The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-03-24

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New York Telegram.
Many a strong, well-built man leaves home
to day, before night he will have a chill. aud
in a few hours he will be dead This is the
way the dreaded pneumonia takes e pie off.
The list of notable men who are its victims Is
appsllingl
DIR. Damrosoh, the famous musician, is
seized by a chill while conducting rehsrsal;
next day his physicians tell rs he is doing
well. Next day ne is dead,
The Rev. J. l. Lstimer. ID. D., s. 7. D.,
Dean Of Boston University Theological
School, breaches eloauently one morning,
has a slight ohilliness thereafter, feels unwell
fora few days, and expectedly dies A
gentleman in Albany goes to his physician
one morning stating that ne feels strangely
uncomfortable, is examined, advised st once
to settle up his affairs, does SO and dies be-
fore night.
Everyone breads this prevalent disorder.
It's coming his sudden, its termination usu.
ally speedy.
What causes the terrible scourge?
1t is not Gin the air'-intectious or con-
tagicus. It results from exposure, changes
OF weather, prevails more among men than
women, more among the apparently healthy
than among the feeble.
Pneumonia, we are told, is invited by q
certain condition Of thu system, indicated if
one has occasional chills and fevers, q ten
dency 10 colds in the throat aud lungs, rheG-
matte and neuralgia pains extreme tired
feelings, short breath and pleuritic Stitches
in the side, loss of appetite, bsckache, nery-
Gus unrest, scalding sensations, or scant aud
discOiored fluids, heart hutterlngs. sour
stomach, distressed look, puffy eye sacs, hot
and dry skin, loss Of strength and v%irility.
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they may come, disappear and reappear for
years, the person not realizing that they are
natures warnings of a coming calamity.
In other worCs, if pneumonia does not
claim as a victim the person having such
symptoms, some less pronounced bat more
fatal malady certainly will.
A celebrated New York physician told the
Tribune, a year ago, that pneumonia was q
secondary disorder, the exposure aud cold
being simply the agent which develops the
disease, already dormant in the system, be-
cause the kidneys have been but partially
doing their duty. In short, pneumonia is
bat an early indication of Bright's diseased
con dition. This ~ilnpaired action may exist
for years without the patient suspecting il
because DO pain will be felt in the kidneys
or their vicinity, and often it can be de.
teCted only by chemical and micfoscopical
examinations.
Nearly $50 of the 40 deaths IL New York
City the first week in March and in SIX
weeks ISL deaths were caused by pneumonia
The disease is very obstinate, and If the sc
compHnyiDg kidney disorder is very far sd
vanoed, recovery is impossible, for the
Kidneys give out entirely, and the patient is
literally sufocated By water.
The only safeguard against pneumonia is
10 maintain 8 vigorous condition Of the sys-
tenn, and thus prevent its attacks, By using
whatever viii radically and effectually re-
store full vitality t. the kidneys, and If they
are not sound, pneumonia can not be pre-
vented. For this purpose there is nothing
equal to u safe cure, aremedy known
to millions, used probably by hundreds of
thousands aud commended as a standard
specific wherever known and used. Ii does
not pretend to cure an attack of pneumonia,
but it does and can remove the cause of aud
prevent that disease If taken in time. 10
reasonable L an can doubt this if he regards
the personal experience of thousands of
honorable men worthy his favor.
When q physician saws his patient has
either Bright's disease or pneumonia, he con-
fesses his inability to care, and in q measure
he considers his responsibility ended. In
many instances, indeed. persons are reported
as dying of pneumonia, heart disease, apo
plexy and commissions, when the real Gauss
Of death, and so known by the physician, is
this kidney consunp tion. Thousands of
people have it without knowing it and per-
ish of 1t because their physicians will not
tell them the facts! The same fate awaits
every one who Will not exercise his judg-
ment in such q matter and be true to him
self, his family and TO society.