Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-04-26
/" PNEUMONIA"
Why Not Call this Terrible Seourge by its
Ri0htful Nance

Ri0htful Nance
New York Telegram
Many strong, well built man leaves
home to-day; before night he will have a
chill and in a few hours will be dead!
This is the way the dreaded pneumonia
takes people OF.
The list of notable men who are its
victims is appalling.
1t sweeps over the land like scourge
and destroys poor and rich alike.
Everyone breads it. Its coming is sud
den, its termination usually speedy.
What causes it?
Pneumonia, We are told, is invited BIZ a
certain condition Of the system. indicet-
ed If one has occasional chills and fevers,
g tendency to cold in the throat and
lungs, rheumatic aud neural gic pains,
extreme tired feelings, short breath and
pleuritIc stitches in the side, loss OF APP
petite, backache, nervous unrest, scalding
sensations, or scant and dIscolored fluids,
heart futterings, sour stomach, distressed
look, puffy eye sacs, hot and dry skin,
loss of strength and vitality.
These indications may not appear to-
gether, they may come, disappear and re-
appear for years. the person not realiz-
ing that they are natures warning of a
coming calamity.
In other words, if pneumonia does not
claim as victim the persons having such
symptoms, some less sudden but quite as
fatal malady certainly will.
celebrated New York physician told
the Tribune that pneumonia was secon-
dairy disorder, the exposure and cold
being simply the agent which develops
the disease, already dormant in the sys-
tenn, because the kidneys have been but
partially doing their duty. In short,
pneumonia is but an early indication of a
bright's diseased condition. This impair
ed action may exist for years without the
patient suspectiDg it because no pain will
be felt in the kidneys or their vicinity
and often it can be detected only by chem
zeal and microscopical observations.
Nearly $50 of the 40 deaths in New
York city the first week in April land in
six weeks ISL dsaths) were caused by
pneumonia!
The disease is very obstinate, and if the
accompanying kidney disorder is very
far 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
the system, and thus prevent its attacks,
by using whatever will radically and eff
fectualiy restore full vitality to the kid
neys, for If they are not sound, pneumonia
cannot be prevented. For this 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. It does not pre-
tend to cure an attack of pneumonia, but
it does TenaoUe the cause Of and preuent that
disease If taken in time. No reasonable
man can doubt this if he regards the
personal experience of thousands of hon
Orable men.
When a physician Gays his patient has
either bright's disease or pneumonia he
confesses 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 and commissions,
when the real cause of death and so
known by the physician is this kidney
consumption. Thousands of people have
it without knowing it and perish of it be-
cause their physicians will not tell them
the facts! The same fate awaits every
one who will not exercise his Judgment
IL such matter.