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Tom Bates
Guest
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
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!!!!
--
Yours, Tom