The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-10-25

to medical literature. 1t isa revelatielI on
the sewer gas question. IL Is from an old
retired physician, who hasshs exeepsiopal
opportunities 10 make himself acaueinted
with his subject AT this time. ia Chicago.
ii comes as a revelation;
To TnS Enron; II has long been an es-
tablished fact, wen knswh W al Btit tn
most ignorant, that gaseous poisons arising
from sewers and closets in certain localities
will produce various kind. Of contAgio,i, and
other diseases. smallpox, diptheria, and
presidential feyers are only few 1Tonsps
and cla$jyahs sIls and disoriess vkjsh
have thaR origin ID atmospheric eIsneiifs !
engendarei!byItsa apdilSy sntilaaSth euSes
and hEGc& sdhH ergquifs some ypIinssI
but many or the most painful, deadly ma :
aides can be enumerated saad de6ssl: inr q
few wnnis. q " ass AZ inflnstf \ 4 rtr-I ~
As thousaRdsars gutInSingl from. vsrsans
mental and physical disorders, an different
degrees and stages OF bloO,ipoistgiin.
caused by sewor-gas, | will point tora few
important facts, discovered. aftttr ysau OF
experimental research and Investigation, in
uals and its cure. .sN.II...'
First, will STATE what slass ID persnns
are MOST likely to feel or suceumb 70 ths
deadly influence ofthis poison. There are
three classes whoee systems aro. s1wAys
ready to receive it--nsIhely: Children 7
adults in feeble health snd the
aged, Indeed, none save IN,
strong and robust can successfully with
stand the terrible 0Dslaughts made by-this
arch enemy sgain-t modern society a. we
find 1t in large cities to-day. OF It's effect
on children, diphthSris aud cholera in
iantum are two Of the most deadly. OF its
effect on adults Of feeble constitutions. the
yNn1t al artnfpp rAsulta folla~ ~
inhaling oft, II will stsrtls many whom
say that a large number OF tho noursbls
sick received the final check TO health when
they breathed the foul air Of certain houses
and localities whore they lived The effects
OF sewer-gas on persons OF weak nerves and
delicate temperament are mainly tive
fold, psychological aud physical. II oAn
attack tho mind and exert the most banetul
mental evils that can be imagined.
Sometimes 10 comes 10 this class Of Dor
sons in the most curious ramihcatioDs Oh
all those disorders pertaining 10 and hay
ing an affinity with the eerebre anil spinsl
magnetic centres, Consumption can 10 speed
lily developed by 1t without the aid vi any
other evil. But it is one of tho Inoi, curl
GUS and interesting studies imaginable, to
watchthe various forms of this poison whom
il affects persons of low vital temperament.
Ii acts in q thousand different ways One
invalid will imagine he is suffering from !
rheumatism; another will declare Re il suE |
fering from liver complaint; another. thst I
he has congestion Of the brain, while |
fourth has no appetite, cannot wall, ~ ak y |,
or sleep, and feels himself afhaduSQy sfbE
ing undor CONCENTRATIONS influence. UNI
known to the doctors With another.clay
of persons it attacks only thcf organ.
iof digestion, causing kind of 'dys
lttt .,ft i |
on all classes is 4 constant drOwSiness, A
lack of courage to work, and when rising in
the morninga feeling of dizziness heavi-
ness, and tullnese in the head with other,
physical disorders All this is laid at the
sioor OF liver complaint, dyspepsia, indigsei
Hon or nervousness. The true cause il not |
suspected in mQrethan 0ae TO ten THOUSAND
eases. 1t is true that chronic nervousns sS /
will produce a frightful train OF diseases
both Psychological and physical, but the |
trst cause OF nervousness IL often the /
Breathing Of air confined tnrc lose Iopsss
polluted with sewer-gas. .!Jah Is ~ J ~
The system Of heating houses by fur |
naces aids the work which this poison be- I
gins; for there.is "A peculiar atnosphsrs
engendered by furnpce heat that yitstcs thu.
life principles and absorbs the electric and
magnetic lepents OF vital force, ~. q |
In aged persons OF robust health, sewsE- /
gas finds many victims, when they abide 10
houses not propetltt Ventilated snd con
IT, ys As5SasG ,So s sS.s's
littlc DINO, anitrray not Be fSttfos some
lays, weeks or months But, they will |
purely feel its effects in time. They, at the
irst-working OF the poison, often take "trip
10 the country 90 aboard, Hor visit some
In quest Il Of renewed
.trength, only To return TO fill them
elves again With the Subtle, unseen
So in many cases the eSi,h
srcnewed over and over again until il is
90 late TO oyercoriB its dead work either b
)y medicinal antidOtss or change of hir, In
he aged who enjoy good health, the puisou
usually begins in-t the heed. er-the lower s.
ilnbs, Rheumatic and muscular pains are ,
)ften felt Strange. sensations in The head
tnd eyes arc experienced. Sumhness Of
Ihe limbs occurs, with the effects Of false /
,aalysis and loss aof, Inemory. In time !,
paralysis sets H., WHICH ends tho patients
offerings IN death | now come to point i
be importance Of which cannot be oysrs,-
mated. Ii requires ANT acute, intuitiys,
experienced physician 10. distinguish be
,ween the effects, ~, sewer-gas poison aud a
he effects production the'system by NAL
irial influences ITo,ourreetly diagnose dis
eases arising; from thees Two causes, 80 like
N their Sevrce and action, il no easy task.
The action OF sevorsgas is most sssn in the
lcutc form, while that Of malaria IL ,com.
monty GAronici Yet w must not lose sight
Df the fact that iths former poison often
Works Like tha lalteh=sby degrees and, sloH
development, ks IN low, intermittent fsvsrs,
pains which come and 10 mysteriously, and
hinor pillietions mental and physical
But there are ,ons or two Indications that
Rill lead To correct diagnosis when prop
Hrly wei ghqi and analysed, When healthy
persons, nd subject 10 malarial attacks and
ho, living insli.tricts afflicted with IL, arc
|aken suddenly with some one Of the dis
orders Z have enumerated II may he re-
sarded rs o sign OF sewer-gas poison, either
acute or negative, as the case be.
So nearly allied are the chemical compo-
sitons of this gas and those Of malarial Ut
hosphere that II is no wonder that tho in.
hediate action and effect arc sometimes
identical. Diptheria, small por, and ~.
nhoid teyor find rich harvest whore lase-
olls vapors exist while slow fevcrs, nervous
leblity, meanchnlia, are tha works of ma.
hria. But in many cases sawhr poison will
ESQ produce these last rcsults, so that
b ouSands OF people are being treated for
That dous not all them. Change ofclimatS
kill often cure malarfal' invalid, but kim-
DO chat,e would pot suffice to eradicate
cwcr.gis hqma ~ stem hnpregnpted with
Is subtle|e lenlentst Much more than this
5 needed, and 1Will now rive what I deem
'unicient to eradicate The poison from those
Nho are not too far gone, and whose blood
'nd strength sre siiAaSis p thewmkofr
FS.t9 SbihiSSwAl Esiy against i an-
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