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of people should die every year of consumption, and that the 

 profession which is so greatly accountable for the calamity 

 should never have found a remedy for the disease. Those who 

 try to discover a cure also, are treated discourteously instead of 

 offered assistance. 



How would We treat consumption t 



Not so much by drugs, or blisters, as by careful nursing. 

 From what we have said of the nature of the body and its 

 mode of action, it may be inferred that we would in the first 

 place restore it to a proper working condition, by attending to 

 Ihe digestion and the circulation, so that the body be kept warm 

 in every part, by its own natural atomic action. We would then 

 find the locality of the inflammation, and by the continuous 

 application of moisture and heat, along with a slightly mineral 

 solution to the part affected, we would expect to produce a 

 reciprocal action between the atoms in the region of inflamma- 

 tion, and in the liniment, which would neutralise each other, 

 and so induce a healthy circulation, that might result in 

 removing the state ot inflammation entirely. If carelessness, 

 or inattention to the rules of health should bring on the inflam- 

 mation again, the same treatment would have to be repeated. 

 Thus no young or otherwise healthy person need die of 

 consumption if property prescribed for. It will be evident, 

 therefore, that all those compound nostrums, patent medicines, 

 and galvanic batterie>, which are advertised indiscriminately 

 to cure consumption, without some general treatment of the 

 body and system besides that of local application to the parts 

 effected, are a deception, and destined only to failure. 



How are fevers caused and cured? 



Fevers, as we have already said, are caused by the checking, 



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