Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1888-12-21

the medical advisers OF these men, be-
cause certificates of disability upon
| which TO base n pension claim must
necessarily in the majority of cases
come from the family physician. Lot
each and all OF us resolve to make
amends for past neglect and contribute
of our knowledge and diagnostic skill
tp help these men to obtain their Just
dues.
No country can afford to treat its
brave men grudgingly and no generous
man would object TO the pensioning OF
these disabilities.
The common nervous troubles OF old
soldiers are the legitimate sequelm of
the degradation of nerve structure that
had its origin in the neurokiuesis of
battle, in the tiresome watches of sleep
less nights, in exposures to thermal
extremes in the ever-varying vicissi-
tudes of climate. They come OF mala-
rial saturation; they were born in prison
pens, while infinite mercy slept An
Jacksonville was fruitful of causation in
this direction - Andersonville, over
which God for some inscrutable reason
spread n pail that was impervious to
prayer-they only need to be looked for
TO be found, and they should be recog-
nized and brought to the attention of
the Government by us that justice may
be done to these brave men who can
not obtain IL of themselves.
There is form of progressive nor
vous disease that has its origin in q
painful scar or cicatrix that has been
insuficiently noticed by medical wri-
ters except in what is known as painful
stump.
A painful cicatrix means a neuritis
and it is the law of neuritis to proceed
along the affected nerve centripetally
until the spinal cord is involved, and
sometimes the mischief extends to the
brain and the victim becomes u total
wreck
Pardon me for inviting your attention
to the ENHANCEMENT of nerve fiber in
cicatrical tissue-the gynecologist has
appreciated this pathological condition
at its true value, but it is capable of
giving rise to untold miseries in other
localities than the cervix uter
A neighbor received a gun-shot flesh
wound of his right arm that was fol-
lowed by gangrene that finally healed,
leaving Il rather large but painful cica-
trix, which gave rise to a painful arm,
and finally epilepsy supervened. His
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and a general paralysis; his face wears
an idiotic leer. In few more months
the degradation of nerve structure will
have reached limits that are incompat-
ible with life.
And now a word about the unhing-
ing of the heat-regulating mechanism
OF the soldiers body. 1t reminds us of
the famous leaning tower of Pisa. A
lesser force would be required to over
turn it than a similar tower that stands
erect 1t is possible for this defect of
the so-called heat-regulating center of
the soldiers nervous system to make
all of the difference betwiXt transient
nasal catarrh in a previously sound man
and fatal acute lung ailment in the
unsound man.
1t should never be forgotten that an
unhinging of the heat-rcgulating mech
anism caused by exposures in the
ChicGahominy swamps in 1862, may be-
come the prime cause of n soldiers
death from pneumonia in the coming
winter of 1SSS-9.-Horacc p Porter, NJ.
D., Late assistant Surgeon IN and
Surgeon ION Reg. Conn. FolS., Oneida,
han.