The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1893-09-26

Several years ago, when that best o
table companions, Don Piatt, was alive
we had arranged to have a little dinner
together at an up town cafe. was OF
time, but Piatt was late. When he die
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 viii not yield to treatment
one indeed for which 6,000 years of med.
ical science have not been able to find a
cure"
Though always on my guard for a joke,
the sadly solemn face of my friend alb
solved him this time, and with all the
sympathy 1 could throw into my words
l exclaimed:
why, my dear Piatt, don't you be-
lieve it. What is this malady?"
alas, old age! l set out to walk here.
It was too much of an undertaking"
The timelness 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
sincethe advenrof la grippe. It's 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 II
the last generation, for we all know THAT
aclothespin 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 a marked and alarming increase
in the number of people addicted to
snoring. It is peculiarly 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 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 to
communicate by mail, and they will be
made acquainted with 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 the
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 while
1t Is unlikely that the case in Wis
consin will be taken as a precedent for
procuring a divorce there can be no
doubt that the couple are irrevocably
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 syith anodyne and ended with
a serious contemplation of deadly strych-
nine. He tried oxides and bromides,
nerve foods and antifats, Tactics and
laxatives, iodides and chlorides, acids
and alkalis, oatmeal and cornmeal. AL
with these he took beer, baths
and bisters. Knowing that belladonna
made large the pupils of the eyes, he
for medicine that would have
the effect of a mydratic upon the nos
trils. Then he went to DIR. Curtis and |
had the cartilage of his nose removed. |
told him about the Prince of |
Wales being cured of insomnia by the |
use of hop pillow, and he tried that
without effect. His case was incurable! |
He grew desperate. He resorted to at
rophine, camphine, benzine-bombazine |
At this stage his wife left him, and one
by one the servants in the house gave no
lice.
Thus was j household wrecked be
cause the head of it snored.
We all regard with serious apprehen-
non the threatened approach of cpl
denies from the old world, and we re-
member that from the same old world |
was brought the sad, sad infrmity of |
gift that we could have done
without and would have been happier
mad they kept at home.
Now that a recognition of the deplor-
lble seriousness of snoring is forthcom-
ng l would soberly suggest that some
offer prize for the spe-
'ific thatwill antagonize and destroy this
of homes and destroyer of hap
1iness. The remedy must be real and
he cure effected permanent.
Snoring must be removed from the
of incurable afiictions.-Julius
Chambers in New York Recorder.