Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 May 1896 — CURES LUNGS WITH AIR. [ARTICLE]

CURES LUNGS WITH AIR.

Klgin Physician Has Perfected a RemarkabU Inhaler. A form of artificially saturated medicated air is the apparently successful cure for lung trouble now beiug offered by Dr. W. A. Shepard of Elgiu. 111. 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 suys he has worked out from that truth, and 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 office is introduced to a brass and nickel-plated, queer-looking c.vlindri-eal-shaped apparatus about eighteen, Inches high, to which are connected two tubes for the purpose of inhaling and exH'aling. The physician consideFs.-the latter as important a duty on the part of the consumptive us the former, Hint he has at taclicd a mechanical contrivance which registers in cdbic inches tlie lung l power shown. The healing uir parses through a laittle partly filled with a medical sold- ' turn and from it receives the charge which is to do the good to the Jungs. The composition of this solution, however, Dr. Shepard guards. 11§ strength and intensity vary with the conSnion of the patient. That is all the information he. wiU give to inquirers. He has worked for approximately six years in developing this branch of the profession, and not until lately, though, has he reached a point where his labor has brought him ■access.