Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 January 1878 — Death in His Favorite Robe. [ARTICLE]

Death in His Favorite Robe.

The mntatty ■tattatioe of the whole oivfiimed world show that about one-fifth of all mankind die of oonaumption alone, and the numbered deaths doe to consumption bears a greater ratio to the whole number than that of any other three diseases together. Moreover, investigation proves that this ratio is steadily increasing. Its increasing prevalence has led to the popular belief that consumption is incurable. Every year hundreds of these sufferers seek, in the sunny retreats of Florida or the dry atmosphere of Colorado, for health, and find only a grave. The influence of the atmosphere—the only remedial agent that either Florida or Colorado can afford the consumptive—is at best only palliative. The cure of consumption depends upon two essential conditions: Ist, the arrest of the abnormal breaking down of the tissues, whioh prevents emaciation, and, 2d, the restoration of healthy nutrition, in order to stop the formation of tuberculous matter. Fulfill these conditions, and consumption is as curable as fever. To fulfill these conditions the required remedy must increase the appetite, favor the assimilation of food, and enrich the blood, thus retarding the development of tubercles. To accomplish this, a mare powerful alterative than Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery has never been discovered. At the same time, it soothes the irritation of the nervous system produced by violent coughing, which, in its turn, so often leads to more serious results. The use of “expectorants” in consumption is absolutely suicidal. For, while removing the tubercles already formed, they produce yet more serious results by inflaming and destroying the sound and healthy tissues. Consumption requires a remedy that will soothe while it relieves; harsh medicines but add fnel to the flame that already threatens to consume the system. The Golden Medical Disoovery fulfills these conditions, and has been pronounced the best remedy yet discovered to allay and arrest consumption.