Los Angeles daily herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1884-1890, 1886-07-06

with cough or soreness Of the lungs. bul
usually with debility. weakness. languor
s5d sa iopm Is that ia Which, enber
Giles are deposited In the substance OF the
lungs. These are small cheesy kernels that
usually lie dormant for many months even
for years, showing their presence ouly BY
shortening the breath and weakening the
frame, aud inducing lansuor and inability
to walk fast. OF far, or work hard. tli1.
The young wife. settling in,o decline,
leans more heavily on the husbands arm
Once she walked lightly VITA him step for
walks so fast, and puts her all out of breath.
bhe gets better for . while In brighter wealth
or. and then withou evident cause sinks
lower than before; and thus rises aud sinks,
perhaps. many times before the tubereles
rIpen and rot the tissues around them, when
she coughs ct hrst and perhaps for u long
time. dry, hacking cough then II becomes
moist and softer. and she raises matter either
s 3. msy sb pc ss6Sp Or 1 ssrs ne
the white Of an egg. II Is usually looked
upon as OF no great account, but treated as
common cold. the patient not deigning to
Il he Is called he is at to make light Of It. Il,
aud ad wise some simple thing. The patient
waits and hopes, but IL annoyed to find she
docs not get rid Of 1t; thinks 1t bad cold,
that hangs on worse than any she ever had
before; coughs worse evenings and morn
ings, aud fears she has caught more cold,
but cannot account for II.
The following are the more com
mon stgns Of this form OF consumption:
breath. with Disposition to gasp or Sigh or
catch for breath. At this stage II Is easily
cured. II the patient tries the sperometer
he finds that he cannot breathe an average
amount an, perhaps ~ fS S Or atty inches
that they weaken the power Of Imitation and
expulsion OF air. Young girls, at this stage,
are prone TO lean on the paras0l In walking,
as II for a cane to support, and are disposed
them out OF breath They like TO recline
on the sofa, or lounge In Y rocking chair.
They relinquish many OF their previous aud
more active pleasures. and voluntarily with
arsw from n ths dance or skating: or amuss
ment, aud prefer 10 look on. rarely dreaming
that the time Is fast approaching when they
shall even look on NO more, and the dance
and the skates VIII go on Just as meirily
carefully examined with the proper instru-
ments ct this stage they sound dull under
the hammer, and give no sound at all
through the stethoscope over some one spot.
right lung; or instead Of absence OF the
healthy sound, it 10 changed Int creaking
called crepltatiou--but very faint Z
This sound cannot be detected through the
the hammer. There Is no resort In the prac-
tlce OF medicine more absurd and pernicious
than that OF pretendingt0 examine the lungs
with the fingers OF ONE hand drumming on
makes It still more worthless Is the
doing OF II over garments that
would utterly obscure much louder sound
than the one for which the practitioner Is
lions beguile the patients, until the disease
10 80 deep as 10 pass all hopes of recovery.
SILL up 10 this time the ordinary
duties of life are carried on IS usual only
with an increasing disposition to rest and
often considered more lazy than Sick
II application be made TO physician in
common located practice. he declares after
one Of those shiftless. faulty examinations
with his fingers, that the lungs are all right;
only . little irritation of the tubes oh,
this fatal blindnessl rhe patient returns
comforted, and tries, perhaps. some cough.
drops or expectorant to loosen the cough.
and begins TO raise the "phlegm' much
some nausea after eating. and hollowness
when hungry-the early symptoms of dys.
Pepsia, brought on by the depressing cough
droph or troches, or expectorants, which
larger doses produce Sickness at the stomach
A. squills, ipecac, lobelia, etc. These ex-
pectorants hasten on the disease at a much
accelerated rate: and complicate Il with
cure. But even at this stage. BY judicious
system OF inhalation, proper diet. habits,
tonics and change OF air, II Is easily brought
under control. We cannot too deeply con-
denim and deplore the free use of troches,
cough drops. and expectorants of all kinds
They hurry many 70 the gave, and IN 9th
ers induce dyspepsia, rose catarrh or fever.
hay asthma aud other troubles indtcstiveOf
perverted tone OF the mucous membrane.
avn ptons NJ the nrocr ding oues are araeflv
aggravated, aud to these are commonly add
I'd some or all Of the following: In the
woman the monthly discharges cease or be-
come scanty: the mind becomes. so to say,
unduly eleted, and perhaps the next more
depIesaed and moody, and there Is q mark
ed disposition to shed tears over touching
scenes and stories. and to laugh heal lily at
emotions become very sensitive and tender.
and this 10 most observable at night, when
cold, clammy sweat awakens the patient
from unquiet sleep, and gives reins to the
70 be purple OF black and dry: . fiush ire re-
quenuy appears on the check; the white Of
tina eye becomes Of 4 mother-of-pearl ap-
pearancc; the cough dcepena and extends
from morning till night, and from night till
through sleep that brings little refreshmeut:
the spit or sputa IL salt and yellow and Of
bad taste, and increases In quantity from
time to time, when the patient Is said to
catch cold the voice becomes husky or hol-
low, or unduly sonorous; the periods OF ex-
erclse grow shorter with the shortening
breath, and less and less frequently, the
walk Of . few rods being su flcient TO induce
fatigue; the chest becomes tender. even 70
conceded that the patient is in a decline,
or wasting fever, or perhaps the bold word
Consumption Ia used, and by or before this
time the careless cxaminer-the physician
recognizes the foe with which be
has so long been dealing, and advises
oodliver oil, or the super-phosPhates, or
whisky and cream, or the last fashionable
and perharsa change Of air 70 the south.
and probably sanctions Il plaster to the
chest or between the shoulders, or covers
these parts with croton oil or tartarized an
timony. oh, ills pitifult, see such help
days In which there may be ground for
hopei This soon passes; the patient lies
later and later from day % day, till anally
the whole day Is spent in bed, and now the
copious that the nurse holdsup the patients
head that the sputa may be thrown into
cup or bowl; the appetite becomes very
capricious, the stomach feeble; probably
the tubsrcles sipen and slough IN the bow
though mild diarrhga. There Is a constant
sense OF want Of breath that Is sometimes
called being tired and weary and is attribu-
ted to the cough. Even at this late stage the
patient will sometimes sit up In bed and
write words Of love and hope TO some dis
tant friend. and make promises Of visits and
talk Of worldly affairs; II woman, will
speak Of what she Is to wear when she gets
well, aud hos she will dress her hair, etc.,
and the next minute may be found In tears.
as she suspects she may never recover. But
why follow this declining life into the deep
darkness to which 1t so swiftly and surely
tends7 All ground for hope is long since
gone. II took years, perhaps. to do the
ticn Is so seldom cured 10 that Il Is not rec
oanizad I'LL ifa work Ia 40 far al Yanced