New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1885-04-01
"PNEUMONIA."
Why not caU itbyi its Right Name?
(Nesv York Telegram. J

NeeU York Telegram.
Many strong well-built man leaves
home to-day, before night he will have
a chill, and in a few hours he will be
dead! This is the way the dreaded
pneumonia takes people off. The list of
notable men who are its victims is ap-
palling!
DR.. Damrosch, the famous musician,
is seized by chill while conducting
rehearsal; next day his physicians tell
us he is doing veN. Next day he is dead!
The Rev. j. E. Latimer, d. D., S. T.
d., dean of Boston university theologi-
cal school, breaches eloquently one
morning, has slight chilliness there
after, feels unwell for few days, and
unexpectedly dies! A gentleman in Al
bany goes to his physician one morning
stating that he feels strangely uncom-
Portable, is examined, advised at once
to settle up his affairs, does so and dies
before night!
Everyone breads this prevalent dis
order. Its coming is sudden, its ter
mination usually speedy. What causes
the terrible scourge?
! 1t is not ''in the air, INFECTIOUS or
contagious. It results from exposure,
changes OF weather, prevails more a
mong men than women, more among
the apparently healthy than among the
feeble.
Pneumonia, we are told, is invited by a
certain condition of the system, indicat-
ed if one has occasional chills and few
ers, a tendency to colds in the throat
and lungs, rheumatic and neuralgia
pains, extreme tired feelings, short
breath and pleuritic stitches in the side,
loss Of appetite, backache, nervous I'm.
rest, scalding sensations, or scant anC
discolored fluids, heart hutterings, sou1
stomach, distressed look, puffy eye sac;
hot and dry skin, loss of strength anC
virility. These indications may no
appear together, they may come, dis
appear and reappear for years, the per
son not realizing that they are nature
warnings of coming calamity.
In other words, if pneumonia doe
not claim as a victim the persons hav
ing such symptoms, some less pronounc
ed but more fatal malady certainly will
A celebrated New York physical,
told the Tribune, year ago, that pneu
monia was secondary disorder, tn
Eexposure and cold being simply tn
agent which develops the disease, al
ready dormant in the system, becaus
the kidneys have been but PARTIAL,
doing their duty In short, pneumonia
is but an early indication of bright
diseased conditien,. This impalre,
action may exist for years without tn
patient suspecting it because no pail
will be felt in the kidneys or their' vi
cinity and often it can be detected onl
by chemical and nacroscopical examin
atiens..
Nearly $50 of the. 74O deaths in. Ne,
York city the first week in March an
in six weeks 781 deaths were caused b
pneumonia!
The disease is very obstinate, and if tn
accompanying kidney disorder is yer,
far advanced, recovery is impossible
for the kidneys give out entirely, an
the patient is literally suffocated b
water.
The only safeguard against pneumoni
) a is to maintain vigorous condition q
the system, and tbus prevent its al
tacks; by using whatever will RADICAL
and effectually restore full. vitality t
the kidneys, for if they are not sound
pneumonia cannot be-. prevented. E0
| this purpose, there is nothing equal t
Warmers safe cure, 3 remedy know
to millions, used probably by hundred
of thousands and commended as.
standard specific wherever known an
used. 1t does not pretend to cure a
attack of pneumonia, but it does an
can remove the cause of and prever
that disease if taken in time. No res
sonable man can dorbt this if he regard
the personal experience of thousands {
honorable men worthy his favor.
When a physician. says his patier
has either bright's disease or pneum,
mia. he confesses his inability to cure
/ and in a measure he. considers his r,
sponsibility ended. In many instances
indeed, persons are reported as dyin
of pneumonia, heart disease. apop}ex
and convulsions, when the real cause
death and SO known by the physician
,, this. kidney consumption. Thousand
of people have it without knowing
andperish of it because their physician
willinot tell them the facts! The sam
fate awaits every one who will not e.
eucise his Judgment in such a aaattt
= and be true to himself, his family an
! to society.
The remains of child have rsmail
cd unburied inthe Keokuk cemetel
vault for five years. The charges al