Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 April 1888 — PNEUMONIA. [ARTICLE]

PNEUMONIA.

Wby Not Call Thia Terrible Scourge by Its Rightful Name? (New York Telecram.] Many a strong, weu-bunt man leaves home to-day; before night he will have a chili, and in a few hours will be dead! This is, the way the dreaded pneumonia takes people oft The list of notable men who are its victims is appalling. It sweeps over the land like a scourge, and destroys poor and rich alike Everyone dreads it. Its coming is sudden, its termination usually speedy. What causes It? Pneumonia,we are told, is invited by a certain condition of the system, indicated if one has occasional chills and fevers, a tendency to cold in the throat and lungs, rheumatic and neuralgic pains, extreme t.red feelings, short breath and pleuritic stitches in the side, loss of appetite, backache, nervous unrest, scalding senrations, or scant and discolored fluids, heart flutterings, sour stomach, distressed look, puffy eye sacs, hot and dry skin, loss of strength and virility. These indications may not appear together; they may come, disappear, and reappear for years, the person not realizing that they are nature’s warning of a coming calamity. In other words, if pneumonia does not claim as a Victim the persons having such symptoms some less sudden but quite as fatal malady certainly will. A celebrated New York physician told the Tribune that pneumonia was a secondary disorder, the exposure and cold being simply the agent which develops the disease, already dormant in the system, because the kidnevs have been but partially doing their duty. In short, pneumonia is but an early indication of a Bright’s diseased condition. This impaired action may exist for years without the patient suspecting it, because no pain will be felt in the kidneys or their vicinity, and'often it can be detected only by chemical and microscopical observations. Nearly 150 of the 740 deaths in New York City the first week in April (and in six weeks 781 deaths) were caused Dy pneumonia! The disease is very obstinate, and if the accompanying kidney disorder is very far advanced, recovery is impossible, for the kidneys give out entirely, and the patient is literally suffocated by water. The only safeguard against pneumonia is to maintain a vigorous condition of the system, and thus prevent its attacks, by using whatever will radically and effectually restore full vitality to the kidneys, for if they are not sound, pneumonia cannot be prevented. For this purpose there is nothing equal to Warner’s safe cure, a remedy known to millions, used probably by hundreds of thousands ana commended as a standard specific wherever known and used It does not pretend to cure an a’trek of pneumonia, but it does remove the eau'. of and prevent that disease if taken in time. No reasonable man can doubt this if he rega ds the personal experience of thousands of h morable men. W: en a physician says his patient has either Bright’s disease or pneumonia he confesses his inability to cure, and in a measure he considers Ijis responsibility ended. In many instances, indeed, persons are reported as dying of pneumonia, heart disease, apoplexy and convulsions, when the real cause of death, and so known by the physician, is this kidney consumption. Thousands of people have it without knowing it and perish of it because their physicians will not tell them the facts! The same fate awaits every one one who will not exercise his judgment in such a matter.