The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1890-07-03
Hundreds Seeking Release from tho Ter
~ ribIe Effects of Malaria.
Periodical Headaches and Neuralgia.
Malarial Rheumatism and Pains in
the Bones.
THIRD LECTURE ,6H MALARIA.

Al AOhtNo WIN POlbe pOUUCl oCl We
the purpose of explaining the differ.
ence in my mode OF treatment of this
disease and the treatment in common
use. From my long list 1 select, first
a man past forty-fve years of age, who
had doctored without intermission
over ten years. The treatment which
had been mainly relied on by the
various doctors he had consulted was
quipine or some other derivative OF
cinchona bark. OF these preparations
he had taken MAN. pounds, and dur
ing several intervals he had taken a
great number of chill cures, but moth
ing seemed to have any permanent eff
feet. His complexion was of that dirty
yellow so characteristic of old ague
patients, and his sunken, lusterless
eyes, surrounded by dark circles, indi-
Gated how completely his health had
been undermined. The tongue was
heavily furred with thick brown
coating, breath very offensive, and he
complained of constant dull head
ache. A poor appetite, indigestion,
biliousness and constipation completed
tale of woe so commonly heard in a
malarious locality.
For this man prescribed Pe-ru.na
and Man-a-lin, the Man-a-lin to be
used until the bowels became regular
and digestion good. A few weeks
after l received very enthusiastic
letter from him in which he declared
hlmself nearly we'll and better than
lie had been in ten years, and had
taken no quinine since beginning my
treatment. instructed him to
gradually leave off the Man-a-lin,
which he did, but continued the Pc
ru-na few months longer, and
made complete recovery, continuing
to enjoy the best of health. This
case is one of which there are thou
sands in every malariods district who
have been many years and still are
searching for something to bring re
lief to their miserable condition. |
am positive that Pe-ru-na and Man
a-lin would cure every one of these,
for have watched it's effect a good
many years and I do not know sin
gle failure.
There is one other class of invalids
which have become actually bedridden
from chronic malaria. These poor
creatures continue year after year to
linger on the verge of death, hardly
living, yet not dying. One of this very
unfortunate class was brought on a
stretcher to my rooms while stopping
in Fort Worth, Tex. The patient was
Il lady, scarcely middle aged, but her
long continued sickness had so shriv-
eled and emaciated her that she had
the appearance of a woman so years
old. She gave me her history in as
few words as possible, as she was TOO
weak to talk much.
Fifteen years previously she had
been taken with fever and ague. At
once physicians were employed who
gave her the usual remedies, qui-
nine being the principal one.
Physician after physician were en-
ployed who sometimes were able to
break her chills for time, but they
would invariably return, reducing her
little more each time. In despera-
ton she had resorted to every school
OF medicine, until, in complete dis.
couragement, she had given up en-
ploying physicians and had taken
quinine regularly ever since. At the
time she was brought to me she was
obliged to take very large doses of
quinine several times each day as it
had become an inveterate habit with
her, and yet she continued at regular
intervals to have chills and fever. l
examined her carefully, and in addi-
ton to the extreme weakness and
emaciation to which she was reduced,
the functions of every organ in her
body was more or less perverted. Her
stomach was weak, scarcely able to
take any nutrition, liver enlarged,
spleen enlarged and tender,
bowels constipated, kidneys in
am ed, uterus congested, bladder
and urethra irritable, and painful
external piles. These arrangements
we're partly due, no doubt, to her
protracted confinement to the bed,
but in a greater measure due to the
use of quinine and the inevitable de-
rangements of chronic malarial dis.
eases.
But the arrangement OF her nervous
system was still worse to bear than
all her other troubles. The slightest
noise or jar in the room produced an
uncomfortable spasmodic paroxysm of
the muscles and pain in her head.
Every nerve in her body seemed to be
ON the highest possible tension, quiv-
ering and sensitive to the last degree.
The tenderest touch would cause her
to cry out with pain in spite OF all the
seli-control she was capable OF. Her
mind was perfectly clear and her in
tellect much above the average person.
| select this particular case for de-
scription beca1seit is so characteristic