The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1893-06-23
A CURE FOR SNORING.
A GREAT OPPORTUNITY FOR A SOBER
PHlLAATHRoPlST.

Several years ago. when that best of
table companions, Don Piatt, was alive,
we had arranged to have a little dinner
together at an up town cafe. | was ON
time, but Piatt was late. When he did
come, he looked grave and said in the
low and well modulated voice so memo
rable:
II I'm sorry, but the simple truth ia /
discover that / am afflicted with an all
ment that will not yield to treatment
one indeed for which 5000 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 could throw into my words
| exclaimed:
"Why, my dear Piatt, don't you be-
lieve it! What is this malady?"
"Alas, old age! / 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 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 impor-
tant organ in producing the noise during
sleep.
This belief must have been general in
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. 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-
ACuS W e fOuC u1ICEl, EAUIlllk
awakens IN 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
e 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 pas,
year has been exemplary, but 1t is the
plain, u~nvarnished truth to say that hi
now looks upon himself as a victim tc
the ~inadequacy of medical science tc
reach his case. His wife has left him
taking the children with her. and while
it is unlikely that the case in Wis
consin will be taken as a precedent fol
procuring a divorce there can be nc
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 tina,
city of physicians, Philadelphia, Il the
of sleeping.
His medical experience was extensive
He began with anodyne and ended with
q serious contemplation Of deadly strych
nine. He tried oxides and bromides
nerve foods and antifats, Tactics and
iaxatives, iodides and chlorides, acids
and alkalis, oatmeal and cornmeal. AL
ternating with these he took beer, baths
and blisters. Knowing that belladonns
made large the pupils Of the eyes. b.
searched fo- q medicine that would hav,
the effect of a mydratic upon the NOS
trils. Then he went to DIR. Curtis ant
had the cartilage of his nose removed
Somebody told him about the Prince o.
Wales being cured Of insomnia by thu
use of a hop pillow. and he tried that
without effect. His case was incurable
He grew desperate. He resorted to at
rophine, camphine, Observation-Disclosures
At this stage his wife left him, and ON,
by one the servants in the house gave no
tice.
Thus was q household wrecked be
cause the head of it snored.
We all regard with serious apprehen
sion the threatened approach Of cpl
denies from the old world, and we re
member that from the same old worlt
was brought the sad, sad infirmity o
snoring-a gift that we could have dom
without and would have been happie
had they kept at home.
Now that q recognition Of the deplor
able seriousness of snoring is forthcom
ing | would soberly suggest that som
p~hilanthropist offer q prize for the spe
ciic that will antagonize and destroy thi
sunderer of homes and destroyer of HAP
pipess. The remedy must be real am
the cure effected permanent.
Snoring must be removed from tn
category of incurable affiictions.-Juliu
Chambers In New York Recorder.
The Proprietor's Only Remedy.
A certain clerk in a Detroit establish
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