FRESH AIR FOR LUNG DIFFICULTIES.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 732, 23 December 1914, Page 7

FRESH AIR FOR LUNG DIFFICULTIES.

The heart, brain, and lungs are often called vital organs, because upon them, as upon a tripod, rests the lamp of life. Life is quickly extinguished if any one of these vital organs ceases to act. Virgil called the atmospheric air the votal air, because it is the channel through which the essential principle of life is conveyed to the blood; and again, the Mood is called the river of life, because no part of the body can be long* sustained without a proper cirruNation of the blood To breathe well is to live well. How to breathe well and utilise the vital air is therefore "the one important thing in lung difficulties. To know the nature and office of the" lungs and their relation to the vital air, and to the circulation of the blood, is to know the chief remedy for all lung complaints-. It is as unnecessary to name every symptom or varying condition of the lungs or body, as it is to measure and name the waves of the sea; all we need to know is the primal cause of the trouble, and how to remove' it Pneumonia is only another name for what is called lung fever, or inflammation of the lungs. Inflammation signifies "inflame," or "on fire," and conveys almost as much meaning to the common mind as to the learned medical expert the latter knows inflammation chiefly by its fire symptoms of heat, pain, redness, swelling, and disturbance of function:'and nons'cf these, nor all together, are a sufficient guide to tho proper remedy. Tho ordinary medical expert assumes that the real cnuro of tuberculosis is a microscopic organ ir-m named- by tin . profcr;:;io:i, "tubercle bacillus." Having lru-ds his d'n.gnos-.s he wages a deadly warfare, esicnsibly against tho insignificant microbe, but really against the vitality of the patient. Now it is cbnr. to the intelligent physiologist, who is r.ot blinded by the pseudo-science- of bacteriology, that what the patient really needs is more atmospheric air to air tho blood in the lungs, and this can bo easily and readily obtained by his own voluntary effort. Asthma, colds, coughs, croup, and all lung difficulties are sometimes cured and prevented by natural methods : without the use of drugs. To remove the cause is to cure the complaint. Why depend longer upon drugs and dangerous methods, which from time immemorial have occasionally failed to perform what was promised? There is a sure cure in the atmospheric air which surrounds us every moment—the vital air.

QUASSIA FOR THE DRINK HABIT.

All sorbs of "cures" for the drink habit have been recommended, from the humble meadow herbs to bi-chloride of gold, but one of the simplest remedies, according to Dr. T. D. Crothers, is quassia, that bitterest of drinks. For office or home treatment Dr. Crothers believes it is of the best.

"I hare found/' said Dr. Crothers. "a concentrated solution of quassia to be tho most effective cf all the remedies." Ho explains that an infusion of quaccia should be made and then boiled down once' or twice in order to obtain double the strength. It should be given to a drinking man with strict orders to take half an ounce every two hours throughout tho day. The drinking man may drink his liquor puibo as usual, but under no consideration must he neglect his half ounce of quassia every two hours. Tin's remedy is. cf course, best for the drink victim who is anxious himself to gain a victory over it. Tho way this works is that in a short timo a form of quassia poisoning conies on. This poisoning does not a.Teeb the victim in any way ezccnb to make all forms of spirituous liquors intensely disgusting and actually repelling to him. , Ordinarily the result of this is at first surprise on the part of the drinking man when he discovers that lie not only does not like liquor, but that it makes him deathly ill to drink it. Next he is pleased—that is, provided he is anxious to cure himself—and while the bitter quassia is extremely unpleasant he sticks to it and takes v>!easure in drinking it, knowing that a cure is being effected. From a strong- dislike of liquor >ho moment lie tries to drink it he begins to dread trying- to drink it, and finally all desire to make the attempt has left him. "Invariably," says Dr. Crothers, "such a drink victim who honestly desires to break himself of the habit oxpresses his deepest gratitude to his physician after ho has taken the cure."