The Ohio organ, of the temperance reform. (Cincinnati, [Ohio]) 1853-1854, 1853-12-09

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New York Herald, Of9ulyi 10TH states
thar during the week preceding, fiftyl
persons died Of consumption in that
city,--Psr cOuiras d gentleman called
upon US yesterday, who actually
escaped from the fangs Of that disease
some years ago; and we are induced
to present the circumstances ~ i
lyon speak Of coughing continue
uallys Let me suggest to you the
query, whether this IS notunnecessary
and injurious. | haVelOng been sat
isfied, from experience and obserya-
ton, that much Of the coughing which
precedes and attends consumption is.
voluntary, Several years ago, | board
ed with a man who was In the incl
pient stages Of consumption. / slept
in "a chamber over his bedroom, and
was obliged to hear him cough con-
tinually and distressingly. ! endured
the annoyance night after night, till
it led me to reflect whether something
could not be done to stop it. | watch
ed the sound which the man made,
and observed that he evidently made
voluntary effort to cough. Alter
this, | made experiments on myself,
and found that / could prevent my
self from coughing, sneezing, gaping,
&C., in cases of the strongest propen.
sity to these acts, by strenuous effort
Of the will. Then | reflected, that
coughing must be irritating and inju.
rious to the delicate organs that are
concerned in it, especially when they
are in a diseased stale. What can
be worse for liberated bronchia or
lungs, than the violent wrenching of a
cough? 1t must be worse than speak
ing. A sore on any part Of the body,
if it is constantly kept open by violent
usage, or made raw again by contu-
sion just when it is healing (and Of
course begins to ITCH, will grow
worse, and may end in death. Ger
tainly, then, a sore on the lungs may
be expected to terminate fatally, if it
is constantly irritated, and never suf-
fered to heal and this, it seems to
me, is just what coughing does for it.
On the strength ofsuch considerations
as these, | made bold to ask him if he
could not stop coughing. He answered
No. l told himwhat ! thought about
it as above. He agreed to make a
trial and, on so doing, found to his
surprise that he could suppress his
cough almost entirely. The power Of
his will over it, increased as he exer-
cised it, and in few days he was
most rid Of the disposition to cough
His health at the same time evidently
improved. And when l last saw him
he was in strong hopes of getting Ou
| of deaths hands"
This occurred eighteen years ago
and the man comes round now, ar
active business man, averring that hi
has not had a sick day since.--Er.
INTEMPERANoE AND YELLOW FEVER
"A physician ofNew Orleans writes
to the Boston Medical Journal a,
follows:
"The epidemic came down like {
storm upon this devoted city, witt
eleven hundred and twenty sever
dram shops in one Of the four divisions
into which it has been divided. 1t il
not the citizens proper, but the for
eigners, with mistaken notions abou
\ the climate and country, who are the
chief supporters Of these haunts Of in,
temperance. About FIVE thousand o.
them died before the epidemic touched
a single citizen or sober man, as fal
as can get the facts"
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