The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-04-04
The True Remedy for Snoring.

Our esteemed contemporary, the Sun,
has recently printed a series of letters
on the subject of snoring. The first of
the series wss written by a woman who
desired to know how she could cure her
husband of snoring. Of the remedies
which successive letter-writers have
proposed TO the suffering woman, not
one is of the slightest value, and the let
tiers afford painful evidence of the wide
spread ignorance which prevails as to
the nature of snoring.
Most of these remedies are to be ap-
piled to the nose of the snorer. Now,
tie nose has absolutely no share in the
production of snore. Indeed, most
men snore with their mouths open and
their noses temporarily inactive. Hence
the proposal to fasten a clothes-pin TO
the nose of a snorer is not only worth
less as a remedy but is positive aid to
snoring. The man whose nose is closed
with a clothes-pin must open MS mouth
in order to breathe. and he thus as
sumes the precise attitude most favora-
bic to snoring.
Neither would it be of the slightest
use to saw to the Snorer ''don' tSnore. !"
The letter-writer who says that this re-
quest, frequently repeated, will cure a
man of snoring. is n grossly ignorant
person. No man SHORES voluntarily.
The snorer is ashamed of his etfense,
and when taNed with it denies it stout
to the Sml called forth the foolish adj
vice 10 tell hes husband not to snore
tries to follow such advice she will ap-
pear in a divorce court within the next
six months Her husband will lie in
,dignant at the accusation that he
SHORES. and after it is repeated eew
times he will reael it in language which
can not be overksoked.
There Is precisely one cure for sso--
ing, land it is TO Sir Humphrey DAY.
that I'VE owe its discovery. That emf
nent>scientific person aScertained that
snoring is due to sn abnormal vibration,
of the cords of the larynx, and that
this vibration oceNrS only when the!
surface of the larynN has become dry.
A man who sleeps with his mouth open
until his larynX mas become, dry by coz
tact with the atmosphere is sure to
ssnore. Sir Humphry saw at once that
IN order 10 cure a sEore- his larynx
4AuSJ be htpb IiioiStSacS VI ItieAeu. lie
found by experiments upon a Metho-
dist preacher of unusual snoring powers
that piece of CASTLE soap inserted in
the mouth ST the snorer effected an in
slant cure al d warded OF any further
attack of sna-ing for al least twenty
four hours. Repeated applications of
soap .bcoke up the habit OF snoring, and
thus effected a permanent cure.
According to Sir Humphrey Dayy, cas-
tile soap. which is composed of DIVE
oil and soda, is decomposed the no.
meet it comes in contact with the ku-
man tongue. which has a wonderful at
tinity for oxygen. The olive-sil being
thus set free. lubrieates and reIaxes the
larvnx. while the sodium is forcibly en-
PEELED Ia the shape OF strongly alkaline
language by the snoner, who awakens
the moment the decomposition Of the
soap begins. 1t is seldom necessary to
administer CASTLE soap more than three
or four times: and the most obstinate
ease of snoring known to medical men
was cured with six doses.
Ii might be remarked that almost |
any variety of soap can be used with |
benefit as a remedy for snoring. CASTLE !
soap is, nevertheless, much more rapid |
in its action than any other variety, |
with the solitary exception of soft-soap. |
The latter. however. is seldom found |
outside of farm-houses. and its admin
fstration presents certain difficulties
which will hinder it from ever becolaing |
q popular remedy. ~. Y. Times.