Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1880-12-10
Symptoms Of CONSUMPTION.

consumption, necessarily, for there are
many cases on record in which cough
was not an observed symptom until
within two or three weeks of death.
and IN examination the lungs presented
. diseased mass, burrowed with cayi.
ties. Splitting blood is not an early
| symptom of consumption, necessarily,
for about one-third of those who die OF
that disease DO not spit blood 1T ali.
Among the very earliest symptoms of
forming consumption are combinations
OF the following, not at all, perhaps,
observable in any one case: \ quicker
pulse than common, paler face, easily
chilled after eating, more readily put
out OF breath than common, less full.
ness OF flesh than usual at the cores
ponaing season of the year, an unusual
feeling of unrest on getting up in the
morning, a greater tendency to coldness
Of the hands and feet, every now aud
then day passing without any action
OF the bowels, with very bad taste in
the mouth when first waking up in tho
morning, cold is easily taken, is
more frequent, and lasts longer and
longer, until one cold runs into an
other, making the confirmed cough, so
ominous OF approaching ill.
1t will be seen at single glance,
from these symptoms, that they all in
dictate one thing, and that one thing is
at the bottom of every case of con-
SUMPTION rant Of ritality: that is, n
want of general vigor of system, con-
stitution.
But OF all the things named, it Will
be more practical to select the two
which are seldom if ever absent, in any
of the above combinations which re-
suit in consumption; hence it is i'm.
portant to be at SOME pains in stating
them in their bearings. A quick pulse
and short breath pervade the disease
from its earliest beginnings, during its
entire progress, and down to its fatal
end. Multitudes OF lives might be
saved yearly, if these two symptoms
were promptly and wisely attended to,
The importance of 80 doing, no Ian,
guage can adequately portray, and if it
| did, tho people would not attend to it,
with only here and there All exception.
But great truth is of small seed and
of slow growth; yet that growth is Ger.
tain, and its spread uncomfortable the
more so. as education becomes more
general,
The pulse beats about GS times IN
every minute of healthful adult life.
| The range is from Ct to Y. When it is
below &C, there is something at fault,
when it is over p, during all the hours
OF the "a, there is always disease, and
ii it continues 80 for weeks and months,
there is the strongest ground for appre-
hension that consumption isaapproach-
| ing. A pulse steadily over 50 beats in
a minute, for weeks together, is fore
runner OF consumption.
Whatever may be said of ausculta-
ton, of sounding, of expectoration.
there is in none of these a guide AS
I sure as the condition Of the pulse, with
the aid OF competent interpreter. 1t
is said that the physicians among some
| OF the Orientals are not allowed to see
! their female patients, tho hand only be-
| ing put out through the bed curtain,
and by feeling the pulse, prescriptions
must be made. If the powers Of life
are being pressed to death, the full,
soft, slow pulse tells it in an instant; if
active, and actual destruction of or
ganic life is taking place in the body,
| the inHammatory pulse, quick, why,
angry, spiteful, at once raises the note
of alarm. Every physician knows how
gratefully the pulsation, as Of wooden
yarn beneath his finger, strikes upon
| his perceptions, on some urgent call,
and how troubled if it gives the feeling
of quick vibrating small wire. The
| multitude of shades of difference be-
tween these carry with them their va
ried impressions, all highly instructive.
Halls Journal of Health.
How TO AIR A RooM.-It is the gen.
eral practice to open only the lower
part of the windows of a room in ven
tilating it, whereas if the upper part
| were also opened, the object would be
more speedily effected.
The air in an apartment is usually
heated to higher temperature than
the outer air. and it is thus rendered
lighter, and as the outer air rushes in,
the warmer and lighter air is forced up
ward, and finding 10 outlet, remains in
the room.
If a candle be held in the doorway
near the door, it will be found that the
fame will be blown inward; but, if it
be raised nearly to the top of the door
way, it will 60 outward; the warm air
flowing out at the top, while the cold
air flows in at the bottom.
A current of warm air from the room
is generally rushing up the fue of the
chimney if the fue be open, even
though there should be no fire in the
stove; therefore open fire places are the
best ventilators we can have for q
chamber, with an opening arranged in
the chimney from the ceiling.
A RACE TO THE MARKET OF TAHITI.
The Society Islands which have been
recently annexed to France, are noun
famous in the interior, and have q
border from one mile to five miles wide
of rich level ground extending from the
base of the highlands to the sea. There
are small lakes and lagoons in some of
the islands, and all are watered by nu.
merous streams, upon the banks of
which or along the shores the inhabi-
| tants reside. The soil of the level