Telegram-herald. ([Grand Rapids, Mich.) 18??-1892, 1891-01-25

Or. S. B. HARTMAN
Gives q Timely Lecture on the Gil
matte Diseases of Winter.
Colds and How to Prevent Them
Coughs, Their Cure and
Prevention.
Startling Mortal Statistics Caused
by Catarrhal Diseases.
How Catarrh is Caused, How Prevented,
How Cured

In perhaps no other particular are
the masses of the people SO recklessly
negIectful of their own interests as in
the matter of catching cold. Not only
DO the great majority fail to properly
provide themselves with sufficiently
warm clothing, but when slight cough
or hawking or running at the nose
warns them that cold has been con-
tracted little or no attention is paid to
1t. There are, comparatively, so few
people who regard cold as of suffi-
cent consequence to require prompt
and efficient medicinal treatment, that
not only is the death rate of the North
ern States increased one-balf thereby.
but our land ia swarmlng with invalids
aud balf-slck people as direct conse-
quence of neglected colds.
1t would seem that the love OF life
and the delights of perfect health
would be sufficient inducements to any
one to carefully guard them without
any warnings or argument from the
medical profession. Who has not seen
the victim of consumption struggling
for hfe IN the fatal grasp OF its last
stages? The unnatural brightness OF
their CLASSY, anxious eyes, the hectic
flush of their shrunken cheeks, the
dilated nostrils and deep, sepulchral
voice, the painting breath and fiutter-
ing heat, the frlghtfully emaciated
form, the hopefulness of the patient
and the hopelessness of the attendants
all make pathetic picture which is
far too common.
1t is my positive conviction, based on
many years experience and extended
observation, that nine cases out of ten
rs above described can be traced with
certainty To q neglected cold. A slight
cough, little boarseness, or only sore
throat, was the beginning, which, being
neglected, led TO an end so.disastrous
that no pen can give 1t adequate des-
or ptiOn.
Less terrible, but more numerous,
are cases of chronic bronchitis-an in
cessant cough, sometimes dry and rasp-
ing, and again loose, with abundant
expectoratlon. These people spend a
large part of their vitality in coughing,
hawking and splitting, which disturbes
their sleep, deranges their appetite,
and makes them extremely disagreed
bic to every one. There is a raw,
smarty feeling In the throat and bron-
chial tubes, pain and soreness in the
chest. all of which does not always pre-
vent one from going about the usual
business. but makes life scarcely worth
living, IN which every day il q weary
round of disagreeable experiences. The
condition, too. is simply and only the
result of neglected cold, when the
proper treatment would have removed.
But by far the most numerous and
tnfr
the folly of neglected colds are those
who have chrome catarrh IN some of its
many forms.
Chronic cstarrh is 80 undoubtedly
and directly the result of an ordinary
cold that It would be quite correct to
call chronic cstarrh a settled lor old
cold. At least e-fourth Of the inhab-
itants north Of 10th degree of latitude
are more or less afflicted with estarrh
IN some form. To say that this vast
multitude of people are miserable is to
give only q mild statement of the case.
| am IN rece pt daily of over fifty letters
from people afflicted with catarrh, and
tie wretehedness OF these people, "a
described by their letters, would fill =
large volume tztsrrn of the head
nose, throat, bronchial, tubes, lungs,
stomach, towels, kidneys, bladder,
womb and urethra, with all the con
conatsnt and resulting Disturbances of
the functions Of the body, such as dizzs-
ness. deafness, roaring in toe head, lo~
Of memory, srscss before the eyes. ioss
OF taste ana. smell, sore throat. cough.
dyspepsia. diarrhoss or ccnsun pfion
weakness, pam n the hack, female
weakness. "Brlshfs disease and ia
betes. constitute . Est Of lie that ought
10 furnish an efeetaal lesson to ell vao
are yet n health
How nasay Ives are ruined, hovHsny
homes made unhappy. by Catarrhal
diseases. no man can nunatsT. ard TIE
whole trouble results from q foolish or
s1llfai neglect Of common colds. Naile
these remedies, properly used, vii cure
the great majority of cases Ct chrome