Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1888-04-26
"PNErMONIA.n
Why Not Call this Terrible Scourge by its
RiOhtful Name9
No,r Nerl- n. Taer,Y,

BiOhtiul Namef
New York telegram
Many strong, well built man leaves
home to-day; before night he will have a
chill and in few hours will b. dead!
This is the way the dreaded pGsumonis
takes people of.
The list of notable men who are its
victims is appalling.
1t sweeps over the land like a scourge
and destroys poor and rich alike.
Every one breads il. Its coming is sud
den, its termination usually speedy.
What causes itY
Pneumonia, we are told, Is invited by q
certain condition of the system, indicat-
ed if one has occasional chills and fevers,
tendency to cold in the throat and
lungs, rheumatic and neuralgia paine,
extreme tired feelings, short breath and
pleuritIc stitches in the side, loss of APP
petite, backsche, nervous unrest, scalding
sensations, or scant and dIscolored fluids,
heart gatherings, sour stomach, distressed
look, puffy eye sacs, hot and dry skin,
loss of strength aud vitality.
These indications may not appear to-
gether, they may come, disappear and re-
appear for years, the person not realiz-
coming calamity.
In other words, il pneumonia does not
claim rs a victim the persons having such
symptoms, some less sudden but quite as
fatal malady certainly will.
A celebrated New York physician told
the Tribune that pneumonia was a secon-
dary disorder, the exposure and cold
being simply the agent which develops
the disease, already dormant in the sys-
TEN, because the Kidneys have been but
partially doing their duty. In short,
pueumonia is but an early indication of a
bright'a diseased condition. This inn pair
ed action may exist for years without the
patient suspectipg it because no pain will
be felt in the kidneys or their vicinity
and often it can be detected ouly by chem
zeal and microscopioal observations.
Nearly $50 of the 10 deaths m New
York city the first week in April (and in
six weeks ISL dsaths) were caused by
pneumonia!
The disease is very obstinate, and If the
accompanying kidney disorder is very
lar advanced, recovery is impossible, for
the kidneys give out entirely, and the
patient is literally suFocated by water.
The only safeguard against pneumonia
is to maintain vigorous condition of
he system, aud thus prerem is attacks,
by using whatever will radically and ef-
fectually restore full vitality to the kid
ueys, for II they ave not sound, pneumonia
cannot be prereNted. For isis purpose
there is nothing equal to Warmers safe
cure, remedy known to millions, used
probably by hundreds OF thousands and
commended as standard specific wher-
ever known and used. II does not pre-
teld to cure an attack OF pneumonia, but
It does remote the cause Of and prevent that
disease If taken ia time. No reasonable
man can doubt this if he regards the
personal experience Of thousands of hon
orahle mon.
When physician Gays his patient has
either briSht's disease or pneumonia he
coufesses his inability TO cure, and in a
measure he considers his responsibility
ended. In many instances Indeed, per-
sons are reported as dying of pneumonia,
heart disease, apoplexy aud commissions,
when the real cause of death and so
known hy the physician is this kidney
consumption. Thousands of people have
it without knowing it ano perish of IL be-
cause their physicians will not tell them
the facts The same fate awaits every
one who viii not exercise his judg
in such matter.