Excerpt from Pulmonary Consumption: That Fatal Destroyer of Man! Its Curability Demonstrated on Natural Principles Alone, Combining Medicated Air, Medicated Inhalation, and Natural HygieneThe treatment of Pulmonary Consumption, until within a very few years, has been involved in the greatest uncertainty and darkness. By universal consent among the uneducated, and with few and solitary exceptions among the profession, the disease has ever been regarded as incurable. No art of medicine, it was thought, could drive out or destroy this enemy of human life, when once it had gained possession of the lungs.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.