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Show (Bsnil'TIONlllliliLE A Salt Lake Physician Gives the fiesults of His Study of That Disease. AN APFARATU8 OF HI3 OWN, With Which He Has Made Some Notably Successful Experiments Manner of Treatment. Is consumption curable? I contend that in most cusps it is, and shall attempt at-tempt to demonstrate in the following article the truth of my assertion. Consumption can be cured, first, by sucking up the tubercles. The famous John Hunter demonstrates in his book on the blood that the suction vessel possess a soft -of elective allinily which causes them to receive and discharge all new ami accidentally added matter, such as ulcers (tubercles are ulcerations ulcera-tions of the albumen) more readily than those particles which were formed from inflamed throat, nrgentum nitricum and other things. These are only a few of the thousand instances, where wo apply local remedies. lij all cases of inllaminaliou or ulceration, whether it bo on the skin or the eyes, or the throat, or anywhere else; whenever when-ever accessible we employ U cal remedies. and with perfect success.) suc-cess.) Why hould we, when the membranes mem-branes which clothe the air tubes are inflamed in all their branches, neglect to apply a remedy directly to the inflamed in-flamed surface? This can bo don only by inhaling medical vapors. And why should not these vapors, when tuii-erculous tuii-erculous matter is forming on the air cells Riid the line, tiny bronchial tubes, work directly upon the diseased parts and cause ihe instantaneous solution and discharge, throwing out of all injurious in-jurious ami dangerous matter or its transformation into a harmless calcareous calcare-ous substance. Ordinary common sense will at once see the rationality of this proposition. Many people afflicted with lung disease die of suffocation, not because there is not sufficient muscular strength to throw out the sugocating matter, but because the lungs beneath those phlegm props which stop up the bronchial bron-chial tubes, cannot be inflated, and therefore are powerless to throw out the injurious substance. Yet, a proper medical vapor inhaled with the breath would either dissolve the phlegm or .incite .in-cite the exhaliusr membrane to throw it out. These inhalations into the lungs are of the greatest importance in the treatment treat-ment of consumption and. if properly applied, will not only relieve, but completely com-pletely cure this terrible disease. The writer has devoted much time to the study of this subject and the experiments experi-ments Vnade with an apparatus of his own invention have fully demonstrated the effectiveness of this method, although al-though the apparatus used was, owing to pecuniary difficulties, only a very imperfect reproduction of the original design. Most cases of consumption consump-tion can bo cured by this treat-nientj treat-nientj in a few weeks, aud the superior climate of Utah is a material help in the treatment of the disease. In fact, there is no better location for a sanitarium for consumptives on the continent than Salt Lake Citv, and with a method of treatment, which never fails, such an institution would bring thousands of people here in search for health and make it for what nature intended in-tended it, the foremost health resort of the country. Chas. XV. Usr;i:n, M. D. tbo beginning. If this wero not the case, any effort of these vessels calculated calcu-lated to remove the tuberclos, would cause them to destroy all the tissues and thereby aggravate the diseasj rather than cure'it. The former probably prob-ably occurs when the proper hygienic measures of which we shall speak later on are not applied, in order to hasten the segragation. This is what caused Laener's unfortunate remark which is so often cited and confirmed, that the efforts of nature intended to cure are injurious aud those of science useless. Laener's position cannot be right, if Hunter is correct when he says: If the suction veins, owing to elective affinity, remove foreign substances more readily 1 than the natural tissues, then the reason for the reversion of this j-ulo in consumption consump-tion is this, - ihhJ in consequence of a weakened constitution the new particles are not well united and there fore more easily separated than the tuberculous ulcerations. If wo would restore the natural fundi oil of theso vessels we must improve im-prove the process of assimilation aud connect the different particles more lirmly. We must make tho flesh hard so that the suction veins cannot tear them asunder. This accomplished aud tho efforts of nature to cure will no longer be injurious. Another way of effecting a cure is the restoration of the process of assimilation assimila-tion to its norm al condition, the build ing up of the general health the stopping stop-ping of tuberculous formations, the reduction re-duction of tubercles already formed to an indolent condition, and then their preservation in that state for lifetime by a furict observance of hygienic laws. A third form of cure consists in tho transformation of the tubercles into calcareous matter. "These calcined tubercles," says Laener, "are the remainder re-mainder of tuberculous diseases which have been cured." And Andral wished to learu some time how cures could be effected by transformation of the tubercles tuber-cles into lime phosphates. Treatment. The treatment of consumption must bo double, local and general. The local lo-cal treatment consists in inhaling vapors aud powders into the lunge. This has been practiced more or less for years by some physicians, especially in Europe, but for some unaccountable reason the medical profession in general gen-eral has never used it and knows little about it. The main drawback of this mode of treatment has been the lack of an apparatus which permitted a more direct application of tho proper remedies reme-dies to the lungs. Tho existing instru- ments are all insufficient for this pur-nose, pur-nose, and therefore of little value. It is true, consumption is a general disease which requires a general treatment, but it has also a local development in the lungs first, in tho form of albuminous ulcerations, called tubercles, and after these have been softened, destroyed, or thrown out in the much more terrible terri-ble form of festering caves which, beginning be-ginning in the tips, destroy the wings to their very bise. Can it" be rational to apply no remedy to this local disease? To an inflamed skin wt-apply poult ces, acetate of lead, argenluin nitricum, etc., for leprous or scaly diseases we use potassii siilphuretum hepar, un-gueutum un-gueutum fit tin urn, sulphur, creosot, etc., to weak aud inflamed eyes we apply suhacresndi! of copper, sulphate nf zinc and opium; for chronic ulcerations ulcera-tions of tl.e skin, tannin, pulverized rhubarb, opium or china root aud for |