The magnetic organization of the human system, and its application to the cure of chronic diseases / abridged from the works of the late Henry Hall Sherwood by H.H. Sherwood's successor William Larned.

  • Sherwood, H. H. (Henry Hall)
Date:
1850
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    aware of the great danger hanging over me, advised me to change my location for a mere southerly one, as affording the only hope, not of a restoration of my health, but of prolonging my feeble existence; and beyond all doubt it was the best pre- scription in their power to make. Now, I do candidly believe, that my case was incurable under the common mode of practice, and that the most judicious practice known to the profession was pursued by him to whom I submitted my case. Ac- cording to the above advice, I determined to remove to the south, and had com- menced preparation by selling off a part of my property, when I was, by the kina- ness of a friend, (a physician too,) directed to Dr. Sherwood and his remedies—for which I consider myself under eternal obligation to the Merciful Disposer cf all good. 1 do believe that every case of insipient tubercular consumption may be radi- cally cured by a use of the above remedies; and I feel it my duty to submit my case with these few remarks, to the public, from the fact that thousands are carried to an untimely grave, in spite of the most scientific practice of the schools—that would, in my opinion, have been, with all certainty, saved by a use of the electro- magnetic remedies. B. S. LAWSON, M. D., Cincinnati. TtJBEBCULA OF THE RIGHT LUNG, HEART, STOMACH, LIVER, SPLEEN, KID- NEYS, SPINE, INTESTINES AND UTERUS. Mrs. P., of the city of New York, of light complexion, arid small and slender frame. I was called to see her on the 20th of May, 1837, and, on examining her spine, found she had tubercula of the right lung, heart, stomach, liver, spleen, kidneys, intestines and uterus. On inquiry, I found that she was married at the age of 15 years, and had suffered two abortions. The disease commenced about two years before, in the uterus, with leucorrhoea, and was thence propagated to the stomach, and thence to the liver, spleen, heart, kidneys, and at last to the right lung. In January of the above year, cough and expectoration com- menced, and had continued to that time. The whole length of the spine was very sensitive to the touch, and she could consequently bear but very little pressure upon it. On her observing that there was some swelling along her back, I examined it, and found a white swelling along each side of the spine, extending from the sixth dorsal to the third lum- bar vertebrae. As this was an extraordinary case of tubercular disease, involving so many organs, as well as the vertebrae at the same time, I requested the liberty of inviting several distinguished physicians to see it, before I commenced the use of the remedies. This request being granted, I invited four of them to see it; all of whom agreed, after an examination of the case, that it was hopeless of cure, under the use of the common remedies. I then commenced the use of the magnetic remedies—the plaster to extend the whole length of the spine. Her health began to improve soon after. About the first of July, her cough and expectoration had increased during a few days; and on an exami- nation of the chest with the stethoscope, I found an excavation in the upper part of the right lung, showing that a cluster of tubercles had softened down and made their way into the air-tubes, and left an exca- vation since I first examined her lungs. Her health, soon after, began to improve again; the white swellings of the vertebras disappeared; and in about seven weeks the excavation was healed and entirely closed, and her cough and expectoration also disappeared in a few months after. The other tuberculated organs were gradually reduced to the natural state ; and soon after, the state of ges- tation was renewed, and continued through the natural period.