The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1894-03-17
THE SICK AND AFFLICTED.
DIR. Kumpe and Local Doctors Speak
Their knowledge of Present
Hygienic Conditions.
An Interview With Each Medtous'
Phenomenal Circumstances Attend.
ing the Disease.
Every body Should Know.

Between their frequent calls the
physicians in camp were each inter-
viewed with reference to the disease
just now making its terrible ravages
in the village, and asked to make a
statement for the press which would
enlighten the people upon the fear
full malady, its symptoms and their
best possible antidotes. Each men,
Der of the profession received u
scribe ~courteously and answered his
Questions in a n which indi-
Gated the deep study which the in
formant has given the diagnosis of
each particular case.
DR.. Kumpe, attendant in council
from White Sulphur Springs, was
first seen. He "a in company with
DR.. Sandow with whom he was con-
ferring upon medical matters. They
answered our rapid-6ring inquisitor
as follows:
What sickness is it that %affiicts
our people SO at present:
DR.. Kumpe: 1t is an epidemic of
pneumonia, most pernicious and
, phenomenal in it's character.
t Would you state to our people
, what difference you discover in its
y present appearance from those COM
q mon to the usual form Of the same
, disease?
DR.. Kumpe stated that in every
, case he had been called upon to ex-
anime, the number of which is in the
neighborhood Of 20, he found a
bodily temperature, below the nor
NAL, not %infrequently as much as q
t degrees below, which in fatal cases
continued to fall till life was extinct.
Another popularity of the disease is
that the patients cough but little
Usually in cases Of pneumonia the
patient has high fever and coughs a
great deal.
DIR. Sandow corroborated the a
y bove, adding that the pernicious at
lection was invariably ushered in BY
!, a protracted chill, attended by in
Il tense physical depression, which thu
~ medical men found great difficult,
!. in combating.
n. Both physicians inferred that tn
=, absence of fever was a chief caus
If why the patient did not report fo
/. : attention till a late hour, and tha
the disease had become deep seate
before the sufferer knew that he wa
sick. And even then, he only con
es planned of a general WEAKNESS. Th
70 case of Mr.. Johnston was an excep'
1t ion to the rest in that both side
yg were pneumonia with complication
ed of pleurisy and jaundice. Mr.. Gr'
is, ham certainly had as severe a tri'
nd as any but was favored by having
better constitution.
When asked with reference to Il
probable early abatement of the di:
IL ease, DR.. Kumpe advanced the Opt
ion that it might continue witho'
Os. mitigation through to the openir
ol of summer. AS is usual with eve
ier disease, first cases are more viOler
'ck and it is not likely to prove SO S
"r- we're from this time forth, especial
inc as people are already taking bett
'es' care of themselves; still we may e
IN pect lung troubles to be p~revale
ISL through the spring months.
OF To what cause would you attri
\" ute its first appearance?
Both physicians agreed that 1t v
attributable to abnormal atmosphe
' conditions.
Have you any suggestions for
pa" people toward its proper treatme'
'er The only hope of its control ]
in early interference and strict
~tention to instructions of the attel
$ ing physician. In following his
vice to the letter and in beginnl
early lies the only safeguard. ]
cause the patient does not at Fl
'he feel sick, but continues about
Is u business until the disease has gail
a lasting hold.
II Oh All the doctors declared
= q they had never before met the f
~ of pneumonia attended by a
normal temperature, and that
''oN' extremely rare as we'll as danger
VIM DR.. Vidal, being seen, states
he has encountered a number of
y Vi es of pulmonary affections, du.