The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1893-09-14
A CURE FOR SNORING.
A GREAT OPPORTUNITY FOR A SOBER
PHlLANTHRopisT.

A Terrible and at Present y=curable Dis
ease That Breaks Up Homes and DESTROYS
Lifelong Friendships-A Cure For This
Would BE o Boon.
Several years ago, when that best Of
table companions, Don p:att, was alive.
we had arranged to have little dinner
together at an mp town cafe. Twas on
time, but Piatt was late. When he did
come. he looked grave and said in the
low and W sAdneiulated voic. so memo
rable:
IL am sorMfbut tho 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 10 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
I exclaimed:
"Why, my dear Piatt. don't you be-
lieve It'll What Is this maladyy'
"Alas, old agel set out TO walk here.
It was too much of an undertaking."
The timeliness Of this reference to the
in6rmities 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
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
clothespin 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. 1t is popularity Of this NAL
ady that the sufferers are not confined to
those attacked. Like the delirium tire
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 q 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 cass in Wis
consin will be taken as q 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, In the
hope Of restoration to normal method
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
laxatives, iodides and chlorides, acids
and alkalis, oatmeal and cornmeal. Al
ternating with these he took beer, baths
and blisters. Knowing that belladonna
made large the pupils of the eyes, he
searched for medicine that would have
the effect Of mydratic upon the nos
triis. Then he went to 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 incurablei
He grew desperate. He resorted to at
rophine, camphine, Observation-Disclosures
At this stage his wife left HIN, and one
by one the servants in the house gave no
tice.
Thus was household wrecked be-
cause the head Of it snored.
We all regard with serious apprehen-
sion the threatened approach CO cpl
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 at home.
Now that recognition of the deplor-
able seriousness of snoring is forthcom.
ing l would soberly suggest that some
philanthropist offer prize for the spe-
cific that twill 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.
Chambers in New York Recorder.