The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-09-22
CURE FOR SNORING.
A GREAT OPPORTUNITY FOR a SOBER
PHILANTHRoPlST.

Terrible and at Present Ineurabie Dis
case That Breaks Up Homes and Destroys
Lifelong Fricndships-A Cure For This
Would BE a Boon.
Several years ago, when that best OF
table companions, Don Piatt, was ailve'
we had arranged to have little dinner
together at an up town cafe. l was on
time, bat 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 l
discover that 1 am afflicted with an all
ment that will not yield TO treatment
one indeed for which G, Zoo years or med
ical science have not been able TO find
cure"
Though always on my guard for q joke
the sadly solemn face Of my friend alb
solved him this time. and with all the
sympathy 1 could throw into my words
/ exclaimed:
.'Why, my dear Piatt, don't you be-
ieve II. What is this malady?"
"Alas, old age! / set out to walk here.
II was too much of an undertaking"
The tirneliness of this reference to the
infrmities of age is accumulated by sew
eral important cases in court that have
depended upon the incurability Of snor-
ing. This vexatious affection 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 lmpor-
| tant organ in producing the noise during
| sleep.
This belief must have been general in
| the last generation, for we all know that
clothespin was the remedy best thought
of in practice. That treatment was no
more severe than cupping and far more
direct in application. But during the
| past five or six years, or since the French
! form of influenza fastened upon us, there
has been marked and alarming increase
in the number of people addicted to
snoring. 1t is popularity of this NAL
| adv 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 powerless
to subdue.
Those who fail to agree with me as to
| the gravity, the seriousness or the time
illness of these remarks are requested tc
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 pow 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 the
plain, unvarnished truth to say that he
now looks upon himself as a victim to
the inadequacy of medical science TO
reach his case. His wife has left him,
taking the children with her, and while
it is unlikely that the case i'll Wis
consin Will be taken as precedent for
procuring divorce there can be nc
doubt that the couple are irreS.ss8ses9assffr,
separated. That husband sNss deeply a
tached to hida de-ssss He took the best
iiieuio"i so.Jvice. He even visited IN
CIV Of physicians, Philadelphia, In II
hope of restoration to a normal meth'
~ of sleeping.
is His medical experience was eXtensiv
ID He began xith anodyne and ended WI
no a serious contemplation of deadly stryc
hit nine. He tried oxides and bromide
%. nerve foods and antifats, Tactics al
laxatives, iodides and chlorides, aci
and alkalis, oatmeal and cornmeal.
er ternating with these he took beer, bat
h and blisters. Knowing that belladon
~, Of tho
searched for a medicine that would ha
~. the effect of q mydratic upon the n
'oi trils. Then he went to DR.. Curtis a
~ had the cartilage of his nose remove
ire Somebody told him about the Prince
Or Wales being cured of insomnia by
ar use of hop pillow. and he tried tha
ars without effect. His case was lncuran
IN He grew desperate. He resorted to
"A. rophine, camphine. benzine-bombazl
~ At this stage his wife left him, and
ay by one the servants in the house gave
te tice.
he Thus was a household wrecked
'on cause the head of it snored.
We all regard with serious appreh
sion the threatened approach OF
an denies from the old world, and we
heI member that from the same old VIC
re- was brought the sad, sad intlrmty
rn- snoring-a gift that we could have d
I'M, without and would have been hapl
in had they kept at home.
in Now that recognition of the dep
;nr able seriousness of snoring Is forthc'
20 ing | would soberly suggest that sc
'"7 philanthropist offer n prize for the
cific that will antagonize and destroy
ing sunderer of homes and destroyer OF L
18th piness. The remedy must be real
yes the cure enectea permanent, .,o,
ssel Snorlns nus De So g;;o+ions In
ms $3.50 $50. - NarT W Vorl[ Recorder.
red
on The Proprietor's Only Remedy.