One fact is worth a cart load of opinions. What then must be the value of the hundreds of accumulated facts which support this view? Thus M. Boudet states, that in the post mortem examination of forty-five subjects, between three and fifteen years old, he had observed the cure of Consumption in twelve cases.

"In one hundred and sixteen individuals, aged between fifteen and seventy-six years, tubercles in the lungs or bronchial glands had become innocuous in ninety-seven cases, and had wholly disappeared in sixty-one.

"In one hundred and ninety-seven autopsies, promiscuously taken, he found ten instances in which, at least, one cavern completely cicatrized, existed in the lung; and in eight cases one or more cavities were found in different stages of cicatrization.

"There can be, therefore, no question as to the curability of Consumption."

The belief in the curability of phthisis is gaining ground every day, on both sides of the Atlantic, because the facts presented are absolutely incontrovertible; no sane man, (I mean medical man,) can resist them, who will acquaint himself with them. And I have great hopes, that, in a few years, a disease which now destroys. one in six of the inhabitants of New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Baltimore, Washington, and of other large cities, and perhaps not a less proportion in the country, will be as often and as perfectly cured, as bilious fever. It is true, that the mode and means of cure may be various in different hands, just as in any other disease; fever and ague, for example, is cured by different remedies, but the principles of cure must be forever the same.

The populace generally, many common physicians, and even a few educated ones, believe it incurable.

There are, however, many great names bearing unequi vocal testimony that it can be perfectly cured, even in its last stages, by healing with a scar, just as a gaping cut finger will heal in a healthy person, if you press the sides together. That such scars are found in the lungs, and Consumption cured, the following testimonies are offered. Not the assertions of men, who have never examined the lungs in a dozen dead bodies, but of those who have examined many thousands, and have a right to know and to be relied on.

I found an encased cavity, on an almost healthy lung tissue. Louis.

That a tubercular excavation is ever capable of a cure, is an important fact; and IT IS so, independently of all medical aid.-Cowan.

"It is next to impossible to open a dozen bodies without meeting with positive proof of the curability of Consumption," in the presence of cicatrices, scars, in the lungs. Dr. Ramadge, of London.

DR. CLARKE, of England, who wrote a book to prove that Consumption could not be cured, admits that "cavities in the lungs may remain a long while stationary, gradually contract, and become obliterated!"

DR. LATHAM, another English physician of distinction, who also endeavored to prove the same point, distinctly says, we occasionally find traces of cavities, which have healed, in persons who have died of Consumption."

66

The important fact of the curability of Consumption, has been satisfactorily established, and its perfect cure demonstrated.-Cyc. Prac. Med:

A French physician, who died a few years ago, and is believed to have taught the world more that was new on the subject of the same disease, than any one man

who had ever lived before him, and who spent many years among consumptive patients, inquiring into their symptoms, and feelings when alive; and examining the lungs of those who died, writes in this manner, "When I first asserted the evidence of pulmonary cicatrices, it directed the attention of the hospital physicians to the subject, and so many of these evidences existed, they concluded it could not be that, but was something else! An ulcer in the lungs may be cured in two ways, by a scar, or by turning it into a fistula; these scars and fistulas in the lungs, are extremely common; and considering the great number of consumptive, and other subjects, in whom they are found, the cure of Consumption ought not to be considered impossible; for cavities in the lungs may be completely obliterated. It has been shown that its cure is not beyond the power of nature, it is possible for nature to cure it."—Laennec.

"Heat is generated in proportion to the size and vigor of the lungs. Many persons with imperfectly developed lungs and a predisposition to Consumption, complain habitually of a coldness of the surface and feet. And many who were in previously good health, become more and more sensible to cold, in proportion as the approach of the disease, weakens the functions of the lungs. I have noticed this, both in myself and others, before any other evident symptom had appeared. And I have seen its further progress arrested, by a timely use of the proper means, where much greater difficulty would have been experienced, had the warning not been attended to."-Dr. Combe, of Scotland.

Marshal Hall says, Obs. 2316, "The usual appearances of a cavity in phthisis and of the subsequent cicatrix," &c., and then proceeds to give engravings to show

how they look. "The utmost resources of our art often avail us nothing. But scars are seen in the lungs, establishing the fact that a tuberculous cavity heals, after the matter is expectorated, and I will tell you how to remove the tuberculous matter by absorption and prevent its formation."-Dr. Weatherhead.

Tuberculous cavities are healed in three ways.-Dr. Hope.

Dr. Weatherhead, one of the most honored of the London Faculty, writes: "With the superior advantages of treating Consumption on this plan, I was early impressed, from observing more recoveries under it, while employed during the late war at Hasler, one of the largest hospitals in England. And more lately, Dr. Giovanni di Vittis, physician of the Military Hospital at Capua, bears similar testimony to its efficacy in the Medical Annals of 1832, where he states that "between the 1st of May, 1828, and the 28th of January, 1832, forty-seven patients affected with Consumption in the first stage; one hundred and two in the second; and twenty-seven in the third or last stage, had left the hospital PERFECTLY CURED!!"

It is recorded in the "Transactions of the Path, &c., of Philadelphia," which society is composed of the most distinguished medical professors and physicians of that city, that "Dr. Parish, who during his life was the ornament and the honor of his profession, was, at the age of twenty-five years, attacked with Consumption in its hereditary form; having lost a brother and sister by that complaint. He finally died in his sixty-first year, thirtysix years after his attack of Consumption." His body was examined by eight physicians of standing, among whom were several professors, who reported that "there

was no recent tubercular granulations or deposits, but there were numerous cicatrices, depressions, puckerings, &c., proving that his apprehensions in early life were well founded, and giving the strongest evidence of the efficacy of his prophylactic measures." Here is a case of Consumption arrested in its progress, and effectually and permanently cured; the patient, at the end of a third of a century, dying after a three weeks' illness of a complication of ailments, not specially referable to the lungs at all, as the seat of tubercular disease; a case of Consumption cured, known to every respectable medical man in Philadelphia; known too by evidence which no medical man can resist, for it is a demonstration !

Dr. Carswell is one of the most eminent British physicians living: he is referred to by medical writers both in Europe and America, and is considered as the highest authority in lung affections, because he has for many years made tubercular disease a special study, and few men stand higher in the profession than he does. In writing an article on the general subject for the Cyclopædia of Practical Medicine, one of the most extensive and useful medical publications of modern times, every article being written by men of established reputation, a book designed to be a standard work, and to be placed, as it deserves to be, on the shelf of every respectable physician in America and Europe, for daily reference; especially in this country, being adapted to the wants of the American practitioner, by Dr. Dunglison, himself perhaps the most popular medical writer in the United States—in a work of such a high character Dr. C. says:

"We shall confine ourselves to a statement of those facts, more especially those of an anatomical character, which demonstrate the favorable termination or cure of