The Delta independent., 1888-06-05
"PNEUMONIA." !"
Why Not Call this; Terrible Scourge
by Its Rightful Name!

Why Not Call this, Terrible scourgo
by Its Rightful Name!
New York Telegram.
Many strong, well.5uilt man leaves
home to-day; before night he will have
chill and in few hours will be dead!
This is the way tho dreaded pneu-
monia takes people off.
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
sudden, its termination usually speedy.
What causes it P
Pneumonia, we are told, Is invited
by certain condition of the system,
indicated il ono has occasional chills
and fevers, tendency to cold in the
throat and lungs, rheumatic and neu-
ralgic pains, extreme tired feelings,
short breath and pleuritic stitches in
the side, loss of appetite, backache,
nervous unrest, scalding sensations, or
scant and discolored fluids, heart flut-
terings, sour stomach, distressed look,
puffy eye sacs, hot and dry skin, loss
of strength and virility.
These indications may not appear to-
gether. they may come, disappear and
reappear for years, the person not
realizing that they are natures warn
ing Of coming calamity.
In other words, if pneumonia does
not claim as victim the persons have
ing such symptoms some less sudden
but quite as fatal malady certainly
will.
A celebrated New York physician
told the Tribune that pneumonia was a
secondary disorder, the exposure and
cold being simply the agent which de-
Ielops the disease, already dormant in
the system, because the kidneys have
been but partially doing their duty. In
short, pneumonia is but an early indi-
cation of bright's diseased condition.
This impaired action may exist for
years without the patient suspecting it
because no pain will be felt in the kid
neys or their vicinity and often it can
be detected only by chemical and mi
croscopical observations.
Nearly $50 of the 740 deaths in New
York City the first week in April (and
in six weeks 7S1 deaths) wero caused
by pneumonia!
The disease is very obstinate. and if
the accompanying kidney disorder is
very far advanced. recovery is impossi-
BILE, for the kidneys give out entirely.
and the patient Is literally suffocated
by water.
The only safeguard against pneu-
monia is to maintain a vigorous con-
dition Of the system, and thus pre-
vent its attacks. by using whatever
will radically and effectually restore
full vitality to the kidneys for il
they are not sound, pneumonia
cannot be prevented. For this
purpose there is nothing equal to
Warmers safe cure, a remedy known to
millions, used probably by hundreds of
thousands and commended rs a stand
ard specific wherever known and used.
1t does not pretend to cure an attack of
pneumonia, but it does remove the
cause of and prevent that disease if
taken in time. No reasonable man
can doubt this if he regards the per-
sonal experience ofthousands of hon
orable men.
When physician says his patient
has either Bright's disease or pneu-
monia he confesses his inability to cure,
and in measure he considers his re-
sponsbility ended. In many instances,
indeed, persons are reported as dying
OF pneumonia, heart disease, apoplexy
and convulsions, when the real cause
OF death and so known by the physi-
clan is this kidney consumption. Thous-
ands of people have it without know
ing it and perish of it because their
physicians will not tell them the facts!
The same fate awaits every one who
will not exercise his judgment in such
a matter.