Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 December 1883 — Page 7 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

DR. SCHENCK’S PULMONIC SYRUP, ' SEAWEED TONIC, A MANDRAKE PILLS. As the proprietor of these medicines I conscientiously offer them to the public as safe, reliable and certain remedies for the Cure of Consumption, and with equal confidence as almost a specific for those morbid conditions of the body, which, if neglected, are apt to terminate in fatal diseases of the lungs. I claim that the use of my remedies will cure Consumption. I do not claim that the disease can be cured after the lungs are destroyed, for no medicine can create new ones; but I maintain that the first stages of Consumption are curable, even when the lungs are partially decayed. When one lung is sonnd l am almost certain of making a cure, if the patient will take proper care of himself and follow my directions. It may be asked, “How is it that you can know so much about this disease, and pretend to cure it, when so many educated physicians, who have made a study of it for years, pronounce it incurable?* The question is a fair one, and shall be fairly answered: I do not claim to know more than other physicians about the causes, nature and history of Consumption. I suppose that my view's on these points would be found to agree with those of modt educated and intelligent physicians. We should agree that while the final cause is obscure—in other words, while it is not possible to say wAy Consumption selects this or that person as a victim—yet the predisposing causes are: Ist, Inheritance. Consumption is hereditary in a wonderful degree. One parent very often entails it upon the offspring, and both, still more frequently, so that whole families are often swept away, and hand the predisposition down to their children. 2d, Cold. By this we do not mean those changes of weather which often produce inflammation; but long continued and steady cold, so that a condition of debility is produced. Indeed, whatever tends to produce long continued debility will, in some persons, generate Pulmonary Consumption. Prominent among these influences are insufficient diet, living in an unwholesome air, sedentary habits, grief, anxiety, disappointment, whether of the affections or in business, and all other depressing emotions; the abuse of mercury and the influence of weakening diseases. I also agree with the best doctors as to .the manner in which the lungs become affected. Pulmonary Consumption is also called Tuberculous Consumption, by which we mean a disease of the lunge caused by tubercles. A tubercle is a small, roundish body, which is deposited in the substance of the lungs by the blood. This is the beginning and first act of the disease. Many of these are often deposited at once. Each one undergoes several changes. After producing inflammation of the parts of the lung next to it, it ends m ulceration, opens a passage into the bronchial tubes, and passes out at the mouth by spitting. The place where the tubercle grew and ripened now becomes a cavity, and-where there are a great many tubercles of course they make a great many of these little cavities, which gradually unite and leave great holes in the lungs. Unless a stop can be put to this process, it will go on until the substance of the lungs is consumed and death ensues. Of course I agree with the faculty upon the symptoms and course of the disease; the short, dry, hacking cough, so slight at first, but gradually increasing; then shortness of breath, a quickening pulse, then feverish sensations, flushing of the cheeks, and heat in the palms of the hands and soles of the feet; the slight but growing emaciation, with feeble appetite, hemorrhages, increasing cough, disturbed sleep, fevered tongue, then loss of appetite, expectoration of softened tubercle in the shape of small lumps of yellowish, cheesy or curdy matter; hectic fever, brilliant eye, chills, night sweats, sharp pains in the sides, increasing emaciation and debility, disordered stomach and bowels, diarrhea, nausea, swollen extremities, hollow cheeks, sunken eyes, weakness so great that expectoration is impossible; then death, bringing welcome relief from the tortures of this horrid monster. Now, as I have said, I mainly agree with the medical faculty on these points. But when we come to the treatment of the disease I differ from it totally. The doctors believe Pulmonary Consumption cannot be cured. Therefore they do not try to do anything more than to smooth the patient’s path to the grave, and seem quite reckless of the medicines they give, so that the patient is kept comfortable and easy, even if his life is shortened. As soon as tubercles begin to appear in the lungs of .a patient, it is a common practice with many leading physicians to begin dosing with whisky in increasing quantities, until the ravages of excessive dram-drinking are added to the ravages of the disease; and I have yet to hear of a single case of Consumption which was cured by stimulants. I can say the same of Cod Liver Oil. Many physicians send their patients away from home on distant voyages, to Minnesota or Florida—anything or anywhere so that they may die easy. For they do not pretend to cure, and they have no remedies which will do so. Now I say not only that diseases of the lungs can be cured, but that my medicines do cure them. The proof is, that by their use thousands of Consumptives have bdtn and are now being cured by them. The whole science of medicine is based on experiments. We cannot by any process of reasoning decide that any particular medicine will help or cure any particular disease. How was it found that Quinine will cure Chills and Fevers? Why, by trying one thing after another, until experience demonstrated that it was a specific for that disease. In just that way the knowledge was gained of my remedies, which are almost a specific in diseases of the lungs. Pulmonary Consumption is hereditary in my father’s family. Hte father, mother, brothers and sisters died of it, and he had reached almost the last stages of the disease when he was providentially led to experiment with the articles which are incorporated in these medicines. He was cured by them, and lived a strong, healthy man for over p forty years after his recovery. What cured him has cured thousands of others al) over the country. These results are nftt accidental. There is no such thing as accident in nature. Whatever may be the cause, the origin of Pulmonary Consumption is in the blood. Whenever, from any of the predisposing causes which I have just now mentioned, the blood becomes degenerated, it begins to make tuberculous deposits in the substance of the lungs. This must be stopped or death will surely follow. It will not be enough to get rid of the tubercles already deposited, and heal up the sores already made, but something must be done to stop further deposits. What shall that be? The regular faculty say nothing be done. I say purify, enrich and tone up the blood, until it becomes so healthy as no longer to make tubercles. Can this be done? Yes. How? By the easiest and most natural way in the world. Take a man who shows to the experienced eye, by many infallible signs, that Consumption has set in. He is feeble and without appetite. Now see what I intend to do: first, I propose to cleanse his stomach and bowels of their dead, slimy, clogging matter. This I shall do with my Mandrake Pills, which are the best cathartic pills in the world. They contain no calomel or other minerals, only vegetable matter. They evacuate the stomach and bowels gently but thoroughly, and do not weaken or gripe. They act like magic on the liver, rousing it out of its dull, torpid state, and promoting a full, free flow of healthy bile, without which there can be no perfect digestion. Now that the stomach and bowels are cleansed and ready—what next? Create an appetite. This I do by my Seaweed Tonic. The effect of this medicine is wonderful. Unlike a temporary stimulant, which by reaction lets the organs affected sink lower than before, this not only tonesup the stomach, but keeps it toned up. The natural craving for food returns in all its force, so that we have now a .stomach hungry for food, and a digestive apparatus ready to make with it. WKatnext? Any one can answer-that question. Put into that hungry stomach an abundant supply of nutritious food to be converted by the strange chemistry of digestion into rich red blood. This win stimulate the heart into stronger action, and it win pump a fuller current out through the arteries; healthy blood will take the place of the thin, blue flattened fluid in the veins, and soon a circulation will be established which will flow through the lungs without making any unhealthy deposits ; strength and health will increase, and the bad symptoms steadily diminish. At the same time use my Pulmonic Byrup; it is the best expectorant known. It blends with the food, and through the blood goes directly to the lungs, attacks and loosens up the yellow, foul stuff left there by the ripened tubercles, and strengthens and stimulates the bronchial tubes and coatings of the air passages until they get strong enough to lift it out and expel it by expectoration. Then the lungs get over their soreness and have a chance to rest and heal. So you see that I have not only shown that my medicines do actually cure Consumption by experiment, but it also seems plain that they, or something like them, would, from the nature of the case, do so. J. H. SCHENCK, M. D. For a full description of Consumption in all its various forms, and also Liver Complaint and Dyspepsia, those great forerunners of Consumption, see my book on * Consumption and its Cure* This booh also contains the history of hundreds of cases that have "been cured in all parts of the country. I send it tree, postpaid, to all applicants. Address DR. J. H. SCHENCK * SON, Philadelphia, Pa. DR. SCHENCK’S MEDICINES: MANDRAKE PILLS, SEAWEED TONIC, and PULMONIC SYRUP Are sold by all Druggists, and full directions for their use are printed on the wrappers of every package.