Excerpt from On the Nature, Treatment and Prevention of Pulmonary Consumption: And Incidentally of Scrofula, With a Demonstration of the Cause of the Disease Consumption and Scrofula in all essentials are one. Tubercle in its varied protean guises, is but the result of a deterioration of the blood, of the retention of excre tions, carbonaceous and other impurities in the blood, where they have no business to remain. In oonss quence of the imperfect performance of the respiratory functions, these impurities accumulate. The time at length comes round when they must be got rid of, if not during and through the act of respiration, perforce otherwise. The result is their deposition as an inorganic matter in the form of tubercle, in the lungs and other or gans, these, saving the diffusion of tuberculous blood, being perchance in other respects sound. A dead matter is de posited in the tissues. That which Should be thrust aside, Shovelled out as it were, is detained Within the organisa tion. These all-important facts being positively determined, the cause and radical cure, in Short the prevention of consumption and scrofula with all their concomitant ravages, are placed as absolutely as small-pox itself has been placed, within human control. '1 here need now be no more consumption, no more scrofula, and diseases which have actually advanced as civilization itself has advanced, henceforth, now indeed and for ever, may be set aside. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.