Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1894-01-15
THE TERRoRs oE- SNORING.
Science Hunting For Remedy That Man.
kind viii Rise Up and Bless.

science Hunting For Remedy That Man
kind Will Rise Up and Bless.
We are delighted to observe that
science is beginning to interest itself
in the remedy of one of the most vi
rulent of human ills which has
never heretofore been considered i'm
portant enough to justify its atten-
ton. 1t is fact patent to all obser-
vation that the tendency of all pro-
fessions and vocations is now toward
specializing. We will soon no longer
know the good old general praoti-
toner in medicine who was ready to
treat anything from chills and fever
to paranoacomania and who per
formed trephining and toothpulling
with equal willingness and dexterity.
The day of the omniscient school
master is gone: We have no more
Philip Sidneys versed in the whole
circle of arts and sciences.
Science, on the contrary, is now
represented by men like DR.. Holmes
entomologist, who considered the
characteristics of a certain species of
beetle a study wide enough for life
time. This specializing tendency is
of course fruitful of many advant-
ages Particularly is this true of the
science of medicine, as is proved by
the truth that hitherto unnoticed hui
man infrlnities are now given cog
nizance and held as worthy the re-
searches and tolls of eminent physi-
Clans The latest and most benefi-
cent evidence of good is found in the
fact that the habit of snoring is now
being thoughtfully considered to the
end of discovering remedy there
for.
We hold that discovery of cure
for snoring would be one of the vast
est of any Of the services rendered to
man by science. 1t would be as far
reaching as the discovery of Harvey
or the theory of Jenner. 1t would
dwarf Brown-Seqard's elixir and
make the inventions of Koch and
VirchOw and Pasteur seem trivial.
The ills which these eminent men
have treated are great and serious
calamities. Consumption and hy-
drophobia are evils whose results are
most distressing. But what are even
they to the curse of snoring2 They
have the virtue of killing their prey.
Snoring makes life hideous to its vic
TINS and to all who know them and
is yet most absurdly safe. The most
perfect constitution is no protection
against this nocturnal terror. A
man may be free of all corporeal ills
and still snore with a noise like the
blast of the trumpets of Jericho.
The young and the fair and the gift
ed are not exempt. How horrible is
the thought that the maiden on
whose cheeks lilies and roses bloom
still makes night hideous and acts
like vibrant phonograph for all the
winds of AIolus
This evil is infinite in extent.
Like tho fatal upas, it overshadows
the entire earth and casts a gloom
upon the nations. With fearful in
sidiousness it has undermined all civ
ilization with a ramification of hor-
rors and set its stigma on the broad
brow of progress. 1t has wrecked
thousands of homes. In has de-
stroyed the wife's confidence in the
husband and blown love away on its
snort.
1t has parted friends and estranged
lovers. 1t has wrecked the religion
of sojourners in hotels and disturbed
public worship myriads of times. Its
influence extends, promoting dissen-
sion, misery and unhappiness from
the cottage of the peasant to the pal
ace of the king. 1t has its grip on
poets and statesmen and artists. 1t
rumbles from the nostrils of the un-
sheltered tramp and makes luxury a
mockery i'll the mansion of the mil
lionaire.
We will hail the discoverer of a
remedy for this curse as the Christie
pher Columbus of the healing art
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