Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-11-11
MEDICAL.

treated by
Million Williams, Md, ,M.C.P.S.O.
No. 275 North Main street,
Next to Diamond House, Los Angeles, Cal.
Graduate of Victoria College, Toronto,
Canada, Licentiate Physician in and for the
College of Physicians and Surgeons Of On
| tario; for three years associate physician OF
| the Chicago and Cincinnati Throat and
Lung institute: for fifteen years, and still,
| proprietor of the Detroit Throat and Lung
Institute; and for several years proprietor
of the Ontario Pulmonary Institute and
| Health Resort at Toronto, Ontario. Over
| $4,000 cases treated by us during the past
| nineteen years.
ON ASTHMA.
| 1t is a common error to suppose every
disease which is attended by oppressed
breathing to be Asthma or Phthisic. We
| have shortness OF breath in Consumption,
| Bronchitis and Pneumonia, just as we do In
Asthma, only that in these diseases It is al
ways present, whereas in Asthma 1t occurs
| in paroxysms.
Asthma is spasmodic disease of the
lungs, which manifests itself in periodic az
tacks or fits " 1t comes on suddenly and
is attended with great difficulty OF breath
over the patient breaths almost as well as in
health.
The Asthmatic fit may come on at any
time, day or night, bat most commonly. oc-
ours after midnight and before morning.
The patient is suddenly awakened by diff
| ficulty of breathing, a feeling of weight OF
construction OF the chest. 1t feels as though
it were bound. He sits up In bed. pants or
gasps for breath, and in bad cases, calls for
| the doors and windows to be thrown open.
| Perspiration stands out in large drops on
| the forehead, the face looks haggard, the
| lips are livid, the extremities cold. and the
heart beating violently
Persons badly afflicted with the disease
are, during the fit, insensible to everything
save the desire for air. have known them
| to rush to the open window and hang over
gardless of the cold. The feeling is pre-
cisely that of pending sufiocation, and the
poor sufferer endures tor time all the ag-
ony OF drowning or slow strangulation.
But happily for the patieEt his confidence
never deserts him. He feels that it win
| soon be over, and then he will get relief.
After a longer or shorter period, accord
| ing TO the severity of the case-generally q
! few hours-the tightness al the bottom OF
the chest relaxes, the breathing becomes
deeper, the patient can speak and cough
without difficulty, and begins to expectorate
| freely. At length, worn out by the intens-
ity OF his sufferings, he falls to sleep and
| the attack is at an end.
| Nervous, Humid aud Dry Asthma are
names given to different forms of this
disease. Emphysema is another and more
| inveterate kind of Asthma. while Hay.
Fever or Rose Cold is peculiar variety Of
| Asthma which occurs ut certain season of
| the year. Each. OF these forms OF disease
differs somewhat from the others IN symp-
| toms, but practically these distinctions are
of very little value. IL does not matter 20
| the patient which form of Asthma he has
since his sufferiDgs are the same IN all; ID
one case the expectoration becomes yelow,
and we call 1t bronchial. In another 1t 10
light and we call il dry. When ne coughs
I ,nlA afnr
surface, we say he has Humoral Asthma
In Nervous Asthma there is very little en-
pectoration of any kind. Hay Fever always
begins as a crying cold in the head or innu-
enza, and a ear water runs from the nose
and the eyes before the Asthma Mt comes
OIL. In Emphysema the expectOration ts
enerally thick, and continues so In the In
terval between the fits. while the shortness
of breath is increased on the slightest ex-
ertion.
There is no rule which can be said to be
uniform in As hma. In one person the
disease will entirely pass of after single
other there will be several fits in succession,
with only short intervals between them,
and then the patient escapes Tor q Longer
period. In some fts occur regularly az
stated times Some athmatics breathe pest
in the city, while others cannot pass night
in town without suffering an attack: one
prefe q low land as place OF residence,
and another can only sleep on hlgh grouno.
| A DaTtlCuldT eADOSuTt Vi u IOoul WAAA oAsCA<
make difference, and l have known peo-
pie who could sleep on one side OF the
str. ct and not on the opposite. The smell
of hay, roses, and even oil the staDles
with many is sufficient to bring On a arox- :
ysm. Some cannot drive behind horses, Or
endure cat in the same room.
| All this must seem strange and almost
absurd to those who know nothing OF the
disease by experience, but those VINO are @
sensitive are some people that they cannot
enter drug store where ipecacusnha fE
kept without experiencing an oppression IN
breathing
causes than other lung diseases. The mu-
Gus membrane is mOrbidly sensitive 70
any change in the air, in the excess or def
cheney of its zone-in the presence 81 SMOKE
or dust; on the temperature, hnmidlty, or
even impregnance with the delicate trag-
rance OF flowers and plants. Few people
have any idea Of the powerful influence ex-
erted for good or i'll by what we lnnale. The
air is the great source from whence we con-
tract most diseases and it is only by employ
ing it as the carrier of remedies that many
of them can be cured. This is peculiaDR
the se with all diseases of the air passages
and lungs, of none more SO than asthma.
1t is a foolish conceit of many people to
believe that ii they have Asthma they can
not get Consumption. The truth Is the
very opposite. They are more liable 70
fall into Consumption because tney nave
|
, self is not dangerous disease, and yet the
published bills of mortality for this city
, prove to all who read them that great num-
bers lose their lives every year.
Without courage and perseverance moth
ing is durable. But with these, aided by
proper and skilful treatment, Asthma car
be cured even after the lungs are extenslve
ly diseased. :,
The asthmatic sufferer. therefore, should
lose no time in having this tearible disease
eradicated from the system before 1t II
forever "too late"
Our Eastern friends should not depend
upon climatic influences alone, for herein
lies the fatal mistake. Nearly every case
requires positive medical aid. so as to be
come rid Of the offending matter-the con
solidated portions of the lungs--s0 as to give
nature an opportunity to heal them,
CONSULTATION FREE.
Those who desire to consult me in regard
to their cases had better call at my Office fol-
consultation and examination, but II impos
sible to visit the Office personally, may
write for "List of Questions" and circnlas
both of which will be sent free Of charge.
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