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 ON 
 
 PREVALENT 
 
 CHRONIC DISEASES 
 
 INCLUDING 
 
 CONSUMPTION,'NASAL CATARRH, BRONCHITIS, 
 ASTHMA, DYSPEPTIC DISORDERS, URI- 
 NARY COMPLAINTS, SCROFULA, 
 SKIN DISEASES, FEMALE 
 COMPLAINTS, &c M &c. 
 
 BY 
 
 J. W. SYKES, A. M., M. D. 
 
 Exclnsiie Practitioner in Chronic Diseases, 
 193 PENN AVENUE, PITTSBURGH, PA. 
 
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CONTENTS 
 
 PAGE. 
 <y O 
 
 Catarrh— Its J\ atur » 
 
 Nasal Catarrh 4 
 
 Chronic Sore Throat 5 
 
 Laryngitis - - - - - - - G 
 
 Bronchitis G 
 
 Treatment of Catarrhs 8 
 
 Asthma or Phthisic 10 
 
 Consumption, Tubercular 12 
 
 Causes of Consumption IS 
 
 Nature of (Preliminary Stage) - 13 
 
 " " " (Pulmonary Stage) - H 
 
 Curability and Treatment of Consumption lo-lG 
 
 Heart Diseases 17-18 
 
 Dyspepsia, Liver Complaints, etc. 19 
 
 Urinary Disorders 28 
 
 Female Complaints 2G 
 
 Scrofula and Skin Diseases - 28-29 
 
 References and, Testimony - 80-47 
 
 Concerning Testimonials Jfl 
 
 Duration of Treatment Jf8 
 
BKIEF ESSAYS 
 
 OX 
 
 PREVALENT 
 
 CHRONIC DISEASES 
 
 IN'CLl'WXG 
 
 CONSUMPTION, NASAL CATAEEH, BRON- 
 CHITIS, ASTHMA, DYSPEPTIC DISOB- 
 DEES, ITEINAEY COMPLAINTS, 
 SCEOFLLA, SKIN DISEASES, 
 FEMALE COMPLAINTS, 
 ETC., ETC. 
 
 EY 
 
 J. W. SYKES, A.M., M.D, 
 
 EXCLUSIVE PEACTITIOXEE IX CHROXIC DISEASES, 
 
 191 Penn Avenue, Pittsburgh, Penn'a. 
 
 
 PITTSBURGH: 
 PRINTED BY SAML F. KERR. 3000 BUTLER STREET. COR.'tRIETYSIXTH 
 
 1S74. 
 
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 INTRODUCTORY. 
 
 THIS Pamphlet is designed to serve as a Business Circular 
 whereby, inquiring invalids can learn something concerning the 
 writer and his method of treating CHRONIC DISEASES,— a 
 subject to which he has devoted his entire professional life. 
 
 He wishes it to be particularly noticed that he gives his atten 
 
 TION, EXCLUSIVELY, TO A LIMITED RANGE OF CHRONIC DISEASES. 
 
 In this respect, Dr. Sykes believes that he stands alone in this 
 locality, and he deems it but fair to ask the public, not to class nini 
 with those who profess to cure LuDg Diseases by Inhalations, nor 
 with Druggists who pretend to be Physicians, for the purpose of 
 selling Lung Cures and other Patent Medicines, — nor yet with those 
 who claim ability to detect and cure all diseases solely by an exam- 
 ination of the Urine. 
 
 In short, the writer of these pages asks to be judged solely by his 
 own acts, and not by the dishonest practices of others. 
 
 Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1874, 
 
 By J. W. SYKES, A. M., M. D., 
 
 In the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington. 
 
BRIEF ESSAYS 
 
 OX 
 
 PREVALENT CHRONIC DISEASES, 
 
 CHRONIC DISEASES 
 OF THE RESPIRATORY ORGANS. 
 
 Diseases of the Breathing organs include Nasal Catarrh, 
 Pharyngitis or Sore Throat, Laryngitis, Bronchitis, Asthma, Con- 
 sumption and Chronic Pneumonia. The last three are Lung or Pul- 
 monary affections, while the others are located in the passages and 
 tubes leading to the Lungs. 
 
 Before describing these diseases separately, it is important to 
 call attention to the fact that Nasal Catarrh, Pharyngitis, Laryngitis 
 and Bronchitis are -essentially the same disease, and a few prelimi- 
 nary remarks on the nature of 
 
 CATARRH IN GENERAL, 
 
 will clear away much obscurity which otherwise would exist in 
 describing the same affection under so many different names. 
 
 The term Catarrh is derived from two Greek words, signifying 
 "to flow down," it consists of an inflammation (acute or chronic) of 
 the lining membrane of the Nose, Throat or Bronchial tubes, and 
 the formation of a slimy secretion called Mucus, which in the 
 Larynx and Bronchial tubes is expectorated by coughing. 
 
 The membrane thus affected also lines the mouth, ^Esophagus or 
 Gullet, Stomach, Bowels and Urinary passages, and is everywhere 
 liable to Catarrh, which, in the Stomach, is called Gastritis, in the 
 small intestines Diarrhoea, in the large Bowel Colitis or Dysentery, 
 
and in the lower portion of the same it is termed Elenorrhoea, while- 
 in the Bladder it is named Cystitis, and in the Uterine passages it is- 
 Leucorrhea. This same membrane also lines the eyelids, and covers 
 a portion of the eye, and Catarrh here is called Ophthalmia. 
 
 The application of so many names to a single disease has had a 
 confusing effect, not only upon the public mind, but also on the minds 
 of medical practitioners, many of whom entertain the erroneous idea 
 that a variety of diseases is indicated, and vary their treatment ac- 
 cordingly. 
 
 Again, the lining membrane which is the seat of Catarrh is- mis- 
 named the mucous membrane, whereas there is no mucus upon it 
 except when diseased. It is thus that medical science is burdened 
 and impeded by a useless and unscientific nomenclature, and the 
 medical dictionary rivals Webster's unabridged in bulk. 
 
 The mucous membrane which lines all the cavities of the body 
 (where air may have access) is like the external skin in structure, and 
 analogous to it in its functions, hence, Catarrh is properly an internal 
 skin disease, and icherever it occurs should be viewed as such, and 
 treated accordingly. We do not consider it proper to treat external 
 skin diseases by local remedies alone, but use means to cleanse the 
 blood, and the same principle should be observed in treating diseases 
 of the internal skin. 
 
 But, as an external tetter presents a different aspect on the face 
 and hands from that shown on parts covered by clothing, so Catarrh 
 in different localities exhibits diverse characteristics, and hence there 
 is a partial necessity for considering it under its different designa- 
 tions, and we therefore, for the present, adhere to the existing names 
 and come now to consider 
 
 NASAL CATARRH. 
 
 Chronic Nasal Catarrh consists of inflammation of the lining 
 membrane of the nasal passages, and the formation therein of 
 mucus, which partially or completely fills the cavities, and renders 
 breathing through the nose more or less difficult. The secretion is 
 dislodged either externally by blowing the nose, or else into the 
 throat by snuffing and hawking ; if it is not cleared away daily, 
 it accumulates, causing a disagreeable feeling of distention and full- 
 ness, and in a short time decomposes, and becomes exceedingly offen- 
 sive, and gives rise to temporary acute inflammation with pain between 
 and above the eyes, and sometimes in the cheek bones. 
 
 In this process the matter, softens- and is discharged in a 
 
terribly foul condition, and then the accumulation begins again, and 
 the fetid gathering is repeated. In some cases the lining membrane 
 of the nasal cavities is destroyed, and the bones of the nose and face 
 become affected. This description applies to the more severe form 
 of the disease, occurring not infrequently; but happily in a majority 
 of instances, it pursues a milder course, and the discharge does not 
 become offensive, or obstruct the passages, but falls back into the 
 throat and causes an almost constant hawking and spitting. In all 
 cases the irritation, sooner or later, extends downward, affecting the 
 throat and passages below. Nasal Catarrh is an eminently curable 
 disease but it is not curable by local treatment alone, and all attempts 
 to cure it by snuffs, washes fumigations, inhalations, injections, 
 douches, &c, must end in disappointments. It is only when appro- 
 priate local remedies are used in connection with suitable constitu- 
 tional treatment that recovery can be anticipated. No mere routine 
 will suffice, but every case must be treated according to its own pecu- 
 liarities and wants. In every case the blood must be cleansed, the dis- 
 position to take cold removed, and the general health and vigor im- 
 proved as much as possible before the Catarrh will be radically cured. 
 In short, as it has been well expressed, Nasal Catarrh is not a dis- 
 ease of the nose, but of the man, and the man must be made well in 
 order to cure the Catarrh. 
 
 CHRONIC SORE THROAT. 
 
 This disease also called Chronic Throat-ail, Clergyman's Sore 
 Throat, and in medical books Chronic Pharyngitis, is a catarrhal in- 
 flammation of the Pharynx, or that part of the throat which can be 
 seen through the open mouth. 
 
 In itself Chronic Throat-ail is not dangerous, but situated in the 
 pathway to the Lungs, its natural tendency is to extend thitherward 
 •and to assume a serious character. It is a very prevalent disease, 
 often existing for months unsuspected, because unfelt, except when 
 a cold temporarily aggravates the irritation, and gives rise to a degree 
 of soreness, which the enfeebled nerves of the part can feel : as the 
 cold subsides, the sense of soreness ceases and the throat is supposed 
 to be well ; but the chronic inflammation remains and may be known 
 by the following symptoms: 
 
 There is generally more or less hawking in the morning of a clear 
 or frothy mucus, and very little during the day ; in many cases the 
 Uvula or soft palate is relaxed and touches the root of the tongue, 
 causing a constant inclination to clear the throat. There is also much 
 
tendency to dryness which extends to the- posterior nasal cavities and' 
 is attended with itching. Bat the presence of this disease can always- 
 be determined by inspection which every person should learn to make 
 for themselves by the aid of a mirror and strong- daylight. 
 
 The color of a healthy throat is a uniform lively pink, the sur- 
 face smooth and moist, and no blood vessels are visible. In a dis- 
 eased throat the color is pale, with patches or streaks of red. and 
 numerous small blood vessels are visible, while the surface has a 
 roughened appearance or may present patches of swelled or thickened 
 membrane of dark red color, or small pimples, or w^art-like elevations 
 of pale hue, which, in bad cases, become the seat of ulceration. 
 
 In persons of good constitution, and fair general health, this 
 Chronic Throat-ail may for several years remain nearly stationary, 
 but ultimately, and in many cases speedily, it extends down into the 
 windpipe and Bronchial tubes. 
 
 LARYNGITIS. 
 
 Catarrh of the Larynx, though rarely existing except in connec- 
 tion with disease above and below this organ, yet requires separate 
 mention because of the importance of the Larynx (organ of the voice) 
 and because here it becomes in many cases complicated with tuber- 
 culous disease or Consumption. 
 
 Laryngitis is characterized by hoarseness or loss of voice, with 
 soreness and pain which is aggravated by efforts to speak, with dis- 
 tressing dryness and heat, and often a violent cough. When nut 
 complicated with tuberculous disease, Laryngitis is amenable to 
 treatment and very curable. In this disease, Inhalations of medicated 
 vapors are of great value when used in connection with judicious 
 general treatment, for cleansing the blood and increasing the vigor of 
 the system generally. 
 
 Any merely local treatment vvl ether by Inhalations- or otherwise, 
 will afford only temporary relief and the ordinary practice of burning 
 out the throat with nitrate of silver hastens the disease to a fatal 
 termination. 
 
 BRONCHITIS. 
 
 Just behind the upper part of the breast-bone the windpipe 
 (Trachea) terminates in two branches (Bronchi) one to each lung. 
 Immediately on entering the LuDgs these Bronchial tubes are sub- 
 divided into smaller branches, and h subdivision is repeated until, 
 
the ramifications reach every portion of the Lungs, and the smallest 
 tubes numbering thousands are scarcely larger than a hair, and hence 
 are called Capillary Bronchi. 
 
 Bronchitis, or Bronchial Catarrh is an imflammation of the lining 
 membrane of a part or all of the Bronchial tubes. When it occupies 
 only a part of the larger Bronchi it is termed Local Bronchitis, and 
 when it extends into the minute tubes is called Capillary Bronchitis. 
 Other terms, such as Secondary Bronchitis, indicating that it is the 
 result of some other disease, Plastic Bronchitis, denoting the nature 
 of the Bronchial secretion, Senile Bronchitis, Winter Bronchitis, 
 etc., do not require further mention here. It will thus be seen that 
 the term Bronchitis refers to the location of the disease and not to its 
 nature, and hence the phrase "Bronchitis in the throat'' is an improper 
 expression. 
 
 The Causes or Bronchitis or Bronchial Catarrh are numer- 
 ous, and the disease varies in character according to the nature of the 
 causes producing it. The most frequent cause is the gradual 
 extension of Catarrh of the head and throat downward into the 
 Bronchi. 
 
 Occupations involving the inhalation of dust, smoke, foul air, 
 etc., give rise to a very serious form of the disease termed Mechani- 
 cal Bronchitis and Miner's Bronchitis. It also often originates in "a 
 cold in the chest" when it is at first acute, and then lapses into the 
 chronic form. Secondary Bronchitis may be caused by any disease 
 affecting the character of the blood. Hence more or less Bronchitis 
 exists in connection with Consumption, Gout, Bheumatism, and vari- 
 ous skin diseases are also its frequent causes. In many cases the 
 "curing" of a Salt Rheum or Tetter by the application of a mineral 
 ointment or wash is immediately followed by a cough, and other evi- 
 dences of Bronchitis, in other words, the disease being in the blood, 
 if repelled from the external skin breaks out on the inner surface. A 
 cold may also cause an external tetter to disappear and locate itself 
 internally in the form of Bronchitis. 
 
 Winter Bronchitis is often due to this cause, those affected by it, 
 coughing and expectorating during winter and suffering from form of 
 skin disease in summer. 
 
 The Symptoms of Bronchitis also vary greatly according to its 
 causes. In every variety of the disease there is cough, slight and in- 
 frequent in some cases, and in others violent and constant. The ex- 
 pectoration varies in appearance from transparent mucus, . like the 
 white of an egg^ and more or less frothy, to thick, heavy, yellow or 
 greenish, and sometimes bloody matter. The quantity raised maybe 
 so scanty as to be scarcely noticeable, or may amount to a pint or 
 
more daily. When the quantity raised is excessive the disease is 
 sometimes called Bronchorrhoea, There is rarely any pain, but in 
 most cases more or less oppression or tightness of the chest, with 
 difficult breathing. In some cases Hemorrhage occurs either from 
 ulcers in the tubes tapping a blood-vessel, or from congestion, arising 
 from irregular action of the heart. Sometimes the general health re- 
 mains comparatively good for a long period, but sooner or later 
 emaciation and debility ensue. 
 
 In most cases, however, the nature of the disease cannot be posi- 
 tively determined by the symptoms, but requires an examination of 
 the chest by Auscultation and Percussion. 
 
 Treatment of Catarrhal Affections. 
 
 The observance of certain general principles is essential to the cure 
 of Catarrh, wherever it is located. 
 
 In the first place, the habit of taking cold on every slight exposure 
 must be broken up or cured. 
 
 This requires the use of baths, frictions, etc., to increase the vigor 
 of the outer skin and render it more hardy. But it is necessary to 
 exercise care and judgment in adapting the remedies to the require- 
 ments of each case. A cold bath which would invigorate one person, 
 might debilitate another. Hence, the frequency and manner of bath- 
 ing should be carefully prescribed in each case. 
 
 Regular and systematic exercise in the open air is also indispensa- 
 ble in overcoming the tendency to take cold. This should be taken 
 in most cases daily, and almost regardless of weather, but in every 
 case the utmost care should be taken to avoid getting wet or chilled, 
 and the amount and manner of exercise should be prescribed with 
 reference to the peculiarities of the case. No exposure however, se- 
 vere, is so injurious as confinement indoors, and the fear of taking 
 cold, which deters invalids from going out except in fair weather 
 renders them increasingly liable to colds. The proper ventilation of 
 sleeping rooms is also essential to success in treating Catarrh — the 
 most injurious night air is always in the house, and it is necessary to 
 admit an abundance of the fresh out door air in such a manner as will 
 not make the room uncomfortably cold. 
 
 In addition to the foregoing measures, it is necessary in many cases, 
 and advisable in all, to wear all wool under garments during the 
 whole year. In summer the flannels may be lighter than in winter, 
 but should be all wool : it is doubtful whether the color is of any im- 
 portance. 
 
Secondly. Catarrh, being an internal skin disease, its cure requires 
 that a radical improvement be effected in the state of the blood. 
 Bathing, frictions, exercise, etc., as above described, conduce power- 
 fully to this end, because they not only render the external skin more 
 hardy, but also make it more active in exhaling waste and morbid 
 products from the blood, and thus preventing the inner skin or mucous 
 membrane from being overloaded and weakened by an undue propor- 
 tion of this waste matter. The condition of the digestive and blood- 
 forming organs must also receive attention, and all dyspeptic disor- 
 ders be remedied. 
 
 This involves systematic attention to diet drink, etc., and specific 
 medicines suited to the symptoms of each case. 
 
 Thirdly. All special causes of Catarrh must be avoided ; among 
 these may be mentioned, the inhalation of impure air, dust, smoke, 
 etc., also sleeping with the mouth open, taking hot drinks, eating 
 too rapidly, etc. After a careful adaptation of general treatment m 
 each case, we have to institute suitable 
 
 Local Treatment. 
 
 In Nasal Catarrh the cavities and passages must be kept clear of 
 accumulation, and detention of mucus, and appropriate medicines ap- 
 plied by means of Douches or Syringes. Per twenty years I have 
 used, in cases requiring it, a Syringe with a long curved pipe to be in- 
 troduced into the mouth and pointed upward behind the palate, 
 whereby the wash or medicine can be thrown forward into the nose 
 and thus reach surfaces not accessible through the external nostril. I 
 have used this form of Syringe made of silver, of glass, and of hard 
 rubber, and it has been in use by the medical profession generally. 
 
 The medicines for the local treatment of Catarrh must be such as 
 invigorate the weakened memlirane, and stimulate to healthy action. 
 In Nasal Catarrh they may be applied in a fluid form, or in powder 
 as snuffs — in nearly all cases the liquid form is preferable. 
 
 In Pharyngitis or sore throat, suitable medicated G-argles, Washes 
 and Inhalations can be used. In Laryngitis and Bronchitis, medi- 
 cines can best be applied by means of Inhalations either of vapor or 
 spray. Astringent or "drying" remedies in Nasal Catarrh are not 
 curative, as they merely suppress the discharge without removing 
 the cause, and their use maybe dangerous, as the sudden suppression 
 of Catarrh in the head is sometimes followed by disease of the Brain. 
 Likewise the use of Caustics in the throat tends to drive the disease 
 down, and is a fruitful cause of Laryngitis and Bronchitis. 
 
10 
 
 ASTHMA, or PHTHISIC. 
 
 This should be defined rather as a disease of the Chest, than of 
 the Lungs. It consists in a deranged action of the nerves of the 
 chest, diaphragm, and bronchial tubes, whereby respiration becomes 
 distressingly difficult, and attended with loud wheezing. It is usual- 
 ly associated with more or less Bronchitis, and consequent cough 
 and expectoration. It is not often a continuous disease, but occurs in 
 paroxysms of longer or shorter duration. The attacks usually come 
 on during the night — the patient retires apparently in ordinary health, 
 and after a few hours is awakened by difficulty of breathing, threat- 
 ening suffocation, and is often compelled to rise and remain in a sitting 
 posture until morning. 
 
 The inspiration of breath seems to be more free than the expira- 
 tion, and the Lungs become distended to their utmost capacity, and 
 in extreme cases, some of the air cells are ruptured, forming rents 
 and cavities, and irreparably injuring the action of the Lungs. 
 
 This is termed Emphysema of the Lung. It is an incurable con- 
 dition, and involves the continuance of " Phthisical breathing " 
 during life. The chief peculiarity of Asthma is its occurrence in 
 periodic attacks, followed by intervals of complete or comparative 
 health. In some cases the attacks are frequent and protracted, in 
 others they are brief and followed by long periods of freedom. 
 
 One form of the disease known as Hay-fever or Autumnal Asthma, 
 occurs annually. In Europe it prevails in June and July, but in this 
 country its season, in nearly all cases, is between August 10th and 
 October 1st. It is estimated that fifty thousand persons in the 
 United States are subject to this singular affection. It differs from 
 the more common forms of Asthma, in commencing like a violent 
 cold in the head, with excessive sneezing and discharge from eyes 
 and nose, for several days before the wheezing sets in, and in some 
 cases the head symptoms continue during the w T hole period of the 
 disease. 
 
 To chronicle all the curious caprices and peculiarities which different 
 cases of Asthma present, would require much greater space than the 
 limits of these essays will permit. 
 
 The Causes of Asthma 
 
 are numerous and various. It is eminently a hereditary disease, and 
 often appears at birth. In other cases a tendency only is inherited, 
 which is developed by various causes. Among the most frequent 
 are occupations involving exposure to foul air, dust, and irritating 
 
11 
 
 teases. Other diseases, such as Dyspepsia, Female Complaints, Skin 
 Diseases, Heart Diseases, may cause Asthma. Iu some cases Salt 
 Rheum, or some other form of Tetter occurs alternately with Asthma, 
 the skin disease appearing in the Summer and the Asthma in the 
 Winter, or vice versa. 
 
 Curability of Asthma. 
 
 This distressing disease is completely and permanently curable, 
 even in cases of many years standing; and yet there is probably no 
 form of Lung disease which so generally baffles the practitioner and 
 is so generally voted incurable by the medical profession. I have 
 witnessed the complete recovery of cases of from six to thirty-five 
 years' standing, and the fact that some of these cases have remained 
 well for seventeen years, justifies me in asserting its entire curability 
 in many cases. 
 
 In order to cure Asthma, that careful adaptation of treatment to the 
 varying necessities of each case is requisite, which can only be 
 effected by special study and special experience ; and the general 
 practitioner, however great his attainments, cannot give sufficient 
 time to the few cases coming into bis care to acquire this special 
 skill. 
 
 Moreover, it is necessary, in treating Asthma with a view to curing 
 it, to pursue the treatment during the intervals of freedom from the 
 disease, which occur in nearly every case. The use of some inhalant 
 or smoking powder, or of any remedy which relieves the difficult 
 breathing, will never cure the disease. 
 
 In order to effect a lasting and complete removal of it, a radical 
 change in the condition of the blood, and a general toning up of the 
 nervous system, must be effected, and this necessarily requires time. 
 Asthma is nearly always a chronic disease, and requires chronic or 
 protracted treatment, varying in different cases, from three to six 
 months. 
 
 The proper treatment is invigorating and need not interfere with 
 any ordinary avocation,. 
 
12 
 
 Tubercular Consumption. 
 
 This dread malady, though more avoidable and preventible than, 
 any other serious disease, and fully as curable as any, yet carries 
 one-fifth of our adult population to premature graves. It is equally 
 prevalent and fatal throughout the civilized world. In the United 
 States about one hundred thousand persons die annually of Consump- 
 tion, and in Europe it destroys more than half a million in the same 
 period. 
 
 Its prevalence is due to the fact that it is caused by errors in the 
 mode of life and habits of civilized people. Its fatality is owing firstly, 
 to an almost universal oversight of its early and most curable stage, 
 and secondly to the general absence of any rational and systematic 
 method of treating it. 
 
 If the "-nedieal profession deemed it a duty to point out the causes 
 of Consumption, and to recognize and treat it during its preliminary 
 stage there would be few deaths from it, and it would cease to be a 
 familiar disease. But unfortunately there seems to be little disposition 
 on the part of Physicians to impart information concerning the causes 
 of this or any other disease. 
 
 And as if conscious of inability to institute curative treatment, many 
 assert that this disease is essentially incurable, and discourage pa- 
 tients from making proper efforts to regain health. 
 
 Again Consumption is an unfelt disease — the Lungs have no nerves 
 and hence no ability to feel pain, or to transmit depressing influences 
 to the brain : this is the reason why consumptives are unconscious ot 
 their danger, and prone to defer and neglect treatment until too 
 late. They affirm that they "feel first-rate " and are getting better, 
 while daily nearing the grave. Physicians, too, often encourage them 
 in this groundless hopefulness by assuring them that their lungs are 
 well, when they know them to be seriously affected. I am not aware 
 that any medieal writer has heretofore called attention to the anatom- 
 ical cause of this well known characteristic of consumption, and yet 
 it is of vital importance, and its general recognition would do much 
 toward abating the ravages of the disease. 
 
 Let it be generally understood that the Luogs have no nerves and 
 hence no proper sense of feeling, that in fact it is possible for an entire 
 Lung to become diseased, — literally destroyed, — and yet no pain or 
 general depression be felt — and there w^ould follow in the public- 
 mind a disposition to give due importance to the early indications of 
 the disease, and to resort to treatment while it is most curable. 
 
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 The Causes of Consumption. 
 
 The proximate and essential cause in nearly all eases is Defective 
 Respiration, and this results from a variety of conditions and habits 
 of civilized life. One of the most frequent and fruitful is that of 
 sleeping in closed and ill ventilated rooms, whereby the air is poi- 
 soned and repeatedly inhaled during sleep, when the power of the 
 skin to throw off this poisonous matter is enfeebled. 
 
 Another very general cause is confinement to indoor life and occu- 
 pations, and especially those of an inactive sedentary character, 
 whereby the chest-muscles become feeble and respiration is defective. 
 To these causes are added a variety of circumstances and conditions 
 calculated to deteriorate the blood and impair the strength. The more 
 common of these are insufficient food and clothing, excessive use of 
 tobacco and other stimulants, excessive indulgence of the sexual ap- 
 petite, prolonged nursing, habitual coldness of feet, sleeping with 
 mouth open, the use of hot drinks, &c. Concerning 
 
 The Nature of Consumption, 
 
 The great truth cannot be too well learned that, it is not a disease 
 of the Lungs merely, but exists in the blood and system at large, 
 for some time before it breaks out in the Lungs, or elsewhere in the 
 form of tubercle. 
 
 During this preliminary stage the disease is nearly always curable, 
 but as above stated it is rarely noticed and more rarely treated, and 
 hence passes unchecked into the tuberculous stage. In the prelimin- 
 ary stage the blood is deprived of a large portion of its red globules 
 and becomes charged with the elements of tubercle. But the tuber- 
 cles are not yet found in the Lungs, and hence the disease cannot as 
 yet be detected by Stethoscopic examination of the chest. But it 
 may generally be recognized by its symptoms. Among the earliest 
 of these, is a slow, gradual diminution of muscular vigor, which tlie 
 patient is unable to account for, but which renders him unable to 
 endure exertions which formerly were not difficult, and there is, con- 
 sequently, a gradually increasing shortness of breath. With the loss 
 of strength, but not always as early, there is a corresponding loss of 
 flesh. The pulse loses its softness and fulness, and becomes more 
 rapid than in health. The complexion becomes sallow and pallid, the 
 features sharpen and their expression is careworn, though animated. 
 Added to these, is the blind hopefulness, before mentioned, which 
 often causes the patient to ridicule or resent any allusion to the idea 
 that he is in danger of Consumption. 
 
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 Dr. Cotton, of the Brompton Hospital for Consumptives, near 
 London, England, says of this symptom: " So general is this almost 
 instinctive blindness to the cause of distress, that if absent, other 
 symptoms, however suspicious, may be regarded as unconnected with 
 Phthisis." But Dr. Cotton seems not to have noticed that this false 
 hopefulness is wanting in Consumptives who are also dyspeptic. The 
 digestive organs are supplied with numberless branches of the great 
 sympathetic nerve, which convey the distressing sensations caused by 
 Dyspepsia to the brain, causing depression of spirits, fears of Con- 
 sumption, etc., also giving rise to pain in the chest and other parts 
 of the body. 
 
 It is important to bear in mind, that during the primary stage of 
 Consumption, there is often neither cough nor expectoration. 
 
 Pulmonary Stage. 
 
 Sooner or later the diseased blood begins to deposit its morbid 
 matter in and between the air-cells of the Lungs, in rounded par- 
 ticles, varying in size, from that of a mustard seed to that of a large 
 pea. These particles are called tubercles, which word primarily 
 signifies, 'a little ball.' Tubercles are composed of a yellowish and 
 greyish substance, of a cheesey consistence ; it is unorganized or 
 ■dead matter, and, as splinters in the external flesh inflame and fester 
 it, so these tubercles inflame and destroy, by ulceration, the delicate? 
 lace-like Lung-tissue enclosing them. In about ninety-eight per cent, 
 of all cases of Pulmonary Consumption, tubercles are first formed at 
 the summit of one or both Lungs, and thence extend downward. 
 The deposit occurs here first, because this part of the Lungs first 
 fails to breathe and exhale away the impurities constantly brought 
 to them by blood. By inaction and sedentary habits, or otherwise, 
 the muscles of the shoulders and upper part of chest become enfeebled 
 — the upper ribs and collar bones settle in and rest against the sum- 
 mit of the Lungs, and respiratory action is diminished, or wholly 
 ceases. 
 
 In a majority of cases, the disease is confined to one Lung, which 
 is gradually destroyed from the top downward, until the system is 
 exhausted and death ensues. 
 
 The symptoms of the Pulmonary stage of Phthisis are too well 
 known to require detailed description here. There are very few 
 persons of adult years who are not sadly familiar with the racking 
 cough, the emaciation, the spitting of blood, the hectic fever, chills, 
 sweats, and other characteristic features of the later stage of the 
 disease. 
 
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 Is Consumption Curable ? 
 
 It is almost invariably curable in its incipient stage, and quite fre- 
 quently so after tubercle has commenced forming in the Lungs, and 
 occasionally, though rarely, a cure may be effected in the advanced 
 stage of the disease. 
 
 That Consumption is curable even after the Luugs have become 
 affected and partiallv destroyed, is conclusively shown by the dis- 
 covery of healed cavities and scars in the Lungs of persons who have 
 died of other diseases. Dr. Carswell, of London, examined the Lungs 
 of seventy-two persons who had died of other diseases, and in twelve 
 found scars where ulcers had formerly existed, proving^ beyond a 
 doubt, that these patients had, at some previous time, been cured of 
 advanced consumption. Bodet, of Paris, in one hundred and forty- 
 nine examinations found twenty-seven cases where entire recovery 
 had taken place, also ten cases where a partial cure had been effected, 
 part of the ulcers having healed, and a part being evidently in pro- 
 cess of healing: the great Laennac, in far more extensive investiga- 
 tions, found about the same proportion of cases in which these scars 
 existed. These investigations were made many years ago, and since 
 then the number of similar cases which have been recorded in Europe 
 and in our own country, is swelled to thousands. Indeed, very few 
 medical students graduate in Xew York or Philadelphia, where the 
 facilities for dissection are abundant, who do not have numerous op- 
 portunities of witnessing these post mortem proofs of the curability 
 of Phthisic. 
 
 But I can present other evidences of the curability of Con- 
 sumption which I am sure would be convincing to any one who 
 would examine them. 
 
 For nearly twenty years I have kept printed and written records 
 of the cases I have treated, each occupying from one to five large 
 pages. The entire list comprises many thousand cases, recorded in 
 some thirty-five bound volumes. An accurate account is given of the 
 condition of each patient's lungs, when first examined, together with 
 the treatment pursued, and its results. A few of these cases are cited 
 in the appendix to these . essays, scores could be added did space 
 permit. I wish, however, to repeat here, that although there is irre- 
 fragable proof that thousands have recovered from advanced consump- 
 tion, still they are few compared with the tens of thousands who have 
 died with this disease, and therefore there is but slight encourage- 
 ment for those who neglect treatment during its primary stage, when 
 it is always curable. 
 
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 Treatment of Consumption; 
 
 How then can a cure be effected ? I reply, not by any single rem- 
 edy, however valuable, nor by inhalations, nor by medicines alone, 
 however numerous, or howsoever administered, nor by Electricity* 
 nor any treatment based upon a single remedy or idea. Indeed, the 
 fatality of Consumption is largely due to the common mistake of 
 adopting treatment limited to medicines, and often to a single drug. 
 Cod Liver Oil, Preparations of Iron, Whiskey, Iodine, the Hypo- 
 phosphite Salts, and a great number of other drugs have professional 
 sanction, and are in turn made the sole basis of treatment. In addi- 
 tion to these are innumerable Lung Balsams, Pulmonic Syrups and 
 Lung Cures offered as unfailing remedies. Again many consump- 
 tives are advised to abandon all else, and resort to travel, which is of 
 itself insufficient. Others are cheated of their possibility of recovery 
 by the false, but plausible idea that consumption can be cured by 
 medicated Inhalations. In order then to cure Consumption it is 
 necessary to employ 
 
 A System of Treatment 
 
 which shall render the entire mode of life remedial, and at the same 
 time combine for each case according to its needs, strengthening and 
 cleansing medicines, anodyne, pectoral and healing Inhalations, with 
 Friction, Bathing and specialized breathing exercises to increase the 
 breathing capacity, and general exercises used in a thoroughly Sys- 
 tematic and .Remedial manner. Treatment of this kind can be adapted 
 to the most debilitated cases, and at once begins to cleanse the blood, 
 which is the seat of the disease, and increase the strength, allay the 
 cough, and other annoying symptoms. 
 
 To adjust such treatment to the varying necessities of each case in 
 a successful, manner, requires more special experience than falls to 
 the lot of the general practitioner. 
 
It 
 HEART DISEASES. 
 
 The Heart is the only vital organ directly connected with the 
 Lungs. It contains four chambers communicating with each other, 
 and with the large blood vessels by means of valves. Two of these 
 chambers, or one-half of the Heart, is engaged in sending blood to 
 the Lungs, and receiving it back from them. 
 
 The blood sent to the Lungs is that which has been used, and is 
 brought to the Heart from all parts of the body through the veins. 
 It is dark in color, and impure with waste matter, in this condition 
 it is sent from the Heart through the Pulmonary Artery to the Lungs r 
 where it is exposed to the action of the air, and at the same time much 
 of its effete matter is exhaled away in the vapor of the breath. It is 
 thus changed to a bright red color, and returns to the Heart through 
 pulmonary veins, and is thence distributed to all parts of the body, 
 renewing the substance and life of the constantly wearing out tissues. 
 The blood is forced forward in its course, by the pumping action of 
 the Heart. 
 
 Notwithstanding its complicated structure and functions, the Heart 
 in health acts with great regularity, its pulsations being felt in the 
 smallest arteries, But the Heart is possessed of acute sensibility, 
 and when not at all diseased itself, it may be greatly disordered in 
 its action by the presence of disease in other organs. Thus Dyspep- 
 sia, Diseases of the Liver, Female Complaints, and other ailments, 
 give rise to distressing palpitations, intermitting pulsations, and even 
 severe pain in and about the Heart without any alterations of its 
 structure. Such disturbances are termed 
 
 Functional Diseases of the Heart. 
 
 The palpitations, flutterings, tremblings, the smothering sensations, 
 the feelings of weight or pressure, and other sufferings which charac- 
 terize functional disorders of the Heart are often more distressing, 
 than the symptoms of its more dangerous organic affections, but they 
 are always curable by removal of their causes. 
 
 Organic Heart Diseases. 
 
 There are three classes : those of the Pericardium, or membranous 
 sack which encloses the Heart ; secondly, those of the walls or body of 
 the Heart ; and thirdly, those of its valves and lining membrane. 
 The limits of this circular permit only the briefest description of 
 them. 
 
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 Pericarditis is an inflammation of the Heart-case — it is caused by 
 Rheumatism, Colds, etc., — it is at first an acute disease, painful and 
 very dangerous, but is not necessarily incurable. When it passes 
 into the Chronic form, there is sometimes an effusion of fluid in the 
 Heart-case which distends it to several times its natural size, and the 
 Heart itself is left suspended in a sack of water. This result is called 
 Dropsy of the Heart. In other cases Pericarditis results in an adhe- 
 sion of the Heart-case to the surface of the Heart, embarrassing its 
 action, and causing great distress. The walls or body of the Heart 
 are subject to several forms of disease. Sometimes they become 
 thickened, and the Heart is thereby increased in size and weight — 
 this is termed Hypertrophy, which means overgrowth, or enlarge- 
 ment of the Heart. Again, the walls of the Heart become debilitated 
 and yield to the strain of propelling the blood, and become too thin 
 and distended ; in this condition the Heart is increased in size, but 
 not in weight, this affection is called Dilatation of the Heart. It is a 
 most distressing and dangerous disease, rendering the Heart liable 
 to rupture or bursting. There are several other diseases of the walls 
 of the Heart, which need not be described here. 
 
 Diseases of the valves of the Heart are of frequent occurrence, and 
 always place the life of the patient in jeopardy. In a majority of in- 
 stances they result from badly treated inflammatory Rheumatism, but 
 may arise from other bad states of the blood. In these diseases one 
 or more of the valves become thickened or fringed with bead-like 
 tumours, which prevent their complete closure— and the current of 
 blood regurgitates in passing from one cavity to another, causing 
 -sounds like the purring of a cat or blowing of a bellows. 
 
 Valvular diseases always imperil life. 
 
 The Symptoms of Heart Diseases 
 
 Yary according to the nature of the disease existing, but a classi- 
 fication of them will not be expected here. In general they comprise 
 pains about the heart and left side, generally sharp and transient, 
 but frequent — headaches, dilatation of the pupil of the left eye, giving 
 it a staring or enlarged appearance, coldness of tips of nose and ears, 
 and convulsive action of the Heart, with feelings of pressure and con- 
 striction, inability to lie on left side, distressing shortness of breath, 
 •dry, wheezing cough, dizziness, momentary blindness, beating or 
 humming sound in the ears, an apprehensive state of the mind, an 
 indefinable dread, or sense of danger, which oppresses the patient, 
 whether he be couscious of having Heart disease or not. In the more 
 serious cases general dropsy usually occurs. 
 
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 Curability of Heart Disease. 
 
 Organic affections of the Heart are usually deemed incurable, and 
 little effort is made to treat them. Bat I can truthfully assert that 
 they are often completely curable, and when not so, they may be so 
 alleviated as to cease to be dangerous, or a source of much discom- 
 fort. Again, in many cases Functional disorder of the Heart is 
 mistaken for organic disease, and abandoned as hopeless, while by 
 appropriate treatment it is entirely curable. 
 
 DYSPEPSIA and its COMPLICATIONS. 
 
 Xo Chronic Diseases are so certainly, completely and permanently 
 curable as those of the stomach and its accessory organs, and yet 
 none are so prevalent, and none so frequently baffle the skill of the 
 general practitioner. 
 
 Probably twenty per cent, of the entire adult population suffer 
 more or less from disorders ot these blood-forming organs. 
 
 The failure of physicians in general practice to relieve these, is 
 owing, chiefly, to two errors in their mode of treatment. In the first 
 place it is not comprehensive — they attribute the sufferings of the 
 disorder of a single organ, when in fact the whole digestive group is 
 affected. With many practitioners the study of a single organ be- 
 comes a hobby, and they can see in a dyspeptic, only a disordered 
 stomach, or a bad liver, or inactive bowels, and treatment is based 
 upon the narrow theory they chance to form. 
 
 In the second place, they depend too much on medicines and thus 
 fail to remove the causes of the disease. 
 
 Dyspepsia is a disorder affectiag all the blood-forming organs, in- 
 cluding the Stomach, Bowels, Liver, Spleen Pancreas, Kidneys and 
 Lungs, and any treatment is defective which does not take cogni- 
 zance of an entire group. It is true, however, in most cases, that one 
 or two organs are moie affected than the rest, and hence there is a 
 partial propriety in describing one case as " Liver Complaint, " 
 another as " Stomach trouble, " etc., but the treatment in order to be 
 successful mast include the whole.; 
 
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 The Causes of Dyspepsia 
 
 Are almost invariably found in the habits and mode of life. One 
 of the most common is the truly American habit of eating too 
 hastily — swallowing the food without chewing it, and hence without 
 its being mixed with the saliva. Xot being properly prepared for the 
 stomach, it remains there much longer than it should ; and often the 
 solid ana tough morsels are not digested at all, but pass through a 
 spontaneous decomposition promoted by the warmth and moisture of 
 the stomach, and gases and acids are formed, causing great distress ; 
 and the undissolved lumps are finally expelled by vomiting, or else 
 pass through the bowels and cause diarrhoea. 
 
 Another habit usually accompanying the above, and aggravating 
 its effects, is that of taking too much drink, and especially hot drink 
 at meals — the fluids thus taken dilute the digestive juices, and render 
 digestion difficult and tardy. Eating at bedtime, and too frequently, 
 are common causes of indigestion. The stomach needs rest after its 
 fatiguing labors, and fully six hours should intervene between 
 meals. Sedentary habits, or in other words, lack of exercise, is 
 also a fruitful cause of indigestion. Clergymen, lawyers, teachers, 
 merchants, clerks, seamstresses, factory operatives, and all whose 
 occupations are inactive, suffer from this cause, and when dyspepsia 
 thus arises, it is more liable to result in Consumption than in 
 the case of persons who have considerable exercise. Limited space 
 compels me to name other causes of dyspepsia more briefly. The use 
 of tobacco, strong coffee, and alcoholic drinks also deranges the di- 
 gestive functions. They are also disordered by bad diet, excessive 
 use of pork, green vegetables, pickles, preserves, pastry warm bread, 
 and biscuit, highly seasoned food, as sausages and mince pies. 
 Among other causes, may be named, excessive study, or extreme 
 bodily fatigue, prolonged watching, debilitating losses, and habitual 
 use of cathartics. These causes I have named as being most avoid- 
 able. 
 
 The Curative Treatment of Dyspepsia is that which 1 
 makes the Mode of Life Remedial. 
 
 This involves a careful and minute inquiry into the condition, cir- 
 cumstances and habits of each patient, and a rigid criticism and prun- 
 ning of all that is promoting the disease. It is not sufficient to give 
 general rules for the guidance of invalids — to say, "eat what agrees 
 with you," take exercise,'' etc., but each case must be studied on it& 
 
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 own merits, and its faults corrected, and its wants provided for, and 
 specialized instructions given concerning the quantity and quality of 
 food and drink — the times and manner of taking them--concerning 
 exercise, bathing, occupation, sleep, ventilation, clothing, etc., etc. 
 
 In order to effect a cure, however, it is not enough merely to cor- 
 rect the mode of life. The disease may arise from these causes, and 
 yet become so established as to remain after their removal, in the 
 form of a chronic inflammation, or a debility too extreme to permit 
 the system to react without the assistance of medical and hydropathic 
 remedies. 
 
 But the whole treatment whether B/vgienic, Hydropathic or medi- 
 cinal must be adapted to the requirements of each case. There is no 
 cure-ail or panacea for any disease, nor is there any routine of regi- 
 menal treatment which will suit all cases. 
 
 But by appropriate treatment Dyspeptic ailments can be speedily 
 relieved, and completely cured within three to twelve months, 
 according to the duration of the case and constitution of the patient. 
 To describe fuljy how a dyspeptic feels and suffers, would comprise 
 a chapter of horrors altogether exceeding the limits of this 
 article. 
 
 The following epitome of Dyspeptic Symptoms includes many 
 which are common to all cases without describing any case in full : 
 The mind is depressed and gloomy, there is often a taciturn disposi- 
 tion, an unwillingness to speak, or be spoken to, amounting at times 
 to extreme irritability and moroseness ot temper, loss of memory, 
 languor, listlessness, indisposition to exertion — "feeling tired out 
 without doing anything to tire me" — drowsiness during the day, and 
 wakefulness and restlessness at night, with bad dreams, etc. 
 
 Of pains arising from Dyspeptic disorders, are dull heavy head- 
 aches, sick headaches, violent nervous headaches, dull pain about the 
 right shoulder and breast, aching in left breast and shoulder, stitches 
 and shooting pains about the heart, pain in stomach after eating, 
 soreness in stomach, backache, heavy aching in lower limbs, dimness 
 of sight, dizziness and various confused feelings in the head. 
 
 The Stomach Symptoms also include burning, waterbrash, acidity, 
 belching, fullness or feeling of weight, nausea, vomiting, spitting up 
 food, uneasiness and distress after eating, etc. The tongue is coated 
 and there is a bitter taste in the mouth in the morning. The bowels 
 are generally costive, but may be loose or regular. The urine varies 
 in color or quantity, but is generally scanty and dark in color, and 
 deposits much sediment. The feet and hands are cold, with alterna- 
 tion of burning. The complexion is dull, sallow, bilious. The gen- 
 eral aspect careworn and melancholy. 
 
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 Dyspeptic disorders give rise to a number of other ailments, vary- 
 ing according to the hereditary tendencies of the patient. Among 
 the more frequent of these are diseases of the Throat and Lungs, 
 Skin Diseases, Female Complaints, Piles and Heart Disease. When 
 such complications exist, it is futile to try to cure the more serious 
 disease, without removing the entire condition from which it has 
 arisen, and mere local treatment like the application of caustics in 
 the throat and for female diseases, and the use of inhalations in Lung 
 disease, is worse than useless. 
 
 The foregoing remarks refer to those cases in which the ailments 
 consist mainly of debility, and defective action of the digestive or- 
 gans, attended by a low grade of chronic inflammation or "inward 
 fever'' which pervades the entire abdominal region. This class com- 
 prises a large majority of all who suffer from disease of the alimen- 
 tary organs. But there remain to be described the organic affections 
 of the same region, of which but brief mention can here be made. 
 
 The Stomach is subject to inflammation (Gastritis) attended with 
 pain after eating, soreness, burning, etc. In some cases the mucous 
 membrane secretes a large amount of thick, glairy mucous, when the 
 disease is called Gastric Catarrh. 
 
 Ulceration of the stomach occurs in long standing cases of Dyspep- 
 sia, and is especially liable to appear in persons past the age of forty- 
 five. 
 
 It is a dangerous disease yet very curable, as are Gastritis and 
 Gastric Catarrh. The stomach may also be the seat of Cancer, and 
 other affections which do not come within the scope of this pamphlet. 
 
 The Liver is also subject to a number of organic diseases, some of 
 which are curable, others incurable. Among the latter is the "Hob- 
 nail disease,'' caused by habitual use of stimulating drinks. The use 
 of Mercury whether in the form of Calomel or Blue Pill, renders the 
 Liver weak and inactive, and if long continued, causes it to oecome 
 seriously diseased. 
 
 Chronic Diarrhoea is a disease of the small bowel, and when 
 caused by Scrofula, it is termed Consumption of the Bowels, and is 
 a most dangerous malady, and seldom curable. Other forms of this 
 disease are quite curable, even when of long standing. 
 
 Chronic Dysentery is a disease of the large bowel, in which there 
 are discharges of mucus and bloody matter, with otherwise healthy 
 evacuations, and pains and soreness in left side of abdomen. It is 
 usually curable, but requires protracted treatment, and much restric- 
 tion of diet. Catarrh op the Rectum or lower bowel, and ulceration 
 of the same, are of comparatively rare occurrence and are quite- 
 curable. Costiveness, though not an organic disease, seems to re- 
 
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 quire special mention. In ninety-nine of every hundred cases, it 
 consists of a debility of the larger bowel with slight inflammation of 
 its lining membrane. This form of the trouble is always entirely 
 curable, without the aid of cathartics. Indeed the use of cathartics 
 or physic increases the difficulty itstead of removing it. In a few 
 cases, costiveness is owing to a paralytic state of the bowel. In other 
 cases it is caused by obstruction from Piles, falling of womb, etc. In 
 these cases it is usually curable. 
 
 Piles or Hemorrhoids are curable in most cases by medicinal and 
 regimenal treatment. I have witnessed the recovery of bad cases of 
 many years standing without recourse to surgery., In some cases 
 however, recovery is prevented because the habits and mode of life 
 which have produced the disease, cannot be corrected or changed. 
 
 Among the more common causes are Costiveness, Heart Disease, 
 sedentary occupations, use of tobacco, coffee, and strong tea, excessive 
 lifting, etc. 
 
 URINARY COMPLAINTS 
 
 comprise, first, diseases of the Kidneys whereby the character and 
 quantity of the urine is affected, and secondly, diseases of the 
 Bladder and Urethra in which the passage of urine is rendered 
 difficult, too frequent or otherwise distressing. The Kidneys act as 
 filters, and separate from the blood certain salts which must be dis- 
 solved in order to be washed out of the body. These salts are a 
 portion of the waste material constantly forming in the body by the 
 death and decay of its tissues. 
 
 The fact was long ago established by Physiologists, that the body 
 is constantly undergoing decay and renewal. The cells and atoms of 
 the various tissues and organs are incessantly dying and beiug remov- 
 ed and their places are at once filled by new material. Formerly it was 
 estimated that the entire body was thus destroyed and renewed once 
 in seven years ; but it is now known that in good health this occurs 
 about three times in one year. This wonderful change is effected by 
 means of the circulation of the blood. The food or nutriment taken 
 is formed into arterial or nourishing blood, by means of the digestive 
 organs and lungs. This blood is thrown by the heart to every por- 
 tion of the body, and supplies the material for renewing the worn 
 
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 out tissues. The waste matter is received into the veins, and is 
 thrown out of the body through the lungs, skin, bowels, and kidneys. 
 Some of it conies away in the form of vapor in the breath and pers- 
 piration; some is deposited in the bowels, and passes away in a com- 
 paratively solid form ; and the remainder, consisting of salts of uric 
 acid, is dissolved and washed away in the urine. These urinary 
 salts, if retained in the system, are highly poisonous, and when the 
 kidneys remain inactive for a considerable time serious disease will 
 result. But, in addition to their own work, the kidneys often assume 
 in part the functions of other organs. Thus when the liver is inac- 
 tive bile is found in the urine, and when the lungs are congested or 
 partly closed by hepatization, some of the matter which should be 
 thrown off in the breath, is passed off in the urine; in a like man- 
 ner disease of the brain, and of other organs and tissues, changes the 
 character of the urine. But it is not true as claimed by advertising 
 Uroscopists, that examination of the urine will reveal the presence 
 and character of any disease, and indicate the treatment needed. I 
 have for years made a chemical analysis of the urine in cases requiring 
 it, but it is unnecessary and useless in most cases of lung disease, and 
 in a majority of dyspeptic cases. Diabetes is a disease of the liver, 
 stomach, and kidneys, (and probably of the spleen and pancreas also,) 
 in which the quantity of urine is enormously increased, and it con- 
 tains more or less sugar. It is a most serious disease, and seldom 
 cured if not treated in its early stage. 
 
 Diuresis is an affection of the kidneys, in which the urine is also 
 greatly increased in quantity, but contains no sugar. This disease 
 is far more curable and less dangerous than Diabetes. The average 
 amount of urine, in health, is one pint per diem of twenty-four hours 
 for each fifty-six lbs. of a persons weight. 
 
 When this average is exceeded, a careful analysis of the urine 
 should be made as early as possible, for if caused by Diabetes, it is 
 of vital importance that proper treatment should at once be adopted. 
 There are several other organic diseases of the kidneys, which need 
 not be described here, as they do not fall within my specialty. 
 
 CATARRH OF THE BLADDER 
 
 and Urethra is an affection of comparatively infrequent occurrence. 
 Its principal symptoms is the presence of mucus or "phlegm " in the 
 urine which renders the passage difficult and tardy. 
 
 It occurs chiefly in persons past the age of forty-five, and when of 
 long standing is liable to bring on paralysis of the lower limbs. In 
 1863 I was consulted by a lady seventy-four years of age, who had 
 
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 suffered from this disease for several years. About a gill of heavy, 
 yellow matter was passed with her urine daily. Her lower limbs 
 were partially paralyzed, and she could not stand erect, but was able 
 to get along slowly by aid of two short canes, about eighteen inches 
 long, so that she appeared almost as if creeping, After some two 
 months treatment the mucus had disappeared from her urine, and I 
 had the satisfaction of seeing her walk briskly into my office with the 
 aid of a single ordinary cane. She could stand nearly upright, could 
 sit down, kneel, and rise without difficulty, which had not been the 
 case for months before coming to me. 
 
 The Urethra or neck of the bladder, as well as the bladder itself, 
 is subject to chronic inflammation, and thickening with great irrita- 
 bility, and the consequence is a most distressing frequency in urinat- 
 ing with severe pain and straining. In some cases it amounts to 
 what is termed Strangury, in which with an almost constant incli- 
 nation to urinate only a few drops can be voided at a time. This 
 disease is most frequently complicated with female complaints, but is 
 sometimes induced by injudicious use of fly blisters. It is variously 
 named Dysuria, Irritable Bladder, etc. In many cases it is promptly 
 curable, but some times is so complicated with other obstinate ail- 
 ments, that recovery is slow. 
 
 Enuresis, or "wetting the bed'' by children during sleep is a most 
 annoying trouble, but happily is in most cases speedily curable. I 
 have successfully treated cases where this ailment had continued from 
 infancy to the age of eighteen. 
 
 Treatment of Urinary Diseases 
 
 Must be largely Hygienic, in order to be successful. The pretense of 
 Uroscopists that by analysis of the urine, they can determine what is 
 wanting in the blood, and supply it in the form of a specific drug, is 
 fallacious, and such treatment can only end in disappointment. The 
 principles of correct treatment of these disorders have been explained 
 already in the article on Dyspepsia, and its Complications. 
 
2G 
 
 FEMALE COMPLAINTS. 
 
 Language would fail me, if my space permitted, were I to attempt 
 a description of the miseries involved in the above named ailments. 
 Consumption is comparatively a merciful disease, for it is attended 
 with little suffering, and terminates fatally, and often speedily, but 
 female complaints may render life almost unendurably wretched, and 
 yet not destroy it. 
 
 They vary in kind and severity, from a slight "weakness" or irreg- 
 ularity, to severe and constant inflammations and displacements 
 which burden every fibre of the body with pain, and fill the mind 
 with gloom and melancholy amounting sometimes to insanity. 
 
 Probably more than four-fifths of American women, suffer from 
 some of these disorders, and yet there are none more preventible and 
 few more curable. Like most chronic diseases this class also springs 
 from errors in the mode of life. 
 
 One of the principle causes is lack of exercise, and especially of 
 outdoor activity. There is no greater preservative of female health 
 and beauty, than an abundance of exercise in the open air, and par- 
 ticularly that of walking. But unfortunately this fact is ignored to 
 such an extent that it is difficult to find an American woman who can 
 walk more than a mile or two without excessive fatigue. If the ben- 
 efit of walking were duly known and appreciated the ability to walk 
 five or six miles with ease would be cultivated and deemed a more 
 desirable accomplishment than excellence in music. Errors in dress 
 are also fruitful of much derangement of female health. 
 
 By tight lacing the Stomach, Heart and Liver are pressed upward, 
 and the bowels and kidneys forced downward, crowding the womb out 
 of place, and this effect is aggravated by the weight of skirts worn 
 without suspenders. From these causes result the "sinking all gone 
 feeling'' at pit of stomach, and "dragging down" sensation so often 
 complained of, and much of the pain in the back. 
 
 The use of thin, tight shoes, with high heels is also responsible for 
 a great deal of female suffering. It induces coldness of the feet and 
 lower limbs, and the deficiency of blood here is balanced by over- 
 pressure or congestion in the veins of the womb and its appendages. 
 
 The use of coffee, strong tea, rich and indigestible food, renders the 
 nervous system irritable and intensifies the suffering arising from the 
 above causes. 
 
 In young women the result is irregularity of the menses, Leucor- 
 rhoea, Dysmenorrhea or monthly pain which is sometimes of a most 
 excruciating character, with weakness and pain in the back, headaches, 
 paleness and sallowness of the skin. In some cases the menses are 
 
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 delayed and scanty, while in others they are too frequent and pro- 
 fuse. 
 
 In married women the above causes result in barrenness, in prolap- 
 sus or displacement of the womb, or in miscarriage with inflammation 
 and ulceration, enlargement and other troubles too numerous to 
 mention. 
 
 In this class of cases the mania for local treatment by means of cau- 
 stics, is productive of quite as much injury as it is in Throat diseases. 
 With many practitioners burning the neck of the womb with nitrate 
 of silver, is about the sole treatment for ulceration and enlargement, 
 and I can most truthfully assert that it is not only unnecessary, but 
 is positively hurtful, in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred. In many 
 cases it affords temporary relief, but the disorder soon recurs, or else 
 the morbid action is driven in upon the body of the womb, or the 
 ovaries, and becomes a more dangerous disease than before. 
 
 In multitudes of cases, however, it returns in a short time to its 
 original location, when the cauterizing process is repeated- I have 
 been consulted by ladies who, during a period of eight or ten years, 
 have passed through this operation hundreds of times, the complaint 
 constantly recurring within a few days after the application of the 
 caustic, and have had the gratification of seeing such cases recover, 
 under proper treatment, without even being subjected to an examina- 
 tion. The cases in which cauterizing has brought on disease of the 
 ovaries, etc., are more serious and more difficult, but still are gener- 
 ally quite curable, by persevering use of Hygienic and Hydropathic 
 treatment, aided by proper specific remedies. 
 
 The Treatment of Female Complaints 
 
 Can only be outlined in the limits of a pamphlet like this. 
 
 In no class of maladies is it so essential to scan closely the mode 
 of life and habits of the patient, in order to point out the causes of 
 the disease. 
 
 In each case the existing causes must be ascertained and abated, 
 and having done this we come to the consideration of the remedies 
 to be used. These comprise, first, Specialized exercises which 
 will tend to tone up and strengthen the muscles and ligaments, which 
 have lost their vigor, and send them a better supply of blood, and 
 regulate its circulation. 
 
 Secondly. — Various Hydropathic measures, including hipbaths, 
 sponge baths, douche baths, compresses, packs, etc, etc., are pre- 
 scribed in each case according to its requirements. 
 
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 Thirdly. — The use of Medicines, local and internal, is necessary 
 in all cases. By proper local remedies, the relaxed tissues can be 
 toned and stimulated to healthy action, and the morbid secretions 
 and discharges gradually diminished till they wholly cease. Ulcer- 
 ations, Engorgements, SwelliDgs, etc., can also be gradually reduced 
 till removed. This curative work is seconded by giving internally 
 certain medicines which exert a special influence on the nerves and 
 bloodvessels of the womb and its appendages. These remedies must 
 foe selected with reference to their particular relation to each case, 
 when this is done, the beneficial result is often little short of mar. 
 vellous. 
 
 Fourthly. — In some cases of displacement, etc., certain Mechan- 
 ical Supports are of great value for a short time, but they can 
 usually be dispensed with after a few weeks' use. I have given 
 much attention to this point, and am convinced that these appliances 
 though necessary and extremely valuable in occasional cases, yet 
 -should be avoided when practicable. 
 
 SCROFULA. 
 
 The peculiar impurity of the blood which is called Consumption 
 when it forms tubercles in the Lungs or elsewhere, is termed Scrofula, 
 when it affects the bones, joints and lymphatic glands, and other tis- 
 sues and organs. It rarely, if ever affects the external skin, though 
 several varieties of tetter are incorrectly called Scrofula. When it 
 attacks the glands of the neck, armpits, etc., they become much en- 
 larged and painful, and are filled with matter resembling tubercle 
 which slowly softens, and is discharged. But this discharge does not 
 free the blood of the elements of the disease, and unless proper treat- 
 ment is adopted, it continues to be developed, and finally ends in 
 rapid Consumption. The ordinary practice of applying Iodine to the 
 -swollen glands is exceedingly unsafe, and often results in driving the 
 disease at once to the Lungs. 
 
 But Scrofula yields readily to proper treatment if adopted early, 
 and often after the patient has been greatly reduced by it, I. have 
 ^witnessed the complete recovery of cases of many years standing, in 
 which there was extensive destruction of bone and softer tissues. 
 
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 CHRONIC SKIN DISEASES 
 
 Of every kind are more or less dependent on a vitiated state of the 
 blood, and require constitutional, as well as local treatment. 
 
 But any local remedy which causes a scaly or eruptive disease to 
 disappear suddenly is highly dangerous. Such treatment, however, 
 is unfortunately common, and many a case of Consumption, Bron- 
 chitis, or other serious disease can be traced to the use of some min- 
 eral ointment or lotion for a skin disease. 
 
 By rational treatment both local and general, every form of cuta- 
 neous disease may be radically and permanently cured.. 
 
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 jjefer^ni^i and ^stimomaR 
 
 <«>»> 
 
 To the invalid seeking medical advice, the question, whether a 
 physician is reliable and trustworthy, is scarcely second to that con- 
 cerning his professional skill. This is especially true in regard to 
 those who solicit patronage by advertising. 
 
 I, therefore, deem it a duty to present the following letters and 
 notices of a personal character. 
 
 From the People's Monthly. 
 
 CONCERNING DE, SYKES, 
 
 Whose card appears in another col- 
 umn, the Hon. George H. Thurston, 
 President of the Pittsburgh Board 
 of Trade, remarks as follows, in the 
 Quarterly Trade Circular : 
 
 A departure is made from the 
 custom of this publication to call 
 attention of our readers to the spe- 
 cial advertisement of Dr. J. W. 
 Sykes. Although devoting his time 
 and skill to an especial group of 
 diseases. Dr. Sykes is not one of a 
 class known as itinerant physicians, 
 but has, for many years, been a per- 
 manent resident * in Pittsburgh. 
 Personally known to the editor of 
 the Circular for a number of years 
 as a man of integrity; conscientious 
 in the following of his profession, 
 the habit of this paper has been 
 waived to ask the attention of indi- 
 viduals to the testimonials to Dr. 
 Sykes' skill, and to say that he 
 would not knowingly publish any- 
 thing but facts. 
 
 From the Beligious Telescope. 
 We wish to invite special atten- 
 tion to the advertisement of Dr. J. 
 W. Sykes, of Pittsburgh, Penn., 
 printed on the seventh page of this 
 issue of our paper. Dr. S. is highly 
 spoken of as a practitioner in the 
 
 special diseases to which he devotes 
 his attention and skill. Among 
 others received by us, we take pleas- 
 ure in transferring to our columns 
 the following testimonials from the 
 editors of the Pittsburgh Christian 
 Advocate and United Presbyterian: 
 
 Pittsburgh, May 16, 1867. 
 Publisher Beligious Telescope : 
 
 Dear Brothers : I take pleas- 
 ure in stating for your information 
 that Dr. J. W. Sykes. of this city, 
 is a reliable and skillful medical 
 practitioner, and justly distinguish- 
 ed in his specialty— the treatment 
 of the lungs. He will not dishonor 
 any words of commendation you 
 may make in his interest in the 
 Beligious Telescope. 
 
 Respectfully 
 
 s. H . Xesbit, 
 Editor Pittsburgh Christian Advo- 
 cate. 
 
 Office of the United Presbyterian, ) 
 Xo. 74 Third Street, > 
 Pittsburgh, May 20th, 1867. ) 
 .Editors Beligious Telescope — Sirs : 
 
 Dr. J. W. Sykes having applied 
 to us for a letter of recommenda- 
 tion, we take pleasure in stating 
 that he has the reputation here of 
 being at the head of the medical 
 
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 school in the treatment of the lungs 
 
 and oilier kindred diseases. And 
 further, we are gratified at being- 
 able to say that he is a Christian 
 gentlemen, and in every way 
 worthy of any commendation that 
 you may give him in your influen- 
 tial and widely-circulated paper. 
 With much respect we are 
 Your obedient servants, 
 
 D. K. Keee & Co.. 
 Editors and Proprietors United 
 Presbyterian. 
 
 From the Pittsburgh Advance. 
 Attention is called to the adver- 
 tisement of Dr. J. W. Sykes, which 
 will be found in another part of our 
 paper. Dr. Sykes has been long and 
 favorably known in this city, both 
 as a man and an able physician. In 
 treating the diseases which he has 
 made a specialty, and to the study 
 of which he has devoted his life, he 
 has been eminently successful — 
 more so, perhaps, than any other 
 physician in the two cities. We 
 happen to be personally acquainted 
 with some of the persons whose 
 certificates appear in his advertise- 
 ment, and know them to be men of 
 truth and honor, who would scorn 
 to lend their names and influence 
 to practice an imposition on the 
 community. Eead these testi- 
 monials. Those who are afflicted 
 with any of the diseases which Dr. 
 Sykes professes to cure, may con- 
 sult him in confident hope of relief. 
 
 From the Methodist Recorder. 
 GRATUITOUS ADVERTIS- 
 ING. 
 Below we append an extract from 
 a letter written several years ago to 
 
 the Pittsburgh Christian Advocate 
 and published in that paper as a 
 regular communication, without 
 charge and without solicitation on 
 the part of Dr. Sykes. It is evident 
 that a man must conduct his busi- 
 ness with rare fidelity and success 
 when others are thus constrained 
 to advertise it for him. 
 
 The writer of the letter, Rev. 
 Wesley Smith, is well known 
 throughout the Parkersburg (W. 
 Ya.) and Pittsburgh M. E. Confer- 
 ences as an author of several popu- 
 lar works, and an effective and elo- 
 quent preacher : 
 
 "Mr. Editor : Permit me to 
 call the attention of your readers to 
 Dr. Sykes'' card in the Advocate. I 
 ask this because I receive numerous 
 letters asking my opinion in regard 
 to Dr. Sykes system of treatment in 
 affections of the throat and lungs. 
 I could give a number of cases of 
 consumptives considered almost 
 hopeless, who were recovered by 
 his treatment, and who now enjoy 
 good health , I have the fullest con- 
 fidence in his mode of treating con- 
 sumption. He is equally successful 
 in the treatment of nasal catarrh, 
 tetter, and, in a word, most if not 
 all chronic diseases. Under God, I 
 owe my life to Dr. Sykes. To those 
 who are not personally acquainted 
 with Dr. Sykes permit me to say 
 that should they have occasion to 
 consult him, they will rind him a 
 most gentlemanly, kind-hearted 
 man, and they may place the utmost 
 confidence in his integrity and up- 
 rightness. The press could not do 
 a "greater favor to those afflicted 
 with that terrible disease, consump- 
 tion, and other chronic complaints, 
 than to copy this communication. 
 Wesley Smith. 
 
 I take pleasure in referring to the following gentlemen, who have 
 had knowledge of myself and of my mode of treatment : 
 
 Rev. M. L. Anderson. Rosendale, i Rev. Jacob Bird, Mason City, W. 
 
 Mo. Ya. 
 
 Rev. John Afford, New Castle, Pa. i Rev. Geo. H. Brown, Cochran- 
 Rev. T. B. Anderson, N. Bedford. ton, Pa. 
 
 Pa. Rev. R. M. Brown, Rouseville, Pa. 
 
 Rev. H. Appleton. Pleasant Unity. 
 
 Pa. 
 Rev. Joseph Barkley, Sedalia, Mo. 
 
 Rev. L. N. Baird.D. D. Allegheny. 
 
 Pa. 
 Rev. A. Baker, Hanoverton, O. 
 
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 Rev. E. Birkett, Mount Union, O. 
 Kev. W. J. Bollman, Congruity, 
 
 Pa. 
 Rev. J. R. Brittan, Greenville, Pa, 
 Rev. E. "B. Blundon, Burning 
 
 Springs, West Virginia. 
 Rev. E. B. Cummings, Clinton, 
 
 Wis. 
 Rev. G. W. Cranage, Pittsburgh, 
 
 Pa. 
 Rev. D. B. D. Coleman, Blairsville, 
 
 Pa 
 Rev. W. A. Cardwell, Richland, 
 
 Kan's. 
 Rev. J. P. Campbell, Cambridge, 
 
 Ohio. 
 Rev. Samuel Cover, ]S T ew Geneva, 
 
 Pa. 
 Rev. Luther Dodd, Toledo, Iowa. 
 Rev. W. F. Ewing, Allegheny, Pa. 
 Rev. Samuel Pulton, Philadelphia, 
 
 Pa. 
 Rev. E. S. Gillett, Youngstown, O. 
 Rev. J. D. Gans, Easton, W. Va. 
 Rev. T. M. Hartley, Ellenboro, W. 
 
 Ya. 
 Rev. S. M. Hickman, Monongahela 
 
 City, Pa. 
 Rev. J. S. Hawk, Wilkins, Pa. 
 Rev. J. H. Hall, DeRuyter, X. Y. 
 Rev. S. M. Hitchens, Moundsville, 
 
 W. Virginia. 
 Rev. G. M. Hair, McKeesport, Pa. 
 Rev. W. H. Haney, Cedarville, O. 
 Rev. D. R. Imbrie, Ottawa, Kansas. 
 Rev. J. M. Jones, Cowansville, Pa. 
 Rev. W. R. Hutchinson, Glade 
 
 Mills, Penn'a. 
 Rev. W. E. Hunt, Coshocton, O. 
 Rev. John Kidney, Graysville, O. 
 Rev. X. R. Kirkpatrick, Bloorning- 
 
 ton, Illinois. 
 Rev. Wm. McKain, State Lick, Pa. 
 Rev. S. Y. Kennedy, New Lisbon, 
 
 Ohio. 
 Rev. J. M. Kelly, Cross Cut, Pa. 
 Rev. Joseph King, Allegheny, Pa. 
 Rev. A. B. Leonard, Pittsburgh, 
 
 Pa. 
 Rev. Wm. Lorimer, Morning Sun, 
 
 Iowa. 
 Rev. W. P. Moore, Allegheny, Pa. 
 Rev. W. M. Mullenix, Morgantown 
 
 W. Ya. 
 Rev. E. L. McElree, Freeport, Pa. 
 Rev. J. W. Miles, Meadville, Pa, 
 Rev. H. C. McBride, Connellsville, 
 
 Penn'a. 
 Rev. G. W. Methony, Jollytown, 
 
 Penn'a. 
 Rev. P. MaGowan, Beaver Falls, 
 
 Penn'a. 
 
 Rev. J. D. Moorhead, new Texas, 
 Penn'a. 
 
 Rev. S. H. Nesbit, D. D., Pitts- 
 burgh, Pa. 
 
 Rev. John Newell, D. D., Wilkins- 
 burg, Pa. 
 
 Rev. Geo. Orbin, Leechburg, Pa. 
 
 Rev. I. C. Pershing, D. I). Pitts- 
 burgh Pa. 
 
 Rev. I. A. Pearce, New Philadel- 
 phia, Ohio. 
 
 Rev. J. S. Patterson, Fairmount, 
 W. Virginia. 
 
 Rev. Louis Payne, Lincolnville. 
 Ohio. 
 
 Rev. David Paul, D. D., Xew Con- 
 cord, Ohio. 
 
 Rev. G. M. Potter, Sharpsburgh 
 Pa. 
 
 Rev. S. A. Potter, Darlington, Pa. 
 
 Rev. A. A. Reger, Parkersburg, W. 
 Virginia. 
 
 Rev. W, X. Reno, Dunkirk, Xew 
 York. 
 
 Rev. B. F. Rogers, Xew Martins- 
 ville, W. V. 
 
 Rev. W. M. Rider, Weston, W. 
 Virginia. 
 
 Rev. E. D. Richardson, Shedd's 
 Corners, Xew York. 
 
 Rev. Thomas Sproull, D. D., Alle- 
 gheny, Pa. 
 
 Rev. J. S. Speer, Buena Vista, 
 Pa. 
 
 Rev. Wesley Smith, Wilkin- 
 Penn'a. 
 
 Rev J. T. Shaw, Chicago, 111. 
 
 Rev. J. M. Smith, Perry sville, Fa. 
 
 Rev. J. A. E. Simpson, Meek 
 town, Ohio. 
 
 Rev. E. K. Squier, D. D., Pitts- 
 burgh, Pa. 
 
 Rev. W. D. Stevens, Coppersdale, 
 Penn'a. 
 
 Rev. E. B. Snyder, Allegheny, 
 Pa 
 
 Rev. B*. S. Sloan, Penn Run, Pa. 
 
 Rev. J. E. Starkey, Winchester, O. 
 
 Rev. J. H. Shields,' Crestline. Ohio. 
 
 Rev. H. J. Smith, Brownsville, Pa. 
 
 Rev. W. Townsend, Beattv. Pa. 
 
 Rev. S. M. Taggart, East Pales:::: e 
 Ohio. 
 
 Rev. S. H. Thompson, Canandaigue 
 Xew York. 
 
 Rev. A. W. Taylor, Ripley, Xew 
 York. 
 
 Rev. J. W. Witherspoon, Alleghe- 
 ny , Penn'a. 
 
 Rev. W. S.lWood, Duncan. Pa. 
 
 Rev. W. G. Waddell, Xew Athens. 
 Ohio. 
 
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 Rev. W. B. Watkins,D. D., Pitts- 
 burgh, Pa. 
 Rev, D. Wamock, Urbana, O. 
 
 Hon. Geo. H. Thurston, President 
 Pittsburgh Board of Trade. 
 
 Hon. W. C. McCarthy, Mayor of 
 Pittsburgh. 
 
 Hon. L. L. McGuffin, Xew Castle, 
 Penn'a. 
 
 Cases of Nasal Catarrh and Laryngitis. 
 
 Manxingtox, Marion, Co., TV". ) 
 
 Ya., March 1, 1869. j 
 
 Dr. J. W. Sykes : Dear Sir— I 
 have long intended to communicate 
 to the public the results of your 
 treatment in my case. 
 
 Ten years ago I consulted you by 
 letter for a dreadful Catarrh and 
 Bronchitis, which threatened to 
 terminate my life. I had Xasal 
 Catarrh a long time, and the offen- 
 sive discharge finally gave rise to 
 ulceration of the back parts of my 
 nose. The irritation had also ex- 
 tended down my windpipe, causing 
 much coughing. In addition to 
 these troubles, my stomach and 
 other digestive organs were badly 
 diseased. 
 
 I consulted you by letter, and am 
 happy to testify that your treatment 
 promptly arrested the ulceration, 
 and in a few months entirely re- 
 stored my health, and it has to this 
 clay remained good. 
 
 Truly yours, B. N. Xeely. 
 
 Greeley, Col., Aug. 28, 1871. 
 
 Dr. J. W. Sykes: Dear Sir— I 
 have been cured by your treatment 
 of that distressing disease, jSTasal 
 Catarrh, with which I hadbeeen a 
 long time afflicted, and I never en- 
 joyed better health than now. 
 
 You are at perfect liberty to use 
 my name or refer any one to me, for 
 I was certainly cured of Catarrh by 
 your treatment, 
 
 Bespectfully yours, 
 
 Mrs. Mary McElroy. 
 
 From Rev. Geo. H. Brown of Erie 
 
 M. E. Conference. 
 Espyville, Crawford Co., Pa,, ) 
 June 28th, 1871. ) 
 Dr. Sykes: Dear Sir— My 
 health is in every respect improv- 
 ing. I feel that I am permanently 
 cured of the Catarrh, I have been 
 
 greatly benefited by your' treat- 
 ment. I shall ever esteem it a 
 pleasure to recommend your treat- 
 ment and counsel to the afflicted. 
 Kespectfully yours, 
 George H. Brown. 
 
 Corsica, Pa., Dec. 12, 1870. 
 Having tried, without relief, the 
 remedies of other physicians for 
 Nasal Catarrh, which had annoyed 
 me very much for about two years, 
 I consulted Dr. Sykes, and as it is 
 now about two years since the symp- 
 toms of the disease disappeared, 1 
 have every reason to believe that 
 his treatment, under Providence, 
 was instrumental in effecting a com- 
 plete cure. It was also very bene- 
 ficial in improving my general 
 health, which had become much 
 impaired. 
 
 Miss M. F. Ritche'y. 
 
 Case of B. Jones, No. 72 Fifth Avenue, 
 
 Pittsburgh, Pa., Nasal Catarrh and 
 
 Ozaena, Left Lung affected, &c. 
 
 For several years before consult- 
 ing Dr. Sykes I had been coughing 
 more or less and spitting much 
 heavy yellow and dark colored mat- 
 ter, and on one occasion spit con- 
 siderable blood. I was also troubled 
 with Nasal Catarrh in its worst 
 form, my nasal cavities filling with 
 thick offensive matter, causing at 
 times violent pain in my head. I 
 had a great deal of severe pain in 
 my breast ; also, shortness of breath, 
 night sweats, loss of appetite, and 
 was much reduced. I had been un- 
 der several physicians, among others 
 the late Dr. Irish, who said I was 
 in confirmed consumption, and 
 could not recover. I consulted Dr. 
 Sykes in March, 1867, and following 
 his treatment a few months, found 
 my Catarrh and Lung disease re- 
 moved, and have had no recurrence 
 of them. 
 
 B. Joxes. 
 
 Pittsburgh, July, 1872. 
 
 Bronchitis and Laryngitis, with Com- 
 plications. 
 
 Extract from a letter of the KeY . 
 I. M. O'Flyng, to the former editor 
 of the Pittsburgh Christian Advo- 
 cate : 
 
 Dear Brother Baird:— Will 
 
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 you allow me space in your paper ! 
 to say a word or two which may be | 
 of importance to some of your read- | 
 ers? * * * [A portion of the 
 letter relating to church and min- 
 isterial business is here omitted.] 
 
 One other thing I wish to say for 
 the benefit of the afflicted, and es- 
 pecially for my brethren who suffer 
 from these scourges of the ministry 
 —Chronic Sore Throat and Bron- 
 chitis. 
 
 It is well known to many that lit- 
 tle over a year ago I was so reduced 
 by bronchitis as to be scarcely able 
 to walk. At that time I was in- 
 duced, as a last resort, to apply to 
 Dr. J. W. Sykes, of your place, feel- 
 ing that if his mode of treatment 
 did not effect a speedy change, my 
 work on earth was about closed. 
 From the time I began his treat- 
 ment my health has steadily im- 
 proved. I have now reached my 
 former weight, and have no pain in 
 the chest or throat. In short, I am 
 what I never expected to be— a 
 sound man. I am not apt to be en- 
 thusiastic, but so great is my confi- 
 dence in his mode of treatment that 
 if I had a near friend laboring un- 
 der any lung disease I would coun- 
 sel him to cross the ocean, were it 
 necessary, to consult Dr. Sykes. I 
 write this, not for his sake, but for 
 the benefit of those who suffer as I 
 did. Yours in Christ, 
 
 I. M. 'OTlym. 
 New Albany, Ind., July 2, 1859. 
 
 The above letter was published 
 in the Advocate without my knowl- 
 edge or solicitation, and subsequent- 
 ly I wrote to Mr. O'Flyng for per- 
 mission to use it, and received the 
 following reply : 
 
 Dr.. Sykes : Dear Friend— After 
 traveling around some time, yours 
 of Sept. 18th finally reached me. 
 As to your request, you have my 
 full and glad consent to use my 
 name as you desire. My cure by 
 your treatment was radical; and 
 though I have suffered lately from 
 Chronic Diarrhoea, I have felt none 
 of the old malady. 
 
 I remain your grateful friend, 
 I. M. O'Flyng. 
 
 Wortiiixg-ton, Green Co., Ind., 
 Nov. 18, 1864. 
 
 From Rev. W. H. IIaxey : 
 
 Cedarville, Ohio, May 26, 1869. 
 
 Dr. J. W. Sykes : Dear Sir— I 
 regret having so long neglected to 
 drop you a note in regard to my 
 case. You may rest assured, it is 
 not for lack of gratitude for your 
 successful treatment of my difficul- 
 ty. 
 
 My Lungs give me no trouble, 
 and the Catarrhal difficulty in my 
 nose and throat are, I feel sure, 
 giving way before your treatment. 
 
 If it will be of any service to you, 
 or a means of directing any other 
 suffering fellow mortal to your 
 treatment of Lung Diseases, I have 
 no objection to your using this as a 
 reference. Feeling that I have re- 
 ceived great benefit from your treat- 
 ment, I am willing to tell of it for 
 the benefit of my friends. 
 
 With best wishes, I am sincerely 
 your friend. 
 
 W. H. Haxey. 
 
 Prospect, Butler Co., Pa., ) 
 Dec. 18, 1862. / 
 
 Dr. J. W. Sykes, Dear Sir— I 
 consulted you in October, 1860 for a 
 severe cough which had troubled 
 me about a year, and had been very 
 severe for about six months. I was 
 greatly reduced in strength, was 
 raising thick yellow phlegm, or mat- 
 ter, and had night sweats. You 
 said I had severe Bronchitis, but 
 gave me much encouragement of 
 recoverv. This was better than I 
 had expected to hear, and I adopted 
 your treatment, and the result was 
 a speedy restoration of health, which 
 remains good. My chest was ex- 
 panded two inches, and my weight, 
 which was only 113 pounds, has 
 been increased to 145. I can confi- 
 dent! v recommend invalids to adopt 
 your treatment. Truly yours, 
 Simon Stickle, Jr. 
 
 Mr. Stickle still resides as above. 
 
 Fraxkfort,0., March, 8, 1870. 
 
 Dr. Sykes— Dear Sir: It Avas 
 truly a pleasant surprise to receive 
 a note from you after the many long 
 years which have intervened since 
 I last heard from you. 
 
 I have ever held your name in 
 grateful remembrance, and have 
 often thought of you as the one 
 
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 whom God saw fit to make the in- 
 strument of saving my life. 
 
 I have never been under the care 
 of a physician since you treated me 
 m 1859. My health gradually im- 
 proved until I could say I enjoyed 
 comfortable health. I have not had 
 any hemorrhage of the lungs since 
 I used your treatment, and I nei- 
 ther cough nor expectorate. You 
 never had a patient that held you 
 in more grateful remembrance, or 
 was better satislied with your treat- 
 ment than I. 
 
 Respectfully yours, 
 
 C OR DIE F. SHEPHERD^ 
 
 Browxsyille, June 13th, 1S5S. 
 
 Dps. Fitch & Sykes :— Feeling 
 some delicacy in consenting to the 
 use of my name in connection with 
 any communication for the public 
 eye, no consideration would have 
 been sufficient to overcome my re- 
 luctance to do so, but a sense of jus- 
 tice to your professional skill, and 
 of duty which I feel that I owe to 
 others' who may be similarly afflict- 
 ed with myself, and may be seeking 
 that relief and restoration of health, 
 which under Providence, I have so 
 happily experienced at your hands. 
 
 Waiving medical technicalities, 
 with which I am not very familiar, 
 I will proceed to give a plain state- 
 ment of my case when I first ap- 
 plied to Dr. C. M. Fitch, at Pitts- 
 burgh, in 1855, and of the beneficial 
 effects which I experienced from 
 his treatment, and subsequently 
 from that of Dr. Sykes. I was, and 
 for a considerable time had been, 
 troubled with a hacking and most 
 -distressing cough, attended with 
 expectoration, ulcerated throat, 
 with so much general debility and 
 complete prostration of the nervous 
 system, as to render it extremely 
 difficult, at times, to speak aloud, 
 or to avoid exhaustion from the 
 slightest physieal efforts.^ I had 
 tried all the ordinary remedies in 
 vain, previous to my application to 
 Dr. Fitch, but by whose treatment 
 at that time, and later, of that of 
 Dr. Sykes, I have entirely recovered 
 my usual health and strength. 
 
 Mary E. Brown. 
 
 Case of D. M. Gwinii, a well known 
 Citizen of Rimer sburgh, Pa. Cured 
 of Rheumatic Bronchitis. 
 
 Eimersbtjrgh, Clarion Co., Pa., ) 
 June 20, 1873. ) 
 
 Dp. J. W. Sykes : Dear Sir— I 
 seat myself to acknowledge with 
 humble gratitude to the Giver of 
 all good, the results of your medi- 
 cal skill in my case. 
 
 When I consulted you in June of 
 last year I could not lift 20 pounds 
 and was unable to do any work. 
 I had severe pain in the breast and 
 shortness of breath, and great gen- 
 eral debility. From use of your 
 treatment I am now well and able 
 to work daily. Truly yours, 
 D. M. Gw r iNN. 
 
 Prospect, Butler Co., Penn., > 
 May 10th, 1870. ) 
 Dr. J. W. Sykes : Dear Sir— I 
 have delayed writing to you longei 
 than I intended. I have to con- 
 gratulate both you and myself on 
 the good effects your treatment has 
 had on myself ; it has restored me 
 to my usual health again. My 
 cough is entirely well. I feel very 
 thankful to you and a kind Provi- 
 dence, and I hope that your days 
 on earth may be many and hapgp. 
 Be sure I shall never forget the 
 great debt of obligation I owe you. 
 Yours truly, 
 
 M. A. McCOLLOUGH. 
 
 Great Bexd, Kansas, ) 
 March 1, 1873. ) 
 Dr. J. W. Sykes : Dear Sir— 
 you remember I was to see you in 
 Pittsburgh in May, 1866, 1 lived at 
 Winfiekl, West Virginia, you treat- 
 ed me for Bronchitis. I w T as en- 
 tirely cured by your skillful treat- 
 ment, and have been well until the 
 present time. Yours truly, 
 
 •Charles B. Woeden. 
 
 CASES OF ASTHMA. 
 
 Asthma, Bronchitis, and Dyspepsia, 
 of over Thirty Years' standing-, 
 Entirely cured. 
 
 No 204 Liberty Street, ) 
 Pittsburgh, Pa. , March 18, 1866 ) 
 Dr. J. W. Sykes— Dear Sir: In 
 1S64 1 consulted.you for severe Asth- 
 
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 ma and Bronchitis, which I had 
 from childhood. The Phthisic was 
 so severe at times that I could only 
 get my breath at night by sitting 
 up, having windows and doors open- 
 ed. I was also much troubled with 
 Dyspepsia. Three months before 
 consulting you I was so much re- 
 duced that my family physician 
 said I could not live six- months. 
 As I am of a consumptive family, 
 and was so much reduced, you did 
 not speak very confidently of my 
 recovery, but thought I might be 
 benefited and my life prolonged. I 
 placed myself under your care, and 
 improved rapidly until my health 
 was entirely restored, and I have 
 since remained entirely well of my 
 old ailments, and in good health 
 every way. 
 
 Yours respectfully, 
 Maky L. M'Candless. 
 
 Two other Cases of Long Standing 
 Cured. 
 
 No. 283 North Avenue, \ 
 Allegheny Pa,, October, 1871, J 
 Dr. J. W. Sykes: Dear Sir— I 
 desire to state for the encourage- 
 ment of those who may be afflicted 
 as I have been, that I have been 
 cured by your treatment of severe 
 Spasmodic Asthma, from which I 
 had suffered at intervals from child- 
 hood. I placed myself under your 
 care in the summer of 1869, since 
 which I have been free from Asth- 
 ma, and have enjoyed better health 
 in other respect's than I had pre- 
 viously known. Those who have 
 struggled, as I have done, day and 
 night for weeks together to get a 
 single comfortable breath, will un- 
 derstand how highly I appreciate 
 the immense benefit I have derived 
 from your treatment. 
 
 Kespectfully yours', *•. 
 Mrs. Fanny Holland. 
 
 Bev. W. M. Mullenix, of West Vir- 
 ginia M. E. Conference. 
 
 MORGANTOWN, WEST VA., { 
 
 January 17, 1872. j 
 Dear Doctor Sykes : I take 
 great pleasure in informing you 
 that I am cured of Asthma. 
 
 By following your advice and tak- 
 ng your remedies, I am now by the 
 
 Divine blessing delivered from that 
 unpleasant disease. My appetite is 
 good and I can sleep all night.. My 
 weight has increased,. and I can do 
 twice the work I did a year ago, 
 and with less fatigue. My voice is 
 i deeper r fuller,. and clearer than ever. 
 Yours sincerely,. 
 W. M. Mullenix. 
 
 White Ash P. O.,} 
 Allegheny Co., Pa., 
 September 12th, 1867. ) 
 
 Dr. J. "W. Sykes : Dear Sir— I 
 consulted you in the Fall of 1858,. 
 being then extremely reduced by 
 severe Asthma and Bronchitis. I 
 had consulted several doctors, who 
 pronounced me incurable, and said 
 I ought to settle my affairs as I 
 could not live longer than spring. 
 
 I had often sat in my chair nearly 
 all night with windows raised, and. 
 even then could scarcely breathe 
 enough to keep me alive. My cough 
 was very violent,, and I raised large 
 amounts of yellow corrupted look- 
 ing matter. 
 
 I adopted your treatment, and in 
 
 two or three months had gained, at 
 
 least, thirty-five pounds, and since 
 
 that time have enjoyed good health* 
 
 Wm. Sproul. 
 
 Pittsburgh, Pa., Jan. 30, 1873. 
 
 Dr. J. W. Sykes : Dear Sir— 
 You treated me seven years ago 
 with complete success for Asthma, 
 with which I had suffered a long- 
 time. I had a terrible cough, and 
 the difficulty of breathing was so 
 great I could not lie down at night, 
 and w T as unable to work. Your 
 treatment effected a complete cure, 
 and I have been well from that 
 time. Yours respectfully, 
 
 James S. Hanlon, 
 Boundary St., near Thirty-second. 
 
 Hooker, Butler Co., Pa., \ 
 March oth, 1874. ) 
 
 Dr. J. W. Sykes : Sir— I was 
 attacked with Asthma in August, 
 1870. It would come on in the 
 evening and about midnight. I 
 would have to get up and sit about 
 an hour or two hours, and was so 
 terribly choked it seemed I could 
 not live, when it subsided I could 
 
3.7 
 
 lay down and sleep three or four 
 hours : 1 coughed and spit a tough 
 ropy mucus." After trying many 
 remedies without relief , I saw your 
 a Ivertisement. and wrote to "you 
 stating my case, and you sent me 
 remedies which relieved me right 
 away, and by continued treatment 
 was cured, and have not been troub- 
 led with it since. I have had sev- 
 eral severe colds but no Asthma. 
 I am now 63 years of age. 
 
 You may publish this if you think 
 it will induce any who are afflicted 
 as I was to apply for your most val- 
 uable treatment. Yours Truly. 
 Axdrew Russell 
 
 USES OF MIffM 
 
 Jeffersoxville, III., V 
 Sept. 6th, 1860. ) 
 Dr. J. W. Sykes : Dear Sir— A 
 year since I was in advanced con- 
 sumption, and so exceedingly weak 
 and emaciated, that I " could 
 scarcely get about. I had been 
 coughing twenty-two months, and 
 was raising great quantities of 
 thick, yellow matter. After exam- 
 ining my chest you said my right 
 lung was gone at the top, and was 
 ulcerating below the cavity, and 
 you told me it was barely possible 
 that I could get well. The ribs at 
 the top of my right breast were a 
 good deal sunken in. I began your 
 treatment and immediately began 
 to improve, and have continued to 
 gain ever since, and now am able 
 to do a great deal of farm work. I 
 have got quite fleshy, and my chest 
 .measures four or five inches more 
 than it did a year ago. I shall al- 
 ways feel grateful to you. 
 
 John Shafer, 
 Mr. Shafer still resides as above. 
 
 Portersyille, Butler Co. Pa | 
 May, 9, 1S67. j 
 Dr. J. W. Sykes: Dear Sir— In 
 March, 1861, while in the army, I 
 was attacked with camp measles, 
 which did not come out well, but 
 left me with a bad cough, and spit- 
 ting of blood and matter. This 
 grew worse, till l was thought to be 
 incurable, and was so reduced I had 
 :to leave the army. 
 
 When I got home, I concluded 
 to consult you ; and when I started 
 to visit you, I was so low that my 
 friends said that I could not stand 
 the fatigue, and they did not expect 
 to see me return alive. 
 
 I had been then coughing eight 
 months, had lost all my flesh, and 
 had frequent night sweats, and 
 other symptoms of advanced lung 
 disease. 
 
 You, yourself, considered my case 
 a very bad one, and told me my 
 prospects of recovery were very 
 slight ; but I am happy to testify 
 that your treatment did more for 
 me than you promised, and has 
 been the means, under Providence, 
 of restoring me to excellent health. 
 Yours truly, 
 
 Samuel A. Moore. 
 
 Cleveland, O., April 7, 1866. 
 
 Dr. J. W. Sykes: Dear Sir — 
 I write this to express my sense of 
 obligation to you for the interest 
 you have taken in Mrs. Gillet's case, 
 and for the valuable medical help I 
 believe you have been to her. I 
 still believe, that you under God, 
 were the means of arresting steadily 
 advancing consumption, when I 
 applied to you for her, in 1860. The 
 reviving symtoms of former diffi- 
 culties, with new evidences of pul- 
 monary disease, have again been 
 checked by your treatment, taken 
 for two months past, and we are 
 hoping for comparative soundness 
 again. 
 
 Prom the knowledge I have 'of 
 your method of treating Pulmonary 
 and Chronic Diseases, I have a real 
 pleasure of recommending you to 
 the afflicted. You are at liberty to 
 use this unpaid contribution in any 
 way you please. Yours truly, 
 E.S. Glllett, 
 
 Pastor of First M. E. Chnrch, 
 Cleveland, Ohio. 
 
 Oakland. Armstrong Co., Pa., \ 
 ' December 31, 1862. ) 
 Dr. Sykes : I think I am doing 
 no more than my duty in making 
 known what you have done for me. 
 When I applied to you in January, 
 1861, it was thought by others, and 
 I myself believed that I was in the 
 last stage of consumption. I had 
 
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 used various remedies without ben- 
 efit. My physician gave me up; 
 said he could do nothing for me ; 
 that I could not live six weeks. 
 Remedies brought no relief. Swift- 
 ly the inexorable distemper was 
 dragging me down to the grave. A 
 distressing cough, hectic fever, 
 chills, pain in left lung,, and all the 
 horrible symptoms of consumption 
 were fast doing their work ; but I 
 thank God that I went to you. I 
 had not used your medicines a 
 month till I got relief ; appetite re- 
 turned, and rest and strength. Who 
 that has not been so afflicted can 
 realize the joy that hope brings 
 when the sufferer feels that an an- 
 tidote has broken the disease ? 
 Slowly my constitution built up its 
 shattered fragments. I have not 
 y et recovered my full strength, but 
 now enjoy good health. 
 
 That I feel grateful to you and to 
 that higher Power, of which you 
 are the instrument, for the years 
 that are spared to me, God, who 
 knoweth the secrets of every heart, 
 is my judge. 
 
 Miss Maggie Anthony. 
 
 Since the above was written Miss 
 Anthony has died of Erysipelas, but 
 her father, Mr. James Anthony, 
 can substantiate the statement. 
 
 suit shows me plainly that there is-- 
 a possibility of curing Consumption, 
 even in its advanced stages. 
 From your friend and well-wisher,. 
 A. P. Taylor. 
 
 Orange, Mahoning Co., O., ) 
 
 May 18,1866. f 
 
 Dr. J. W. Sykes : Dear Sir— We 
 
 received your letter, and would say 
 in reply that Mrs. Taylor's health 
 is as good as ever it was,, and she 
 can do all her housework for five 
 workingmen . She is hearty , strong , 
 and fleshy, and can do more labor 
 than she ever did, though she was 
 pronounced incurable by our two 
 family physicians before I took her 
 to Pittsburgh to consult you. 
 
 At the same time my sister was 
 sick with consumption, which she 
 took about the same time my wife 
 was taken, and the same physicians 
 pronounced my wife's case the 
 worst, and she was of the most deli- 
 cate form. But under your treat- 
 ment she speedily recovered, while 
 my sister, under the common treat- 
 ment, went down by degrees, and 
 now sleeps with the dead. 
 
 Some of my friends opposed my 
 trying your treatment, but I acted 
 on my own judgment, and the re- 1 
 
 Masontown, Favette Co., Pa., ), 
 October, 1862. ) 
 
 Dr. J. W. Sykes : Dear Sir— I 
 consulted you in 1857 for lung dis- 
 ease of five or six years standing. 
 
 I was greatly reduced in flesh and 
 strength, and being of a consump- 
 tive family was considered incura- 
 ble by my physician and friends. I 
 had a hard cough, and expectorated 
 large quantities of heavy matter. I 
 was also troubled with severe pain 
 in my chest, also with night sweats. 
 and daily chill and fever. 
 
 You told me my right lung was 
 badly diseased,. and you could give 
 me but little hopes of recovery. But 
 on adopting your treatment I gain- 
 ed very rapidly; and in a few months 
 was entirely well, and have since 
 then been really stronger than I had 
 ever been before. 
 
 My mother, who also consulted 
 you for distressing chronic com- 
 plaints, wishes me to tell you your 
 treatment restored her "to good 
 health. Yours truly, 
 
 Jacob Boice. 
 
 Waterson's Ferry, Pa . , ) 
 May 35, 1867. f 
 Dr. J. W.. Sykes; Dear Sir— I 
 feel it to be my duty to you, and to> 
 the public/at large, to say that after 
 using your treatment for consump- 
 tion for three weeks, our daughter,, 
 who was scarcely able to walk„ 
 ceased coughing, and in three 
 months was entirely well. She had 
 been coughing three years. 
 
 s/j. Carr. 
 Captain of towboat Hatck Eye. 
 
 Orange, Mahoning Co., O., > 
 May, 27, 1861. f 
 
 Dr . Sykes : Dear Sir — I desire 
 to express my thanks to you for the 
 interest you have taken in Mrs.. 
 Justice's case, and for the valuable 
 assistance you have rendered her. 
 
 She is of a consumptive family, 
 and when she consulted you that 
 disease was most evidently estab- 
 
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 hshed in her lungs, and was steadily 
 advancing, but your treatment was 
 the means of promptly arresting and 
 removing it, and her' general health 
 is now better than it has been for 
 years. Respectfully yours, 
 
 Morrisox Justice. 
 
 Fair view, Jones Co., Iowa, ) 
 November 9th, 1866. j 
 
 Dr. J. W. Sykes : Dear Sir— If 
 you are still in practice in the city, 
 will you oblige me by mailing me 
 one of your circulars, for I have 
 hunted our Pittsburgh papers in 
 vain for one of your advertisements, 
 and thought perhaps you had left. 
 
 There are persons dying monthly 
 in this vicinity from consumption. 
 
 Under your treatment, a few 
 years since, my mother and uncle 
 were restored to unimpaired health, 
 and I am desirous to know where 
 to consult you. 
 
 Very truly yours, 
 D. J. Stewart. 
 
 COKSUMPTIONiitt Complications. 
 
 INCIPIENT CONSUMPTION ANJtt 
 
 DYSPEPSIA. 
 
 Statement of Mr. 77. H. McClinton, the 
 Well Known Dealer in Books, Station- 
 ery, &c. f 132 Federal Street, Alle- 
 gheny. 
 
 Dr. J. W. Sykes: Dear Sir- 
 when I consulted you in 18651 was 
 much reduced in flesh and strength 
 by dyspeptic troubles of longstand- 
 ing. I had for some t time a dry 
 hacking cough, with shortness of 
 breath, pain in chest, occasional 
 chills, and other indications which 
 led my friends to fear my lungs 
 were becoming affected. The fact 
 that some of my relatives had died 
 of consumption also seemed to jus- I 
 tify their fears: On examination ! 
 you thought the upper part of my i 
 right lung slightly affected,. but en- ! 
 couraged me to hope for a restora- I 
 tion of my health. 
 
 Your treatment comprised Medi- 
 cated Inhalations, with other med- 
 ical and hygienic means, and re- 
 sulted in my complete recovery 
 
 You are at liberty to use this 
 as you think best. (Signed) 
 
 W. H. McClestton. 
 
 Case of S. H. Sitler, Esq., of Leetonia, 
 Ohio, Sick Fifteen Years, Disease of 
 Lungs and Heart, Frea.uent Hemor- 
 rhages, Sec. 
 
 Dr. J. TV. Sykes : Dear Sir— I 
 feel it my duty to make a just ac- 
 knowledgment to you of the benefit 
 I received of vour treatment from 
 April to September, 1869. When I 
 resorted to j r ou I had but little hope 
 of a recovery, as I had hemorrhage 
 of the lungs almost daily during 
 twenty-two months previous, to- 
 gether with an affection of the 
 heart, so that I could not lie on my 
 left side during a period of fifteen 
 years. The cough, pain, and con- 
 stant oppression of the breast made 
 life a burden. After taking your 
 treatment for three months, I felt 
 a decided improvement ; the hem- 
 orrhage of the lungs had ceased al- 
 together ; the oppression of the 
 breast, cough, &c, were much bet- 
 ter, with a decided improvement of 
 my general health ; so that I com- 
 menced the second course of three 
 months' treatment with more hope. 
 After continuing the treatment 
 (altogether five months). I felt my- 
 self entirely well— could lie on 
 either side and breathe freely. Yet 
 I could hardly believe the cure a 
 permanent one. But now, fifteen 
 months have passed, and no recur- 
 rence of h morrhages, no cough, 
 and I have regained my former 
 weight ; so that I now feel thank- 
 ful to God, and to you for your in- 
 valuable treatment in my case, and 
 shall not cease to recommend others 
 similarly afflicted to your treat- 
 ment. ' Yours respectfully, 
 S.H. Sitler. 
 
 REMARKABLE RECOVERY 
 
 FKOII 
 
 Consumption of Lungs aM Bowels. 
 
 Statement of J. T. Stitt, Esq., Book- 
 keeper for the Well Know Coal 
 Merchants, Wm. H. Brown & Co. 
 25 Smithfield St., Pittsburgh. 
 Dr. J. W. Sykes: Sir— It is 
 with great pleasure I take the op- 
 portunity of saying to the n inner 
 ous victims of consumption in our 
 city. ;t Be of good cheer" there i 
 
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 hope even for the feeblest. A little 
 more than a year ago, my wife was 
 very low with consumption of the 
 lungs and bowels : she had then 
 been sick over a year. She had a 
 very bad cough and expectoration, 
 and had diarrhoea all the time for 
 several months. She was so thin 
 and wasted that former friends did 
 not recognize her. In fact we 
 thought, and her physician said, 
 she must die. He ordered herbs 
 and wine to keep her up as long as 
 possible, and said that was all he 
 could do. We consulted another 
 physician who also said it was a very 
 bad case. By an overruling Provi- 
 dence we were directed to Dr. Sykes 
 and, hoping against hope, we plac- 
 ed her under his care. In two 
 weeks there was a marked change 
 for the better, and she continued to 
 recover rapidly. She still has some 
 cough and continues under Dr. 
 Sykes' care, but is so well that for 
 seven or eight months she has been 
 able to do her own work. Under 
 God we think her recovery is due 
 to Dr. Sykes treatment. 
 
 J. T. Stitt. 
 
 ADVANCED CONSUMPTION 
 
 ENTIRELY CUBED. 
 
 Jollytown, Green Co., Pa., \ 
 April 19, 1864. ) 
 
 Dr. J. W. Sykes : Dear Sir — 
 When I consulted you, little more 
 than six years ago, I was reduced 
 almost to a skeleton. I had been 
 coughing severely, and raising 
 heavy matter for a year and had 
 doctored with the best doctors I 
 could find, and grew worse all the 
 time. My friends had given me up. 
 and I believe had I not consulted 
 you that three or four months would 
 have ended my earthly career. You 
 also gave but very slight encourage- 
 ment, but said 'if I wished, you 
 would do what you could. Your 
 treatment soon afforded relief, and 
 now I am happy to say it has, 
 through the blessing of God restor- 
 me to health. I weigh ten or fif- 
 teen pounds more than I did before 
 I took the lung disease, and can do 
 a good days work. 
 
 lam most thankful for the bene- 
 fit I have received, and hope this 
 
 statement of my case may induce 
 others who are suffering as I was 
 to try your treatment. 
 
 Mrs. Jas. G. White. 
 Several years after the above was 
 written Mrs. White died of Cholera 
 morbus, after a few hours illness. 
 Mr. White, however, still resides 
 as above and can verify the state- 
 ment. 
 
 CASES OF HEART DISEASE. 
 
 Case of J. W. Miller, of Sharpsburg, 
 Cured Ten Years. 
 
 Sharpsburg, Pa. Nov. 11, 1872. 
 
 Dr. J. W. Sykes: Dear Sir— I 
 deem it due to invalids who may be 
 suffering from Heart Disease, as I 
 once suffered, and to you, through 
 w^hose instrumentality I found re- 
 lief, to state my case publicly. 
 
 It is now ten years since I first 
 consulted you, after suffering many 
 months with great distress about 
 the Heart, which would often stop 
 beating for one or two pulsations, 
 and then palpitate violently, at- 
 tended with a ruobingor humming 
 sound, and causing a feeling as if I 
 would smother. 1 also had much 
 pain in my head and derangement 
 of my stomach, kidneys, &c. I was 
 so much reduced that I could scarce- 
 ly get to your office, and was great- 
 ly discouraged, as I had consulted 
 other noted Physicians in the city 
 without relief. 
 
 I am happy to state that a course 
 of your treatment resulted in my 
 complete recovery, and I have en- 
 joyed excellent health ever since. 
 I was induced to consult you by 
 Mr. William Brown, who said that 
 his wife and his brother had both 
 been cured of Heart Disease by 
 means of your treatment. 
 
 John W. Miller. 
 
 Clarksburg, Harrison Co. Va., ) 
 January 9, 1863. ) 
 Dr. J. W. Sykes : Dear Sir— I 
 wish in gratitude to testify to the 
 cure you have effected in my case. 
 I was afflicted with an organic dis- 
 ease of the heart for at least five 
 years, together with other distress- 
 ing ailments. My trouble first be- 
 
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 gan with slight palpitation when 
 walking fast, or up hill or stairs. 
 I'had much sharp pain about my 
 heart, and much soreness there. At 
 times my heart would stop beating 
 for several seconds, and then pal- 
 pitate with exceeding violence, and 
 inv breath would seem entirely cut 
 oft My head was badly affected 
 with pain, partial deafness, dimness 
 of vision, Arc. In addition to these 
 troubles I had a bad skin disease 
 for several years. When I consult- 
 ed you I felt that I had not long' 
 to live, but I am happy to be able 
 to say that from the day I began 
 your 'treatment I began toirnpruve 
 and have been rapidly recovering 
 ever since, and for many weeks 
 • past I have felt as well as ever I 
 did in my life. 
 
 Yours" with the warmest regard, 
 JohxH. ForsE. 
 
 West Xorthfelid Cook Co. 111. | 
 March 2, 1S65. ) 
 
 Dr. J. TV. Sykes : Dear Sir— I 
 am happy to inform von that your 
 treatment has effected in my case 
 all and more than all you promised 
 or I had hoped. The palpitation 
 of the heart is gone, and its action 
 is now regular. My appetite is 
 natural, bowels regular, and that 
 terrible distress in the head has 
 ceased entirely I feel as if I had a 
 new head. 
 
 I had, as you will remember, been 
 sick about a year when I came to 
 you, and unable to do anything. 
 My father had died of disease of the 
 heart, combined with other diffi- 
 culties. 
 
 I have been so well this winter 
 that I have done most of my own 
 work The distress and wind at 
 my stomach does not trouble me at 
 all, if I am reasonably careful in my 
 diet. I thank you very much for 
 the benefit I have received, and 
 hope you may be equally success- 
 ful in every case you treat. 
 
 Very truly yours, 
 A. W. Peet. 
 
 I have had no palpitation for almost 
 three months. The neighbors say 
 I look like another person, I look 
 so much better. 
 
 Respectfully yours, 
 Mrs. Mary A. Headlee. 
 
 Mrs. Headlee had been afflicted 
 for months with most violent pal- 
 pitation of the heart, occurring in 
 paroxysms lasting two or three 
 hours. She also had pain about the 
 heart, and other symtoms of organic 
 disease of that organ. 
 
 PULHOXABT HEMORRHAGES 
 AND CHRONIC BXARRHCEA. 
 
 Mt. Morris, Greene Co.. Pa., ] 
 July 81. 1S65. ' J 
 Dr. Sykes : Dear Sir— I have 
 improved very fast during the last 
 month . Have gained eleven pounds. 
 
 Statement of Mr. J. H. Scott, of Port- 
 Perry, 
 Port Perry, Allegheny Co. Pa. ) 
 January 11, 1873. ) 
 
 Dr. J. W. Sykes: Dear Sir— 
 for the benefit of others who may 
 be afflicted as I have been, I wish 
 to make a public statement of my 
 case, and I wish it especially notic- 
 ed that I was cured by your treat- 
 ment, after trying without any 
 benefit a number of prominent Phy- 
 sicians, includiug several who ad- 
 vertise special skill in treating 
 Chronic Diseases ; but Patent Med- 
 icines, Electricity and ''regular" 
 prescriptions alike failed. In 1863 
 I was discharged from the army on 
 account of alarming Hemorrhages 
 from the Lungs which it was 
 thought would soon prove fatal. 
 From that time — about nine years 
 — I had frequent copious hemor- 
 rhages, and for several weeks be- 
 fore consulting you I had raised 
 blood daily. During the entire 
 nine years I also had more or less 
 cough and expectoration. 
 
 I "was told by several Doctors 
 that I had Organic Disease of the 
 Heart, and upon examining me you 
 concurred in their opinion. I had 
 a great deal of pain about my heart, 
 which became almost unendurable 
 on slight exertion ; I also had severe 
 palpitation, and stoppage and irreg- 
 ular action of the heart, with short- 
 ness of breath, sensation of smoth- 
 ering, &c. My digestive organs 
 were greatly disordered, and for 
 three years I had continued Diar- 
 rhoea. 
 
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 You gave me but little encour- 
 agement, but the result of your 
 treatment has exceeded your expec- 
 tations. From the day I began 
 your treatment, about a year ago, I 
 have raised no blood, and I improv- 
 ed steadily till I was restored to 
 comfortable health. 
 
 For correctness of these state- 
 ments I refer to John McClosky, 
 Coal Merchant, A. J. Young, Post- 
 master, and R. Harrison. Esq., all 
 of Port Perry, Pa. [Signed] 
 J. H. Scott- 
 
 CHRONIC PNEUMONIA. 
 
 Chronic Pneumonia is the se- 
 quel or result of acute Pneumonia 
 (lung fever) where, either from im- 
 proper treatment, or by neglect of 
 treatment, it is not cured. Acute 
 Pneumonia usually commences 
 with a chill, followed shortly by a 
 burning fever with bounding pulse, 
 great tightness and oppression of 
 the chest, rapid and difficult breath- 
 ing, and sharp, stitchlike pains 
 through the lungs on coughing or 
 taking a full breath. If judicious- 
 ly treated it will generally pass oif 
 in a few days or weeks,- leaving the 
 lung well again. But, if not well 
 treated or neglected, it may pass 
 into the chronic form of the disease, 
 in which the fever is absent and the 
 appetite restored ; but the shortness 
 of breath, with much general weak- 
 ness, remains, with considerable 
 cough, but little or no expectora- 
 tion. In this form of the disease a 
 portion of one or both of the lungs 
 is rendered solid, so that no breath 
 enters it, and is said to be hepatized 
 because it has been found to resem- 
 ble the liver when cut open. Chron- 
 ic Hepatization is usually consider- 
 ed incurable, but I have witnessed 
 the complete recovery of cases of 
 several years' standing. In the case 
 of Mr. John B. M r Cune, whose let- 
 ter will be found below, there had 
 been extensive hepatization exist- 
 ing for some fifteen months, and 
 considering his age and that he was 
 extremely reduced, his recovery 
 was somewhat remarkable. 
 
 In persons of a consumptive fam- 
 ily, this form of disease is liable to 
 
 be followed speedily by Tubercular 
 Consumption. Chronic Pneumonia 
 is very liable to follow Typhoid 
 Fever, especially when the latter 
 disease is treated with Calomel or 
 Blue Mass. 
 
 Xorth Washington, West- ) 
 inoreland Co. March 6, 1874. ) 
 
 Dr. J. W. Sykes : Dear Sir— 
 From the spring of 1871 to that of 
 1873 I suffered greatly from Dys- 
 pepsia, Liver Complaint, etc. My 
 stomach was inflamed and sore, I 
 had pain in my right side and my 
 bowels and kidneys were greatly dis- 
 ordered. I consulted several Phy- 
 sicians, took many medicines with 
 no permanent benefit. In the latter 
 part of May last, I was prostrated, 
 and failed so fast that in a short 
 time I lost 32 pounds, and was so 
 weak I could speak but few words 
 at a time. I had several Physi- 
 cians, both separately and in con- 
 sultation. They said I was incur- 
 able, that I had so many diseases 
 one worked against the treatment 
 necessary for the other— that my 
 right lung was almost gone, and my 
 stomach, liver and kidneys badly 
 diseased, and that I must soon die. 
 At length I got a little stronger, 
 but they said it would not last, and 
 one of them said he would give me 
 about four weeks to live. 
 
 I then proposed to consult you, 
 but they said you were a quack and 
 could do nothing for me. 
 
 However, on the last day of July 
 I consulted you. You said my 
 right lung was badly hepatized, 
 and my system otherwise injured 
 by the mercury and other strong 
 drugs I had taken, but you could 
 see no reason why I could not re- 
 cover by proper treatment. 
 
 I placed myself in your care, and 
 improved rapidly, and now enjoy 
 reasonably good health. I have re- 
 gained my former weight and 
 strength. I have no soreness or 
 pain, my lungs, stomach, bowels, 
 liver and kidneys act as well as they 
 ever did. 
 
 I feel thankful to God and to 
 your invaluable treatment and shall 
 not cease to recommend it to those 
 afflicted as I have been. 
 
 Truly yours, 
 John W. Young. 
 
4a 
 
 Case of John B. ITCune, Esq., of Eliza- 
 beth, Pa. 
 Elizabeth, Pa., March 25 , 186& 
 
 Dr. J. W. Sykes : Dear Sir— It 
 is nearly two years since I first con- 
 sulted you, and the change which 
 your treatment has made in my 
 health has been very great. 
 
 Fifteen months before I con- 
 sulted you I was attacked with 
 Typhoid Pneumonia, and lay in bed 
 two months, and when I got up it 
 was with a very bad cough and ex- 
 pectoration, and severe pains in 
 both lungs, and night sweats, &c. 
 I was greaily reduced in flesh, and 
 so weak and short of breath I could 
 hardly go round. You told me my 
 disease was of a curable nature, 
 but could not give me very strong 
 encouragement, because I was six- 
 ty-three years of age. I adopted 
 your treatment, however, and am 
 happy to testify that it has proved 
 the means of entirely restoring my 
 health. Yours, 
 
 Johx B. McCuxe. 
 
 DYSPEPSIA, 
 LIVER COMPLAINT, 4c. 
 
 McClelaxdtowx, Pa., ) 
 March 25, 1867 j 
 Dr. Sykes: Dear Sir— I must 
 acknowledge the benefit I have de- I 
 rived from your treatment in one t 
 of the most complicated cases of 
 ten years' standing. When I visit- 
 ed you last summer, I was in the I 
 greatest imaginable distress I i 
 cannot describe my feelings in any j 
 fitting manner. 
 
 My stomach had been diseased 
 so long that it had the symptoms 
 of cancerous disease. My liver was 
 swollen as hard as a rock and filled 
 me so full that it alone was inde- j 
 scribable misery to me— -and all | 
 from ignorant physicians pouring 
 mercury into my system.. I had i 
 partly lost the hearing of my left 
 ear, and had a scum over my "eyes ! 
 so that objects at a little distance ! 
 from me appeared double. These 
 are not a twentieth part of my j 
 sufferings. 
 
 In two months, under your treat- ! 
 ment, my sight and hearing became ' 
 perfect, and I am now in good 
 health. 8 
 
 lam most thankful to you, and 
 remain yours, respectfully, 
 
 Mrs. Axxa Rader. 
 
 Hope Church, ) 
 Allegheny Co., Pa., > 
 March 10, 1858. ) 
 Dr. J. W. Sykes : Dear Sir— 
 j After several years of ill health 
 i and suffering, I was induced to 
 | consult you one year ago in Pitts- 
 burgh. My liver was greatly en- 
 I larged and I had a dull heavy pain 
 in my right side and shoulder, and 
 I severe pain in the back and weak- 
 , ness in the stomach of such a na- 
 , ture that I could not walk but a 
 | very short distance without sitting 
 down to rest. I was troubled with 
 ! drowsiness so much that I would 
 fall asleep whenever I sat down, 
 i and many times could scarcely keep 
 | awake on my feet. 
 
 I was also troubled with costive- 
 
 | ness and suffered greatly from fe- 
 
 1 male complaints. I followed your 
 
 ; directions and used your remedies, 
 
 i and to my great gratification have 
 
 ! found my health restored thereby. 
 
 My liver has assumed its natural 
 
 size, and my general health is far 
 
 better than I had ever expected it 
 
 would be, considering the great 
 
 amount of injurious medicines I 
 
 had used, and the complicated and 
 
 serious nature of my case. I shall 
 
 feel it my duty to direct invalids to 
 
 your treatment, and shall always 
 
 remain Yours, gratefully, 
 
 AXXE SlCKMAX. 
 
 Mrs. Sickniairs present address 
 is California, Washington Co. , Pa. 
 
 Statement of Rev. T. U. Hartley, of 
 Parfcersburg (W. Va.) Conference. 
 
 [Note— Mr. Hartley had been 
 afflicted for years with a distressing- 
 complication of ailments, of which 
 Dyspepsia, with almost constant 
 Neuralgia in the head, back and 
 limbs, and violent palpitation of 
 the heart, with great depreesion of 
 spirits, were the prominent feat- 
 ures.] 
 
 Waveblt, TV. Va. 
 July 28, 1S68. 
 
 Dr. J. TV. Sykes : Dear Sir-In 
 my last I said perhaps you had bet- 
 ter send more medicine. I am of 
 a different opinion now. -The ma- 
 
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 chinery is in good running order. 
 
 My pleasure in eating, drinking, 
 sleeping, doing, and simply in just 
 living, nas returned with double its 
 enjoyment and sweetness, for which 
 my gratitude flows to God in heav- 
 en and you on earth as instrument- 
 al in doing such wonders for me. 
 
 I go about with energy, with a 
 will— oh ! how pleasant ! You can 
 only imagine my joy in possession 
 of health once more. I will write 
 .you again. Yours as ever, 
 
 T. M. Hartley. 
 
 The writer of the following note 
 w r as one of the worst cases of gen- 
 eral dyspepsia that it has ever been 
 my fortune to prescribe for. His 
 stomach was evidently inflamed 
 and its walls thickened. He had 
 great distress after eating, much | 
 belching of wind, said his stomach 
 felt dead or paralyzed. His bowels 
 would not act at all without physic 
 —his kidneys equally inactive— his 
 appetite capricious— his back very 
 weak. He complained very much 
 of dull, drowsy feeling, and a "tired 
 -aching feeling all over." His skin 
 was discolored with brown spots. 
 His ill health u as brought on by 
 loss of sleep and excessive applica- 
 tion to his duties as telegraper in 
 Government employ. 
 
 Maxxixgtox, W. Ya., ) 
 March £0, 1866. J 
 
 Dr. J. W. Sykes : Dear Sir— In 
 reply to your request I will say that 
 I am quite willing you should pub- 
 lish an account of my complete 
 cure as effected by your judicious 
 treatment. 
 
 In conclusion allow me to thank 
 you for your gift of health, and to 
 say thax my health has remained 
 good since restored by your treat- 
 ment. Gratefully yours, 
 
 J. "W. Preelaxd. 
 
 From Kev. B. S. Sloan : 
 
 Pexx Rux. Indiana Co.. Pa.. ) 
 Nov. 27, 1872. J 
 
 Dr. J. W. Sykes : Dear Sir- 
 Mrs. Sloan is enjoying good health 
 and doing her own work. She is 
 in good spirits and has more nerve 
 and vital energy than formerly, 
 and has none of that languid, tired 
 .and exhausted expression she had 
 
 a few months ago. Your treat- 
 ment has been blessed of God to 
 her great improvement. 
 
 Your friend, 
 B. S. Sloax. 
 Mrs. Sloan had a complication of 
 Chronic Diseases, including Dys- 
 pepsia, Female Complaints, Chron- 
 ic Diarrhoea, etc, occasioning mul- 
 titudinous sufferings, great debili- 
 ty, and endangering her life. 
 
 CHRONIC DIARRHCSA. 
 
 Portersyille, Butler Co., Pa., ) 
 April 28, 1866. J 
 Dr. J. TV. Sykes : Dear Sir— I 
 took the Diarrhoea while I was in 
 the army, in May, 1863, which be- 
 came so bad that I was discharged 
 and hoped by coming home to doc- 
 tor I might get well. I employed 
 the best doctors in this region, but 
 they failed to benefit me, and in 
 August, 186-i, when I had been sick 
 about fifteen months and was re- 
 duced a little more than skin and 
 bones. I consulted you. At that 
 time my bowels were moved very 
 often, especially during the night ; 
 and the discharges contained much 
 slime, and sometimes yellow mat- 
 ter. I had much pain across my 
 bowels, and much vomiting ; noth- 
 would lay on my stomach. I also 
 had constant thirst and fever, with 
 chills. Your treatment helped me 
 at once, and I am now enjoying ex- 
 cellent health. I am very grateful 
 for what you have done for me, and 
 remain Yours truly, 
 
 KOBERT MOORE. 
 
 COMPLICATED CASES. 
 
 Ltjxdy's Laxe, Erie Co., Pa. ) 
 March 26, 1866. ) 
 Dr. J. W. Sykes : Dear Sir- 
 Having suffered a year and seven 
 months more than tongue can tell, 
 with female complaints, spinal 
 weakness, heart disease, liver com- 
 plaint, and dyspepsia, I became so 
 emaciated that all who knew me 
 or saw me despaired of my life ; my 
 friends said that medical aid could 
 never restore me to health again. 
 I was under the treatment of the 
 jnost eminent physicians in the 
 
45 
 
 country, but they afforded me no 
 permanent relief. 
 
 I became so emaciated that I 
 only weighed sixty pounds. It was 
 about this time that I learned 
 through Mrs. Hunter, of your skill- 
 ful practice and immediately wrote 
 to you, and in the following month 
 —January, 1864 — I commenced 
 your treatment and followed it six 
 months. I commenced rapidly to 
 gain and at the end of the year in- 
 stead of weighing sixty pounds, I 
 weighed one hundred and fifty, and 
 am now enjoying better health than 
 ever in my life before. I write this 
 deeming it but justice to myself 
 and my preserver to publish to the 
 world what he has done for me, 
 and that should there be any one 
 suffering as I have done, they may 
 immediately apply to Dr. Sykes for 
 aid. Yours respectully, 
 
 Mrs. M. M. Weight. 
 
 Extract from a letter from Key. P. 
 M. M : Gowan. 
 Beater Falls, Pa. , { 
 June 14, 1871. f 
 Dr. J. W. Sykes: My Kind 
 Friend— The medicine you sent me 
 benefited me much, and immediate- 
 ly. Through the boundless mercy 
 of God, with his blessing on your 
 prescriptions and medicines, I am 
 better in every respect. I do not 
 think that at present I need any 
 medicine. Praying God to bless 
 you and yours with every needful 
 blessing for time and eternity, I re- 
 main yours, sincerely, 
 
 P. M. M'Gowan. 
 
 From Eev. G. W. Richmond, of 
 Parkersburg, West Ya., Confer- 
 ence: 
 
 Dr. J. W. Sykes : Dear Sir— I 
 write to inquire whether you think 
 you could do anything for my wife. 
 Under the blessing of God I owe to 
 you my present health, and I think 
 my life. I have such unbounded 
 confidence in your skill in all pul- 
 monary affections, that I thought 
 you might give relief in my wife's 
 case also— (the statement of his 
 wife's case omitted here.) 
 Truly yours, 
 G. W. Richmond. 
 
 Parkersburg, West Virginia, 
 Feb. 2, 1S66. 
 
 From the same : 
 Charleston, Kanawha Co., ) 
 October 18, 1869. ) 
 
 J. W. Sykes, M. D.: Dear Sir— 
 I have long thought of writing you 
 a line expressive of thanks for the 
 wonderful cure you effected in the 
 case of my wife, who, you will re- 
 member, w T as affected with Dropsy. 
 
 She says, under the blessing of 
 God, I am indebted to you for life 
 and health ; and I tell her that but 
 for your skill she would have left 
 this world years ago. 
 
 You can form no just conception 
 of our gratitude to you for your 
 medical treatment. 
 
 Being unable to compensate with 
 earthly gifts, we are not forgetful 
 of you at the holy shrine, asking 
 his blessing who alone is the Giver 
 
 G. W. Richmond. 
 
 Nasal Catarrh, General Dpspepsia, Etc, 
 
 Youngstown, Pa., ) 
 August 10, 1S70. ) 
 
 1)r. J. W. Sykes : Dear Friend 
 — I am happy to be able to inform 
 you of my further improvement, 
 which has gradually continued 
 since I last w T rote you. My throat 
 looks and feels much better ; also 
 the Catarrh in my head and nose is 
 very much improved and I suffer 
 very little from it now. My appe- 
 tite is good, my liver is better and 
 my bowels regular. Indeed I feel 
 much better and stronger in every 
 respect. I am following your di- 
 rections in regard to diet, out-door 
 exercise, using breathing tube, 
 sponge bath, &c, and feel myself 
 constantly improving. 
 
 My case must have been a very 
 wearisome one to you, and I think 
 no one ever felt more grateful or 
 appreciated your labors in behalf 
 of their health as I do. Please ac- 
 cept my heartfelt thanks for your 
 kindness and sympathy manifested 
 during my long continued suffer- 
 ings, w T hich, with the encourage- 
 ment you gave me, did much to 
 cheer my spirits under great suffer- 
 ings. 
 
 I sincerely hope a kind Provi- 
 dence may long spare your useful 
 life to relieve the afflicted. You 
 
have done for me what other phy 
 sicians failed to do. 
 
 Yours respectfully, 
 
 Miss Lizzie Bakbridoe. 
 
 The writer of the following, an 
 accomplished and highly intelligent 
 young lady, consulted me by letter, 
 which presented evidence that her 
 stomach was in a state of chronic 
 inflammation, (gastritis) and her 
 liver congested and much enlarged. 
 Her health had been impaired and 
 failing for several years, dyspepsia 
 having been contracted at the early 
 age of fourteen by too close appli- 
 cation to study. 
 
 Marshall's Cheek, "i 
 Monroe Co., Pa., > 
 November 23, 1865. ) 
 
 Dr. J. W. Sykes : Dear Sir— It 
 has been a long while since I ad- 
 dressed you, and I am really sorry 
 to think I have so long neglected a 
 plain duty. 
 
 When you wrote me in July, 
 1858, 1 was extremely reduced and 
 miserable, bat soon became con- 
 valescent and gained rapidly in 
 every respect. Ifelt as if emerging 
 into a new life, and after such pro- 
 longed and indescribable suffering, 
 daily and constant, but aggravated 
 almost beyond endurance whenever 
 I ate anything, my present health 
 is indeed something to enjoy. It is 
 with great thankfulnesss that I 
 testify that it was your treatment 
 which helped me, and that at a 
 time when I least expected to re- 
 cover. I have been long in ac- 
 knowledgiDg this, but have not 
 forgotten it, and shall al ways grate- 
 fully remember your kind attention 
 during the time I was your patient. 
 
 Catharine G-. Drake. 
 
 Dime Savings Bank, 200 Main St. \ 
 Hartford, Conn., March 3, '74. ) 
 
 Dr. John TV. Sykes : Dear Sir 
 —I rise up once more on the can- 
 vass of life, restored to health 
 through the blessing of divine 
 Providence on your instrumentali- 
 ty- 
 
 In the summer of 1870 I was with 
 you personally, calling often at 
 your office while pursuing your 
 
 treatment, which has been so won- 
 derfully blest to me. 
 
 Prom there I went to Elkhorn, 
 Wisconsin, and remained two years 
 and returned here in May, 1872, 
 since which time I have been em- 
 ployed most of the time in the 
 above named bank in good health. 
 
 Yours very truly, 
 
 James H. Shepard. 
 
 Mr. Shepard had been dyspeptic 
 thirty 3 ears. He suffered much 
 with rush of blood to the head, 
 Nasal Catarrh, roaring, ringing 
 noises in his ears, oppression, faint- 
 ness about the heart, general de- 
 rangement of stomach, liver, bow- 
 els, kidneys, etc., etc. 
 
 SCROFULA and its Complications. 
 
 Remarkable Case of Mrs. Stewart, wife 
 ofRobt. Stewart, Esq., a prominent 
 and well known Lumber Merchant. 
 
 Brookville, Pa., Feb. 23, 1874. 
 
 Dr. J. W. Sykes: Dear Sir — 
 You have done so much for me that 
 I cannot refuse you the small favor 
 of making my case public, though 
 I feel much repugnance to seeing 
 my name in print. 
 
 I first consulted you eight years 
 ago, and was under your treatment 
 eighteen months. I had at that 
 time a scrofulous sore on my hip 
 joint of eight years' standing, and 
 was almost a cripple from it. The 
 disease had gone to my lungs, caus- 
 ing a severe cough, and my throat 
 was badly affected by it, and I had 
 not spoken above a whisper for 
 four weeks. I had 2s"asal Catarrh 
 so bad it had extended to my eyes 
 and ears. 
 
 I suffered much with pains in my 
 head, chest and back. I was losing 
 flesh and strength rapidly, and had 
 daily chills and nightsweats. 
 
 From this condition I was restor- 
 ed to good health, and I owe it all 
 to God's blessing on your treat- 
 ment. Grateful for what you have 
 done for me 
 
 I remain your friend. 
 Mrs. Mary H. Stewart. 
 
47 
 
 Stew arts ville, "i 
 
 Westmoreland Co., Pa., >• 
 Oct. 30, 1871. ) 
 Dr. J. W. Sykes: Dear Sir— 
 Our boy is improving very rapidly 
 under your treatment. The swell- 
 ing and lumps have entirely disap- 
 peared from his neck. His cough 
 is better, his appetite improved and 
 he rests better at night than he has 
 done for many months. I feel very 
 much encouraged and should like 
 to continue your treatment till his 
 health is restored. 
 
 Yours truly, 
 E. E. Allsworth. 
 
 Prospect, Butler Co., Pa., ) 
 April 3d, 1874. ) 
 
 Dr. J. W. Sykes : Dear Sir— I 
 write you a few lines to inform 
 you that I am well and to thank 
 you as the instrument under God, 
 of my restoration from the verge 
 of the grave to good health. 
 
 Six years ago i injured my ancle 
 
 which resulted in the White Swell- 
 ing ; my heel bealed on both sides, 
 and several large pieces of bone 
 came out. I finally got better and 
 able to walk, but the sores never 
 healed, and about a year ago I went 
 to Dr. A. G. Walter of Pittsburgh 
 who performed an operation by ex- 
 tracting the decayed bone. I then 
 became very sick ; the Scrofula 
 spread and became more active and 
 he could do me no good, and for 
 six weeks I w T as not expected to 
 live. Abscesses broke out all over 
 me ; I was taken home, became 
 worse, and lay in bed all summer, 
 never expecting to get up again. 
 I tried four different doctors with- 
 out benefit. Einally my brother 
 wrote to you for treatment, and 
 directly after I began using your 
 medicines I commenced to improve, 
 and continued to get better till 
 now r I am entirely recovered. With 
 heartfelt gratitude I remain 
 
 Yours truly, 
 George Heyl. 
 
 CONCERNING TESTIMONIALS. 
 
 The foregoing letters comprise but a small portion of the mass of 
 similar ones in my possession. I am also able to refer to hundreds 
 of other cases of recovery from serious disease, in which I have not 
 asked, or received, a testimonial letter. It is my rule, not to publish 
 any case without permission; and so many such letters are volun- 
 tarily furnished, that I rarely ask for one. 
 
 The address of some whose cases are herein published, may have 
 been changed since the date of their letters. If reference is desired 
 to any such, I will cheerfully, on request, ascertain their present ad- 
 dress. 
 
 K B. Let Invalids- be Forewarned. — To palUate disease is 
 comparatively easy ; but to effect a complete and permanent cure is 
 a difficult task. I have shown in the preceding pages,- that a cough 
 may be quieted, and expectoration modified, by Medicated Inhala- 
 tions, while the disease in the lungs is unchecked; and Nasal Catarrh, 
 Sore Throat, and other diseases, may be made to disappear temporari- 
 ly by caustic and other local remedies which cannot effect a cure. 
 
48 
 
 Travelling Doctors, Inhalists, and patent medicine venders, under- 
 stand this, and often when a patient has used their remedies but a few 
 days or weeks, he is induced to sign a statement that he is "better," 
 and to recommend their treatment; and soon afterward he finds he 
 has wasted money, and time of curability, and been made to lure 
 others to adopt the same deceptive treatment. These remarks apply 
 with still greater force to treatment based chiefly on the use of elec- 
 tricity. 
 
 It is my rule to publish no case until the result of my treatment 
 has been confirmed by the lapse of months or years, 
 
 J. W. SYKES, M. D. 
 191 Penn St., Pittsburgh, Pa. 
 
 DURATION OF TREATMENT. 
 
 No fact in the science of medicine is better established than that 
 Chronic Diseases require Protracted Treatment. 
 
 A condition of debility and disease into which the body has been 
 sinking for years cannot usually be remedied in the brief space of a 
 few weeks or months. This fact is recognized in many water cures- 
 and hospitals where Chronic cases are not admitted except upon 
 agreement that they remain for several months. 
 
 In my own experience I have found the necessity for Chronic 
 treatment, one of the greatest obstacles to success, owing to the 
 proneness of Invalids to omit remedial measures before health is 
 fully restored. 
 
 In the earlier years of my practice, I treated my patients by the 
 month, the result was, that some of those who were better at the end 
 of that period, would stop treatment hoping to continue to improve- 
 without it, and, on discovering their mistake, would feel too much 
 discouraged to resume. On the other hand, some who were not 
 much improved would also discontinue when by perseverance they 
 might have recovered. I then lengthened my first course of treat- 
 ment to two months, and afterwards to three, — since which my reputa- 
 tion for success has been greatly enhanced. 
 
 In order to encourage patients to continue treatment as long as- 
 may be necessary, I reduee my charges after the first three months- 
 to what I may truthfully say is the actual cost to myself. In all 
 cases where there is reasonable ground for hope, I decline to pre- 
 scribe for less than a three months' course. 
 
Business Department. — Invalids desiring to consult me, shoul 
 «if possible visit me at my office, 191 Penn Street, Pittsburgh, 
 Pa. A single interview of half an hour or more, enables me to ex- 
 amine the Lungs and Heart, and otherwise investigate the case 
 thorough^, and at the same time make a complete memorandum of 
 its symptoms, history, and general aspect ; I can then prescribe and 
 furnish the apparatus and remedies necessary for a course of treatment 
 'lasting two or three months. With these and full written and printed 
 instructions concerning the general conduct of the treatment, the 
 ipatient returns home, and is required to report by writing or calling, 
 two or three times a month. 
 
 My offce hours are from 9, a. m., to 4, p. m.; daily, except Sun- 
 days. 
 
 Treatment by Letter. — I have treated hundreds of cases by 
 letter, with the most gratifying success, and invalids unable to visit 
 ime can avail themselves of my treatment by writing to me for a list 
 •of questions which will enable them to state their condition properly. 
 
 The cases of Rev. T. M. Hartly, Rev. I. M. O'Flyng, and George 
 Heyl, given in this pamphlet, were treated by letter. Nevertheless, 
 'those who can visit me for personal examination should do so, when 
 they can return and pursue the treatment at home, and, by reporting 
 -to me often, can still be under my supervision and direction. 
 
 Visits. — I take no cases of acute disease, requiring daily visiting, 
 •and am very seldom absent from my office during my office houis; 
 but, for a reasonable compensation, I will go by night to examine 
 patients who cannot come to me, and who reside at points where the 
 trip can be made between 3, p. m., 10, a. m. 
 
 Terms. — All my cases require chronic or protracted treatment ; 
 -and my charge for the first three months' course, including apparatus 
 •and medicines, is $40 to $50 ; and when a second course is needed, 
 the charge for this is $8 to $10 per month. 
 
 Clergymen are charged half the above rates. 
 
 Address — 
 
 Dr. J. W. SYKES, 
 
 191 Penn Street, Pittsburgh, Pa. 
 

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