We had a family doctor in Chicago in the 50's who had a something he
called a "Lincoln Treatment" that he used for treating Sinus problems.
My grandmother had sinus problems and he gave her this treatment which
was a yelllowish/greenish liquid, very light in color that was placed in
a glass inhaler. The inhaler was a glass bulb that connected via glass
tube and rubber connector to a "y" that went into your nose. The whole
thing was steralized before use. The glass bulb had a right angle tube
to attache to a hose connected to a hand valve that let the patient hit
the valve which put oxygen into the inhaler and bubbled through the
liguid asperating it into your nose.
The smell was not bad, just not good and very pungent. A kind of
organic, medicinal, astringenty kind of smell, hard to describe. It
would take you 15-30 mins or so as I remember to inhale the half to one
cc of the liquid he placed in the inhaler.
This was in the 50's that he treated her and when she passed away in
1973, she didn't have sinus problems. I had sinus problems as a kid,
perhaps 6-8 yrs old and I had the treatments too. I would cough and
gurgle with the sinus problems and often had sinus infections, etc. The
treatments cleared them up then and to this day I have no sinus problems.
On the other hand, I was sick some 60 days in 1st grade. I was often
sick till third grade. Once in 4th, I couldn't get sick and thereafter I
didn't miss any school until a sophmore in college when I took a Friday
off to come in and see my doc since I had a horrible sore throat.
I don't get the flu, last time I had it was 82-83 and colds generally
are a sore/dry throat and then a cough for several weeks. What I do have
is a leg ulcer that is not connected with diabetes, or venous problems
but an autoimmune ulcer. Somtimes there are associated problems (crohns,
RA, or UC but I don't have those or any symptoms for the long years I've
had the ulcer).
So, if anyone has heard of this Lincoln Treatment or what it was, I'd
like to hear what you've got to say. I'm wondering if this treatment had
some effect on my immune system that could be the cause of my leg ulcer.
Just a stab in the dark, as much as my thinking exposure to sailboat
bottom paint that is heavy in copper could be the cause, a few years
before I got the ulcer.
TIA!!!!
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Yours,
Tom