re impaired, and is
finally lost. In the latter stages, it resembles consumption, being
attended with hectic fever, night-sweats, emaciation, cough, profuse
expectoration, and sometimes hemorrhage.

TREATMENT. The patient should avoid using his voice as much as possible.
At the same time, attention should be paid to the diet, the bathing, and
the clothing. Every thing should be done that is calculated to build up
and improve the general health. Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery is
well adapted to remove morbid states of the disease, in consequence of
its direct action on the mucous membranes of the air-passages, and its
efficacy in allaying irritation of the laryngeal, pharyngeal, and
pneumogastric nerves. It should be perseveringly employed. Iodine
inhalations, administered with the pocket inhaler, illustrated by Fig.
3, and the application of tincture of iodine to the forepart of the
neck, are efficacious in many cases. Inhalations of chloride of ammonia,
administered with a steam-atomizer, Fig. 11, in the form of spray, are
frequently of great benefit. _Perseverance_ is necessary, and the
afflicted are cautioned against discontinuing the treatment too soon,
for the disease is very liable to return.

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CONSUMPTION.

PHTHISIS PULMONALIS.

By this we understand a constitutional affection, characterized by a
wasting away of the body, attended by the deposition of tubercular
matter into the lung tissue. Hence the appellations, _Phthisis
Pulmonalis; Pulmonary Tuberculosis; Tubercular Consumption_. Tubercles
may form in other organs and result in a breaking down of their tissues,
but the employment of the term _Consumption_ in this article is
restricted to the lungs. The general prevalence, the insidious attack,
and the distressing fatality of this disease, demand the special
attention and investigation of every thinking person. It preys upon all
classes of society. Rich and poor alike furnish its victims.

Some idea of its prevalence may be formed when we consider that, of the
entire population of the globe, one in every three hundred and
twenty-three persons annually dies of consumption. It may not be
definitely known just what proportion of all the deaths in this country
and Europe occurs from this one disease. Those who have gathered
statistics differ somewhat, some claiming one-fourth, while others put
the ratio at one-sixth, one-seventh, and even as low as one