Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-24
Warnings that Should be Needed by
Every One.
TERRIBLE LIABILITIES FROM MODERN So
CIAL CUSTOMS.
Hope For the Afflicted Ones-E Encouragement
for the Discouraged.
A Lecture that Every One Should Read,
Reflect Upon and Obey.

the sores are first, which poisons the
system, are questions which have been
much discussed by the medical frater-
nifty but without any common agreement.
The exact nature of the poison also has
been the subject of much careful inves-
tigatlon, with conflicting results. Space
does not allow of any discussion of the
subject here, consequently my opinions
will of necessity be unsupported by
lengthy arguments. The conclusions
which my reading and experience have
led me to are that it Is an animal poison,
not a mtcrobe, which first affects only
the part receiving the poison, and after
wards the sore (chancre) communicating
the whole system.
At the time the patient usually applies
for treatment the disease has ceased to
be local, and nothing but constitutional
treatment is of any use So all dis
cussion as to VIII ether the first sore is the
cause or effect of the disease is of no use
in the treatment of the disease.
sYsPTOMs.
A few DAYS after an exposure one or
wore small, innocent-looking blisters or
mater pimples make their appearance,
which disappear of their own accord.
For a short time after the disappearance
of the blisters no symptom of any sort IS
noticed, an the patient quite commonly
thinks all is over. After an interval,
which varies IN different cases, the
glands in one or both groins become en-
larged and painful. These may break
and become running sores (bubos).
After these disappear respite from all
symptoms is had again, which once more
encourages the patient to believe that it
is ended. The next thing to be looked
for in the course of this dreadful disease
IS the appearance of a rash on the skin,
congestion of pharynx, hOarseness and
alterations of the tonsils. There is in
some cases another interval of entire ces-
sation of the disease after the above
symptom subsidies, to be again followed:
by a popular eruption of the skin ant
mucous membranes, and occasionally
falling of the hair, pains the boss,
and iritis (sore eyes.) -
All these pass by sooner or3sssg md
long time of comparative frkn 0HE now
enjoyed by the patient. Bukfhe end is
not yet. Small gumsnE tikSnprs make
their appearance in tH s3hsta4se of the
tongue, bones, skin and ot5s organs of
the body. general xtiatE Exterior
ated condition of the wnple botS is very
apt to follow. from witch the patient
never RECEIVERS unless proHarly treated.
OF course each has its peculiar
tiles, and not everyNn Q the exact
seourse have described, HnE the general
oatline is alike in easA case although a
FEY of the symBs2msanay be wanting en-
tirgly. -, %s
Fais most areaeEpa disease is very
easily transmitted fS3eb one person to
another. Hundreds 6cases occur as
4he RESULT of tha most ordinary usages of
seciets. The prAsalence of the disease,
toRether with the great variety of ways
in Wshleh it can be communicated, ought
to exctse constant watchfulness against
exposaEeS We habit of putting pencils
to the Ars have been used by others
in the me way Hnght to be avoided.
cup or LASS .sAfng the towel, napkin,
or knife Aas6ff is used by others, each
has beeh the means of spreading this
awful Disease among innocent people.
The habit of indiscriminate kissing
cannot b. too strongly condemned, as it
is a fruitfr1 source of infection. A pipe,
spoon, pen-knife, dental instruments,
surgical instruments of many kinds,
each have been the means of conveying
this poison. Anything that comes in
contact with a mucous surface which has
had previous use by another person is
liable to spread the poison. The milk,
saliva, tears and perspiration of an af-
fected person has been proven to be Ca
able of causing the disease in another.
TREATMENT.
The external QocaD treatment which
10 arf Of he
of any case. will not be discussed in this
article, but the reader is referred to the
pamphlet ellis of life,' or the medical
work, 1.-THE Confidential Physician -
where the subject is fully explained.
But as to the internal (constItutionaD
treatment, which is the only hope of
permanent cure, desire to show that
there is an absolute specific in reach of
all, which, If taken according to direc-
tions, will cure every case. I refer to
the compound known as La-ou- pi-a. 1t
is usually stated in works on the subject
that it takes from two to FIVE years contiu-
uous treatment to eradicate this poison
from the system, but great many cases
are permanently cured by the use of La
cu-pi-a in q years time Cor less EVEN ,
although some cases require longer treat
ment. The description that has been
given of the entire course of this disease
applies only to those cases where either
no treatment or useless treatment has
been employed.
In the vast number of cases that come
directly or indirectly under my obserya-
ton many are cut short in their career by
the use of La-ou-pi-a. For instance, if
La-cu-pi-a, with proper local treatment,
is begun as soon as the first lesion appears,
the disease is often entirely eradicated
in the first year of its duration, and
many of the otherwise tedious history of
symptoms prevented. Old cases that
have been allowed to run unchecked for
number of years find in La-cu-pi-a an
unfailing remedy; and, as it contains no
mercury, arsenic or other dangerous
poison, 1t can be continued long time
without any bad results following 1t is
the most perfect medicinal compound
ever yet devised for the treatment of this
terrible disease, for it is equally aDplica-
Bile to it in all its stages and after effects
(Sequelae), as well as the different ages
and conditions of life which the patient
may happen to present. 1t Is wonderful
the number of cures this admirable COM
pound makes every year, saving a multi