The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1885-03-27
Pneumonia
WHY NOT CALL IT BY IT'S RIGHT NAME ?
(Ne,o York 7elegram.)

(New York 7elegram)
Many strong well built man leaves
home to-day, before night he will have
\ chill, and in few hours he will be
dead This is the way the dreaded
pneumonia takes people off. The list Of
notable men who are victims is appall-
ing
DR. Damrosch, the famous musician,
is seized by chill while conducting re-
hearsal next dav his physicians tell
us he Is doing aoeH Next day he is
dead
The Rev. J. f La,imer, ID. D., S. r.
d., dean of Boston university thpolo-
g,cal school, breaches eloquently one
morning, has a slight chiline,s there
after, feels unwell for a few days, and
unexpectedly dies ! A gentleman in
Albany goes to his physician one
morning stating that he feels strangely
uncomfortable, is examined, advised at
once to settle up his affairs, does so and
dies before night.
Everyone drea1s this prevalent disor-
der. Its coming is snddcn, its termna-
tion usually speedy.
What causes this terrible scourge?
1t is not sin the air, or
contagious. 1t 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 a certain condition of the system,
indicated if one has occasional chills
and fever, tendency to colds in the
throat and lungs, rheumatic and ueu-
ralgic pains, extreme tired feelings,
short breath and pleuritic stitches in
the side, loss of appetite, backache,
nervous unrest, scaldng sensations, or
scant aud discolored fluids, heart fut-
terings, sour stomach, distressed look,
puffy eye sacs, hot ard dry skin, loss
of sire 9Th and virility. These indica-
tions may not appear together they
may come, disappear and reappear for
years, the person not realizing that they
are natures warnings of a coming Gala
nifty.
In other words, if pneumonia does
not claim as victim the persons hav-
ing such symptoms, some less pro-
nounced but more fatal molady certain
ly will.
A celebrated New York physician
told the Tribune, a year ago, that
pneumonia was secondary disorder,
the exposure and cold being simply
the agent which develops the disease,
already dormant in the system, because
the kidneys have been but partially
doing their duty. In short, pneumonia
is but an early indication OF bright's
diseased condition. This impaired ac-
ton may exist for years without the
patient su-prcting it because no pain
will be felt in the kidneys or their vi
cinity and often it can be detected only
by chemical and mcroscopical exami-
nations
Nearly $50 of the 740 deaths in New
York city the first week in March and
in six WEEKS 78l deaths were caused
by pneumonia!
The disease is very obstinate, and if
the accompanying kidney disorder is
very far advanced, recovery is impos-
sihle, for the kidneys give out entirely,
and the patient is literally sutfocated
by water.
The only safeguard against pneu-
monia is to maintain a vigorous ceudi-
tion OF the system, and thus prevent its
attacks, by using whstevrr will radi-
caly aud effrctually restore full vitality
TO the kidneys, for if they are not sound
pneumonia cannot be prevented. Fnr
this purpose, there is nothing equal to
Warmers safe cure, remedy known
to millions, used probably by hucd ed,
OF thousands and commended as a stand.
ard specific wherever known and used
1t does not pretend to cure an attack
of pneumonia, but it does and can re-
move the cause of and prevent that
disease if taken in time No reason
able man can doubt this if he regards
the personal experience of thousands OF
honorable men worthy his favor.
When a physician says his patient
has either bright's disease or pneumo
MIA, he copfesses his inability &c
cure, and in a measure he considers his
responsibility ended. In many in
stances, indeed, persons are reported
as dying of pneumonia, heart disease
apoplexy and convulsions, when the
real cause of death ard 20 known by
the physician is the kidney consump
ton, Thousands of people have il
without knowing it and perish Of it be
cause their physicians will not tel
them the facts The same fate await,
ev ry one who will not exercise hi
Judgment in such matter and be tru
TO himself, his family and to society.