A PRACTICAL TREATISE 
. ON 
SPASMODIC ASTHMA, 
ITS CAUSES, SYMPTOMS, VXD THE VARIOUS METHODS OF ITS 
TREATMENT; TOGETHER WITH A FULL DESCRIPTION 
OF THE ONLY 
RATIONAL MODE OF CURE, 
Fully Attested and Approved after a most thorough Trial 
IN OVER 10,000 OASES!!! 
by 
,T. H. fJUILD, M. 1)., RUPERT, VT. 
• RUTLAND: 
TUTTLE A: CO., PRINTERS. 
1869. A PRACTICAL TREATISE 
\ 
ON 
SPASMODIC ASTHMA, 
ITS CAUSES, SYMPTOMS, AND THE VARIOUS METHODS OF ITS 
TREATMENT; TOGETHER WITH A FULL DESCRIPTION 
OF THE ONLY 
RATIONAL MODE OF CURE, 
Fully Attested and Approved after a most thorough Trial 
* 
IN OVER 10,000 OASES!!! 
BY 
J. II. GUILD, 31. !>., HUBERT, YT. 
RUTLAND: 
TUTTLE & CO., PRINTERS. 
1869. Entered according to act of Congress in 1868, in the Clerk’s office of the 
District Court of Vermont. SPASMODIC ASTHMA. 
Asthma is a disease characterized by great difficulty of 
breathing, occurring in paroxysms, and depending on spasmodic 
constriction of the bronchial tubes, without the necessary accom- 
paniment of fever, or organic disease of the heart or lungs. 
SY3IPT03IS. 
The asthmatic paroxysm is often preceded for a longer or 
shorter time, varying from a few hours to several days, by certain 
premonitory symptoms, which warn the experienced patient of its 
approach. Among these symptoms are languor, heaviness of the 
head, drowsiness or headache, flatulent distention of the stomach, 
loss of appetite, stricture across the lower part of the chest, and 
sometimes the copious discharge of limpid urine. In some instances, 
however, the attack is sudden and without warning. 
It occurs generally in the night, most frequently between 
bedtime and two or three in the morning. The patient starts out 
of sleep into an erect posture, with a feeling of tightness or 
compression of the chest, and great difficulty in breathing. The 
air seems as if excluded from the lungs, and violent and even 
convulsive efforts of the muscles of inspiration are made in order 
to expand the chest. A peculiar wheezing noise is made in 
breathing, which can be heard at a considerable distance. 
Expiration is much less difficult and painful than inspiration. 
Under a sense of impending suffocation, the patient is irresistibly 
impelled to seek for cool and fresh air, and the least semblance of 
restriction in this respect is insupportable. He insists that every 
avenue for the entrance of air shall be opened ; and often rushes 
to the door or window, and even leans over the window-sill with 
his head and shoulders projecting, in the vain search of breath, 4 
It is surprising how long the body is sometimes thus exposed, very 
imperfectly covered, to the cold air of winter, without any injurious 
consequences. But a similar impunity is well known to attend 
exposure, under other forms of great nervous excitement. The 
countenance of the patient, and his general movements express an 
indescribable anxiety and distress. It seems to him as though he 
could not possibly live. A common and characteristic position is 
with the elbows upon the knees, and the head between the hands. 
There is occasionally an attempt to cough ; but it is imperfect, in 
consequence of impeded respiration. Speaking is equally imperfect 
and difficult. The face is either pale or flushed, or one and the 
other alternately; the eyes are prominent; the extremities often 
cool; and the head and breast covered with a cold sweat. After 
two, three, or four hours, the symptoms gradually subside, usually 
with a copious expectoration of mucus. The patient will then 
generally fall asleep and upon awaking in the morning, feels 
himself comparatively well. 
But the symptoms do not wholly disappear. Soreness of the 
muscles, and occasionally neuralgic pains are experienced. Some 
feeling of constriction, and perhaps a little wheezing, continue 
through the day; and the difficulty of breathing is greatly 
increased by muscular exertion, and by the horizontal posture. 
The patient often complains of weight and distention of the stomach 
after eating, and of other dyspeptic symptoms. In the following 
night, another paroxysm occurs with the same symptoms as the 
first, and with the same declension towards morning. This 
alternation of exacerbation at night and remission in the day is 
repeated for several day3, usually less than a week ; when the 
paroxysms, which have been gradually abating, cease altogether, 
and leave the patient in his ordinary health. There is still, 
however, some occasional tightness of breath; or at least this 
condition is brought on by causes which do not affect other persons, 
showing the existence of a morbid predisposition. 
Early in the course of Asthma, there is often no return of the 
phenomena above described for a long time. A year, or even 
several years may elapse, before the patient experiences another 5 
succession of paroxysms ; but more frequently they return at the 
end of six, four, or two months, and sometimes recur monthly, 
though the interval is seldom regular. In general, they increase 
in frequency with the duration of the complaint; till at length, in 
some instances, they are brought on by the slightest cause, and 
the patient is never free from the danger of an attack. 
When Asthma is uncomplicated, it often continues for a great 
length of time without materially impairing the health in other 
respects ; and patients sometimes carry the disease into extreme 
old age. Very often, however, it is the originator of disease of 
the heart or lungs, and to avoid this result as well as for the relief 
of the suffering patient the paroxysm should be relieved as soon as 
possible by appropriate medical treatment. 
CAUSES. 
A peculiar predisposition is generally necessary to the production 
of Asthma by the ordinary exciting causes. These causes may 
operate in equal degree upon great numbers of individuals, and 
yet occasion Asthma in but a very few. What is the nature of 
this predisposition, it is not easy to determine. The most that can 
be said is, that it consists in some inappreciable modification of the 
nervous constituents of the bronchial tubes, or of one or more of 
the nervous centres, the influence of which is extended to the 
respiratory apparatus. 
The predisposition is sometimes hereditary. The congenital 
shape of the chest, or of the glottis, is supposed to have some 
influence in its production. It may occasionally be traced pretty 
clearly to spinal irritation, indicated by tenderness upon pressure 
of one or more of the spinous processes. A similar condition of 
the system may possibly be induced by causes of an exhausted or 
debilitating nature, such as habitual mental depression, habitual 
indulgence of any of the stronger passions, profuse evacuations, 
protracted illness, and the different forms of dyspepsia. It is said 
that persons much exposed to irritating inhalations whether in the 
form of gas, vapors, or dust, are peculiarly liable to Asthma. 
Another predisposing cause is said to exist in those professions 6 
•which require, in their exercise, violent and long continued 
respiratory efforts. It is difficult to determine how much influence 
climate may have in the production of the asthmatic predisposition. 
The disease has been supposed to prevail most in moderately 
cold and moist regions; but yet it is frequent in "very hot and very 
cold climates. 
All ages are liable to the disease ; but it is most common in 
middle age, rarely attacks young children, and, though occasionally 
found in the old, seldom originates in advanced life. It is more 
frequent in men than in women, except in old age, when it is said 
to prevail about equally in both. 
Of the exciting causes, the most frequent is probably cold. 
Hence, the paroxysms are most frequent in winter. Exposure to 
very hot air, and the hot bath sometimes induce them. It is said 
that asthmatic patients are peculiarly apt to suffer immediately 
before a thunder-gust, when the atmosphere is highly charged with 
electricity. Patients are sometimes affected by what appear to be 
whimsical causes. Thus, the change from light to darkness, the 
removal from one apartment to another not obviously different, an 
alteration in the direction of a journey, the shutting of a door, the 
very alarm of an expected paroxysm, are said to have induced 
attacks. With one patient a cold dry air agrees best, with another 
a damp air; some can breathe only a pure atmosphere, others 
prefer the smoky and contaminated air of cities. Irritating 
substances, whether aeriform or solid, may excite the paroxysm 
when inhaled. In peculiar cases, certain odors, as that of 
ipecacuanha, and of new-mown hay, produce violent attacks of 
Asthma. Anything capable of irritating the bronchial mucous 
membrane may excite a paroxysm. The suppression of hemorrhages 
or other habitual discharges, the sudden disappearence of cutaneous 
eruptions, the retrocession of gout or rheumatism, and various 
derangements of the stomach consequent upon dyspepsia, especiall 
flatulence, are enumerated among the causes. 7 
It has long been a settled axiom in the public mind that 
for every disease, nature, in her bounteous vegetable storehouse 
has provided a sufficient remedy. The only difficulty was to 
ascertain the particular plant applicable to the disease. Rapid 
and important discoveries have been made within the past decade, 
which would seem to support this theory. By the aid of Mandrake 
we are able to control liver disease and almost banish calomel from 
medical practice. By the use of Geranin, the active principle of 
the plant known as Cranesbill, we are able to successfully resist 
diarrhoea, dysentery, and the whole catalogue of bowel complaints. 
A numerous and increasing list of diseases, we have already an 
antidote for. Still there are some exceptions. Consumption yet 
annually buries its hosts of victims. Cholera rages over every 
opposing force. Yellow Fever continues to strike down the human 
race by thousands. 
Asthma, that dreadful, tormenting, and long continued disease, 
has hitherto ranked among the incurables, and has for ages been 
the bane of the medical profession. The only course was to let the 
patient drag out a miserable wretched existence of ten, twenty, or 
thirty years, growing more and more distressing in a regular 
geometrical ratio, until death closed the scene. 
Almost every drug in the Materia Medica has been used for its 
cure, but without avail. Bleeding and Ipecac, Calomel and 
Lobelia, Tartar Emetic and Colchicum, Squills and Ether, Musk 
and Assafoetida, Opium, Coffee, Tobacco, Chloroform, Belladonna, 
Hydrocyanic Acid, Electricity, Cold Water, Blisters, Nitre, 
Sarsaparilla, Ammonia, Quinine, Iodide of Potassium, &c., &c., 
have been most thoroughly tested, but with little permanent benefit, 
until the unhappy practioner would hopelessly give up the case in 
utter despair. 
It was while treating a most distressing case of this kind, of 
nearly thirty years standing, that the writer, after vainly trying 
every medicine mentioned as beneficial in medical works, found 
among the green hills of his native State of Vermont, a rare plant 
possessing peculiar and singular qualities. Incidentally he was 1 
TREATMENT. 8 
to try it in a case then on his hands, and to his great delight, 
and the much greater joy of his patient, relief was instantaneous. 
In the recommendations which follow, the patient, Mr. Fisher, 
speaks for himself. 
Encouraged by his success in this case, it was tried in others, 
and, invariably with the same result. In order to test its efficacy 
in all parts of the Union, an advertisement was inserted in the 
leading New York papers, offering to send a sample free to every 
sufferer from the disease. Responses came in from every State in 
the Union of the most favorable character. From this beginning 
the fame of the remedy has gradually spread from Maine to Texas, 
from Florida to Oregon, until it has created an excitement among 
the medical profession unequalled since the days when Jenner 
introduced vaccination in Small Pox, or Warren anasthetics into 
surgical practice. Recommendations from every quarter of the 
United States are daily flowing in, reciting the most marvellous 
cures, some of them of forty years standing. 
In every case of pure Asthma, where the disease has but just 
commenced, a single dose proves sufficient to effect an instantaneous 
and complete cure. In long standing cases, which have run on for 
years, it will relieve all difficulty of breathing within the space of 
FIVE minutes, and by a persevering use of the medicine, in every 
paroxysm, the disease will, in a short time, become completely 
eradicated from the system. 
Where the difficulty of breathing is not asthmatic, but is 
produced by an enlarged heart pressing upon the lungs and 
interfering with their proper action, or, as in the early stages of 
consumption, by a mass of tubercular deposit closing the bronchial 
tubes and interfering with the passage of the air to the minute air 
cells of the lungs, the medicine is not proposed as a cure, but it 
will, in all such cases, give immediate relief to the difficult 
breathing. This is a very important consideration, not only for 
the comfort of the patient, but, also from the fact that a 
paroxysm always increases the congestion of the lungs and, as the 
natural sequence, the labor of the heart, so that the sooner relief 9 
to the breathing is obtained in all such cases, the better for both 
diseased heart and lungs. 
We append a selection from the many recommendations we are 
daily receiving, and which we might extend indefinitely had we the 
space, or did we deem it necessary. A trial is, however, the very 
best kind of a recommendation, and, having made arrangements 
for largely increasing the supply of the medicine, we are enabled 
to reduce the price to so low a figure that any person of the most 
limited means can try it. And we hesitate not to guarantee that 
it will give satisfaction in every case of genuine spasmodic asthma. 
Read what those similarly affected, who have tried it, say about it, 
and remember that it is but the general expression of ever customer 
who has used it. RECOMMENDATIONS. 
Rupert, Vt., December 1st, 1868. 
This is to certify that I have been afflicted with Asthma for nearly thirty 
years, the last ten of which I have employed Dr. Guild as my attending 
physician. I found little or no benefit lrom any treatment until Dr. Guild 
tried his newly discovered Asthma Cure, which ga\e me immediate relief. I 
have, since using it, been able to get along without any physician, and also 
carry on my farm work, a thing I had not done for thirty years before. Dr. 
Guild is the principal practicing physician in this town, and I consider him a 
very skillful, and reliable man. His Asthma Cure has done everything for me, 
and also for my brother James, and I feel that I cannot be too grateful to him 
for its discovery. 
SAMUEL C. FISHER. 
The above statement of my brother is strictly correct. Personally I had been 
a sufferer from Asthma for about five years. Dr. Guild’s remedy relieved me 
at once. 
JAMES W. FISHER. 
St. Paul, Minn., August 3d, 1868. 
Dear Sir:—A friend, 500 miles away, sent me a small sample of your 
Asthma Cure. It relieved me immediately. Fearing I may have another 
attack, I enclose the price of a package, as I shall always keep it on hand for 
the marvelous good it has done me. If it will prevent future attacks, or if it 
will only relieve them as it did the last, I would not be without it for every 
dollar I possess in the world. Respectfully yours. 
THOMAS I. PETERS. 
Rossville, Md., November 9th, 1868. 
Dear Doctor;—I have spent during my past life over $2,000 for relief from 
the Asthma, and I can truly say that the package you sent me has been of far 
more benefit to my case than all the rest put together. Yes, for it has given me 
ease and comfort which everything else failed to do. I wish you had the 
$2 000 instead of the old doctors. But it is gone, and although I am nearly- 
ruined, pecuniarily, I feel like taking a new lease of life since I received your 
Asthma Cure. It helped me right off, within three minutes, and since then I 
have had no sign or symptom of an attack, and it is now three months since I 
used it. For the last twelve years, two weeks was a long period for me to go 
without an attack. I hope others will take warning from my example and apply 
at once to you, rather then spend their money, as I did, for medicines that can 
be of no good to them. Your friend, 
I. H. HILL. 
Vienna, Trumbull Co., Ohio, September 5th, 1868. 
Dear Sir:—Your Green Mountain Asthma Cure is a mo$J excellent 
.emedy. Mv wife found immediate relief from the package you sent us. 
Yours, most truly, J. R. CHAMBERLAIN, 11 
Olathe, Johnson Co., Kansas, October 16th, 1868. 
Dear Sir:—For the enclosed post office money order, send me by express 
twelve packages of your Asthma Cube. There is a great call for it in this 
section. 
AMOS N. SYLVESTER. 
St. Louis, Missouri, July 12th, 1868. 
Dr. J. H. Guild, 
Dear Sir :—Allow me to express my gratitude to you for the relief afforded 
my wife by your invaluable Green Mountain Asthma Cure. 
We had a consultation of three physicians the day before it arrived, and they 
unanimously decided that my wife could not live forty-eight hours. To day, 
just one week from that consultation, she is about the house doing her own 
work. She was very bad indeed when the medicine came to hand, so much so 
that it seemed as though every breath would be her last. Within five minutes 
after using your medicines she breathed perfectly easy, and she has had no return 
of her trouble since. Her case created much astonishment among the physicians, 
and one of them requested to use what I had left on some of his patients. Please 
send me another package, as I dare not as yet be without it. 
Your truly, CHAS. F. TILDEN. 
Rutland, Vt. October 12th, 1868. 
Dr. Guild, , 
Dear Sir:—Your Asthma Cure instantly relieved me on the first trial. I 
can most cheerfully recommend it. 
Wm. G. HALSEY. 
Plattsburgh, N. Y., March 12th, 1868. 
Dr. J. H. Guild, 
Dear Sir:—Many thanks for the sample package of Asthma medicine you 
sent me. It fully answered your recommendations in giving me relief in a very 
few minutes. Please send a sample to Rev. John McKinney, of Montreal, as he 
is a gieat sufferer from Asthma. Yours, truly, 
L. D. HAVENS. 
Northampton, Mass., April 16th, 1868. 
Dr. Guild, 
Dear Sir:—The package of Asthma medicine came to hand several weeks 
since, but I had no occasion to try it until last night. It gave me wonderful 
relief almost immediately, and, after a good night’s rest, I awoke this morning 
feeling perfectly well. I have great confidence that it is just the thing I want. 
Respectfully yours, HIRAM HILL. 
Olathe, Kansas, December 9th, 1868. 
Dr. Guild, 
Dear Sir:—Please send me another package of your Asthma Cure, my 
wife finds immediate relief from it every time. What will you charge me for 
he receipt lor making it 1 
Wm. GANS. 
Sanduskv, Ohio, June 17th, 1867. 
Dr. J. H. Guild, 
Sir:—Please send me, by return mail, a package of your Asthma Cure. 
It has been highly recommended to me by a friend who claims that it has been 
a great blessing to him. If it helps me you will hear from it, as I have tried 
everything I could hear of, but without any real benefit. 
Respectfully yours, JOHN KLEIN. 12 
Sandusky, Ohio, July 20th, 1868. 
Dr. Guild, 
Dear Sir:—I promised to let you hear from me if your Asthma Cure proved 
a benefit to me. I cheerfully give in my recommendation to its great value in 
my case. It certainly beat anything I ever tried, making my breathing 
perfectly easy within a few minutes after using it. My appetite and general 
health is also much improved, and I am able to work right along without losing 
a day. Yours truly, 
JOHN KLEIN. 
Portland, Maine, October 7tfc, 1868. 
Dr. Guild :—Your package of Asthma Cure came safely to hand. I had 
no occasion to try it until last night, when I was awakened about midnight by 
one of my old periodical attacks of Asthma. I immediately had recourse to 
your remedy, which in three minutes relieved me completely, so that I fell into 
a sweet and refreshing slumber, which lasted until morning, and to day I feel 
as well as ever. I certainly have reason to believe it to be one of the greatest 
blessings I have ever found. Your friend. 
DAN’L B. SMITH. 
Mobile, Alabama, July 19th, 1868. 
Dr. J. H. Guild, 
Dear Sir:—For twenty-five years I have been a terrible sufferer from 
Asthma, having tried, during that period, everything that could be suggested 
by medical advice or sympathizing friends, but all were of no avail. Many 
times, during that period 1 vrould freely have given every dollar I was worth 
in the world to have been assured that I would live even until the morning, so 
distressing were the paroxysms. Some six months since a friend sent me a 
sample of your Green Mountain Asthma Cure, which gave me so much 
relief that I ordered a package from you by mail. I have since used it, and 
find, to my inexpressible gratification, that it gives me immediate relief, funce 
using it my paroxysms are becoming much farther apart, and when they do 
commence your medicine relieves them at once. I have full confidence that, in 
time, it will effect a complete cure. My general health is also much improved. 
I am able to work more, and can stand changes of weather and storms that 
would have formerly laid me up for weeks. Wishing you abundant success in 
your labor of love, I remain, yours truly, 
LUTHER CUMMINS. 
Vicksburg, Miss., September 27th, 1868. 
Dear Sir:—A brother of mine residing in Ttichmond, Va., who had been 
cured of Asthma by you, sent me a small sample of the medicine for trial in my 
own case. 1 he sample was partly spilled from the letter, so that but a small 
quantity remained. Using this according to directions, gave me so much relief 
that, coupled with my brother’s strong recommendations, I have confidence that 
it will effect a perfect cure. Please send me a package for the enclosed $2. 
JOHN G. LANDIS. 
Buffalo, N. Y., June 19th, 1868. 
My Dear Sir:—The package of Asthma Cure you sent me I have used on 
three of my patients, who were old sufferers from Spasmodic Asthma. The 
relief experienced in all the cases both surprised and delighted me. I have 
never found anything to begin to equal it. In two of the cases the relief came 
within five minutes, the third resisted about twelve minutes, then the symptoms 
began to abate, the patient expectorated freely and dropped into a quiet 13 
slumber. Neither of the three cases have had a renewal of the attack since. 
Please send me for the enclosed draft, one dozen packages, as I can find plenty 
of use for them. Yours fraternally, 
WILLIAM BLAINE, M. D. 
Louisville, Kentucky, December 10th, 1868. 
Dr. Guild, 
Bear Sir:—I have suffered very much from Asthma for the last seventeen 
years, and have vainly tried every remedy that I ever heard of. Upham’s 
Asthma Cure, and Farnham’s also, helped me a little, but I really obtained no 
permanent relief until I tried your Green Mountain Asthma Cure. To 
this I owe the blessing of a restored health, not having had a paroxysm since I 
took the first dose. It worked in my case almost miraculously, and I can 
gladly recommend it to every one afflicted as I have been as a sure and speedy 
cure. Respectfully yours, 
H. C. GREENE. 
Montreal, Canada East,, October 12th, 1868. 
Dr. J. H. Guild :—I wish to enquire if you still furnish the Green Moun- 
tain Asthma Cure. A friend of mine from the States sent us a small sample 
by mail which proved so beneficial in my own case, that I would like to obtain 
a larger quantity, both for my own use, and also for some of my friends. 
Please inform me by return mail of your lowest terms for a quantity of it by 
express, and I will remit you the money. Direct to 
Mrs. M. A. JARVIS. 
Care of Donald, Jarvts & Co., 
Montreal, C. E. 
Portsmouth, N. H., August 8th, 1868. 
Dr. Guild :—As you requested, I take my pen in hand to inform you of the 
good effect produced by your Green Mountain Asthma Cure. It has 
worked most favorably with us, giving me that relief that I had in vain sought 
from many sources, and which I had despaired of ever attaining in this world. 
I see no reason why it may not work equally well in all other cases, and if it 
does you are entitled to the gratitude of all sufferers from Asthma, for bringing 
it to their notice. 
DELIVERANCE STAPLES. 
Albany, N. Y., June 7th, 1868. 
Dr. J. H. Guild, 
Sir:—Your Asthma Cure immediately relieved my wife from a very severe 
attack. She has long been a sufferer from the disease, and has never before 
obtained any relief from her paroxysms. 
Yours truly, B. F. SUTTON. 
• Lowell, Mass., May 6th, 1868. 
Dr. Guild As you wished to know the effect in my case of the sample 
package of medicine you sent me, I am happy to inform you that it gave me 
immediate relief. I have had several attacks commence since, but I find a little 
of the Cure stops them at once. It has proved the best thing for me that I have 
ever tried. Yours, &c., 
JAMES COOK. 
South Park, Colorado, September 18th, 1868. 
Dr. J. H. Guild Send me, by return mail, one package of your Green 
Mountain Asthma Cure. It instantly relieves the paroxysms of my wife, 
and I think it is rapidly curing her. Enclosed find amount, $2. 
P. US130RN, Jr. 14 
Wilmington, Del., July 17th, 1868. 
Dear Doctor:—Please send me by express, “ C. 0. D.,” one dozen packages 
of your Asthma Cure. It is the best thing I have ever found for relieving my 
asthmatic patients. Truly yours, 
WILLIAM HAROD, M. D. 
St. Augustine, Florida, April 6th, 1868. 
Dear Sir:—I enclose the price of a package of your Asthma medicine, which 
please send me by return mail. I have used it with great benefit to myself 
since I have been in this region. Two years ago I sold out my farm in Dutchess 
Co., New York, in hopes that a change of climate would prove beneficial to me, 
having been a sufferer from the Asthma for many years. The change of 
climate, however, gave me no relief, but it led me to become acquainted with 
your valuable medicine. A fellow boarder, Judge H. A. Martin, of New York, 
witnessing my sufferings, told me how he had been relieved by you, and having 
a little of the medicine left, gave it me to try. The relief was the most remark- 
able I have ever experienced. Since then I have been troubled with it but 
little, and am in hopes that a full package will effect a complete cure. Please 
be sure and send it by return mail. Respectfully, 
R. N. BREWSTER. 
Peoria, Illinois, October 11th, 1868. 
Dr. J. H. Guild, 
Dear Sir:—Mr. Thomas Hannum wishes me to write to you for a package 
of your “ Cure.” He says the sample I gave him is helping him very much 
indeed. Please send it immedialely, directed to him at this office. 
Yours truly, M. C. BARNEY. 
Providence, R. I., July 7th, 1868. 
Dr. Guild, 
Dear Sir :—I have been troubled with the Asthma for several years, so much 
so, that I w7as compelled to give up my profession, as clergyman, much to my 
regret. A kind providence directed my attention to your advertisement in the 
New York Tribune, and I sent for a sample, having, however, little faith in its 
beneficent effect in my ease. The result most happily disappointed me. Relief 
from the paroxysm was immediate and effectual. I still continue the use of the 
medicine whenever I feel the symptoms, which are much less frequent than 
formerly. My general health is also much improved, and I trust soon to be 
able to resume again my favorite profession. With many thanks to you for 
your kindness in sending me the sample, I am. 
Yours truly, CHAS. G. CARVER. 
Burlington, Vt., September 22d, 1868. 
Dr. J. H. Guild, 
Hear Sir:—Your Asthma Cure has proved a blessed cure for me. I have 
not had an attack since I used the sample package. Enclosed'find $2, for 
which send me a full package, as I wish to send it to some relatives at a 
distance. Yours fraternally, 
JOHN GORDON. 
Manchester, N. H., September 18th, 1868. 
Dr. J. H. Guild, 
Sir:—Seeing your advertisement, last spring, in the New York Herald, I 
send for a sample" package of your Asthma Cure ; having little confidence, 
however, in its helping me, as I had tried almost everything for the last twenty- 
seven years. The result of a trial astonished and delighted me. In a few 
minutes I could breath easily and raise freely. I have since used it occasionally 
when I was threatened with an attack, being careful to follow your directions 15 
and take it as soon as I felt the first threatening symptom. In this way I have 
kept free from a severe attack ever since, and have been steadily gaining in 
flesh and strength. My appetite is first rate, and I have been able to labor in 
the mills without losing any time for the last four months. 
Your friend, ROBERT NEWMAN. 
Poughkeepsie, N. Y., October 12th, 1868. 
Dr. Guild, 
Dear Sir:—Enclosed find 82, for which send me by mail another package 
of your Asthma Cure. It is proving of great benefit to me, and I think will 
eventually effect a complete cure. But if it never should, I would not be with- 
out it; for the relief it gives me whenever I have an attack, is worth a thousand 
times more than all the medicine cost. 
Yours truly, G. H. MORSE. 
Oshkosh, Wisconsin, July 27th, 1868. 
Dr. Guild :—Please send me another package of your Asthma medicine by 
return mail. It relieves me every time. 
GEORGE B. COCHRAN. 
Wheeling, West Virginia, December 4th, 1868. 
Dr. Guild, 
Dear Sir:—Please send me, C. 0. D., twelve packages of your Asthma 
Cure. My friends are calling upon me from every quarter for it. Send 
immediately. 
T. T. CUSHMAN. 
Hartford, Conn., May 12th, 1868. 
Dr. J. H. Guild:—The sample package of Asthma medicine which I sent 
for in answer to your advertisement in the Nero York Times, produced an 
astonishing relief in my case. The difficulty of breathing disappeared as if by 
magic. If it proves in every case as beneficial as it did in mine, it is one of the 
greatest discoveries of the age. Accept my most hearty thanks for the same. 
Mrs. E. C. HUNTER. ' 
Boston, Mass., September 19th, 1868. 
Dr. J. H. Guild, 
Sir:—Please send me, per express, C. 0. D., one dozen packages of your 
Asthma Cure, as my asthmatic friends are all calling for it. 
Yours truly, RUFUS ADAMS, 
93 State Street. 
Detroit, Michigan, November 27th, 1868. 
Dr. Guild, 
Dear Sir:—As you requested, I have been trying your Asthma Cure on a 
number of my patients, and with a success superior to anything I have hitherto 
used. After a most thorough trial, I can cordially give'it my endorsement. 
Thanking you for the formula for its preparation which you confidentially send 
me, I remain. Yours most truly, 
DANIEL ELLIOTT, M.' D. 
Toledo, Ohio, October 5th, 1868. 
Dr. Guild, 
Sir:—Will you send me another package of your Asthma Cure. Enclosed 
you will find the amount, $2. I could not think of doing without it, as it gives 
me so much ease and comfort when I have an attack of Asthma. I do not have 
them nearly as often as I did when I commenced taking your medicine, and 
when they do commence it stops them immediately. 
Mrs. J. S. Howard. 16 
Wayne, Indiana, November 7th, 1868. 
Dr. Guild, 
Dear Sir:—A friend has sent me a small sample of Asthma medicine 
prepared by you. If gave me so much relief that I am anxious to obtain more. 
Do you still have it on hand, and, if so, what are your terms 7 Please answer 
as soon as possible. Yours truly, 
EZRA PAINE. 
Scranton, Penn., May 6th, 1868. 
Dr. Guild :—Will you please send me a sample of your Asthma medicine, 
the same as you sent Mr. Benjamin Porter of this place. He says it helped him 
right off', and advised me to write for it. Send by return mail. 
GEORGE BLISS. 
Springfield, Mass., September 18th, 1868. 
Dr. J. H. Guild, 
Dear Sir:—Send me a package of your Asthma Cure by return mail. It 
relieves me every time. 'iruly yours, 
HORACE FALES. 
Lancaster, Grant Co., Wisconsin, Dec. 11th, 1868. 
Dr. Guild, 
Dear Sir:—I send in haste to you for a package of your Asthma remedy, 
for one of my neighbors who bad. Your medicine has done wonders fur 
my wife Mary. Enclosed I send you the amount. Please don’t delay, but 
send forthwith. In haste, Your well wisher, 
ASA CUMMINS. 
Omaha, Nebraska, December 10th, 1868. 
Dri Guild, 
Dear Sir:—For the enclosed draft, send me six packages of your Asthma 
medicine. Send as soon as possible as I have disposed of the last package of 
the other lot, and there are several persons now waiting for it. So far as I 
have heard, it has given as good satisfaction in every case as it did with me. 
Send it by express, directed as before, “ To be left until called foras my 
business calls me into town every week. Yours, &c. 
JOHN YOUNG. 
Elizabeth, New Jersey, December 14th, 1868. 
Dr. J. H. Guild, 
Dear Sir:—Your Asthma medicine has cured my wife completely. She has 
not had an attack since she took the first dose. I think I could sell a good deal 
of your medicine if I had an agency. If you will send it to me cheap enough I 
will travel with it, for I know I can sell it to every body that has the Asthma. 
Write me by return mail the best you can do with me. 
Respectfully yours, S. A. GREENE. 
Kingston, Ulster Co., N. Y., December 16th, 1868. 
Dr. Guild, 
Sir:—Seeing your advertisement in the New York Herald, I sent for a 
sample package of your Asthma Cure for my wife, who has been troubled 
with the Asthma for many years. It relieved her so much that I ordered a 
package, and I deem it a duty I owe to you and to the world to acknowledge 
the great benefit she has received from, it. It has given her relief every time 
she has had an attack, within a very few minutes after using the medicine. For 
the last (our months her paroxysms have been much less in number than ever 
before since she was first taken, and so light, that with the use of your medicine, 
she scarcely minds them. Her health is also much improved, and she has gained in weight about twenty-seven pounds. Wishing you abundant success 
in the introduction of your remedy to the notice of every sufferer from Asthma, 
and to whom we can most cordially recommend it, I remain 
Your sincere friend, A. E. ODELL. 
Reading, Penn., December 12th, 1868. 
Dr. Guild, 
Dear Sir ." — Having tried all the different remedies for Asthma I have ever 
seen advertised, until 1 had become almost faithless in the power of medicine to 
benefit my case ; I was induced by a friend to try your Green Mountain 
Asthma Cure. It gave me great and immediate relief, such as I had never 
experienced from anything I had ever before tried, and I can fully recommend 
it to the notice of every person who has suffered, as I have, from Asthma, as a 
quick and sure means of relief. 
JOHN BURRILL. 
New Pittsburgh, Wayne Co., Ohio, Dec. 13th, 1868. 
Dr. Guild, 
Dear Sir:—Please send me a package of your Asthma medicine. Send it as 
soon as vou can. it is a most valuable remedy. Direct to 
PEARSON LANG. 
Ashland, Ohio, December 19th, 1868. 
Dr. J. H. Guild, 
Dear Sir :—I wish to obtain a package of your Asthma Cure. I received 
much benefit from a small sample sent me fer trial by Mr. Pearson Lnng of 
Hew Pittsburgh. He writes me that he has experienced great relief from it, 
and is recommending it to others. Please send me a package by mail as soon 
as possible. 
EMMA CHRISTY. 
Evansville, Indiana, November 10th, 1868. 
Dr. Guild, 
Sir: — 1 feel as if I ought to tell you what your medicine has done for me. 
I have the witness, both within and without, that it has done me more good 
than all the medicine I ever took. My health is now of the first order. All 
languid feelings, pains and aches, have fled away from my chest, and I have an 
uncommon clearness of mind that I have never felt before since my first attack 
of Asthma. 
The telief, after using your medicine, was so great that I could hardly realize 
it. To be able to lay down and pass a quiet night was a thing I had so seldom 
done before in many years, that it seemed like a new life opened to me. 
The $2 I paid for a package of your medicine is a small sum that is easily 
counted, but the great good it has done me can never be estimated. I have 
been doctered by a great many physicians without any benefit, as I stated to 
you in my letter last May, and nothing has ever done me any good until I took 
your medicine. Sincerely yours, 
R, H. GAY. 
Cazenovia, New York, December 15th, 1868. 
Dr. J. H. Guild, 
Sir: — Having heard the most favorable accounts, from some of my friends, of 
your Asthma Cure, I would like to try it. Please send me what the enclosed 
will pay for. Direct to 
FREDERICK HITCHCOCK. 
Hannibal, Missouri, December 17th, 1868. 
Dr. Guild :—I have had the Ti>ic, or what you call Asthma, for over forty 
years, and have tried all kinds of medicine but they did me no good, until ray 18 
daughter, in Vermont, sent me a little of your medicine in a letter. It helped 
me very much, more than I had ever been helped before by any body, and I 
want you new to send me a full package, or $2 worth, by mail, postage paid, 
and send it light off, as I mean to give it a fair trial. Direct to 
REUBEN WILBUR. 
Frederick, Maryland, December 20th, 1868. 
This is to certify that I have been troubled with the nust distressing Asthma, 
or Phthisic for many years, until I found my strength and constitution torn 
and wrecked by it, my appetite failing, and a sinking, gene feeling in the pit 
of my stomach, and a general debility of my whole frame. The opinion of 
every one was that I was fast going in consumption. One of my neighbors, 
who had been greatly benefited by your Asthma medicine, advised me to get a 
package. I did so, and, before 1 had used half of it, I felt like a new woman. 
It gave me immediate relief, and my general health began to mend fast. The 
second package has entirely restored me to health, so that 1 feel as well as I 
ever did in my life. 
MARY H. SMITH. 
Morrisana, New York, December 25th, 1868. 
Dr. J. H. Guild, 
Dear Sir:—Will you be so kind as to send me another package of your 
Asthma Cure. It has helped my little boy very much, and 1 am in strong 
hopes that another package will thoroughly cure him. The case has created a 
great deal ot interest in this vicinity, and I think you will get many more cases. 
iSend the medicine as soon as possible. Your friend, 
LORIN E. COE. 
Treasury Department, 
Washington, D. C., December 27th, 1868. 
Dr. Guild, 
Sir :—Will you please send me, by return mail, a package of your remedy 
for Asthma. It has been very highly recommended to me by several gentlemen 
and as I sometimes suffer from the disease I would like to give it a trial. 
Respectfully, A. WHITNEY. 
Philadelphia, Pa., October 7th, 1868. 
Dr. J. H. Guild, 
Dear Sir:—Fend, by return mail, two packages of your Asthma Cure. 
It is benefitting me very much. Direct to 
S. G. MASON, 
No. 1225, Market Street. 
Watervliet, New York, August Gth, 1868. 
Sir:—What will be your lowest cash terms per dozen for your Asthma 
Cure? I am tired of ordering it by the single package for my friends. Give 
me your best terms and perhaps I can do a good thing for both you and myself 
too. In haste, 
D. D. SWEET. 
Pittsburgh, Pa., September 18th, 1868. 
Respected Sir:—The first impulse of a man who has been restored from 
sickness to perfect health, is gratitude to the hand that has healed him. 
Although, personally, you are unknown to me, and this correspondence is 
unsoliciUd bv you, still 1 feel it a duty I owe to you, as the discoverer of the 
Green Mountain Asthma Cure, and to the public generally, to make a fair 
statement of my experience in the use of your valuable medicine. 
Some five years ago, I had my first attack of Asthma, not very severe at the 19 
commencement, but gradually taking a deeper and a stronger hold, until hardly 
a week would pass without a more or less severe attack. Last spring, I noticed 
your advertisement in a > ew York paper, and sent tor a sample package. It 
gave me so great a relief that I purchased a full package, and by using it 
freely the disease rapidly abated. I have now used but three packages, and am 
entirely free from the disease as far as I can judge, and feel as well as I ever 
did in my life. 
In all gratitude, I remain, yours truly, 
J. W. HAZARD. 
Erie, Penn., June 7th, 1868. 
Dear Sir :—Send me, by return mail, a package of your Asthma Cure. 
It is helping me very much. Some of my neighbors are enquiring for it. What 
will be your lowest price by the dozen packages ? 
N. WOOD, Jr. 
Petersburgh, Virginia, July 12th, 1868. 
Dr. Guild, 
Sir:—Send me, as soon as possible, by mail, another package of your 
Asthma medicine. I let the latt of mine go to a poor neighbor who is severely 
afflicted with the disease. Yours, in haste, 
THOMAS SMITH 
Dayton, Ohio, May 10th, 1868. 
Dear Sir:—The sample package of medicine you sent me has relieved my 
Asthma very much. Hoping that a full package will effect a cure, I remain, 
Sincerely yours, D. N. S l'ANTON. 
Newark, New Jersey, May 1st, 1868. 
Respected Friend:—T have found your Asthma Cure a great blessing to 
myself. It gives me relief from those terrible sufferings every time I try it, 
and is, I think, gradually breaking the force of the disease. Accept my most 
sincere thanks for the benefit your discovery has already conferred upon me. 
JOHN HOWARD. 
Attleboro, Mass., September 5th, 1858. 
Dr. J. H. Guild, 
Sir ;—Send me, by Express, one half dozen packages of your Asthma Cure, 
It has proved so beneficial to my wife that she wishes to obtain some for some 
friends of hers who are similarly afflicted. 
Yours truly, THOMAS BROWN. 
Hempstead, Long Island, July 19th, 1868. 
Dr. Guild Will you please send, by return mail, a package of your 
Asthma remedy to John Pond of this place. He is a great sufferer from Asthma 
and, having seen the effects of your medicine on some of his acquaintances, is 
anxious to try it. 
A. R. HAMILTON. 
Bath, Maine, August 12th, 1868. 
Dear Doctor:—Will you please to send me, by mail, another package of 
your Asthma remedy. The last one is nearly gone, and my daughter has 
received so much benefit from it, that I propose to keep her on it until she is 
entirely cured. It is by far uie best thing we have ever tried, and the only 
thing that has ever given her a particle of relief during the severe attacks. 
Truly yours, .v , - M. LINCOLN- We might extend these recommendations indefinitely had we 
room, or did we deem it necessary. We have selected, from the 
hundreds on hand, those which would tend to show the universal 
application of the Asthma Cure to all parts of the country. It 
is hoped, and in fact, expected, that every asthmatic patient wrho is 
benefitted by its use will take especial pains to inform others who 
are similarly afflicted. Thus far it has been freely and willingly 
done, and has thus been of great service in helping to extend the 
name and fame of the Cure to every State in the union, until it is 
in a fair way to divest spasmodic asthma of all its terrors and 
possibly eradicate the disease from the land. 
IIV CONCLUSION. 
IT IS HARMLESS? 
In answer to frequent enquiries upon that subject, we take this 
method of informing our customers that there is nothing deleterious 
about the Asthma Cure. It is, as before stated, composed solely 
from the leaves of a rare plant found among the Green Mountains 
of Vermont. Its properties are purely benignant, and it can be 
used daily, according to the directions, for a lifetime without any 
harm to the general health. On the contrary, it seems to 
reinvigorate the system, increase the appetite, strengthen the 
muscles, and improve the secretions generally. Still its constant 
use, in most cases, does not seem to be necessary, a single dose 
always giving immediate relief, and frequently effecting a complete 
cure. 
The question has been asked why we do not appoint agents 
throughout the country to sell the Asthma Cure, it being in such 
universal demand, our answer is this : 
NO AGENTS APPOINTED. 21 
An agent must have his commission of at least 50 per cent., and 
then there is the great expense and outlay of capital in supplying 
them with a stock on hand. This must eventually all come out of 
the consumer, and to meet the increased expense we should have 
to increase the price of the Cure, charging you $3 for what we 
now sell you for $2. 
Again, all valuable remedies that are introduced through agents 
are more or less counterfeited, and a worthless article substituted 
and palmed off upon communities as the genuine “ Original 
Jacobs.” By ordering direct from us, you are sure to get the 
genuine article, and at a greatly reduced rate from what you 
would through a system of agencies. 
We hope to be able to reduce the price of the Asthma Cure so 
soon as we can obtain a sufficient supply of the plant from which it 
is composed. Arrangements are being made for its cultivation 
which, if successful, will render it much cheaper. It is now very 
difficult to obtain a supply sufficient to fill our orders. Still we 
have done so thus far, and we intend to answer all cash orders 
promptly without regard to the expense to us. But until the 
plant becomes more abundant, we can make uo arrangements with 
agents to sell on commission. 
READER. 
If you are not a sufferer from Asthma yourself, thank God for 
your exemption from a scourge which none can appreciate but 
those who have felt its withering power. Have you a friend, a 
relative, an acquaintance, who groans beneath that dreadful 
scourge, for want of the relief which the Asthma Cure alone can 
give ? If so, send him this little treatise, or, if you cannot spare 
it, write us his name and address and we will cheerfully send him 
one. 22 
TO THE MEMBERS OF THE MEDICAL PROFESSION. 
Gentlemen, you, of all others, can.fully appreciate the discour- 
agements and trials attendant upon the treatment of Asthma. 
What one individual of you but has been annoyed and tormented, 
and tried almost beyond the power of human endurance, by just 
such obstinate cases as those referred to in the recommendations 
which we publish. To the young practitioner, just setting out in 
his career, such cases are the bane of' his profession. He justly 
fears that a failure to cure will destroy his budding reputation 
before it can become established upon a solid basis. In vain he 
goes through the whole catalogue of medicines which his authorities 
tell him have ever been of benefit in this dire plague, but, alas! 
too often he is obliged to give up the case as beyond his reach; 
thus losing the confidence of his patient in his skill and more or 
less affecting his general medical reputation. 
To you, we recommend a trial of the Asthma Cure in every 
such case. It will not disappoint you. Too many thousands 
have testified to the contrary to leave you the least shadow of 
doubt about it. Try it, as many of your profession are already 
doing, some of them ordering at the rate of $50 per year, and, 
like them, you will never be without a supply on hand hereafter. 
N. B.—Our terms to the profession are very liberal. 
GENERAL ADVICE TO ASTHMATIC PERSONS. 
Ren ember to bo very careful of your diet. Let your food be 
nutritious, but easy of digestion. For meats, take good beef or 
mutton, poultry, fish and game. Avoid fresh pork, and hot, 
stimulating, highly seasoned food. Butter, milk, cheese, eggs, 
potatoes, rice, bread, both brown and white, fruit and vegetables 
generally, can be fully eaten. Be careful of overloading the 
stomach, particularly at supper. Let that meal be your lightest 
one, and take it early. Alcoholic drinks, used habitually, are 
usurious. The same may be said of strong tea or coffee. 23 
Daily bathing with either cold or warm water, as is most agree, 
able to the patient, followed by brisk friction of the skin, is highly 
serviceable. It opens the pores of the shin, and relieves the 
lungs of very much extra labor. Exercise is very beneficial, 
especially on horseback. 
Above all things avoid taking cold as much as possible. Keep 
warmly clad, with flannels next the skin always, and never allow 
yourself to be exposed to long continued storms of wind or rain. 
Whenever you feel the first indication of an attack, use a little 
of the Asthma Cure according to the directions which accompany 
each package. A very little will serve to ward off an attack if 
taken in season, much less than it will take to break the paroxysm 
when fully formed. Should the attack show a disposition to return 
the succeeding night, recur again to the Cure, which will instantly 
relax the contracted bronchial tubes, thus allowing the air to 
permeate every portion of the air cells of the lungs, and permitting 
the easy expectoration of the mucus already collected therein. 
No one can realize its marvelous efficacy in such cases until they 
have tried it, and no one, having once tried it, will willingly be a 
day without it, if they have any fears ot a return of the disease. 
DIPLOMAS. 
We would refer the attention of the reader to the diplomas 
awarded to us in New York city, copies of which are to be found 
on the cover of this pamphlet. We present no apology for thus 
exhibiting them. They were fairly and honorably won, and are 
exact copies, in wording, of the originals which can always be 
found hanging in our office. 24 
TERMS. 
The Asthma Cure is put up in packages of one-fourth pound 
each, and will be sent by mail, postage prepaid by me, for $2 per 
package. 
Six packages will be sent by Express, to any address, on receipt 
of $9. Or it will be sent C. 0. D. and return charges, if 
requested. 
Orders from Canada must enclose $2.25 for single package, by 
mail, to cover the extra postage. 
In all orders for a single package, it is best to enclose the money 
in a letter to my address. Where a half dozen or more packages 
are ordered, enclose the money in a registered letter, or send a 
post office money order on the Manchester Post Office, this being 
our nearest money order office. In all these cases the money can 
be sent at my risk. 
Don’t forget to write your Name, Post Office, County and 
State in full in your order, and then direct it plainly to 
J. H. GUILD, M. D., 
Rupert, Vermont. 
Bennington County. 
N. B.—The reputation of the Medicine has become so fully 
established, that we shall, hereafter, decline to send out any more 
sample packages. 
directions for use will accompany each package, and 
my signature, in red ink, will be found on the wrapper, without 
which none is genuine. 
Many of our patients, having received so much benefit 
from the use of the Asthma Cure, are anxious to supply it to 
their suffering friends and acquaintances. To all such, who will 
keep a supply on hand, we will furnish it by the dozen on the most 
liberal terms, which will be made known on application.