The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-02-15

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"of such development is sudden chill
which explains the frequent coincidence
"Of lung affections with abrupt changes
"of temperature. "-Seientifc american.
Another prominent (American) author
lty ascrlbes pneumonia to an excess OF
ozone, ozone being produced by passage
of electricity in the air.
A distinguished American physician
tells the New York Tribune that the prev
alence Of pneumonia indicates the uni.
versatility of uric-acid condition of the
blood,-sudden chills always being char
acterlstlc effects of too much acid Of
one sort and another.
The disease, as NJ. Jaccoud observes, Is
undoubtedly in the blood, but If in the
form of permanent microbes or germs.
these germs must be developed BY the
urlc-acld condition of the blood Indeed,
they cannot presumably exist in aka
line blood. Uric-acid is the name for the
waste matter Of the system, which the
kidneys, through evident though unsus-
pected impairment, have not been able to
filter from the blOOd,-the filter being
foul and stopped up in many of its little
hair-like tubes
The Irt6uHe'S authority saws that pneu.
monia is a secondary disorder, the ex-
posure and cold being simply the agents
which develop the disease, already dor
mant 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 kidneys or
their vicinity, and often it can be de-
teeted only by chemical and microscopi-
cal examinations. Nearly $50 of the 74O
deaths in New York city the first week
In recent March, and in six weeks ISL
deaths, were caused by pneumonia alone.
If one has occasional chills and fever.
tendency to colds in the throat and
lungs, rheumatic and neuralgic pains, ex-
treme tired feelings, short breath and
pleuritic stitches in the side, loss of an
petite, back-ache, nervous unrest-scald-
ing sensations or scant and discolored
fluids, heart futterings, sour stomach.
distressed look, puffy eye sacs, hot and
dry skin, loss of strength and virility.
pneumonia is likely to strike him down
any day, and his recovery will be doubt
full.
These indications may not appear to-
gether; they may come, disappear and re-
appear, for years, the person not rea!iz-
Ing that they are natures warnings of
coming calamity.
The disease is very quick acting and IL
the accompanying kidney disorder Is
very far advanced, recovery is impossi-
bic, for the kidneys give out entirely, and
the patient is literally suffocated by water.
The only safeguard against pneumo-
MIA Is to maintain n vigorous condition
OF the system and thus prevent attacks.
by using whatever will radically and eff
1ectually restore full vitality to the kid
neys, and for this there is nothing equal
to warmers safe cure II the kidneys
are not sound pneumonia cannot be pre-
vented. This remedy is known to mil
lions, used, probably, by hundreds OF
thousands all over the globe, and COM
mended as standard specific wherever
known and used. 1t does not pretend to
cure an attack of pneumonia, but il does
remove the cause of and prevent that
disease If taken in time.
When physician says 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 pneumo-
MIA, heart disease, apoplexy and convul-
sions, when the real cause of death, and
30 known by the physicians, is this kid
ney consumption. Thousands of people
have 1t without knowing it, and perish of
I because their physicians will not tell
hem the facts.
The same destiny awaits every one
who will not exercise his judgment in
.uch q matter and be true to himself, his
Iamily and to society,