Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 November 1884 — CONSUMPTION. [ARTICLE]

CONSUMPTION.

Important to the Public as Well as the Medical Profession. Hall’s Journal of Health, referring to Consumption, makes the following important statement: “Consumption usually begins with a slight, dry cough in the morning, then on going to bed, getting more and more frequent, with more and more phlegm, increasing debility, thinness of flesh, shortness of breath, and quickness of pulse. In fatal cases its average course is about two years; hence the importance of arresting the disease at as early a stage as possible, and the sooner rational means are employed for this purpose the greater the chance of success. The disease is owing to an irritation commencing in the throat and extending to the lungs, so that their action is interfered with, and the blood does not receive sufficient oxygen to purify it. The most marked sign of lung disease is emaciation; and the most positive indication of returning health is increase in weight.” So speak Hall’s Journal of Health, and we may add that in desperate cases, and, in fact, in all cases of Consumption, or troubles of throat and lungs. Immediate relief may be obtained and a permanent cure effected by .the use of Dr. Wm. Hall’s Balsam for the Lungs, a medicine known for more than thirty-five years as an unfailing remedy for coughs, colds, bronchitis and all pulmonary and pectoral diseases. That the worst cases of Consumption have been cured by the use of Hall’s Balsam has been attested to by the thousands who have used it, or have been cognizant of its wonderful remedial efficacy.