Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 May 1896 — CURES LUNGS WITH AIR. [ARTICLE]

CURES LUNGS WITH AIR.

Elgin Physician Has Perfected a Remarkable Inhaler. A form of artificially saturated medicated air is the apparently successful cure for lung trouble now being offered by Dr. W. A. Shepiyd' of Elgin. II). The air is charged in that manner in recognition of the fact that rare air of mountainous regions is beneficial to persons afflicted with weak lungs. The doctor took the cue for the remedy he says he has worked out from that truth, su'd his announcement of his method is it multiplies several times over the benefits received from a trip to the mountain districts. The prospective patient who enters Dr. Shepard’s officers introduced to a brass aud nickel-plated, queer-looking cylindri-cal-shaped apparatus about eighteen inphes high, to which are connected two tubes for the purpose of inhaling and exhaling. The physician considers the latter as important a duty on the part of the consumptive as the former, and he has attached a mechanical contrivance which registers in cubic inches the lung power shown. The healing air passes through a bottle partly filled with a medical solution and from it receives the charge which is to do the good to the lungs. The composition of this solution, however, Dr. Shepard guards. Its strength and intensity vary with the condition of the patient. That is all the information he will give to inquirers. He has worked for approximately six years in developing this branch of the profession, and hot until lately, though, has he reached a point where his labor has brought him success.