The Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1893-1901, 1893-07-06
A CURE FOR SNORING.
AGREAT OPPORTUNITY FOR A SOBER
PHlLANTHROPlST.

4 Terrible and at Present 1ncurable Dis
ease That Breaks Up Homes and Destroy.
Lifelong ~Friend,hips-A Cure For Thi,
Would he n iBocu.
Several years ago. when that best Of
table companions, Don Piitt, was alive
we had arranged to have a little Dime,
together at an up town cafe. Iwas o.
time. but Piatt was late. When he Iii
come. he looked grave and said in The
low and well modulated voice So memo.
rable:
Il am sorry, hut the : mol truth is |
discover that / am afii a. ,-i.h al -
ment that will not yield to treatment
one indeed for which 5000 wears of med
ical science have not been able to find a
cure"
Though always Oh MY ga..: Tor a Joke.
the sadly solemn face of my friend alb.
solved him this time. and with all tn
sympathy could throw INTO m words
! exclaimed.
why, my dear Piatt. On You be.
heve 1t! What is this NAL ,y:"
Alas, old age. | set on TO Walk here
1t was tooircl Of n. =. l-ta r..
The timellness o this reference % the
infirmities of age a~cceltiated V sev-
eral important cases in court that have
depended 'iryn the incuraLi.ity of .l.or-
ing. III, : 1910 ti,tloa T. Hli.I
b human family is h II has increased
in this country with alarming rapidity
slncetle 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 INF.
mates clearly. by tracing the etymolo-v
OF the word. that the nose is the impor.
tant organ ii r. icing the noise during
sleep.
This belief mist have been general in
the last generation, for we all know that
a clothespin was the remedy best thought
OF IN practice. That treatment was no
more severe than cupring and far more
direct in application. But during the
past 1--WE 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
attacked. Like the delirium ire
mems, the cornet habit and other obnox.
iOus forms of nervous unrest. snorin.
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 a case in point
that will amply convince them.
An acquaintance living on West End
avenue is now suffering from the mos.
thoroughly developed case of snori:.<
that has appealed to medical science ~
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 i~nadeguacy of medical science to
reach his case. His wife has left him
the children with her. and while
It Is unlikely that the case in Wis.
will be taken as a precedent for
procuring a divorce there can be no
aoubt that the couple are ~irrevocably
separated. That husband was deeply at
;ached to bs wife. He took the best of
medical advice. He even visited that
;ity of physicians. Philadelphia. In the
hope of restoration to a normal method
# sleeping.
His medical experience was extensive
&c began with anodyne and ended with
serious contemplation Of deadly strych-
line. He tried oxides and bromides
foods and ~antifats, lactics and
axatives, iodides and chlorides, acids
md alkalis, oatmeal and cornmeal. Al
ernating with these he took beer. baths
md blisters. Knowing that belladonns
made large the pupils Of the eyes. he
earched for a medicine that would have
he effect Of a mydratic upon the nos.
rils. Then he went to DR.. Curtis ana
lad the cartilage Of his nose removed
somebody told him about the Prince Of
Wales being cured Of insomnia by the
,se of a hop pillow. and he tried that
effect. His case was incurable.
lie grew desperate. He resorted 10 at
ophine, camphine, Observation-Disclosures!
this stage his wife left him. and one
~ n the servants in the house ave Ii
Ice.
Thus was a household wrecked be
:ause the head Of il snored.
We all regard with serious apprehep
ion the threatened approach Of epi
from the old world, and we re
that from the same old world
vas brought the sad, sad infrmity Of
- e. a. --.ll - A.
and would have been happier
lad they kept at home.
Now that a recognition Of the deplOr
bile seriousness of snoring is fgrthcoiD
ng l would soberly suggest that some
offer a prize for the spe
ific that will Sntagonize and destroy this
underer Of homes and destroyer Of hap
The remedy must be real and
he cure effected permanent.
Snoring must be removed from the