Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Purification and Disinfection of the System by a Proper Use of Fresh-Burned Charcoal and Pure Air: Better Than Poisoning It for the Prevention and Cure of the Great Majority of Diseases
Several years ago, the writer of this published a pamphlet (not for sale, but merely a few hundred copies for private cir culation), entitled Uses of Charcoal, in which he stated what he had then frequently seen proved, that dysentery, cholera infantum, summer complaint of children, and other diseases caused by breathing impure air, or drinking foul water, are easily prevented, and infallibly cured, by a proper use of fresh burned charcoal, or charcoal that has not been left exposed after being burned, so as to absorb impurities from the air or other sources.
Within the last eight years, several hundred cases have been reported to us where no other remedy was used, and we have never yet heard of a single case where it failed to purify and restore the patient.
It is true, that where the air has been very impure and hot, the disease in the cases of one or two young children while teething, has after a few days returned, and it has been deemed advisable to call in the aid of a disinfecting ventilator, which furnishes a constant current of pure air. The charcoal and pure air in these cases, speedily restored the patient to perfect health and strength. No other remedy was used.
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