The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-09-10
A LIFE NOT WORTH LIVING
The Dreadful Condition Which the
Poison Malaria Can Produce.
A Short History of Victim of Chronic
Chills and Fever.
Extract of a Lecture by DR.. Hartman
of Columbus, Ohio.

The terrible consequences of chronic
malaria in some cases is hard to de-
scribe and impossible to eXaggerate.
There is 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 OH stretcher to nv
rooms not long since. The patitnt
was lady scarce middle aged, but
her long continued sickness had so
shrveled and emaciated her that she
had the appearance OF a waman eighty
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 age. At
once physicians were employed, who
gave her the usual remedies, quinine
being the principal one. Physician
after physician were employed, who
sometimes were able to break her
chills for time, but they would in
varably return, reducing her little
more each time. In desperation
she had resorted to every school of
medicine, until, in complete dis
couragement. she had given up en-
ploying physicians and had taken
ouinine 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 irregu-
lar intervals to have chills and fever
examined her carefully, and in
addition to the extreme weakness and
emaciation to which she was reduced,
the function 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 inflamed, uterus
congested, bladder and uretha irrita-
bic, and painful external piles. These
arrangements were partly due, no
doubt, to her protracted confinement
to the bed, but in greater measure
due to the use of quinine and the in
evitable arrangements OF chronic ma
larial diseases.
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 i'll her head.
Every nerve in her body seemed to be
on the highest possible tension,
quivering and sensitive to the last
degree. The tenderest touch would
cause her to cry out with pain in spite
of all the self-control she was capable
Of. Her mind was perfectly clear and
her intellect much above the average
person.
| select this particular case for de-
scription because it is so character
istic of the condition that chronic
case of ague will produce-cases to be
found by the hundreds in any mala-
rious section of the country. For this
lady I prescribed Pe-ru-na and Man
a-lin in doses according to the direc-
tiOns on the bottles, assuring her that
if she would faithfully continue their
use they would entirely cure her.
A few weeks afterward | received
report from her that she was rapidly
improving, and today she is fully re-
covered and, according to her own
statement, is as well as ever in her
life. Shequit the use of quinine when
she began my treatment, and took no
medicine but Pe-ru-na and Man-a-iin
until her recovery was complete.
For a complete treatise on Malaria,
ChiIls and Fever and Ague, send for
The Family Physician No. ]. Sent
free by The Peruna Medicine Co., Co
lumbus, Ohio.