Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1893-06-22

Would BE 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:
81 am sorry, but the simple truth is i
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
cure"
Though always on my guard for 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-
ieve It'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
intirmities 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
sincethe advent Of Ia grippe. Its changed
character is recognized by progressive
physicians, and the definitions found in
the dictionaries are now admitted to be
quite wide Of tho mark. Webster init
mates clearly. by tracing the etymology
of the WORD. 5F .e nose is the impor-
tant organ I'D producing the noise during
sloaD.
This belief must have been general in
the last generation, for we al 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 marked and alarming increase
in the number Of people addicted to
snoring. Il Is popularity Of this NAL
ady that the sufferers are not confined to
those attacked. Like the delirium ire
mems, the coTnet habit and other obnox-
ions forms of nervous unrest, snoring
awakens an autagonism 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 "A case in point
that viii amply convince them.
An acquaiEtanca living on West End
avenue Is ROW suffering from the most
thoroughly developed case Of snoring
that has appealed to medical science in
recent times. Ills life up to the past
year has been exemplary, but it is the
plain, unyarnlsled truth 10 say that he
now looks upon himself as a victim TO !
the imadeqU5cy Of medical science to !
reach his case. bis wife has left him, !
taking the children with her, and while /
it is unlikely thut the case in Wis !
consin viii be taken as a precedent for 4
procuring a divorce there can be no 4
doubt that the couple are irrevocably I
separated. That husband was deeply at [
tached to his wife. lie tool, the best Of /
medical advice lie even visited that /
city Of physicians Philadelphia, in the /
hope of restoration to a normal method I
of sleeping.
His medical experience was extensive. /
He began with auodyue and ended with !
a serious contemplationo 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 |
ternating with these he took beer baths |
and blisters. Knowing that belladonna I
made large the pupils OF the eyes, he /
searched for a medicine that would have |
the effect Of a mydratic upon the nos /
trils. Then he went 10 DR.. 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 hop pillow, and he tried that !
without effect His case was incurablel !
He grew desperate, He resorted to at !
rophine, camphine, Observation-Disclosures |
At this stage his wife left him, and one |
by one the servants in the house gave no. |
tee.
Thus was a household wrecked be
cause the head of it snored.
We all regard with serious apprehen-
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 done
without and would have been happier
had they kept az home.
Now that a recognition of the deplor-
able seriousness Of snoring is forthcom-
ing | would so6erly suggest that some
philanthropist offer 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 Affections -Julius
Chambers in New York Recorder.