The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-03-09
THE JERSEY CITY NEWS. WEDNESDAY,, MARCH s. 1892
PNEUMONIA
What 1t Really Is. A Newspaper Inres-
tigation Reveals Its Cause and Des'
cribeS Its Dangers,
CNe,c Yo'-k Telegram }

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Many a strong well built man leaves home 10
day, before night he will have a chill, and in 6
few hours he will be dead. This is the way the
dreaded pneumonia takes peop.e of. The list Of
notable men who are its victims is a%ppallingl
william j. Florence, the popular actor who
was supporting Joseph jefferson, is taken With q
chill while acting. Next day the physicians tell
us he is doing well. In two days he is dead.
Gen. Meigs, able, loyal, brave, while taking O
bath, feels a sudden tremor, o weakness, and is
hurried to his death. an
Every one breads this prevalent disorder. Its
coming is sudden, its termination usually
speedy.
What causes this terrible scourge!
1t is not in the air, infectious or contagi-
Gus. 1t results from exposure, changes OF
weather, aud prevails more among the appar-
emily healthy than among the feeble.
Pneumonia, we are told. is invited by a certain
condition of the system, indicated il one has oc-
casional chills and fevers, a tendency to colds
in the throat aud lungs, rheumatic and neuralgia
pains, extreme tired feelings. short breath and
peuritic stitches in the side, hot and dry skin,
loss OF strength and virility. These indications
may not appear together, they may come, disap'
pear and reappear, the person not realizing that
they are natures warnings Of a coming calam-
ity.
A celebrated New York physician recently told
the Tribune that pneumonia was O secondary
disorder, the exposure and cold being simply the
agent which deve!opes the disease, already dor
mant in the system, because the kidneys have
been but partially doing their duty. In short
pneumonia is an early indication of a bright's
diseased condition. This impaired action may
exist for years wit bout the patient suspecting it,
because no pain will be felt In the kidneys or
vicinity and often it can be detected only by
chemical and microscopical examination.
The only Safeguard against pneumonia is to
maintain a vigorous condition OF the system,
and thus prevent its attacks. by using whatever
will radically and effeetually restore full vitality
to the kidneys, for pneumonia can never be pre-
vented when they are disordered. There are
scores of men, and women too, who are only too
willing to preserve these great organs and pre-
vent pneumonia who do not know how to do SO.
1t is no easy task. 1t requires care and the
caseful use of just the proper thing. Many per-
sons have questioned what is the best thing to
use, but physicians are quite generally agreed
that nothing SO safely and so certainly does this
as Warmers Safe Cure. 1t is aremedy known
to millions and commended as a standard speci-
fc wherev err known. 1t does not pretend to cure
an attack of pneumonia, but it does and can re-
move the cause of and prevent that disease if
taken in time. No reasonable man can doubt
this if he regards the personal experience of
thousands of honorable men worthy his
favor.
When a physicians says his patient has either
bright's disease or pneumonia, he confesses his
inability to cure, and in a measure he considers
his responsibility ended. In many instances,
indeed, persons are reported dying from pneu-
monia, heart disease, apoplexy and convulsions
when the real cause of death and SO known by
physicians is this kidney consumption. Thous-
ands of people have it without knowing it and
perish Of it because their physician will not tell
them the facts! The same fate awaits every
one who will not use his Judgment in such a mat
ter and be true to himself, his family and to So
ciety.