Washington on assimilation, consumption, and scrofula.

  • Washington, Beverly H.
Date:
1856
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    PREFACE. Consumption, scrofula,'and all other tuberculous diseases have for many centuries been deemed incurable, but medical researches within the last thirty years have clearly established the fact by post-mortem examinations, that though they are incurable by man, yet Nature has cured them in a vast number of cases by a myste- rious process of her own; that process the author has undertaken to elucidate in the following pages. As it is Nature's process that is unfolded, it is almost needless to say that no quack nostrums will be found included in her plan of treatment of those diseases, hence this treatise will not be found an advertising sheet for cough syrups, balsams, pectorals, <fec, but on the contrary it will clearly develop Nature's successful plan of treatment without medicines, so that the afflicted can be cured, and all predisposed to those diseases, enabled to ward them off. No apology for the appearance of this treatise is deemed neces- sary, since, according to Professor Gross, nearly one-third of the deaths are caused by tuberculous diseases, and as nearly all the living are deeply interested in the subject through ties of kindred and friendship to the afflicted, it is presumed anything calculated to be of service in curing, or preventing those terrible diseases, will be acceptable. The views presented will be found of service not only to the suf- fering but to others, since the propositions presented, and proved, will, if acted upon, enable all persons liable to suffer from those diseases to avoid that liability and live to a ripe old age. The attention, therefore, of all persons interested is earnestly solicited by THE AUTHOR.