10 THE SCRANTON TRIBUNE SATURDAY. MORNING, .DECEMBER. 19, 1896. Aeother Ray of Hope For Consumptives. An Illinois Physician Explains How He Has Devised a Plan to' Cure Nine Out of Ten Cases of Tuberculosis. Since the downfall of the Koch lymph there has been no fcticrae for the cure of conHumption comparable In Ingenuity with that recently made public by Dr. W. A. Shepnrd. or KlKln, 111. As reported In the Times-Herald ot ChlcnRo this discovery of his 1h the result of twelve years of study and ex periment. It was used seven years, with gradual and scientific changes, before It was made public. The doctor Kept his mixtures secret, not that he wus undesirnus of giving the world the benefit of his deductions, but to save failure In the hands of experimenters. The process was strong, as the enemy was strong, but now thut he Is con vinced beyond a shadow of a doubt that he has solved the mystery he is In viting professional examination, and there is barely a day passes that some phyitlclan does not visit the laboratory to learn the truth of Dr. Shepard's po sition. . . It was decided In the beginning that the thing to Up in handling consump tion was to provide by artificial means the benefits which result from the nat ural helps found In the climates which nve helpful. Dr. Shepard went to New Mexico, find at a high altitude made ex periments, seeking to gather the secrets from the air. DEVICE FOU INHALATION. He was partially successful, and, coining home to Klgin, began the build ing of a device which should encourage the deep inhalations which come natu rully to one who either comes suddenly into cold, crisp atmosphere or invari ably results at high altitudes. He took advantage of the first symptom of con sumptiona prolonged expiration, an increased attempt of the lungs to throw olf the enemy which is Inking posses sion of the tissues. This he accom plished by an apparatus In which the nlr should be exhaled against a certain amount of resistance, and In this way etch cell was rfiven a course in gym nastics. This was the first step Dr. Fhepard then took up the accepted theory that Jio chemical could be Introduced into the lungs powerful enough to destroy the microbe without destroying also the tissue. He then reasoned that It was Impossible to kill the microbe. The oniy practical thing to uo was to find remedies which would so strengthen the sound parts of the lung that they should be safe against the attack of the microbes, and by their health should make the lungs so active that even the ' most ambitious mlcrooe should be frightened and induced to leave the body. It was to be a plan In which the good cells should light the battle for the crippled ones, and by their activity drive out the disease. It was an easy process to arrive at thp Instrument a long delicate one to find exactly the ingredients upon which the strong cells would grow stronger and defy the attacks of the microbes. TECHNICAL TREATMENT. Shorn of the technical words, the so lutions which supplement the work of the gymnastics are composed of Iodine, phenal alcohol, bromine and the vari ous preparations from the seaweed and various tar products. The combina tions vary according to the condition of the patient. In soms Instances chief among the remedies are carbolic acid, Iodine and a combination - arranged that formaldehyde Is given off when air Is passed through the machine. These are highly inimical to microbe growth, and. while they do not ue stroy it. then render the conditions so unfavorable that the microbes will not multiply, and the patient is able to throw oft the destroyer. Dr. Shepard. who has had some of his most phenomenal cases Investigat ed by a wholly disinterested commis sion, witn Mayor wayne at tne neau Anally reached that place in his In vestigation where it was possible to combine the gymnastics and the anti septics anil stimulants. This he ac complished by an inhaling apparatus. It consists of an ordinary spirometer. There are two tubes, connected with the mouth piece. The inhalation is made through one, the exhalation through the other, two valves in the mouth piece cutting oft one tube when the other 19 In us?. Tne lnnaiauon tube passes Into a bottle Inside the spirometer. The air pastas inrougn the bottle and picks up the antiseptics in the form of vapors. The effect is almost Instantaneous, causing a sensa tion like nothing else than one would feel from nourlng water Into the lungs. The remedies are felt Into the farther most corners of the lungs. AIR IS FORCED OUT. Having filled the lunea to their full est capacity, the rule Is to force every particle of air out through the exnal ation tube. It passes Into the splrom eter, which arises with small resist ance. This calls into play every muscle of the chest, and by the activity drives the remedies farther Into the cells than during the inhalation. It is known that for each foot In stature, the lungs of the Individual should be capable of an unvarying air capacity. It has been found by the investigation that as soon as this caplclty Is reached or approximately reached, either by the complete banishment or tne mi crobes from the diseased portion or by the development of the portions which have not been destroyed, the patient Is out of danger. The records of the la boratory prove that The capacity im proves from the very beginning and It is also shown that the capacity has been Increased In four weeks from a tiny amount to 170 at each inhalation So much for the method. A word about the result. "I feel perfectly safe In saying that consumption is a curable disease," said Dr. Shepard last night. "All cases can be cured. If taken at the proper time. No case need be lost If taken before the lung structure Is so exhausted that there is nothing left for the remedies to act upon. I have always had a hor ror of foisting upon the public an un developed theory and feel that it Is a very serious matter to claim one has a cure for consumption until it has been used long enough to know that It is a cure for consumption, and that the cure, when made, is permanent. I find that where the treatment is applied to those who have hereditary tendencies to consumption that that tendency 8ecmes to be completely eradicated and the patients left In such condition that there is really very little danger of their acquiring the disea- In other words, they seem to be Immunized against it. COMMON SENSE COMBINATION. "The tendency of medical thought In these days is, to fads and sensational methods. This la neither of them, but merely a plain, common sense combi nation of old-fashioned means to pro duce results Indicated by recent scien title researches. The essential features are the distensions of the air culls, the gymnastic exercise of the chest ntus cles, which increases the patient's power or breathing, the antiseptics, which retards the multiplication of the baciliia. and the Internal medicines given for the diathetic condition of the patient. "The formulas are not secret. We use various remedies, according to the condition of the patient, chief among which are carbolic acid, iodine and a combination so arranged as to give over formaldehyde when air Is drawn through It. These are highly inimical to microblc growth, and, while It is ab solutely impossible to Introduce any substance into the . human body so powerful as to destroy the microbes without destroying also the tissues of the body, we can render the conditions so unfavorable that they will not mul tiply, and the patient will have a chance to throw them off. "In seven years I have not lost a single case In the first stage, and have cured a large proportion of those In the suppurative stages. I took a case in Denver last June the daughter of an official of the Northern Pacific rail road, whose home was In St. Paul. She had been In New Mexico and Colorado for several months and had failed to improve. At the time of taking her case she had all the classical symptoms of tuberculosis cough, daily fever, emaciation and other symptoms pecu liar to the later stages of the disease. In November her father brought her to Chicago to have me decide, upon ex amination, whether she could return to St. Paul this winter. I found a rosy. Health is the best inheritance. It leaves its influence even to the third and fourth generation. What greater happiness bas life in store for any man than to live to a green old age surrounded by his children and his children's children, and see them 11 robust, happy and successful. Happy the man who lives to carve at the wedding suppers of his grandchildren. Picture your self a gray-haired but hearty old man at the head of the table at vour grandson's wed ding, thanking your Maker for the blessing of long life, and asking the blessing of good health for generation , yet unborn. It les in almost every man's power to De thus blessed if he will. If he will only obey Nat ure's laws and be watchful of his health, he will have long life and happiness. The best nreserver of health is Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. It keeps the digestion perfect, the liver active, and the blood pure. It is the best flesh-builder and nerve invigorator. The man who resorts to it whenever he feels any symptoms of ap proaching til-health will live to a Hearty old age. Druggists sell it Nothing else is just as good." T. B. Holt, of Whittens Stand. Wayne Co.. Tenn., writes : " In October, 1(190, I wn taken with a hurting in the back of my neck which steadily grew worse. I consulted a .doctor. He gave me a course of treatment but I gradually grew worse under it. At last my trouble ran Into wliat was called ' spinal affection. ' I could hardly walk about at all. Finally I became as helpless as a child. 1 wrote you at Buffalo, N. Y., in re gard to my condition and you answered me Siomptlv and prescribed Dr. Pierce's Golden ledical 'Discovery. I took the ' Discovery ' aud soon got well. My health continues good." Druggists sell Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pel lets. They cure constipation. They cure, quickly and permanently and never gripe. One is a gentle laxative ; two a mild cathartic. hearty-looking girl, apparently per fectly, well. The upper and middle lobes of the right lung were complete ly aesiroyed as far as usefulness was concerned, but perfectly cicatrised and healed. HE CITES INSTANCES. "We have people living here In Elgin who were given up by their doctors six or seven years ago and are now work ing every day and are perfectly well. There are two people living at Des Plaines whose cases were pronounced hopeless by their physicians, but they were cured by this treatment five years ago, and are apparently as well as anyone. The most positive proof of improvement is the gradual diminution of bacilli found upon successive micro scopic examinations of the sputa. The reason that the cures are permanent is that the ulcerations are gradually healed and the remaining healthy lung tissue is opened up and developed. This process takes time, and is In marked contrast to any plan of simply destroy ing the bacilli. If It were possible to suddenly and absolutely destroy every bacillus in the patient he would very soon be as bad as ever, for we are con stantly exposed to the contagion, and It requires a certain weakened condi tion to make it possible for the germs to b.'coine implanted. If, then, we de stroy the germs without improving the general and local conditions, we mere ly drive the cows out of the field and leave the bars down for them to come In again. "A very large percentage of our cases have been living in the same house with or have nursed cases of consump tion within two years, and in many In stances the contagious nature of it is perfectly plain. In one family of four children one had consumption, follow ing la grippe. Hy the time he died the other three were beginning to show it. One of them has since died, another Is in a very low condition and the third is nearly cured. HEREDITY NOT DANGEROUS. "Heredity Is not so dangerous us has been popularly supposed. In over f0 cases about 60 per cent, report a history of the disease In the family. 1 tliMK cr 500 men on the street nearly as large a percentage would be found to have consumption in the family. It Is the most common of all diseases. Chicago physicians who have Inves tigated the discovery believe that much of the mystery surrounding the dis ease has been cleared up. Dr. Will T. 8h?pard In the Masonic Temple, says: "It Is scientific, rational and In accord with the latest researches made In the treatment of consumption." Dr. E. S. Bailey In Michigan uvenue has studied the effects and declares It Is 'an excellent adjuvant In the treat men: of lung and bronchial diseases." He is 11 cluM'inate of Dr. SheparJ. Dr. J. .1. 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