River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1876-12-28
The Bad Practice of sneezing.


The following is from the London
Globe:
For sometime past the Partisan press
has been discussing with great gusto
various remedies suggested for the
vice of snoring. Having got tired of
This subject. without arriving at any
useful conclusion, they will perhaps
be inclined now to bestOW some of
their philosOphic attention on the bad
practice of sneeZing. Every excuse
for doing so is afforded them by
case which is just reportd from the
Faubourg st. Henore. A young lady
inhabiting that aTistocratic quarter
was suddenly seized, few days ago,
with a violent and prolonged fit of
sneeZing. Her relations, her nurse,
and finally every one in the house be-
gan to be alarmed. The orthodox
''God bless you had been shouted and
reiterated in her ears, but the demon
of sneezing refused to be exercised,
and the doctors had to be called in.
By their advice chloroform was not
minisered, and the sufferer thus Teliev-
ed for a time from an attack which
had completely exhausted her strength.
But no sooner had the effect of the
dose gone off than the fits again seized
her with no less persistence than
before. The case was serious, and
the medical men began to remember
with dismay the precedent mentioned
in their books, where native OF
Edinburg was attacked in the same
way and ended by actually choking
herself and dying of suffocation.
Fortunately. in this case there was no
such tragic end to the story. young
doctor who happened to lie called IN,
after the malady had already injured
for twenty-seven hours was clever or
lucky enough to effect cure by ''hy-
drotherapic' trertment. The account
of the case by the Paris paper does not
afford any clue to the cause of so
strange a seizure but it may serve as
an awful warning to those reckless per-
sons who, like Lord Dundreary, pro-
fess to delight in good sneeZe. There
is, indeed, some reason for alarm
Just now. SneeZing, according to the
scientific account of it, is caused by
irritation of the inner membrane OF
the nose. And since snuff-taking has
been so completely banished from
fashionable society, there is reason
to fear that the membrane in question
must be good deal more sensitive and
perhaps more irritable, than it was
century ago.
The time has again arrived when
the man on the street sudd ly stops
on patch of snow and ice, waves his
umbrella two or three times over his
head, as if celebrating an election
return, hurls the implement through
shopwindow and frantically sits down
on the sidewalk in the shape OF let
ter Y, with his toes pointing implor-
ingly toward every Flagstaff in town.
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very useful article is now receiving the
very highest concentrations from the
press. and multitIdes of witnesses who
have tested ifs efficacy. 1t is consid-
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ard in its refined, purified statt 1t IS
garded as one of the most pc .erfnl
liniments for the removal of rheuma-
tism, neuralgia, and the sufferings
arising from sprained joints, bruises,
etc.-Aylmer C.. W. Times. Feb. o.
1857.
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wash the part with CASTLE soap and warm
water. rub dTy. with a clean cloth, then apply
the Eminent, rub in well with the hand.