ZdW Mrs. Maling's cure is complete, and remains permanent, as she has lately informed me, mentioning, as an evidence of her good health, that she hoav has the care of a Hotel and partakes in the ar- duous duties that situation devolves upon her. This case, for its interesting practical nature, affords some of the most important considerations, viz.: 1st. That Tubercular Consumption, though so generally pervad- ing the constitution as to involve in destructive ulceration the Lungs and opposite portions of the body at the same time, becomes perfect- ly curable under a rational system of treatment, that sustains and re- stores the resources of the constitution. 2d. It affords a most truthful commentary upon the melancholy and deplorable ignorance that is hidden under the mask of a diplo- ma—a parchment, or a dogmatical writing—permitting butchers to dupe their victims with the false assurances that cutting and carving the human flesh will heal tubercular ulcers and restore health; when it is only the constitution lacking materials to repair decaying structure, Avhich must be restored, and the vital action aroused, before the cure can be accomplished. 3d. It affords a striking illustration of the truth that the great mass, of prescribes, and doctors never look beyond the surface; to trace symptoms and effects back to first causes; thereby virtually ig- noring the organic laws of life—principles that must forever mock the inefficiency of art unaided by nature. Millbridge, Me., November 25th, 1863. My Dear Doctor : It is with much pleasure that I write you, to inform you of the success of your treatment upon my wife. LIVER COMPLAINT. 35 You will recollect that I Avrote you early in the spring, giving you a detailed history of the case of Mrs. SaAvyer's painful suffering for the last three years. At the time that you replied to me, giving us the most satisfactory assurances that you could cure her. Her suffer- ings, then, were so intense, that we deferred putting her under your care, you being so far away. Deeming it absolutely necessary for a physician to see her, and tend her daily, in person; such being the case, we employed, not only one, but two physicians daily—for six Aveeks or more, from April until in June. Both of which physicians failed to give her any permanent relief; and her case becoming still more aggravated in its nature, we again wrote you, mentioning par- ticulars of her case, as they then appeared to us, after which precious lapse of time, Avith your continued assurances of your ability to cure her, Ave lost no time in placing her under your care and treat- ment. Her case hrvolved one of extreme suffering in the kidneys, bladder, and urinary organs, from the excessive amount of gravel and calculous secretion, Avhich appeared to keep the neck of the blad- der in a perfect raw state; so much so, that the secretions daily pro- duced a most aggravated and intense suffering; added to this great difficulty were other complicated affections of the neighboring or- gans, which seemed to deprive her of all ability to exercise on foot; so also Avere her lungs involved, attended with shortness of breath, great difficulty of breathing, and much cough and soreness of the throat, and Avith a vitiated and depraved appetite — and at times, no appetite at all, and Avith severe constipation of the bowels. It gives me great pleasure to inform you, that after six weeks' use of your remedies, and prosecuting your rational system of hygiene, that she is now entirely relieved; and all these distressing symptoms Avhich have attended her, for the most part, for the last three years, much of the time for the last six months, confined her to bed. You have cured her of an obstinate constipation of the bowels that has attended her for the last nine years. Such is an imperfect sketch of the great cure you are performing for my wife. And, for the benefit of suffering humanity, I permit you to make use of my letter, or refer any one to me, who may de- sire information respecting your most skillful treatment. I am per- suaded that much of your great success proceeds from your very ra- tional system of hygiene which you so rigidly enjoin upon your pa- tients ; in taldng your patients from their pernicious confinement on feather beds, and enforcing the absolute necessity of out-door exer- cise ; passive, where it can not be taken actively; the necessity of ablution and medicated bathing, to insure an important, healthy, cu- 36 LIVER COMPLAINT. taneous function, and in a positive denial of the inconsistent dietary, which, to my mind, appears to be a great cause for so much imperfect digestion, and blood derangement, which our doctors always fail to mention. I remain, ever gratefully, yours, Franklin Sawyer. To Axdreav Stone, M.D., Physician to the Lung and Hygienic Institute, 96 Fifth street, Troy, N. Y. The true philosophy of Medicated Inhalation, or the only rational manner of treating diseases of the air pas- SAGES, the LARYNX, TRACHEA, and the LUNGS, and curing Bronchial anb Tubercular Consumption by breathing or inhaling Cold Medicated Vapors. The Lungs are breathing organs only, and when diseased to require medication or medical treatment, so as to cure inflammation, conges- tion, ulceration, or the distressing effects of catarrhs, Pneumonia, Asth- ma, Cough, Hooping Cough, Spasmodic Breathing, oppression and shortness of breath, or to remove the formation and accumulation of tubercles, the remedies can only reach these organs when breathed. The constitutional causes, the diseased condition of the Liver, Stom- ach, and assimilative functions, can be rationally treated by judicious remedies administered to the Stomach—the blood can be changed of its morbid condition thereby, but the blood can be purified only by pure air, Oxygen, and Oxygenized Medicated Vapors, and air so in- haled, for the Lungs are entirely partitioned from the Stomach, Liver, and alimentaiy canal. (See diagram.) Air, and medicated air, and medicated oxygenized vapors can only enter the Trachea or Avind-pipe. Will not all rational and reflective people at once see the entire absurdity of pouring so many nauseous drugs into the stomach, as has so long been and is now too much the practice ? Let such an irrational and unscientific treatment forever be discarded ! We introduce in this book a cut illustrating the inhaler and method of inhaling, as given by me, in administering the cold medi- cated vapors, and the system adopted Avith such wonderfully curative results, at the Troy Lung and Hygienic Institute. The cold or cool form of our vapors are far more applicable and suitable to the cure of all the chronic affections of the Lungs and air passages, but in many acute affections of a Catarrhal and inflammatory nature, it becomes more decidedly beneficial and curative, to administer the medication in the form of medicated air, so the patient can breathe it naturally in every breath of air inhaled. This cut illustrates a LIVER COMPLAINT. 37 MEDICATED AIR CHAMBER. The system of our treatment has been made by great study and invention, so perfect for its adaptation to the needs of the invalid and patient at his own home, that we have packages prepared in all needed forms, adapted to suit every case and every variety of symptom and condition of the patient, with clear, explicit directions for their preparation in the bath or evapo- rating dish, Avhich every family has; and Avith the aid of a common stove or a Spirit Lamp, the atmosphere of the patient's room can be made in a few minutes completely saturated with this soothing, balmy, Balsamic, or any other medicated and healing vapors. It is not necessary that we see our patients in order to correctly under- stand or diagnose their case. By returning answers to the Ques- tions, and giving an accurate history of his case, we can as correct- ly send the treatment, and make it as curative, as though we saAV him personally. Those subject to diseases of the Kidneys, and urinary or calculary affections, should forward a small vial of their morning's urine for analysis. By doing this we can at once give the correct blood solvents, based upon the results, or the poisons and sediments ound in the blood. ;f0tttth J DYSPEPTIC CONSUMPTION, OE CONSUMPTION PEOCEEDLNG EEOM DEKANGEMENT OF THE STOMACH AND DIGESTIVE FUNCTIONS. But feAV people, Avho live and cat, ever think of the importance of the Digestive Viscera to the cure of*disease. In every case of dis- ease, let it be Dyspepsia, Nervous Debility, or general Physical Prostration, the successful results produced by our efforts at cure depend upon hoAV far, hoAV Avisely, or hoAV foolishly these organs are watched over by the victim himself. To an unhealthy state of the digestive Viscera, avc can trace, by distinct and unmistakable symp- toms, many diseases; though they may not be manifested to oui senses in the Stomach, yet they derange all the other vital organs, and the Avhole Constitution. Hence, the cause of Tubercular Con- sumption of the Lungs, or Marasmus—a general wasting of the tis- sues, and consumption of the Chyle, the A7ital juices of the body, and blood itself! The victim is not nourished, because of a deficient vital action of the Stomach, Liver, Pancreas, and Duodenum. To the same cause may be traced an obscure inefficiency of mind in- ability for making an effort, feebleness and confusion of ideas, Avant of memory, want of confidence, easily disposed to fright, to startle at the least sudden noise, given to forebodings, and frightful disturb- ance of the Heart and palpitation. This class of invalids complain that they aAvake in the mornino- not only unrefreshed by sleep, but seemingly more tired than when they went to bed. Often, an aching lameness of the whole body, and bones, even, as though they had been pounded. There is an unaccountable despondency and carelessness about the future, ac- companied by a foreboding that something or other unfortunate is going to happen. They have no power to prevent this. Their un- willing limbs are dragged languidly to the daily task; labor becomes a burden; what may be done, is done imperfectly or confusedly; DYSPEPTIC CONSUMPTION. 39 the figures get confused as the merchant adds up the ledger; the clerk knows that he has some important duty to perform, but can not call to mind Avhat it is; the school miss pines aAvay, becomes sad and gloomy, and her lessons become a bitter, cruel task. To the matron, even the light labors of daily house-keeping are a heavy burden; food becomes repulsive; if sleep is sought, it is broken by painful dreams, or frights, or wakefulness. If there is a hereditary tendency to Consumption, Scrofula, or insanity, now is the time when it will be developed, unless the existing cause is rapidly cured. This condition of the Stomach and digestive functions can not long main- tain, before another chain of morbid sympathies will be developed: Obstinate Rheumatism, affecting the joints, deep-seated muscles of the Chest, and often the Heart itself. Neuralgia, Avith her many tortur- ing pains of the Temple, Face, Jaws, Eyes, and Ears, sets up her com- manding authority. And soon Glandular Swellings, Dropsy, and Kidney diseases follow in the train, as will be most sensibly mani- fested by organic acids and calculary brick dust deposits in the urine. WhateArer value the invalid may attach to the evidence of the de- pendence of disease on the Digestive organs, it is very clear to the scientific, judicious physician that he must look to them for relief from these diseases. So long as the Heart, Lungs, Kidneys, and other important organs are affected by a disordered state of the blood, then these disorders can only be cured by securing the proper act- ive working condition of the Stomach. Understand that labor, time, and money will be wasted in clearing aAvay abnormal or diseased structure, if neAV structure does not take its place. To this end, the only path is to insure the assimilation of food, for it is Avasted toil to try to enter locked doors; that is, to restore other organs until the Stomach — the great laboratory of the pabulum of life — is made healthy. Will the patient reader consider this great truth; namely, that no chain is stronger than its weakest link; and the interruption of the function at one point, is the interruption of the Avhole. The victim of Consumption will say: "What has Dyspepsia or Indigestion to do with causing Tubercular Consumption in the Lungs ?" What a volume of thrilling interest and momentous consideration is involved in this one remark! Hoav feAV of the great mass of peo- ple, who indulge in the pleasures of appetite or the table, ever stop to deliberate—to think—to ask the question, " For what purpose do we eat ?" And if so, the answer would ber either directly or im- plied: "To please the palate." "Because it tastes good." This is emphatically true, and why we have such destructive results to 40 DYSPEPTIC CONSUMPTION. health from the errors of living. Food is indiscriminately heaped into the Stomach, without any consideration of its adaptability to the needs of the system; to supply elements; to build up the differ- ent tissues; to make blood and support life—but simply because it pleases the Palate—the delectable sense of taste! So much is this the case, as a general thing, that ingenuity in the art of cookery at least—is taxed to devise means to make the food inviting to the Pa- late—the sense of taste—by the use of high-seasoned, piquant agents and articles to provoke the Stomach to receive, what, othenvise, in a healthy condition, it would reject. It folloAVS, then, to a moral cer- tainty, that a much greater quantity of food is taken than the Stom- ach has power to digest, and assimilate into healthy chyme, chyle, and blood. Well, let us ask the question, then, " What becomes of all else that is not digested and converted into blood ?" Does the victim of Con- sumption eA'er stop to think that Avhat is not converted into blood, is converted by a chemical action of the Stomach—perverted diges- tion—into poisons to prostrate the vital energies, the nerve forces, in the same manner that similar poisonous substances would produce, Avere they swallowed directly, in their original state. Poisonous ma- terials, agents not calculated to nourish and build up the system, are manufactured in the Stomach by an unhealthy process of digestion and decomposition of the food, often denoted by the generation of morbid gases, belching, expectoration, vomiting, acidity, water-brash, oppression at the Stomach, a sense of fullness, uneasiness, head- ache, indistinctness of ideas, a lack of energy or force to prosecute the accustomed business of life, as above described. These poi- sons are absorbed into the blood; they traverse the great rounds of circulation; they pass through the Lungs; but instead of expending their forces and being carried out of the system by healthy respira- tion, pure ventilation, deep breathing, and sufficient exercise to in- sure perfect circulation, they stagnate, or congest, to use a common term, and become converted by a morbid process into effete, amor- phous, tubercular substances. Here, then, you have a brief, yet pointed explanation of the cause of Tubercular Consumption taking place from a disordered Stom- ach—in other words, Dyspeptic Consumption. This subject is of too much importance to go into full and explicit details here: it would exceed the limits we design for this brief work; but for the special benefit of the reader, we will give a brief outline of the different forms of Dyspepsia; namely Nervous Dys- DYSPEPTIC CONSUMPTION. 41 pepsia, Mucous Dyspepsia, Bilious Dyspepsia, and lastly, Scrofulous, or Strumous Dyspepsia. Nervous or Irritative Dyspepsia is known by capricious appe- tite ; sense of weight and fullness at the pit of the stomach; irregu- lar bowels; tongue red or covered with a slimy mucus; severe lancinating pains darting between or under the shoulder-blades from the stomach ;• pulse quick and variable; dull, heavy, aching pam across the loins; excessive depression of spirits; despondency so in-' tense as to excite the most painful ideas and apprehensions. The seat of affection in this class of dyspepsia is in the nervous net-work of the stomach, and occurs in the subjects of a nervous temperament and excitable disposition. MUCOUS DYSPEPSIA occurs in persons of sluggish tempera- ment and slow animal sensations; the result of sedentary habits, study, excesses of diet, undue use of purgatives—mercury and min- eral medicines; tongue flabby, covered with colored, yelloAV or brown fur, red edges and points appearing at the sides and center of it; lips marbled or fike yellowish wax; skin like parchment; body turgid with unhealthy fat; tendency to drowsiness and inactivity of body, irresolution and depression of spirits; dull pain with confusion of head. Produces apoplectic seizure and sudden palsy; is accompa- nied by little flatulence, much rising of food, deficient appetite, great thirst, bowels torpid, evacuations white; excites but little pain or mor- bid sympathies of the chest, but is generally allied with considerable disorder of the Liver; pulse generally dull and comparatively sIoav. SCROFULOUS OR STRUMOUS DYSPEPSIA. This disease always occurs in a constitution of a scrofulous habit; generally from predisposition on the part of parentage or ancestry, or in an acquired scrofulous habit of the blood and constitution. The word " scrofula" is in every mouth. It is as common in the language as Dickens's " Household Words," and yet, not one in a hundred, of those who make use of the word "scrofula," when applying it to their own sufferings, or those of another, knows or comprehends the meaning of the word, when applied to a general derangement of health—like thousands of other words in every day use, that have crept into our vernacular, they are vaguely applied, when translated in their literal sense. As I have explained in my large work on Con- sumption and Scrofula, the original primitive meaning of the word is—Scrofa—coming from the swine, or, in vulgar parlance, the sow: because the Jews remarked that Leprosy, and many of the skin dis- 42 DYSPEPTIC CONSUMPTION. eases Avhich seriously affected their health, sprang from the use of pork, and a grand edict was promulgated prohibiting its use; and from thence Ave get, not only the use of the Avord, scrofula, but a valuable practical lesson, which hundreds and thousands avouIc! act more wisely to heed in the indiscriminate use they noAV make of this unhealthy, and often loathsome, disgusting article of food. But, to more clearly explain the vague use of the Atord, scrofula, we have to say that it is applied to as many varied and opposite con- ditions of the blood and the system, as can be imagined. One can see scrofula existing in cutaneous eruptions, in boils or sores on the external part of the body; another case embodies as many varieties of cutaneous eruptions, opposite in their nature and springing from conditions of the blood as diametrically opposite as the Antipodes; another conceives scrofula to exist only in those having a pallid cast of countenance, and lack of freshness and color, Avhich indicates the disposition of this subject to swollen glands of the neck and throat, the tonsils, thickening of the dividing cartilage of the nostrils, tumid lips, SAVollen or tumid eye-lids, dropsical effusions at the knee-joints or ankles, often combining a pale, SAvarthy or salloAV cast of counte- nance. The latter really constitutes the scrofulous diathesis; though there is often a mingling of a scrofulous taint Avith other diseases of the blood, of a hot and more fiery nature, even a cancerous condition it-elf. This indicates a compound or complication of opposite dis- orders in such special constitutions, but really does not imply a strict scrofulous diathesis, which is indicated by a poor, Avatery con- dition of the blood, deficiency in iron and fibrin—the red coloring matter,—given to local effusions, tumid eye-lids, swelled glands of the throat, catarrhal inflammations of the eyes and nose, thickening of the membranes of the nose upon taking cold; embodying, in a word, an illy-developed, half-nourished, half-vitalized constitution. This habit of physical conformation and constitution, embodies the class of scrofulous or strumous dyspeptics. Whereas, in the two former instances of dyspepsia, the seat of morbid irritation and dis- turbance is in the stomach, the seat of difficulty is in the Duodenum__ the little stomach—and the small intestines where the great process of the absorption of chyle, and the sanguiferous fluid made from chyle, takes place, or should take place, to carry the chyle and fluid into the blood-vessels to constitute true blood, to nourish the system. The small intestines are supplied with an important set of vessels called the absorbents; or, in plainer language—the pumps. In scro- fulous dyspepsia, why the subject is not better nourished, Avhy the blood is not vitalized, why the countenance is pallid, why the body DYSPEPTIC CONSUMPTION. 43 is given to dropsical effusions and local swellings, is here: Because the absorbents lack in vital integrity to take up, and carry this im- portant fluid into the blood-vessels, and complete the process of san- guification. The absorbent vessels are debilitated, are relaxed. There is a want of nerve, or vital force. They are deficient in elec- tro-vital magnetic action; in a word, they are incapacitated for the performance of then- function. Hence the uneasiness, the oppression, the pain and suffering, instead of being in the stomach, is in the boAvels. With some, the pain and suffering, three or four hours after eating, are intense: flatulence takes place; borborygmus, or rumbling colicky pains. The boAvels may be obstinately constipated or attended with pro- fuse or chronic diarrhea; they are rarely regular in their natural function. In scrofulous dyspepsia, the tongue is flabby, pale; if coated, it is Avhite, as a general thing; the gums are spongy, the teeth are in- crusted Avith sordes, or tartar, and are given to early decay. The subject lacks in energy and vigor; though many females in early life shoAV an aptness to learn, and a quickness of comprehension, which, hoAvever, soon becomes exhausted from any great amount of exercise or physical exertion. They are like buds that spring from forced or artificial cultivation: they shoAV beautifully in their open- ing prospect, but are blighted by the first exposure to the blasts of autumn, or the mildest frosts. Bilious Dyspepsia forms a striking contrast to all the others. The seat of immediate disturbance and suffering is apparently in the Stomach, and is so in the majority of cases; whereas, the grand cause of the disturbance is in the Liver itself. The mouth has a bitter, nasty taste on arising in the morning, the tongue is coated with a thick, broAvnish yellow—rightly denominated—bilious coat. There is a sunken, uneasy, all-gone sensation felt at the pit of the stomach as soon as the stomach is a little empty, and many are led to great er- rors of diet, to a constant habit of over-eating, overloading the stom- ach, because it satisfies this morbid craving, and for the time being, relieves the distressing sunkenness, or faintness; but the relief is of short transitory duration, and from the extreme suffering and anxie- ty, the uneasiness of mind, the incapacity for exertion or for business, >r fixing the attention upon the business, especially if it be of an in- ellectual nature, comes the urgency or demand for more food upon the slightest recurrence of the distressing symptoms—not stopping to reflect, or to realize that the cause for all this is being made worse by their continued indulgence. 44 DYSPEPTIC CONSUMPTION. From a half hour to an hour after eating the regular meals, more especially after breakfast and dinner, an uncomfortable fullness com- mences. In many cases, heart-burn, so intense that the victim is made miserable, is a striking evidence of this form of dyspepsia. In others, a belching up of noxious gases, and rancid eructations, so acrid as to irritate the throat, and a feeling of disgust and even nau- sea not unfrequently takes place, and where the nerves of the stom- ach are in a very irritable state, vomiting of half-digested aliment occurs. In some people there is a sense of tightness in the chest, im- peding the free action of breathing, partly depending upon the dis- tension of the stomach; heaviness, giddiness, and faintness are at- tendants on this state of the stomach. In others, the sense of fullness, distension or oppression at the stomach is much less, or hardly felt at all; but the imperfect process is denoted, some length of time after eating, by a habit of constant- ly expectorating or raising a sweetish, milky, half-digested liquid, which is termed " water brash." In this form of Dyspepsia, the Liver is, for the most part, torpid, and consequently the feces are of a clay color, and devoid of any natural smell; but there is, in many cases, a copious secretion of viscid bile, which is as tenacious as bird-lime. It is this tenacious bile which hangs so long in the bowels of some people and by keeping up a constant irritation of the intestinal nerves, produces a host of uneasy sensations in various parts of the body, as well as fits of irritability in mind. In some instances, where this poisonous secretion lurks long in the upper bowels, the nerves of which are so numerous, and the sympathy so extensive, there is induced a state of mental de- spondency and perturbation, which it is impossible to describe, and of Avhich no one can form a just idea but he who has felt it in person. This poison acts in different ways on different individuals. In some whose nervous systems are very susceptible, it produces a vio- lent fit of what is called bilious headache, with excruciating pain and spasms in the Stomach and bowels, generally with vomiting or purg- ing, which is often succeeded by a yellow suffusion in the eyes, or even on the skin. The mind becomes suddenly overcast, as it were, with a cloud; some dreadful imaginary, or even a known evil, seems impending, and some real evil of trifling importance is quickly mag- nified into a terrific form, or one apparently with a train of distressing consequences from which the mental eye turns in dismay. The suf- ferer can not keep in one position, but paces the room in agitation, giving vent to his fears in doleful soliloquies or pouring forth his ap- prehensions in the ears of his friends. If he happens to labor under DYSPEPTIC CONSUMPTION. 45 any chronic complaint, at the time, it is immediately converted, in his imagination, into an incurable disease, and the distresses of a ruined and orphaned family rush upon his mind and heighten his ago- nies. He feels his pulse and finds it intermittent or irregular; dis- ease of the Heart is threatened, and the Doctor is summoned. If he ventures to go to bed, and falls into a slumber, he awakes in a most frightful dream, and dares not again lay his head on the pillow. This state of misery may continue for a longer or shorter period— from 24 to 36 or 48 hours, when, in many instances, a discharge of viscid, acrid bile, or rather, Adtiated secretion, dissolves at once the spell by which the strongest mind may be bowed down to the earth for the time, through the agency of some irritation of the intestinal nerves. It is astonishing, even to the experienced physician, what astound- ing results will be produced by this bilious habit, and derangement of the Stomach, even upon the most towering intellects. For the time being it breaks down the most gigantic mind; he becomes childish and feeble, whimsical, irresolute, and embarrassed, with little incli- nation for intellectual exertion or moral command. So mysteriously paralyzing are its effects upon the moral faculties of the victim that he, who, but a little time before, or when in ordinary health, could astonish the world, as it were, with his mighty efforts, or sway an audience or a senate with his eloquence, becomes effeminate and cowardly. Happily illustrated by the immortal Shakespeare, that, "there is something besides conscience that makes cowards of us all." Were we disposed, and had we space, we could go on and eluci- date our description of the different forms of dyspepsia much more clearly, and at greater length; which, of course would better suit some isolated, solitary cases, that will always be met with by the experienced practitioner, which occur as anomalies, as it were from the complications or combination of different disorders in the system at the same time, from a more extensive morbid derangement of the nervous system, involving the integrity of the brain, the nervous system, and the Heart itself, in the chain of morbid action, in addi- tion to the great biliary derangement which only characterizes the generality of cases. Our object is only to convey to the reader the important fact that the great first cause for Tubercular, as well as every other form of Consumption, has its origin in disordered digestion and assimilation. Hence, the proper nomenclature of Dyspeptic Consumption, which it really is. 46 DYSPEPTIC CONSUMPTION. To cure Consumption then, what is the first and most important point of consideration to be looked at ? Will the interested reader pause with me for a moment and consider the facts—the phenomena that actually take place to form tuberculized or tubercular deposit in the Lungs ? And first, before tubercular matter can be deposited, or foi-m in the Lungs, it exists back of the Lungs in the blood in a li- quid state and circulates in the blood so long as it exists there. Had it better not be deposited for the safety of the victim, in the Lungs than in any other part of the body ? It is well known by physiologists—to medical men of extensive practice and observation—that, Avhen tubercles are deposited in the brain, or in the glands and lining membranes of the bowels, or in the great Mesentery itself, it becomes far more deathly, and certainly fatal, than when deposited only in the Lungs. The ravages made, the disorganization and extensive sympathetic derangement of the constitution, which involve the vital powers, are far greater, and run a more rapid course to fatality than when they affect the Lungs alone; for the Lungs are duplicated, they are doubled. We can live upon a much less amount of* Lung than what nature has given us, even through a long life, when the impaired portion of Lung is not sufficient to break down or suspend life. Hence, in many constitu- tions, where there is a tenacity of vitality—hardiness of constitu- tion—Avhere the inherent resources of the recuperative energies of the digestive functions are great, the constitution will bear up, and resist the inroads of tubercles, and ulceration itself, for many years; and, at length, the ulcerated caverns will become cicatrized and heal, or the deposited tubercle will not ulcerate, but dry up, as it were, and become ossified, and lie dormant in the Lungs, without destroying life. But such can not be the case, except, for a little time only, Avhere tubercles are deposited in other portions of the body, before they will run into a rapid suppuration, disorganization, and destruction of life itself. Let the victim of tubercular, Pulmonary consumption, then, con- gratulate himself that, if, of necessity, he has tubercles, the Lungs have received their onus of action or deposit, and the other more im- portant parts of the body have escaped. Since in the wonderful de- velopments that the progress of medical science has made in chemi- cal analysis and fathoming and deciphering the true condition of the blood, and perfecting a rational system of treatment embodied in di- rect medicated inhalation, especially in the cold system of medicated inhalation which becomes so energizing, so healing in its nature; and in the next place a more rational system which discards, at once DYSPEPTIC CONSUMPTION. 47 and forever, the poisonous, debilitating, and drug-giving by the Stom- ach of the old-school practice, and noAV saves the Stomach from being nauseated and irritated, the appetite of the victim is husbanded with the most scrupulous care, and a system of dietetics and nutrition se- lected under the guidance of this important knoAvledge of animal chemistry, to adapt the supply and needs of each case, to restore the vital elements to the blood, and overcome, thereby, this morbific con- dition, and build up the resources of nature in the constitution, in the blood, so they will not only preponderate over the depraved ten- dencies, but have a supply and a superabundance of vital healing principles, to prevent all further deposition, and to heal the ravages that haA'e been already made. Let the interested reader, or the victim of Consumption consider then, that the danger of running to rapid fatality, or into an incur- able condition, does not consist in the amount of tubercle deposited in the Lungs; for, as I have demonstrated, Ave can live on a much less amount of Lung, provided we can stop all further deposition of this morbid matter from taking place. You will see then, that in order to accomplish this, it must be done by correcting the morbid derangement of the Stomach and digestive organs; for here is the law that governs our being—it is the law absolute—it is an organic laAv that no man or patient can infringe lAvith impurity — no doctor, however learned can suspend; namely, An organ diseased can not perform a healthy function. It would not be out of place, therefore, to carry out our benevo- lent motive, to warn the victim of indulgence to control his appetite, to shape his course of eating and living Avith a due regard to that laAv Avhich emanated from Omnipotent Wisdom. But, further: Will the victim consider the important fact, there- fore, that in order to stop tubercular deposit in the Lungs, Ave must cleanse the fountain—the blood—and in order to do that we must correct the morbid derangements of the stomach and digestive or- gans ; and Avhen that is done, the ingesta—what is put into the stom- ach Avith the idea of building up the structure—must be selected under the eye of the scientific physician or physiologist who has made that laAv of chemistry his great study and intense application. As we have before sought to impress upon you, it is not the quan- tity or the number of articles eaten that nourishes the constitution and make blood, but only what is absolutely digested and assimilated, makes blood: every ounce beyond that makes poison to be converted into tubercle to sap the ATery life which your eating aims to sustain. In the language of the learned Dr. Golding Bird, the author of that 48 DYSPEPTIC CONSUMPTION. inestimable work on urinary pathology and the analysis of the blood: "Four ounces of beefsteak properly taken may all be converted into good blood, and no more than that." To many Stomachs and con- stitutions, the fifth ounce if taken, can not be digested and assimilat- ed : it is too much for the powers of the Stomach. The fifth ounce is converted into urate of ammonia, uric acid, and the triple phosphates of ammonia, and magnesia or other very deleterious compounds which take place by a chemical action induced in the Stomach by an excess or an improper amount of food, which arrests and subverts the vital process of assimilation. Will the reader and the victim understand, therefore, that the pro- cess of digestion, assimilation, sanguification, and nutrition is a vital one, and that Avhen food runs into decomposition in the Stomach, the generation of morbific gases, and of acidity, the vital action has been subverted there by the errors of diet or morbid condition of the stomach? Hence, it is only in the fight of this great knowledge which our profound and unremitting applications have enabled us to command, and bring to bear; with a judicious and nice discrimina- tion in each case to select the necessary scientific and philosophical treatment, both directly and locally applied, by breathing and inha- lation at once; and at the great fountain head—the first cause—sus- taining the vital forces of the system—that we have accomplished such wonderful success in our practice. And to insure complete success, both must ever be nicely and judiciously combined. He who has but one idea, in practice, and rides that as a hobby, will be mortified at his Avant of success to cure; for the very reason that he overlooks the great principles in the organic laws of the con- stitution, in not seeking the diseased action of those organs which only can make the vital current nourish and sustain the constitution. Mku. OATAEEH, THE GEEAT PEEOUESOE OF CONSUMPTION. A Catarrh or cold in the head is so very common—a complaint of such frequent occurrence, now, in the United States—that it is entirely unnecessary, in a brief work like this, to go into any detail or descrip- tion of its symptoms, more than to bring it to the full comprehension of the reader. Our object is to impress upon the reader the almost certain, inevi- table tendency of what is generally considered a very trivial affec- tion, especially, if left uncured in its incipient stages, to run, sooner or later, into a disease of grave magnitude—the development of that fatal destroyer, Pulmonary Consumption. Thousands and thousands of fatal cases of Consumption have their origin—their starting point—in a simple catarrh or cold of the head, so slight at first as to excite scarcely any attention, much less, ap- prehension. The hold upon life, with many, is by a yevy feeble tenure indeed; for the very reason that our habits of living are such as to break down the powers of the constitution in early life; or rather, to pre- vent the constitution from being physically developed; hence the great susceptibility to disease. Again: The predisposition to con- tracted, or small chests renders the vital capacity of a large portion of people extremely small. It is an organic law governing the con- stitution that, just in proportion to the slightness and frailty of an organ is its susceptibility to be affected by colds; hence, the almost certain tendency of a Catarrh, when it becomes seated, to run into the Lungs and produce chronic inflammation, congestion, and ulcer- ation, or Consumption. symptoms of catarrh. A cold in the head. There is a sense of fullness and obstruction in one or both nostrils, accompanied by a secretion of a thin colorless 4 50 CATARRH. fluid. This flux comes on from time to time in an increased quan- tity, and the increase is always attended by an aggravation of the uncomfortable feeling of fullness and tickling, with frequent sneezing and copious flow of tears from the eyes, which are full and injected. These effects show an acrimony in the discharge, as well as an in- creased sensibility of the membrane lining the nose: this is further evinced, in the progress of the disease, by the redness and excori- ation of the end of the nose, and the skin above the upper lip. The senses of smell and taste are always impaired; the latter is often quite destroyed; there is headache, or a sense of weight and heat over the brows, supposed, by some, to be occasioned by the catarrhal in- flammation affecting the lining of the Frontal Sinus—the continuation of the nostrils, forming two cavities in the base of the skull, between the eyes. The partial or complete obstruction of the nasal passages, although caused entirely, at this stage, by the swelling of the mem- branes, gives the feeling of their being plugged up; and the same obstruction often renders the voice thick and nasal. Subsequently, it becomes husky from the SAvelling of the Laryngeal membranes. If the attack be severe, there are fever, with loss of appetite, and pains of the back and limbs, and, in almost every case, an unusual degree of chilliness and sensibility to cold. In some constitutions it runs its course in five or six days, and subsides Avithout any lasting unfavorable effects; but very frequently, however, a fresh cold is taken from the slightest cause, and the Co- ry za, or catarrhal inflammation and Aoav, with its attendant symp- toms, is kept up for a long time. In other cases, after the excessive thin discharge, which has taken place from the nostrils, subsides, an irritation in the Throat and Laryngitis begins. The inflamma- tion seems to be of that creeping nature which characterizes Ery- sipelas, and wanders along the Avhole membrane which covers the Throat, entering the two Eustachian tubes—those tubes situated im- mediately back of the nostrils Avhich conduct sound to the internal ear. It is the inflammation and effusion of lymphy matter in these tubes that causes the deafness and earache, which so frequently take place in acute cold or Catarrh. It spreads along the Fauces, causino- sore throat, and down the CEsophagus into the Stomach, oc- casioning, in some cases, slight gastric dyspepsia: its more common course however, is down the air tubes, irritating the Larynx, caus ino- in many cases, great hoarseness, and even complete loss of voice for several days or weeks; then extending downwards through the Trachea and the Bronchial tubes—the minute branches of the windpipe—giving rise to Bronchial Catarrh. CATARRH. 51 Chronic Catarrh is met with in several forms, and consists of hawking or clearing the throat frequently through the day of a yellow or straw-colored mucus, which accumulates behind the soft palate, and on examining the Throat, may be seen hanging down in festoons from the Posterior Wares—the back of the nostrils. Again: Small ulcers form in the nose, and also scabs, which the patient can not refrain from picking. In other cases, false membranes exude, which the pa- tient removes, from time to time; or the secretion may be purulent, and drops into the throat and diseases that part, creating a disposition to snuff or hawk to remove the offensive matter. In many instances, ulcers penetrate the soft bones of the nose, causing their death, when a thin yellow fetid discharge ensues, and the sense of smell is impaired, or quite destroyed. In aggravated cases of chronic catarrh, where caries of the bones take places, the discharge is attended with a most intolerable fetor, or stench. I know of many persons whose breath is so offensive that a large room Avill be scented, and the at- mosphere thereof become obnoxious, perfumed, as it were, if they remain in it but a feAV moments. The cause of this is very easily explained: The fetid discharges are constantly being secreted from the lining membranes of the nose and throat, and the air, in passing in and out of the lungs, must necessarily pass over and through these secretions, taking up the effluvia and breathing it out. Taking the same rational and progressive vieAV of Catarrh that I have of the pathology and treatment of consumption, Avith profound application in making many scientific preparations and developments in medical science for the last 40 years, I have discovered an infalli- ble remedy. That remedy is most satisfactorily applied at the home of the pa- tient, by himself, without any trouble, or exciting any pain. It can be forwarded to him to any part of the world by the present Post- Offrce and Express facilities. This invaluable remedy, like all others that are combined in my progressive system of treatment, is entirely divested of every rem- nant of old-fogyism, or the barbarous treatment which that system has so long been known to practice; namely, by painful caustic ap- plications, either by injection with the syringe, or the sponge pro- bang, and which, in innumerable instances, has aggravated a yet mild and curable disease into a very grave and incurable one, as I have known from personal observation. For every rational person knows how sensitive are the membranes and nerves Avhich line and are dis- tributed about the palate, the back of the nostrils, and the throat and how easily those parts are excited by acrid or corroding sub- 52 CATARRH. stances, which will cause immediate retching, vomiting, sneezing, or great difficulty of deglutition, or even threatening suffocation itself, by an irritation of the Larynx and Epiglottis. It is in this manner that the harsh caustic applications which have characterized the old school treatment for catarrhal inflammation, have produced so much suffering. In all probability, I have treated and cured more cases of Catarrh than any other medical man in the Union; for it is a disease which has been intimately connected with my great specialty for many years. The remedy of which I make use, is administered in a liquid form, Avhich I call the " Liquid Catarrh Remedy," and is used by insuffla- tion, or snuffing up the nostrils from the hollow of the hand. I fur- nish it, by Express, in 8 oz. bottles, with printed directions, made so clear that every one can readily understand; and of that strength that it can also be easily adapted to suit the needs of each case; for where it should prove too strong or stimulating for the more sensi- tive or acute stage of our patient, he is directed to dilute it; Avhereas in the opposite stage its strength is just right. We have the same prepared in a dry powder, with printed direc- tions for diffusing it in a proper quantity of water to suit the features of each case, also. It needs no other preparation than to diffuse it in clear soft water to make it the same for immediate use as that we prepare in a liquid form; hence, it can be forwarded to all parts of the United States for §0.12J. Any one wishing this infallible remedy for Catarrh, by remitting $2.12£, giving name, Post-Office address—County and state, will re- ceive the same promptly by return mail. polypus of the nose and catarrh cured by dr. stone's "liquid catarrh remedy." Port Jackson, Mont. Co., N. Y., Jan. 25, 1865. Dr. Stone : My Dear Sir : For many years I have been afflicted with a severe Catarrh of the nostrils and head, which terminated in a most offensive discharge. Within the last year or two it worked down into the throat and air-passages, affecting the top of the windpipe, producing great hoarseness and dryness of the throat, and sometimes, almost an inability to talk loud. Some two months since, hearing of your great success in the treat- ment of Catarrh and affections of the throat, I visited you at your Institution, and subjected myself to a personal examination. You CATARRH. 53 assured me, however, in regard to my case, that I could take the remedies and applications home and use them successfully myself without your personal aid. I at once adopted your treatment, took my remedies home, and used them according to your plain and simple directions; but judge of my surprise, Avhen, after about four Aveeks' use of the " Liquid Ca- tarrh Remedy," I discharged, from the back of the throat, when en- deavoring to clear it, a large and very offensive substance, which proved to be a polypus. This at once explained the obstruction which had so long existed in my head and nostrils, and the offensive nature of the discharge. The Polypus had decomposed, was in a soft, ulcerated condition, and, became dislodged by the use of the " Liquid Catarrh Remedy." Within two weeks after this time, my nostrils were healed of all ulceration, the offensive discharges entirely ceased, and, by the use of your inhaling vapors, the hoarseness of my throat and irritation of the bronchial tubes completely subsided. I can recommend your remedies and treatment to be above all value, as the most rational, the most scientific, and what is a still greater consideration, they are so convenient to use that the patient can adopt them, and be cured at his home Avithout incurring the expense and loss of time in going to the Institution. Yours truly, Daniel Lefferts. FROM DR. W. W. VERMILLION. Frankfort, Mo., Jan. 13, 1866. Dr. Andrew Stone, Physician to the Troy Lung and Hygienic In- stitute : My Dear Sir : I have been using your Liquid Catarrh Remedy for seven Aveeks with the most satisfactory results. I have such faith in it that I have succeeded in inducing a friend of mine to try it and put himself under treatment. His case is one of such an aggravated nature, the discharges from the nose and fauces are so offensive, I can not determine whether it is simple Catarrh or a Cancer affecting those parts. How can I de- termine ? Give me all the requisite information, and how to apply the remedies most effectually. Another lady patient, who knows my opinion of your valuable system of practice, desires me to write respecting her case, and to get you to undertake it, if you can cure her. It is a case of Facial Neuralgia; she is 35 years of age; has been married 16 years* has 54 CATARRH. been subject to Xeuralgia since she Avas married; has copious dis- charges from the nose Avhen so afflicted. She has three children, the youngest 5 years old. She is Aveakly in her physical condition, of a bilious temperament, and the fits have continued so long that they have much impaired her memory. Please let me hear from you in her behalf Avithout any delay. Truly yours, W. W. Vermillion, D.D.S. obstinate catarrh; inflammation of the throat and wixd- PIPE. July 11, 1865. Dr. Stone : My Dear Sir : I received your esteemed favor of June 27th, inquiring after my health, and giving me further advice. I am most happy to assure you that I am improving beyond all my expectations; for my health had become so bad Avith such a com- plication of chronic maladies at the time I put myself under your treatment, I never expected to be so well again as I am noAV, al- though it is but a short time since I came under your treatment. I can not find language to express my thanks to you for your kind- ness and attention in my case. I had, for a long time, suffered Avith a severe Catarrh in the head, which affected the upper part of my throat and the soft palate, and extended doAvnward into the windpipe; but your treatment has made a most decided impression upon all these obstinate affections. As I continue to use it every day, the disease is giving way, and I hope, ere long, to be completely cured. My appetite has become good and my bowels regular under the use of your " Oxygenated Bitters" and energizing treatment. Forward me what more you deem necessary to complete the cure and I will remit the money by return mail. Truly yours, Oscar Hoel. Dyberry, Wayne Co., Pa. [We have since received further intelligence from this patient, saying that he has entirely recovered his health and is now able to engage with impunity in the business of lumbering. It affords another instance of the conclusive and satisfactory nature of our treatment.] CATARRH. 55 PUTRID BREATH AND OFFENSIVE DISCHARGE ENTIRELY CURED BY DR. STONE'S LIQUID CATARRH REMEDY. Dr. Stone : My Dear Sir : You will recognize me as a member of the Signal Corps who has received treatment from you in a case of Chronic Catarrh. I have been out of the service one week, and concluded to write to you and inform you of the good results of your treatment in my case. I am comparatively cured of that disagreeable malady, and feel safe in saying that your " Catarrh Remedy" is all that it pur- ports to be. The foul breath has entirely disappeared, and all that remains of the aggravated, offensive affection under which I have been laboring so long, is a little more than natural flow from the nose in the morn- ing, after sleeping through the night. One package more, I have no doubt, will complete an entire cure; I will be happy to receive it. Accept my thanks for your services already rendered. Yours truly, Wm. Harrison ryy* 1 \ &/ i * BEONOHITIS; BEONOHIAL OATAEEH; BEONOHIAL CONSUMPTION. What is Bronchitis?—But very few, Avho hear the Avord " Bron- chitis," of which almost every person has complained more or less, really know Avhat it is—its nature and seat. It is an evident fact that, the more general and more fatal a dis- ease is, the more A-ague are the conceptions of it. Why is this ?—We have ansAvered the question again and again in this brief work, and also in our larger volume. In a Avord, it is only because mankind hold themselves ignorant of a knowledge of the structure of their OAvn bodies. In order, then, to convey some adequate conception of the cause and nature of this someAvhat modern malady, Avhich has grown up within the last 30 or 40 years to be so prevalent and so fatal, we Avill introduce a cut illustrating the anatomy of the organs of re- spiration, where is located the seat of this disease. The top of this cut illustrates the Larynx, or the organ of voice, which comprises the instrument that gives expression to the soul within, and modulates every sound which the human imagination is capable of uttering in a physical form, from the most grating and harrowing to the softest and most enchanting music, capable of soothing the savage breast, or transporting the human imagination beyond the confines of the body. The continuation of the Larynx is the Windpipe or Trachea until it approaches the tops of the Lungs; there it branches; one branch is distributed to the right, and the other to the left lung. No sooner does it branch and develop itself in the lungs than it takes the name of the " Bronchial tubes;" but understand—they are the windpipe, only under another name. Now, these two branches again divide and sub-divide into almost BRONCHITIS. 57 innumerable little branches, as the cut illustrates, distributing their minute ramifications to the air-cells, or " lights"—so called—proper- ly, the lungs, lying on the outside. 1,1,1, The outline of the right lobe of the Lungs. 2, 2, 2, The out- line of the left lobe of the Lungs. 8. The Larynx. 4. Trachea or wind- pipe. 5. Right Bronchia. 6. Left Bronchia. 7, 8, and 9. Bronchial Tubes. The function of these tubes is to convey air—the breath of life— to every air-cell in the lungs. Each minute branch of these tubes and cluster of air-cells is like a bunch of grapes upon its footstalk. The number of these air-cells is almost innumerable, discovering, to the reflecting mind, the comprehensive power of the Supreme Archi- tect in the necessity of their device or structure to maintain physi- cal health in vigorous, positive action. That the structure is so vast, so wonderful, is enough to caution every person against their indiscriminate abuse. The reader or victim will now readily comprehend the disease Avith the above names. It commences with a cold or catarrh at the end of the nose, or nostrils, extends over the whole surface of the lining membrane of the mouth, traversing, in the acute stage, rapidly downwards through the Larynx, through the windpipe through those tubes, and either fixes itself in die lining membrane and the 58 BRONCHITIS. innumerable glands with Avliich it is supplied for the purpose, in a state of health, of secreting a thin, natural moisture to keep those tubes from becoming dry. When they become inflamed, generally in the acute stage, a profuse secretion of a thick, glairy, and some- times a yellowish or greenish matter takes place. In other cases, instead of any secretion, the air tubes become extremely dry. The voice becomes hoarse, harsh, sounds grating, and extensive irritation takes place; then the victim is hemming or coughing, or continually rasping his throat. This acute stage, if not cured in a very short time, runs into a chronic stage, which may continue, and often does, for years. Then the membranes thicken up, become dark, harsh, and the sides of the air-passages approximated, and the minute branches close up entirely and become incapacitated to convey air to the air-cells of the lungs; hence, shortness of breath and inability to expand the lungs take place. If not cured in this stage by proper treatment, its ultimate teiinination is in ulceration or disorganization of both the mucous and muscular structure, permeating into the air- cells, and producing as fatal ulcerations as tubercles when they soft- en in the lungs; hence, Bronchitis becomes as general and as fatal a disease as Tubercular Consumption; and still more so, because Bronchitis, now, owing to the more artificial habits of life, is more frequently developed. When the acute inflammation takes place in the larynx, it is called Laryngitis, or Clergyman's sore throat, in its acute stage pro- ducing intense suffering, and embodies the most imminent danger. Diphtheria, or Membranous Croup, is no more than acute inflam- mation of the larynx. It affects elderly people as Avell as children and youth; and some of the most distinguished men of the age have fallen victims to its fatality; among them, the genius of our noble republic—Washington. Laryngitis, if not cured in its acute stage, when it does not termi- nate immediately fatally, like Bronchitis if not cured, runs into a chronic stage, which troubles many throughout life; in loss of voice or aphonia, hoarseness, asthma, difficulty of breathing, and combines some of the most distressing affections which we are daily called upon to treat. Those who wish to pursut the study and investigation of this im- portant pathology and history further, and why it has become so very common within the last 30 years are respectfully referred to our larger volume. BRONCHITIS. 59 TREATMENT AND CURE. We have only to repeat here what Ave have said in relation to mal-practice and erroneous notions respecting the treatment of Tu- bercular Consumption, to shoAV why these diseases have been, in the hands of old-school practitioners, so intractable and incurable. Min- eral agents have been applied for it where the disease is not; namely, into the stomach. Now, in order to cure any such diseases, we must apply the rem- edies directly to the seat Avhere the ravages are being made; where the structure is being broken down. When you have an ulcer or a cu- taneous eruption upon the limb, involving intense pain and waste of structure; and common-sense teaches the necessity of making proper stimulating, soothing, and healing applications to the part, to keep it clean, wash away or expel the offensive secretion, which, otherwise, if allowed to accumulate, becomes corroding in its nature, and causes the disease to make much greater ravages than otherAvise would be made; in fact, if such a local treatment was not adopted, in many instances it Avould overcome the inherent power of the vital principle of the blood. The same holds good with those local diseases in the air-tubes of the lungs. Well, now, hoAV are the remedies to be applied?—Why, to be breathed, inhaled, of course. You can reach the windpipe and air- passages in no other way; for, Avhen a drop of liquid or a crumb of bread accidentally gets into the Avindpipe, it produces almost im- mediate strangulation or suffocation, until the foreign agent is ex- pelled by spasmodic contractions of the muscles of the tubes, or vomiting. The medical agents then, must be conveyed in the shape of vapors. Here is another illustration of the aid of art adapted to the natural laws—the laws of Hygiene—for curing disease. . All the indications above suggested are at once fulfilled, or can be, if the victim Avill only apply, before the disorganization of struc- ture has taken place, a judicious selection of such stimulating, expec- torating, soothing and healing remedies, volatilized as in our system of cool medicated inhalation, and in warm water and medicated air, when necessary to arrest at once the further progress of this disease, subdue the inflammation, cause a free and easy expectoration of the tough and diseased secretions thrown off, the mucous membranes and glands brought back to a normal healthy condition, and the parts healed. And we do not overlook the grand principles of treatment to support the constitution, correct disordered function in the organs GO BRONCHITIS. of digestion and assimilation, and enrich the blood by the necessary remedies the constitution demands to supply the fountain Avith the materials to heal the diseased structure, ruder our improved sys- tem of Cold Medicated Inhalation, and the Medicated Air Chamber, Bronehitis, Laryngitis, and Bronchial Consumption become uniformly curable. ASTHMA; NERVOUS, SPASMODIC, AND CONSTITUTIONAL. Among the numerous aflections and diseases to Avhich the lungs and air-passages are subject, producing the most immediate, dis- tressing, and anxious symptoms, yet attended Avith less clanger, stands foremost, Asthma. It is characterized by sudden paroxysms of laborious breathing, threatening the victim, apparently, Avith suffo- cation. It comes on, for the most part, in the latter part of the day or in the night after the victim has gone to bed. For several days previously he has felt indescribable uneasiness and languor or lassitude and dcraugement of the stomach and digestive functions. Food has lost its healthy relish; he has no disposition to eat; belching of wind or gases from the stomach and a rumbling flatulency annoy the boAV- els; the Kidneys are excited to an increased secretion of pale or limpid urine. He retires to bed, and to sleep. At length he is awakened by a sense of suffocation—smothering; he rouses up, leans upon his elboAv, and endeavors, by increased respiration, to find relief. He opens the doors and perhaps the Avindows for more air, yet finds no relief. His breathing becomes shorter, more la- bored, more distressing, and his anxiety is intense ; he Avalks his room gasping for breath, feels a sense of tightness and stricture about the chest as though a cord avms draAvn tightly around it; his breath- ing becomes more and more anxious, more labored, attended Avith a loud, harsh, husky sound, as though the air Avas draAvn through a thick, rough cloth. His eyes stare wildly and start from their sock- ets ; the sense of suffocation and difficulty of respiration still increas- ing, he springs to a AvindoAv, and even should it be a cold Avinter night, he leans out, and sometimes spends hours there, exposed to the cold, insensible to its effects. We have knoAvn victims to suffer in this manner so extremely that they remained with their heads and chests out of the windoAV ex- posed through an entire cold night. The paroxysm may terminate in the form of a moist secretion and expectoration from the lungs: Avhen that takes place, it affords great relief, and the fit gradually wears off. There have been many in- stances Avhere the paroxysm has continued Avith but slight interims- BRONCHITIS. 61 sion for several days in succession. The immediate cause for these distressing phenomena is a spasmodic closure of the bronchial or air tubes. It will be seen by looking at the diagram above that the muscles are circular, and when the nerves, distributed to these muscles, are greatly irritated, and become exaltedly sensitive, the muscles of the air-tubes partake of the morbid sensibility, and close up violently, in the same manner that the muscles of the leg are affected when cramped. It is, then, to use a common expression, no other than a severe cramp, or spasmodic contraction of the air-tubes. Whatever it is that breaks down and enervates the powers of life, producing debility and sensibility of the nerves distributed to the air-passages, and derangement in the functions of the Liver, the Stomach, and morbid condition of the blood, the immediate exciting cause appears to be a specific poison in the atmosphere to Avhich the victim becomes specially susceptible; hence, in this painful disease, the treatment demanded is both local and constitutional. The par- oxysms may be immediately relieved by inhaling our Anti-Spasmodic Medicated Vapor. In no one instance of excruciating agony to which the human sys- tem is liable, are the benign effects of our neAvly discovered system of medicated inhalation capable of giving such instantaneous relief, as in spasmodic asthma. We have had occasion in our general practice, as mentioned in our large work, to attend and stand by the suffering patient an entire day and part of the night, and administer medical agents, that had hitherto been considered almost a specific, by the stomach, keeping the patient in a distressed condition of nausea, and adopting every means that had been devised, without any but temporary relief, and the return of the most aggravating suffering, so that the patient longed for death to relieve her; and at length called her children about her, shaking their hands, and bidding them farewell as thev retired for the night, hoping, ere the morning dawned, to find relief in death. When at this distressing emergency we administered the Anti- Spasmodic Vapor by inhalation, and, in less than 15 minutes, the suf- fering and paroxysms Avere dispersed as by a charm. The contrast in this case, so striking, from intense agony to instan- taneous relief and freedom, can only be appreciated by the experienced physician, or the mother, whom, in his vocation,. he has witnessed suffering the extreme prolonged agony of parturition, which is in- stantaneously relieved by birth. 62 BRONCHITIS. It is not necessary, in order to make our treatment perfectly cura- tive, that Ave should see the victim. We only need a descrip tion of the case, and Ave forward the necessary vapors prepared especially to meet the emergencies of each sufferer. He is provided Avith a strong Anti-spasmodic vapor, so concentrated that, by dif- fusing a few drops on a sponge in the inhaler, and taking but a very feAV breaths, a stop is put at once to an approaching spasm or paroxysm. Intermediately or subsequently, he is provided Avith an- other tonic, or expectorating vapor, as the case demands, to clear from the air-passages and cells all offending matter, and at the same time arouse a healthy circulation and restore a normal energy to the nerves; while, simultaneously, Ave administer such constitutional rem- edies as each case requires to cure disordered function or remove morbid principles from the blood; to cleanse the fountain of life, that its tributaries to the lungs shall be pure; and put a stop, at once, to a predisposition or susceptibility to all miasmatic influences. In this case, as in all others of a similar character, the Goddess of health must be invoked by an inductive philosophy and a rational adaptation of means to ends, in conformity with the great constitu- tional law that develops human life and health, which, alone, is perfect harmony. A STRIKING CURE OF A MOST AGGRAVATED CASE OF LOSS OF VOICE, (APHONIA,) LARYNGITIS, BRONCHITIS AND HOARSENESS, COMPLICATED AVITH GREAT DERANGEMENT IN THE DIGESTIVE FUNCTIONS. From W. S. Aumock, Principal of the Amsterdam Academy, Am- sterdam, Montgomery Co., N. Y. Dr. Stone : Dear Sir : About a year ago, I took a severe cold one day, and awoke the next morning to find myself literally speechless— not being able to utter an audible word. Thinking it to be a tempo- rary hoarseness, to which I had been occasionally subject from over- taxation or protracted use of the voice, I neglected it for some days trusting to the recuperative energies of nature. Aphonia still con- tinuing, however, I began the use of domestic remedies recommended by various friends; then applied to a regular physician, who pre- scribed gargles, and used the probang with slight relief; then tried a feAV of the infinitesimal doses of the homeopathist, but all would not do; they did not reach the seat of the disease, which was chiefly in the larynx, and apparently extending toward the lungs. In the mean time I was obliged to resume my school duties, which, BRONCHITIS. 63 of course, were performed chiefly by proxy under my personal super- vision, but with great inconvenience both to myself and the school. At last, when I began to despair of a cure after repeated trials of six or eight weeks, and a change of vocation seemed almost impera- tive, I Avas referred to Dr. Stone, of the Troy Lung and Hygienic Institution, as most likely to restore my health and speech. Like a drowning man I caught at what, I frankly confess, I then considered as a mere straw, and paid him a visit. He pronounced it, at once, a serious case of " disease of the larynx, throat, and bronchia, with complications of derangement of the di- gestive functions," to Avhich I had been for years more or less sub- ject ; but was confident of effecting a cure by general and local treat- ment. So ready and clear was his diagnosis of the case, and so con- fident was he of success, that I gladly and trustingly placed myself under his care and directions. The inhalation acted almost by magic on the vocal organs, and in three days I Avas able to resume my official duties in the school-room, conducting all my recitations personally, while the use of the gen- eral remedies, with the dietetic and other sanitary observances pre- scribed, gradually restored all the functions to their normal activity, and in less than a month I was in a better condition of health than I had been for years before. I make this statement as an act of justice to Dr. Stone, and with the hope that I may, through him and the Institution he represents, be of some benefit to suffering humanity. Amsterdam, 1ST. Y., July 10, 1862. W. S. Aumock. P.S.—I send you the inclosed statement of my case last year, and its cure. If you are suited with it, you are at liberty to use it at your discretion. W. S. A. FEMALE WEAKNESSES THE GREAT CAUSE OP CONSUMPTION, That complex and mysterious organism peculiar to the female sex, which this cut is intended to illustrate, necessarily entails upon them a thousand mysterious and untold sufferings of both a mental and physical nature, for Avhich they receiAre too little sympathy, from their husbands, if married, and often too little from their immediate friends—on the contrary, and not unfrequently, cold and inhuman treatment as a compensation for their generous endeavors and un- requited toil. The reproductive organs are the master-piece of God's human organism. An immortal being, with all his attributes, can not be developed with organic, individual life, embodying every atom pos- sessed in the great cosmos of nature—the ultimatum of the. skill of the Divine Architect—which is preeminently possessed by man over and above all other orders of organic life, without a structure so formed, so contrived, so complex in its nature as to convey the mys- terious principles of the soul, vitality, and the intellect, with all its numerous faculties, into a minute germ, and then clothe it with the physical body, to be built up, atom by atom, mysteriously and al- most imperceptibly from surrounding physical agents. FEMALE WEAKNESSES. 65 Such is the wonderful structure which you see in the female sys- tem, which is so small in normal virgin life, occupying such a small space in the lower part of the body, yet, when impregnated with this vital germ, capable of enlarging in a few short months and develop- ing an offspring of 10 or 12 pounds or more, with other appendages. Will such of the opposite sex who are so callous and unsympathiz- ing in their disposition, stop and reflect upon the mysterious process that has been carried on in the constitution of the mother; the sym- pathy of the matrix or Avomb with the great battery—the brain and nervous system—in the performance of its vital function of impart- ing the nerve forces through the thousands of telegraphic wires em- bodied in the ganglionic and the organic and great sympathetic system of nerves ? When you take into consideration that the brain sends its innum- erable wires to the lungs and to the heart for the purpose of carry- ing on respiration and circulatio n; to the stomach and neighboring organs for the purpose of digestion and assimilation to impart the vital current; and that, during this entire process of fetal develop- ment, an entire new and independent system of circulation, and nervous action is established and kept up, making its constant and yet mys- terious demands upon the great battery of life, independent of sup- porting the daily needs of the body for nutrition: can you begin then to fathom, or have but a faint idea what must be the feelings of the mother in now being made the humble instrument in the hands of the great Creator of moulding, perhaps, some mighty genius Avho is to move the world ! The wonderful sympathy with the stomach, produced by the growing germ, demanding nutrition; with the heart, demanding blood; with the lungs, demanding its vitalization; and Avith the cerebrum, demanding vital force at the same time, must change all her feelings in proportion to the new and wonderful processes which are noAV going on in her organism; hence, come the anomalies of nervous diseases on her part; an appetite, a longing entirely neAV and out of the natural course; a longing as uncontrollable as it would seem disgusting to him, yet all inexplicable to herself; without one act of volition or induction, but springing from the demand made by the new soul life in the developing germ which he has imparted to her constitution. Let him, who has voluntarily been the coiigent or instrument in bringing about this new wonderful, and mysterious condition—I re- peat, let him, before he makes her wretched by Avithdrawing his sym- pathies, or coolly and rashly repulsing her, take into momentous and 66 FEMALE "WEAKNESSES. awful consideration, that he alone is responsible for imparting the mysterious appetites now being developed in her from his long-con- tinued indulgences and dissipation—tobacco, or uncontrolled animal- ization—Avhich, for a long time he has indulged in his oavii system; and that he alone imparts the animal appetites—not the mother. We have made this brief explanation of the great processes in the mysterious organism of the reproductive system, to show their di- rect sympathy Avith the lungs and respiratory organs; and hoAV Con- sumption is developed from diseases Avhich, in innumerable instances, have their origin and seat in the Avomb, the ovaries — the sexual organs. The disorders to Avhich modern females especially are given to, come on as silently, often as gradually, and lay their foundation as firmly in the constitution as the structure is complex and myste- rious in its nature. A disease, inflammation, for instance, will exist for a long time in the neck of the womb, increase its size enormous- ly, and frequently run into a Ioav and obscure stage of ulceration before any manifestation is made by pain or suffering locally. This is another peculiar feature in the organization of the struc- ture. The nerves distributed to the neck of the uterus have but little sensibility, compared Avith the different set of nerves which is distributed to the cavity and lining membranes of the body of the Avomb. So the same explanation obtains in those silent diseases manifested in the ovaries—those tAvo round bodies which you see in the cut on each side of the body of the womb. Though the periodical function of a female, in a state of perfect health, is one of a physiological or strictly natural character, and would, in a perfectly healthy organism, be unattended with pain, like other functions of the body, yet rarely is this the case with fe- males of the present day; the function generally becomes one of an ab- normal character, causing the general health to suffer more or less every month. Some females go through life suffering, durino- the period and a few days after, intense pain at the lower part of the abdomen, through the loins and back, completely prostrating them, with disturbance of every function, loss of appetite, inability to di gest food, depression of spirits, headache, despondency and general languor or lassitude, from which she will hardly recover after one period before the recurrence of another; hence, her whole life is one of suffering; and in a constitution inheriting any predisposition to Tubercular disease, or other maladies, which are frequently entailed, they are sure to be called into action and prematurely developed in her constitution, which, otherwise, might have lain dormant. FEMALE WEAKNESSES. 67 Dysmenorrhea, or painful menstruation, commences with puber- ty, occasioned, in hundreds and thousands of cases, by repelling the blood from the extremities and the surface by insufficient clothing and thin shoes, and the lack of nutritious food to develop iron and fibrin, and the vital principles of the blood which go to establish and keep up this great function; and, for the lack of which, it is often sup- pressed. Again: The continuation of this unhealthy exposure of the body produces a chronic thickening or congestion in the minute bloodves- sels and membranes of the womb, Avhich, Avith those already enumer-. ated, are the causes of their painful menstruation and ill-health. Again: Prolapsus, or falling down of the womb into the vagina, is noAV a very common and almost invariable attendant upon every fe- male—as common in virgin, as in married life. This will be surpris- ing to many who think that none other than married females are liable to prolapsus. This erroneous idea has been the cause of im- molating thousands of young and tender females, during the period of adolescence, upon the altar of that fell destroyer— Consumption. Why is this ?—If you take one glance at the cut, you can have at least some slight conception. The Uterus, or Avomb, is an organ almost isolated from the other parts of the body, held suspended by tAvo round ligaments, its neck poised on the top of the vagina, hav- ing no other material support. The invariable practice or custom of females, especially the young, is tight dressing, hanging a mass of skirts or underclothing drawn tightly about their waists, com- pressing the lower part of the chest, the lower lobes of the lungs, the stomach and the liver with the diaphragm—the muscle above—all inwards, and at the same time, dowmvards. It follows, of necessity, that the organs aboAre, crowded out of their natural place, down upon the abdominal viscera—the bowels—will crowd this organ down- Avards out of its place, from its slight attachment; hence, it follows to an absolute certainty that there is not one virgin female in ten, who is not affected with misplacement or derangement of these or- gans, designed by Omnipotent Wisdom for the performance of such a wonderful function. Will you wonder longer, then, respecting the aAvful prevalence and fatality of that class of maladies known as female weaknesses ? The cuts which we introduce into this section are designed to illus- trate the position and carriage of the body as it is developed by pro- lapsus, and the effect produced by the wicked habit of dress, to which we have referred, in deranging the whole internal structure. But before closing, we wish to illustrate more clearly than we have 68 FEMALE WEAKNESSES. already done, the sympathetic powers of the uterus and its structure, with every other part of the body. We can not do this better than in the language of the learned Dr. Tyler Smith : " There is nothing in t he Avhole range of physiology or pathology more extraordinary than the fact that the gravid (pregnant) uterus, Avithout itself being the seat of special pain, irritation or disease, shall excite fatal disease by reflex irritation in some distant organ. In this Avay pregnant Avomen may be destroyed by secondary disease of the brain, heart, lungs, kid- neys, stomach, or intestines; in fact, there are, in particular cases, unlimited poisonous influences excited on the rest of the economy by the gravid uterus." This quotation conclusively proves what we have learned by our vast experience of Pulmonary Consumption. We rarely meet with a case of consumption in females who are not suffering more or less FEMALE WEAKNESSES. 69 from some derangement or great disease of the sexual organs, and that, on minute investigation of the case, we have found that these constitutional or abnormal symptoms which we have mentioned, ex- isted for some time before a cough, or shortness of breath, or other more prominent symptoms of disease in the lungs began to be thought of. We have, therefore, investigated this class of maladies Avith an interest seldom felt or manifested by the general practi- tioner ; and in studying diseases peculiar to the respiratory organs, we never have lost sight of predisposing causes; of tracing, as be- fore observed, external symptoms or manifestations through the long chain of connections back in the constitution to their first causes; and in adopting our system of treatment, by inhalation, for the suf- fering of the limgs, Ave should never perfect a cure of consumption did we not adopt, also, a system of local and constitutional treat- ment, equally as efficient, and more imperiously demanded to re- move the great predisposing causes which have been going on in the reproductive system—the sexual organs. And we would say here, that our treatment is as efficient and as successful for their use at their own homes, as our medicated inhalation is for the lungs, as we have explained in the commencing part of the book; #ijjittJi f wfow* KHEUMATISM AND NEUKALGIA. In rheumatism the fibrous or muscular structure is immediately in- volved in the seat of morbid action and suffering, Avhile neuralgia affects the nerves only, Avhich phenomena form the tAVO great dis- tinctive characteristics. You Avill ask me the question, "Does not all sensation or pain come through the medium of the nerves?" Yes; but then, Avhat is the difference between rheumatism and neuralgia? for neuralgia means no more than a painful affection of the nerves; ergo, rheuma- tism is neuralgia. I grant that; but look a little further: in rheuma- tism, the muscles through which the nerves are distributed, are in- volved in inflammation, and to move them, causes the most excru- ciating torture; while, on the other hand, when the disease is one confined to the nerves alone, the muscles, joints and limbs are left free from inflammation, or stiffness or soreness, and may be moved without adding to the pain. Go with me a little further, and understand clearly the more im- minent danger that always attends rheumatism, though it is less excruciating in the intensity of pain than neuralgia. Xeuralgia will occur so suddenly and so violently, producing such intensity of agony that it prostrates the strongest minds and ener- vates the most courageous, making *he hero but a child. Now, imderstand that the seat of rheumatism is in the circulating system— in the blood. As the arteries carry the vital stream from the fountain — the heart—to distribute it throughout every part of the body, for its enrichment and maintenance, it loses its vitality in the minute rami- fications of these vessels, and has to pass over—understand—into the venous system, or veins, to be again returned to the right side of the heart, to pass once more through the lungs to be oxygenated or vitalized. RHEUMATISM AND NEURALGIA. 71 Now, you will ask the question, " How does it get from the arteries, in which it is red, over into the A^eins, Avhere it is purple or black— full of poison ?" I answer: through a minute network of connect- ing A'essels called the capillaries; so small that it requires a micro- scope of intense poAver to perceive them. Here, then, you haA^e the seat and effect of rheumatism. It is in the blood; a disordered state of the blood, the morbid or poisonous principles of which are arrested or become stagnant in the capillary vessels, which gives rise, by the intensity of its poison, to the aAvful suffering' and danger Avhich attend this disease. Again: Rheumatism is attended with the most imminent danger to the subject. Why is this ? you will ask further. It is liable, to use a technical phrase, to sudden metastasis, or change and transla- tion from the joints or the external muscles of the body, instantly to the heart, and arrest the power of that great vital force-pump, and all vitality is immediately suspended. It is in this manner that so many very sudden deaths by disease of the heart occur. The ob- struction that has existed, perhaps for a long time, the stagnation and local irritation that these poisons in the blood have given rise to in other parts of the body, by some means that have been used, as a curative agent perhaps, have been overcome when, instantly, they have been carried in the tide of venous circulation to the heart, para- lyzing its action by their deadly effects. " Well," you will ask me further, " Avhat are the great first causes for these very painful maladies?"—I answer: "Do they not exist in the blood ?" Most certainly; for there is the fountain of all phy- sical life, and external morbid manifestation. The difference, then, is here: In rheumatism, the blood is surcharged or overloaded with a collection of morbid or poisonous substances; as oxalate of lime, uric acid, urate of ammonia, the triple phosphates of magnesia, am- monia, lime, and many other poisons of which Ave have spoken in another part of this work; Avhile neuralgia proceeds entirely from innervation, or an inactive or devitalized condition of the nerves; lacking in positive nerve force, because the blood is deficient in vital principles. And further: in this case of innervation and lack of nerve-development—vital force—the immediate cause of the pain may be miasmatic or ethereal entirely; in other words, a poison breathed from the atmosphere, so subtle, so ethereal in its nature as to cling entirely to the nerves, while the blood is uncontaminated by it. Language can scarcely be used to explain more clearly the very different, in fact, totally opposite nature of these two diseases, yet which assimilate each other in their effects. 72 RHEUMATISM AND NEURALGIA. We have found this explanation to be absolutely necessary to en- able its subjects to comprehend that treatment, to be effectual, must be administered in accord with the great principles which control life; namely, the laws of electro-vital chemistry. The essential an- tidotes or correctives must be judiciously selected by the scientific physician to neutralize these poisons in the blood, and cause them to be'eliminated through their natural and proper emunctorics; namely, the kidneys, the skin, the liver and the boAvels. This comprises the philosophy of blood treatment, and avIiv the modern, progressive phy- sician is enabled to prescribe, calculating upon absolute certainty, let the patient be where he may. It is, as Ave have before explained, an absolute laAv of the organism, that, when the conditions are right, as in every other great laAv, as certain results can be foretold or calculated as the revolution of the planets, which can be foretold a thousand years in advance. The curative art depends then upon the physician understanding the law. Well, to carry out this true philosophy, based upon induc- tion, Avhat must be done to cure neuralgia ? It follows as clearly as the sunbeams, to restore to the blood the vital principles Avhich it uoav lacks, and Avhich alone arc capable of arousing the neiwe forces and restoring its integrity. But you will ask me further: " Where the exciting causes are atmos- pheric, or ethereal, and breathed from the atmosphere, hoAV is that to be cured or removed ?" I again reply: " When the brain and ner- vous system are entirely positive, possessing the integral vital forces, its powers of resistance are such as to repel any effects from inhaling, when it is imbibed; in other words, the constitution is not a fit re- cipient." This philosophy then explains conclusively why cholera, diphtheria, and other devastating diseases will SAveep through the country, se- lecting their Adctims here and there, and leaving large portions un- touched, although all are alike exposed, because from the diseased or enervated state of one constitution, it becomes a recipient from the negative condition; while the others are positive and successfully re- sist it. Here, then, again you have explained and illustrated the phenom- ena of human life in the two great forces — positive and negative ELECTRICITY. JjWtMM. EPILEPSY OE FITS. As direful and as melancholy as is the sound of pulmonary con- sumption to the ear made sensitive by repeated warnings, as is too commonly the case in those families of a hereditary taint, Avhen it comes not only selecting its victims from the fairest and the most promising, but sweeping successively a whole family of children Avho have lived and withstood all the liabilities that surround the devel- opment of that tender period of life, in dentition, and passed through the age of childhood and approach to that of adolescence; to Avitness, as we have, in innumerable instances, a family of ten or tAvelve child- ren, fully developed, SAvept off in a few short years, it is no more mel- ancholy, we repeat, than the sound of epilepsy to the sensitive ear of the parent in other families Avhere this opprobrious and dreaded dis- ease is as much inherited. It is a disease so strictly allied in its cause and pathology to con- sumption, that we can not do justice Avithout making, at least, a brief explanation in this work. In fact, it is a connecting link in the same chain of cause and effect. We have before said in the section on dyspeptic consumption that, if a person had tubercles, or the cause of tubercles existing in the blood, for safety to life it had better be developed in the lungs than any other organ in the body. Here, in Epilepsy, we haAre a perfect, practical illustration; for the same cause that gives rise to tubercles in the lungs is the cause of epilepsy. It is a morbid con- dition of the blood having its effect, or seat of development in the brain. The brain is lacking in vital healthy development of structure, it is weak and debilitated, approaching to a state of softening, and very often, before death, if the victim is not scientifically treated, ter- minates in such an extent of softening as to produce fatuity, or com- plete idiocy. Epilepsy is characterized by loss of sensation and convulsive mo- 74 EPILEPSY Oil FITS. tions of the muscles; frequently the fits attack suddenly; in other*, they are preceded by indisposition, vertigo, and stupor itself before the loss of consciousness takes place. A sensation of cold vapor is felt running over the system ; but generally, the victim suddenly falls down frothing and foaming at the mouth, Avith spasmodic contractions of the muscles of the face and jaws, tongue protruding between the teeth, and very liable to be bitten unless fortunately prevented br- others. The fit may continue from 20 to 30 minutes or more, and sometimes the victim but comes out of one before he goes into an- other ; and a succession of five or six may take place. In the subject of predisposed epilepsy, the immediate exciting causes arc numerous; sometimes very mysterious; but often can be traced to Avorms, to over-eating, eating indigestible unhealthy food, unripe fruit, or eating at unseasonable hours, before retiring to bed; a sud- den fright, or any thing that will give rise to sudden emotions; as, jov or anger; but, Ave repeat: the great sustaining causes are the mor- bid condition of the blood ; it being poor and impoverished, combined or not with a latent or immediate predisposition on the part of parent- age or ancestry; Avhere the predisposition can be traced, it is surely developed by a negative condition of the brain and a morbid state of the blood. This history, then, is all that is necessary for us to give to convey to the readers or the subjects the true principles on Avhich to base their hopes of cure; and in no one instance in the long catalogue of melancholy diseases, hitherto deemed, not only opprobrious, but en- tirely incurable on the part of the old-school system of practice, has the progress of modern medical science made greater developments and obtained more brilliant light to croAvn the arduous efforts of the diligent inquirer into the profound philosophy of the animal economy, than in Epilepsy. He strikes at once, as with an eagle eye, through the great chain of morbid action to the fountain head, from which spring all causes. He seeks to unravel link by link, from nice induc- tion and keen observation as he goes on, patiently tracing the con- nection of one nerve with another up to its starting-point in the cerebrum—the upright lobes of the brain where the Author of our life has placed the citadel of the soul itself. He seeks there to discover in this wonderful structure, which comprises the battery to generate vital force, what can be the cause of disturbance in the harmony to give rise to this sudden and painful manifestation that in one instant of time strikes down the most promising child, depriving it of all con- sciousness and power to recognize, embittering the fondest hopes of the mother, and blighting the ardent anticipations of the father. EPILEPSY OR FITS. 75 In vieAV of this, the heart of the true philanthropist is touched with sympathy at the grief and disconsolateness with which the uncer- tainty attending medical practice has hitherto surrounded them. He comprehends by the effulgence of the neAV light imparted, by every step of progressive inquiry to the more rational and consistent conception that God has linked the physical organism and structure of man in harmony with his great designs, that he has not permitted a physical ail without providing an antidote or remedy for its cure. No inharmony or discord maintains in his all-wise designs; the only stumbling block has been ignorance and want of capacity on the part of those who have mistaken their calling or vocation in life, and who, instead of adopting the healing art as their profession, and destroying life by mal-practice and misguided reason, should have chosen a mechanical trade, or the humble yet meritorious occupation of the fanner. God in the mysteries of his providence has provided a way for ge- nius in the healing art to possess the power of heafing now as in the days of the Saviour. As revelation, philosophy, and Christianity em- phatically reply, " To some Avas given the gift of healing." What, then, I ask you, is required to encourage and bring consola- tion and hope to those laboring under such a direful and discourag- ing affliction ? Intellect, genius, and industry that shall accomplish the possibilities. To become renowned in the annals of fame, the navigator penetrates to distant climes, braving the dangers of the ocean and setting at defiance the horrors of shipwreck. To become Avise the student pores o'er the lettered page; exhausting the vigor and energy of his youth o'er the midnight lamp. Shall the true phy- ician, then, stop short of realizing trophies of a less dazzling, but not less valuable achievement, and make the discoveries to adminis- ter the balm of relief for every wound ? SCROFULA THE GREAT CAUSE OF CONSUMPTION. Having briefly, though very point- edly illustrated the meaning of the Avord scrofula under the name of scrofulous or strumous dyspepsia, we will not detain the reader to go into any great length in this sec- tion, which, however, forms a theme of momentous interest to every one; to those who are in good health as Avell as those who are sick; for so indifferent are mankind generally, Avhen in health, in regard to their ingesta, or the articles of food they so indiscriminately heap into their stomachs, that they are daily and hourly laying the foundation of disease in the delectable morsels so artistically prepared to please their palates; they little think, Avhen eating with so much gusto, that they are ail-silently, ignorantly, and unobservedly swallowing the egg which is to be nourished and devel- oped in their stomachs or systems, and become the viper that will take their lives; and that, very often, in the most wretched and awful manner. We have explained that the word scrofula, in the original, comes from sow / and hence, the edict among the Jews prohibiting its use, Happy would it have been for the Anglo-Saxon race, had the edict extended in full force to the present era; for, to the veiy general and indiscriminate use of this article of food, we have Avith one exception, the great cause for scrofula in the numerous hideous aspects which it daily presents to the observing eye of the experienced physician. Goitre or Scrofula of the Neck. SCROFULA. 77 The cut introduced at the head of this section clearly illustrates one form that scrofula assumes in the constitution of some, manifest- ing itself in the thyroid gland of the neck, called goitre. This manifestation of the constitutional malady is very common in Switzer- land, Prussia, and parts of Germany, and observed more particularly among that class of people in this country; though we are beginning to notice it prominently among our native-born citizens, especially in those sections of the country where local causes of water and air combine to generate it. Scrofula, then, is a peculiar morbid condition of the blood, gener- ally manifesting itself in the glands of the system; in enlargement of the tonsilary glands of the throat, elongation and thickening of the palate or uvula, tumid glands of the bowels in children, swelling of the knee-joints, dropsical effusions affecting the joints, tumid lips and eyelids, weak and sore eyes, with aversion to light. In all such subjects the blood is greatly deficient in vital principles; it is im- poverished ; greatly preponderating in lymph or albumen; and for want of fibrin and iron to attract oxygen from the atmosphere, the blood is very imperfectly oxygenated, or decarbonized; hence, a preponderance of lymph of a cold and phlegmatic nature accumu- lates in local depositions in these parts of the system. It lays the foundation for tubercular consumption in thousands and thousands of instances; particularly so, among those who have been the sub- jects of the old-school system of treatment, and have been victimized with mercury, calomel, and other mineral poisons. In such subjects and constitutions, the blood is so changed that, where there is any predisposition to disease of the lungs, or the lungs have become weakened and irritated by mechanical exposure, unhealthy trades and occupations, confinement to small rooms in-doors, breathing im- pure air, then the lungs receive the blunt of morbid action instead of the glands as in other constitutions, and tubercular deposit is the consequence. Scrofula, again, manifests itself very generally in spinal diseases, spinal irritation, spinal curvature, and affections of the hip-joints: it is none other than tubercular matter deposited in the cartilages be- tween the different joints of the spine and in the membranes cover- ing the joints of the hips and the bones; in technical terms, the bursa, or the membranes which secrete the joint matter; any thing that affects these local parts of the body to cause debility, innerva- tion, the want of use, want of proper exercise and physical develop- ment, local injuries, falls, or whatever predisposes them to beoome the recipient of a morbid condition of the blood. Delicate females 76 SCROFULA. who sit and sew, and lead sedentary lives, combined with tight dressing or lacing so as to obstruct the circulation of the blood, are peculiarly liable to scrofula of the spine, resulting in curvature. One of the most aggravated cases of this nature that ever came under our observation, in the male sex, Avas brought on by spending a great deal of time in swimming in fresh Avater. The muscles of the spine and loins Avere greatly relaxed by the con- secutive hours of immersion, and weakened or exhausted by the excess of exercise Avhich the peculiar motions of swimming demanded from those muscles. The cut of spinal curvature here introduced illustrates this subject as brought to our notice with some five ulcers in different parts of the back and spine. He had been prostrated to the last stages of scrofulous consump- tion—Marasmus—entire em- aciation of the muscles, and wasting of the vital fluids This cut represents true to life a subject of Scrofula de- ° veloped in youth by pandering to the passions, producing of the blood. Even in thlS marasmus or wasting of the juices of the blood, and there- jQW con