Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1893-06-22
NUMBER 45
A CURE FOR SNORING.
AGREAT OPPORTUNITY FOR A SOBER
PHlLANTHRoPIsT.

A Terrible and at Present Incurabis Dis
ease That Breaks Up Homes and DestroyI
Lifelong FriendshIps-A Cure For This
Would Be a Boon.
Several yelrs ago, when that best d
table companions, Don Piatt, was alive
we had arranged to have little dinner
together at an up town cafe. was OIL
time, but Piatt was Late When he did
come, he looked grave and said in The
low and well modulated voice SO memo
rable:
Il am sorry, but the simple truth is
discover that am afflicted with an all
ment that will not yield to treatment
one indeed FIR which 5000 years Of med
ical science have not been able to find a
cure"
Though always on my guard for joke,
the sadly solemn face Of my friend abb
solved him this time, and with all the
sympathy could throw into my words
exclaimed:
''Why, my dear Piatt, don't you be-
heve i'll What is this malady?'
''Alas, old agel / set out to walk here.
It was too much of an undertaking"
The timeliness Of this reference to the
infirmities of age is accentuated by sew
eral important cases in court that have
depended upon the incurabiIity of snor-
ing. This vexatious affiiction to which
the human family is heir has increased
in this country with alarming rapidity
since the advent of la grippe. Its changed
character is recognized by progressive
physicians, and the definitions found IN
the dictionaries are now admitted to Be
quite wide Of the mark. Webster init
mates clearly. by tracing the etymology
of the word, that the nose is the impor-
tant organ in producing the noise during
sleep.
This belief must have been general in
the last generation, for we all know that
a aclothespin was the remedy best thought
Of in practice. That treatment was n1
more severe than cupping and far more
direct in application. But during the
past five or SIX years, or since the Frenci
form Of influenza fastened upon us, there
has been marked and alarming increase
in tho number Of people addicted to
snoring. 1t is a popularity of this NAL
ady that the sufferers are not confined to
those attacked. Like the delirium ire
mems, the cornet habit and other obnox-
ious forms Of nervous unrest, snoring
awakens an antagonism in the human
breast that mere medicine is powerlesa
to subdue.
Those who fail to agree with me as to
the gravity, the seriousness or the time
illness of these remarks are requested to
communicate by mail, and they will be
made acquainted with a case in point
that will amply convince them.
An acquaintance living ON West End
avenue is now suffering from the most
thoroughly developed case Of snoring
that has appealed to medical science in
recent times. His life up to the past
year has been exemplary, but it is tho
plain, unvarnished truth to say that he
now looks upon himself as victim to
the inadequacy Of medical science to
reach his case. His wife has left him.
taking the children with her, and vdlilo
it is unlikely that the case in Wis
consin viii be taken as a precedent for
procuring q divorce there can be no
doubt that the couple are irrevocably
separated. That husband was deeply at
tached to his wife. He took the best Of
medical advice. He even visited that
city Of physicians, Philadelphia, in the
hope of restoration to a normal method
of sleeping.
His medical experience was extensive.
He began with anodyne and ended with
a serious contemplation of deadly strych-
nine. He tried oxides and bromides,
nerve foods and antifats, lactics and
laxatives, iodides and chlorides, acids
and alkalis, oatmeal and cornmeal. AL
ternating with these he took beer, baths
and blisters. Knowing that belladonna
made large the pupils Of the eyes, lie
searched for a medicine that would havo
the effect Of a mydratic upon the nos
trils. Then he went to DIR. Curtis and
had the cartilage of his nose removed
Somebody told him about the Prince Of
Wales being cured Of insomnia by the
use of a hop pillow, and he tried that
without effect, His case was incurablel
He grew desperate. He resorted to at
rophine, canphine. -bombazine!
At this stage his wife left hin, and onJ
by one the servants in the house gave no-
tice.
Thus was household wrecked be-
cause the head Of it snored.
We all regard with serious appreheHr
sion the threatened approach of epi-
denies from the old world. and we re-
member that from the same old world
was brought the sad, sad infrmity OF
snoring-a gift that we could have dono
without and would have been happier
had they kept at home.
Now that q recognition Of the deplor-
able seriousness Of snoring is forthcom-
ing would soberly suggest that somo
philanthropist offer prize for the spe-
ciic thatwill antagonize and destroy this
sunderer Of homes and destroyer Of hap
piness. The remedy must be real and
the cure effected permanent.
Snoring must be removed from the
category of incurable afflictions Julius
Chambers in New York Recorder,