Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-11-13
A CURE FOR SNORING.
A GREAT OPPORTUNITY FOR A SOBER
 PHILANTHRoPIsT

4 Terrible and at Present IncurabIe Dis
 ease That Breaks IT Homes and Destroys
 Lifelong FriendshiPs-A Cure For Thi, Would Be n Boon.
 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:
 ''I am sorry, but the simple truth is discover that I am afflicted with an ail- ment that will not yield to treatment- one indeed for which 6,OOO years of med ical science have not been able to find cure"
 Though always on my guarl for joke, the sadly solemn face of my friend ab- solved him this time, and with all the sympathy 1 could throw into my words I exclaimed:
 Why, my dear Piatt, don't you be heve it. What is this malady:"
 Alas, old age! set ont to walk here. It was too much of an undertaking"
 The ti:neliness of this reference to the inhrmities of age iS accentuated by sev- eral important cases in court that have depended upon the inCurability 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 inti- mates clearly. by tracing the etymology of the word. that the nose is the inpor- 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 i'll 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. It is peculiarity of this mal- 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 antagonisln in the human breast that mere medicine is powerless to subdue.
 Those who fail to agree with he 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 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 it is unlikely that the case ill Wis consin will be taken as d precedent for procuring a 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, Tn the hope of restoration to a normal method of sleeping.
 His medical experience was extensive He began with anodvne and ended with a serious contemplation of deadly strych- nine. He tried oxides and bromidcS. nerve foods and antifatS. tactics and laxatiyes, iodides and chlnrideS. acids and alkalis, oatmeal and cornmcal. Al ternating with thcsc he took beer. baths and blisters. Knowing that belladonna made large the pupils of the eyes, he searched for a medicine that would have the effect of mydratiC upon the nos triIs Then he went tn Dr Curtis and had the cartilage of his nose removed. Somebody told him about the Prince cf Wales being cured of insonria by the 1se ot hop pillow, and ko tried that without cscot. Ui- caSe was 5ncU-Gblc. ao grew dcspa-a.l. IL rlsortod 10 at- rophine, camphine, benziEl-b9mba-inc, At this stage his wife left him. and one by ono the servants in the house gave mo- uce.
 Thus was household wrecked be- cause the head of 1t snored.
 We all regard with serious apprehen- sion the threatened approach of cpl demics from the old world. and We re member that from the same old world was brought the sad. sad infirmity of snoring-a gift that We could have done 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 1 would soberly suggest that some philanthropist offer a prize for the spe- cific that will 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 affiictions. Chambers in New York Recorder.
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