The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-02-12

WIN seat about TOO persons. The building and ground
cest $4,000.
OBSERVANCE OF SUNDAY I'm accordance with q resolu.
ton recently adopted, the rectors of the following Pro-
tsstant Episcopal churches preached yesterday morning
to their congregations upon 'The due observance Of the
Lords dsy:"-st. Marks, Fourth street; Christ's, Bed
ford avenue; st. Paul's, Union avenue; Calvary, North
Fifth street, and Ascension, Green Point.
BURGLARY During Friday night last, the shoe store
Of J. Alexander, No. Al South Seventh street, was bur.
glariously entered, and robbed Of boots and shoes
valued ut $500. The entrance was effected by turning
tho hey in the front door with nippers.
DR.. Hunter ON Hroncnitis.
p# LETTER NO. vi.
10 TIE EDITOR or THE NEW YORK HERALD.
SR-The term Bronchitis has hitherto been commonly
have too often confirmed this popular error. In my last
letter on LaryDgitis, 1t will DO remembered, ! described
the windppe, a. its entrance into the lungs, as dividing
into two bf anches. These branches arc the beginning OF
the bronchial tubes;'' one enters the right lung, the
other the left; and each subdivides into innumsrable
snaller tubes. like the branching out Of q tree. These
tubes are called " bronchial tubess, . and ramify through
the whole internal substance Of the lungs, ending in
little clusters or cavities. called - air cells" When We
speak OF disease OF the bronchial tubes, or bronchitis,
therefore, we speak OF q disease Of the lungs, and not Of
tho throat, as has been too commonly supposed.
srsns Il the bronchial tubes. This lining or membrane
and is hence liable to become irritsted BY sudden
Of matter which ali tie atmosphers; Of workshops, or
which float upon the wind in dusty citaes-by the hun.
olsa irr, ia. causes which meet us IN Almost every
brane, deranges its healthy action, changes the charac-
tor Of its ~secretions, and sets up : train Of symptoms to
which we apply the name " bronchitis" There are two
kinds Of bronchitis-acute and chronic.
H3ea ACUTE BRONCHITIS , H.
is commonly Known as Q "Cold in the Chest" i. COM
mences as q catarrh, or g cold in the head, !" attended by
pain over the forehead, and u sense Of stufing In the
nose. The irritation extends rapidly to the throat,
causing the tonsils tn swell ana the fauces TO become IN
tanned. Gradually the inflammation extends to the
larynx, and a feeling Of ~roughness 10 experienced in the
windp,pe, attended by frequent attempts to clear the
throat. Soon . sense Of Utilization occurs in the same
Part, causing the patient t. cough. Next comes q tight
sess across the chest, and q stuffed or oppressed breath
the jree entrance Of the air. After q time the cough
ceasesto be Dry, as It was at first, and a thin, salt sh,
,rn = ra a.a,n !, t Insaas svrsy nvr m and US co rnls
becomes almost constant. But soon n change takes
place In the quality Of the matter expectorated. IL be-
comes thicker and less salt TO the taste-then whitiah In
color, and then yellow. Gradually the cough abates, the
sense Of chilliness ceases, the pulse loses its frequency,
fully san TR Gs.sssaSIi. L d. This This Z p, the usual Us, i1 so afs,' Of ! : %ila
attack OF bronchitis, commonly called n " cold In the
cbest.n
end of a week or ten days, when the patient returns
again to his usual health. Bot frequently the more
acute symptoms only subside, the cough and e~xpectora-
constituting what is termed
CHRONIC BRONCHITIS.
In this form there is sometimes slight fever towards
evening. The patient does not regain his wontsd strength
or hesh. but remains q little pa!er than before the at
tack. He .xperiencssa shortntss Of breath on exereis-
ing, and has a slight but continued sense of oppression
In the chest. The cough AMI expec .oration diminish, or
entirely disappear during the summer; but Immediately
manifest themselves again on the return Of winter,
when the expectoratioa becomes very ~copious. Hectic
fever often supervcnes, with night sweats and rapid
wasting OF the flesh and strength, and the patient may
die with all the symptoms OF pulmonary consumption.
II Is very common to meet tn disease, In a miider
form, In persons who speak Of it.as a ''winter cough" It
zones On each winter, and MS regularly subsidies during
the hummer. Int Al . very succeeding Occurrenre IL mani.
ssts itself IN greater severity; and the recovery in the
ollowing summer Nv not so complete. THIS form Of
bronchitis, IL neglected, will as surely destroy life (aud,
reat~d In the usual manner, IL Is as incurablc) a. con
uppfion itself. The mucous membrane, sooner or
alter, becomes altered in structure, and pours forth a
natter which has all the qualities If pus. Hestic fever
uperyenes, and the disease tends slowly, but surely, TO
Another form OF bronchitis is peculiar to middle life
md old ase. It Ia distinguished by the quantity and the
luality OF the matter expcctorated. In color and con
md varies from one TO several piats in twenty. four
hours. recently had a gentleman under successful
treatment, who assured me that he frequently raised .
INIT and q half In the course Of the morning. Usually
here are two hs of coughing In fhs course OF the day
me on awakening from sleep, in the morning.; tss other
d the evening. There il considerable difficulty o!
,~satLiDs while the paroxysms OF coughing last, but It
passes of as soon as the lungs are freed from the viscid
secretion. The patient 10 feeble; he may, however, live,
and attend to light duties for several years. but the
.ouutenance gradually assumes a pale, blush tint; the
cody wastes, the blood becomes thin, and death ensues,
apparently from the constant drain kept up by the lis
charge from the lungs. some patients Gle from ex-
hausuon y i've or six months; but have known other.
% survive Tor ~ many years.
There IL HtiIl another form OF this disease, called dry
bropchitis, = from the fact that Ia the quantity 81 mat
var expectorated II 10 the very opposite Of the variety we
have Just considered. The essential character Of dry
broDc6liis c,nsists In chronic Inflammation, attenced by
. tbichen,ng Of the mucous membrane by which the air
Tubes are diminished In size, and also 10 the secretion Of
q dense, glutinous kind OF matter, OF n gfeeuish or blnish
white color, by winch they are stll further DISTRACTED.
The smaller bronchial tubes are often entirely closed,
and occasionally q tube Of very considerable size becomes
sealed a NV this matter. This Affection n 40 common
In this climate, that In some degree II ~ probable two
oat OF every three suffer from IL. "ln the most favored
parts Of france,n says Lnnnec, "fnly o e.half Of those
arrived Mt adult age ~ill be found, on careful eSamina.
ton, TO present evidence OF a ~thickenlng Of some por
ton Of tie mucous membrane OF the langs.n
The ~ mptoms of dry bronchitis are not marked by 40.
verify. IL IL the most insidious Of pulmonary CON.
plants. The subject OF IT'S conscious only OF beng
short breafhcd, wnen ascending an elevation, or attempt
ing TO run When a lwss por ION Of the Lungs !. invoiy-
cd, a sense OF oppression 10 experienced after meals, and
on evep slight %exsrtion. BY some, this oppression Is
referred 10 the opposite side OF the chest 70 that on which
the disease u situated, or 70 a remote part OF the same
sid-, or even 10 the region OF the stomach. After a time,
difficulty VI breathing comes on, and continue. for
several ays--the patient complaining Of q tightn.ss In
the chest, which " relieved by cough. and III. expcctorA.
tiou Of a tough, ell .iike substance. The cough by
which this matter IL rsisrd, IL a mere rasping effort 70
c,ear the throat, and may probably not occur more tlaa
TENTS tsem.elvss. On inquring IL they have a cough,
they viii, almost without exception, answer "Nol1 yet.
during your conversation, they will, perhaps, hack. snd
Iaise a little jslly. lile mucus hall a dozen times. Al In.
tervsls, the cough - NOR. severe, and Comes On in par.
ssysms, when II - too commonly regarded - simply
'-s~r,ous." n the stomach BE- At al, derangsd, 10 IL
fashionable 10 regard II a. q mere .tomsch cough, Y or
81 be pg caused by silver disease, Y While, la fact, the
arrangements Of the stomach, liver, kidneys, ard of tue
nierins function, which exist, are but 80 many conss
asepces Of this very condition OF he lungs. There il
something 20 srstiiy ing In beng sssurel by tue Nod. at
,eptiss, and INTEL gent family physician. that there IL
s'po danger 81 consumptiop y that this cough u niece
tree. spd vii speea,y pass assay, II sn,y leit 10 it.ait y
that 10 10 cot surprising the battered patient entirely
ss.riooss the imyortast fact that bo careful exam nation
~ thN tunee has b zen made. 10 d~fertnfae the he .lfft ur
c,,ease 81 this organ; that tais gratifying .p,nion there.
ors. u foapced 90 nothing rekable, sud reduced ~ u.
usr1nsie merits, 10 simply tsnb~rirg With hun an life.
hc.t coughs OF long rtsrdlry Z nse''and@a ~ fres