The morning call., 1891-12-16
MISCELLANEOUS.
MISCELLANEOUS
4 SUICIDE CLUB.
Popular Method of Self
Execution.
Applicable to Those Lacking Ordinary
Manly COurage-An Interview
With a Doctor.

The principal suicide club in this country came
into existence in Connecticut but California has its
suicides many OF whom lack the courage TO blow
their brains out in the good old-fashioned way
talk with well-infOrmed gentleman, the physician
n-chief of the Cosmopolitan Dispensary, corner OF
Stockton, Ellis and Market streets, shows that sui
cideS are frequently caused by catarrh. He was
gagged in opening his mail yesterday when reporter
interrupted him.
al assigned the task OF putting you through
Interview" the latter explained on seating him
self in the chair the doctor motione him =. In
the first place do you treat many OF Bronchial
Catarrh >"
Yes; we have specialist who devotes his time
to catarrh exclusively
Is II such serious disease ?"
Bronchial catarrh Is much more serious than
many imagine. When catarrh has existed in the
head and upper part of the throat for any length Of
time it extends slowly down the windpipe. and thus
into the bronchial tubes. 1t may be years and it
may only be weeks before il reaches the lungs. Its
work of extension is gradual and is necessarily
attended by fever. The swelling and accumulated
mucus in the bronchial tubes produce annoy
ing cough The latter is not bad in
weather. With every change in the atmosphere
the cough becomes more aggravated and distress
ing and causes pronounced dihculty In breathing,
which assumes wleezlng tone, as II 1t were i'm
possible to fill the lungs with AT first there
raised little blush tough, tenacious mucus which
gradually increases in quantity and assumes
yellowish color, with such violent cough to
tans small particles of yelowish matter, some
times of cheesy consistency which, when pressed
between the fingers, emits n bad odor. With this
condition there may be PAIN but II there is IL is
of dull character felt in the front OF the chest
the back under the shoulder blade. When this dis
is not controlled cured by scientific treat
ment the lung substance itself undergoes changes.
and we have developed that worst of all diseases
consumption"
A reportorial visit to the Cosmopolitan Dispen-
sary always brings out something of general inter
est. The thousands who daily pass the large build
ing at the junction of Stockton, Ellis and Market
streets have but faint conception of the magni-
tude of the Institution The large receipt onrooms
operating-roOms, consutatienrooms, electrical
rooms and the department devoted exclusively to
the Hydropathic treatment have deep interest for
those who like to keep up to the times In the march
of progress in the healing art The Chicago Herald
is authority for the statement that the Cosmopoli-
tan Dispensary is only exceeded by the huge dis
pensaries of Berlin and London, and to the bene-
fetal results of their method of treatment the
patients themselves are the best authorities
The first one seen was Mr.. A. NJ. Martin, who Is a
coppersmith in the employ of Spreckes Brothers at
the Potrero with whom he has been for the past
fifteen years.
"Yes. sir, patient at the Cosmopolitan
Dispensary,'' he said, land they have done
more good than all the physicians have ever been