110 DR. CHASE'S RECIPES. 



kinds and gluttony and late night exposures. In fact, lead an honest, orderly 

 life, free from vice and every dissipation, your health will then be equal, regu- 

 lar and constant, and your life a long and happy one. 



V. " Keep your bowels always free by habit, diet or purgatives." 



Remarks. — If these rules are strictly enforced, by parents, with their chil- 

 dren, when small, and by themselves, as soon as they can be made to understand 

 their importance, very much will be done to improve the general health, as well 

 as to prevent consumption. None are too old to take counsel from Rules IV. 

 and v., and I might say also from Rule III. 



3. Consumption Cured After Twelve Years' Suffering, 

 Living About Sixty Years After the Cure.— The transactions of the 

 Connecticut State Medical Society contains the following paper from Professor 

 S. G. Hubbard, of New Haven, in relation to the cure of the late Rev. Jeremiah 

 Day, former President of Yale College, of tubercular consumption. He says: 

 "President Day, during early life, gave little promise of long life, and when, in 

 1789, in liis 17th year, he entered Yale College, he was soon compelled to leave 

 /)y pulmonary difficulty. He rallied, however, and was able to finish the 

 course and graduate in 1795. He was very feeble, however, for many years. 

 He became a clergj'man, and in 1801 was elected Professor of Mathematics and 

 Natural History in the college. But he could not undertake the duties. An 

 ilarming hemorrhage of the lungs prostrated him, which was treated learnedly 

 by bleedings copious enough to have charmed even Dr. Sangrado. He went to 

 Bermuda, where he was plied with digitalis to such an extent as almost to take 

 what little life he had left. He came back to his native town, Washington, 

 Conn., to die. 



"He suffered from continued hemorrhage and repeated venesections 

 bleedings), which was ' all the go ' at that time with the allopaths, for almost 

 every disease. He met Dr. Sheldon, of Litchfield, who had made the treat- 

 ment with iron a hobby, and who expressed a belief that Mr. Day could be helped. 

 Though the case was regarded as hopeless, the patient was placed under the 

 care of Dr. Sheldon, who treated him with iron and calisaya (Peruvian) bark, 

 feeding him carefully with wholesome food. Under this regimen he soon 

 exhibited symptoms of improvement and finally, in 1803, returned home as one 

 restored from the dead, in sufficient vigor to be inaugurated in the Professor 

 chip. He never afterwards exhibited symptoms of pulmonary disease, although 

 he had been affected by it for more than twelve years. He lived till August, 

 1867, and was 95 years old at the time of his death. The cavity of the thorax 

 was examined to ascertain the traces of his former malady The lungs were 

 everywhere free from tubercles and were apparently healthy. In the apex (top) 

 of each lung was found a dense corrugated (wrinkled) circular cicatrix (hard- 

 ened scar) an inch and a half or more in diameter; also a third circular cicatrix 

 (a scar as if remaining from a wound) on the left side of the left lung, a few 

 inches below the apex (top), each involving such a depth of tissue as to indicate 

 that the vomicm (abscess, or hole from ulceration), of which they were the 

 remains, had been large and of long duration. Both lungs were slightly 

 edheient at the apex. 



