The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-01-22
COLDS AND HOW TO PREVENT THEM
Coughs, Their Cure and freVeh''o"'
startling Mortal Statistics caused
by Catarrhal DiseaseP--HO"
CatarrIi is Caused, How
Prevented, How
Cured.

do the great majority fail to properly
nr,yide themselves with sufficiently |
warm clothing, but when a slight
cough or hawking or running at the |
nose warns them that a cold has been |
contracted little or no attention is
paid to it. There are, comparatively, |
so few people who regard a cold as
of sufficient consequence to require |
prompt and efficient medical treat
mept, that not only is the death rate
of the Northern States increased one
halt thereby, but our land is swarm
ing with invalids and half sick people
us a direct consequence of neglected.
Gods.
1t would seem that the love of life
and the delights of perfect health
would be sufficient inducements toan
one 10 carefully guard them
without any warnings or
argument from the medical
profession. Who has not seen the
victim OF consumption struggling tor
lite in the fatal grasp of its last stages!
| The unnatural brightness Of their
CLASSY, anxious eyes, the hectic flush
Of their shrunken cheeks, The diiated
ncstri.s and deep, sepulchral voice
the painting breath and tluttering
heart, the lrighttuly elnaciated form,
the hopefuluess of tie patient and
the hopelessness of the attendants
all make a pathetic picture which is
far too common.
1t is my positive conviction, based On
many years experience aud EXTEND
observation, that nine cases out OF
ten as above described can be traced
with certainty to neglected cold. A
slight cough a little hoarsene: or only
q sore throat, was the beginning.
which, being neglect' d, led to au end
so disas rous thai no pen can give 1t
adequate descrp ion.
Less terrible but more nun
erous are casesof chronic brOn-
chitis - an luce SAINT cough, sol g
times dry and raspng and
again loose, with abundant expectora-
rIon. These people speud large part
of their vitality in coughinS, hawking
, and splitting, which dis ,urhs thelt
s.eep, Geranges their APP elite, and
makes them extremely dlsagreea bic TO
everyone. There is a raw, smarty
G feeling i'll the throat aud bronchial
p tubes, pain and soreness i'll the chest
y all OF which does MT always
+ prevent one from going about
life scarcely worth living. in
n which every day is weary round
II of dlsagreeaple eXl eriencGs This con
d dition, too, is simply and only the re
l. suit OF neg ecteu cold, which the
Is proper II eatment would have removed.
- But by far the most numerous and
- most completely wretched victims OF
'e The folly of neglected coids are those
re who have chronic catarrh in some OF
lie is many forms.
T. Chronic catarrh is so undoubtedly
in and directly he result OF an ordinary
pr cold THAT it would be quite CO. rect t.
call chrome catarrh settled Tor Old
= cold. At last one fourth of the liz
:" habitants north Of 40th degree o!
latitude are more or less afflicted Will
n catarrh in some form. 10 say thai
IS this vast multitude OF people are miSer
IN able is 10 give only a mid statement
il of the case. | alu receipt dali!
To of over fifty letters from people al
W fiicted with carrarrh, and the wretch
edness of these people, as described b!
oe their letters, would fill large volume
or Catarrh Of the head, nose, throat
or bronchial tubes. lungs, s. oinach, boTe
i'll kidneys, bladder, womb and urethlil
ey with all the concomitant and resulting
disturbances of the functions of the
body, such as dizziness. deafness, roar
a ing i'll the head, loss OF memory, epeckE
Nv be ore the eyes, loss of taste aud smell
d, sore throat, coue h, dyspepsia, dial rhTa
or consumption, weakness, pain III the
back, female weakness, "Bights dis
" ease" and diabetes, constitute a list o
he ills that ought to furnish all etfectua
IA lesson 10 ali who are YET i'll health.
d. How many lives are ruined, how
70 many homes made unhappy by Ca
nd tarrhal diseases, no man can number
Of and the whole trouble results from &
foolish or wilitui neg .ect Of colulnJI
colds. While those remedies properly
III used, will cure The great majority OF
TO cases OF chronic catarrh, brun-
ar chitis and consumption in it,
ak first stages, yet as pren,ive oil
of these diseases they are of Still
o. greater value. | do not hesitate
:" Peru-na at the beginning of a cold will
=. quickly recover and the cold leave no
Ae trace Of damage to the system.
,g. For number of years my profe. -
to sional duties have compelled me to be
IN much on the road, travelling long dis
a tances by rail night and day, exposed
III to all kinds of vicissitudes, sleeping
" and eating in different hotel IS contIn,
, ually, and through it all | have ore.
10 served myself from any arrangement
n of body resulting from catching cold.
ce This could not have been done with
out Pe-ru-na. At the slightest evi.
"a dence of a cold few doses of Peru
is ma invariably checked it. If l found
lo myself hawking or frequently blowing
~ my nose, instead of letting it 90, as the
y, average man would do, l always took
al Pe-ru-na for few days and at no
time In my extensive travels have |
at been Obliged to stop day on account
h. Of my health.
What Pe-ru-na has done for Inc it
will do for every other person, and the
bad results of catching cold could IN
r. this way be reduced to the merest
~ traction Of their present damage. No
:. family or person should neglect to
OF Keep Pe-rn-na constantly on hand
10. during the cold months and at the first