Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-06-12

or clerical profession upon the question of ha!
asthma. When say believe they deserve al
the animadversion have INDUCED in and NOR,
too And as to the respectable and exclusiy,
congregate in the various locations of New
| England to shed tears and sneeze over ont
anothers shoulders and in one anothers face!
| in q sort of "vaso motoria rhinologica" lovt
| feast, where the congregations, employers ant
Others not directly interested help pay for the
| entertainment
have had members of this society shake
their heads at me and say: You doctors can
| not cure nv hay asthma nobody can cure it il
can't be cured" To which have sometimes
replied, Nor do you want to try to have il
| cured, by the only rational method known to
modern medicine"
And have often been correct in my opinion,
| for these men would not have the inside OF
| their noses cut or burned or sawed, for any.
thing: it might hurt. Some of them, nay, most
| of them, have never even had the interior
of their noses examined by medical man CON-
petent to discover abnormalities and cure them
Now ask the profession in the same spirit
that the Christian believer ask the propagator
OF the doctrine of infielity, What better
have you to offer me than my faith and prao-
tice that now hold?" What results can COM
pare with those have given you in the treat
ment of hay asthma. There are none that can
be compared to ii.
And what are the carpings of the unbeliever,
when he is unable to say, II have no surer
scheme of salvation to offer you, il you
relinquish the one you are now adapt:
ing to the benefit and relief of
suffering humanity. One of the early masters
of medicine spoke of the upper air tract as the
gateway of life, and he was, think, quite cor
rect In his view of it. And am sure the scope
of laryngology is. by reason of its dealings with
this gateway, destined to become a most COM
prehensive one And no man can become a
successful laryngologist who is not also close
student of diseases OF the intra-nasal sJruet-
the mouth, tongue teeth and gums. What
laryngologist but has found it quite impossible
to cure chronic catarrh until the aid of the
dentlsG has been sought to put lot OF foul and
Gecayed teeth in order. have more than once
found it necessary to have patients do away
with rubber plates, and use non-irr1tating gold
to cure state of faucisl erythema, which the
rubber plate kept up.
CAUSES OF CATARRH.
Bad teeth and gums are quite sufficient of
themselves, not only to cause an offensive
catarrh of the upper air tract, but also to
render the latter incurable while such an
offensive condition exists. The laryngologist
ought always to be careful to inspect the
tongues of his patients. and any sore that has
not a specific history and has resisted ordinary
healing process for two months ought to be
excised and always with the knife and not the
cautery knife, as my experience has taught me
that burning of any kind, whether by eautery
or acids, is liable to be the turning point at
which cancerous disease is set up; whereas the
clean wound by the knife, and rather free
hImorrhage. seems to invite healthful and
kindly healing process, which is not SO apt to
be followed by recurrence and development
of cancerous disease of the tongue. speak OF
this with the experience Of rather large obser-
walton, having operated Tor cancer o1 the
tongue lips and cheeks "a times, and seven
times for the removal of all of the
tongue, submaxIllary and sublingual glands
and portions of the jaws. And in those cases
where have avoided the use of the cautery
have had better results in rapid healing of the
tissues, less shock and longer immunity from
republication. But the great difficulty in the
way of sound practice is the burning OF these
sores by respectable practitioners, as well as
Quacks. who are, as well as the patient timid
about resorting to the only safe and radical
measures with the knife.
There IS another legitimate field for the do
main of laryngology. and we ought sooner or
later, to take upon ourselves the burden of
curing, or attempting to cure, the widely prev
alent American vice of talking through the
nose 1t is true we become more or less accus-
toned to the sound of this hagrant NAL use or
abuse of the vocal powers. But let us absent
ourselves fromiour beloved country for a few
weeks travel across the sea, and there hear for
a time the
THE SOFT AND MUSICAL VOICES.
of our English cousins. Then it is upon our
return that the American drawl tit is not
voice) of our beautiful American girl in society
CRATES upon our sensbilites, and we feel as
though the beautiful creature and the thing by
her side. that by courtesy is called man, ought
to be taken in charge by doctor, who will
first cure their "nasaI catarrh" and then cure
their nasal twang" But probably there can
be no alteration for the so-called society nonen-
tity 1.-THE dude), who drawls through his nose
because he thinks 1t Is the proper fad; or has
heard that 1t was, He rarely thinks. because
he does not possess the required gray brain
matter to think with, or he would not drawl
through his nose know difficult contract
is assumed when these evils are to be corrected,
as the lower orders of animal life die hard,
though they be seen on a high plane. But the
young society girl who can chew gum IN
several modern languages and speak them
fiuently, through her nose, if she be from
Vassar or some New England school. generally
regards the nasal drawl and the gum chewing
accompaniment, as cute or cunning and at
tractiVe. 1t is attractive, indeed! and when
our young American girls add further to these
fads, the one of splitting about promiscuously
then she will be still more attractive. But
attractive of notice, that places her in an un-
enviable comparison to what she should be. as
a young lady. There has never been man or
a set of men who were brave enough to attack
this American drawl successfully; and l
tremble with fear and am filed with disgust
having touched upon it But it is only by
calling out animadversion upon abuses, that
we can have them rectifed And while we
would in our generous spirit reform our beau
tifuI girls in these unattractive habits, we
would also in the same generous disposition
toward sensible humanity rid 1t of the drawing
dude by drowning him.