Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 December 1886 — Phthisis as Affected by Age. [ARTICLE]

Phthisis as Affected by Age.

In an interesting work by Dr. "Wurzburg on the influence of age and sex on the mortality due to tubercular phthisis, statistics are given which prove that, after a large percentage of infancy, the minimum death rate is met with from three to fifteen years, and that then the rise is a gradual ancl steady one up to the period' between sixty and seventy years, after which a rapid decline is noted. The data are from Prussia, and embrace a period of five years, namely, from 1875 to 1879. The same condition is said to have been noted in Sweden and the United States, with this difference, that in these countries there is no decline after the age of seventy years. In England, however, the highest death rate falls between twenty and thirty years, and the lowest between the ages of fifty and seventy. There is but a very slight difference in the percentage of deaths from tubercular phthisis between the (ity and the country. Mr. F. Rentschler, San Francisco, Cal., contracted a severe cold, and became so hoarse he could not speak. He tried a number of remedies without benefit, and even the efforts of two physicians failed to give the slightest relief. He was induced to try Red Star Cough Cure, one bottle of which entirely cured him.