The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1895-11-13
BEWARE OF PNEUMONIA.
Health Commissioner Edison of Few Yea
Tells How TO Ward IT or

Health Commissioner Edison OF Eow Yea
Tells How to Ward 1t on.
Although more or less prevalent
throughout the year, pneumonia is Pc
euliaTly dangerous during the opening
months Of winter. With the first frosa'
very marked increase takes place In
the number Of cases, and during this
cold, damp weather extra precautions
should be taken. Pneumonia is proba.
bly, produced by an earth microbe, and
when frost prevails the soil beneath
the house is the only ground which is
not frozen. The germ gradually wqrks
toward the warm, moist earth, and the
house really acts as sort of fue, which
forms ready mode of egress for them.
The proper ventilation of rooms is there
fore an important factor in guarding
against pneumonia, one, however, which
is often overlooked.
Lack of personal hygiene is the chief
predisposing cause of the disease. Ir.
regular hours, insufficient nourishment,
dyspepsia, excessive fatigue or some
disease which has lowered the general
tone of the system all weaken the pow.
er of resisting the pneumonia germ.
When the system is run down, sudden
exposure to cold may prove fatal, while
in normal condition of body it would
be thrown off.
There are three periods during which
the susceptibility to pneumonia is great
est. They are early childhood-that is,
up to 2 years of age, between the ages
Of 90 and 40 and after 60. The power
of resistance against pneumonia grows
much feebler after 90 years of age, and
nine tenths of the cases prove fatal.
Gold, damp weather is favorable to
the contraction of "colds" and the sub,
sequent development of pneumonia, and
it still exists to some extent in a modi-
fed form. This is the disease with which
pneumonia most readily combines, but
it is found in combination with diph.
iberia, typhoid fever, measles, scarlet
fever and many others
When a severe or sudden chill has
been contracted, the main thing is to
act quickly, and many serious illness
can be averted and valuable life saved |
by little intelligence coupled with
If possible send for u
doctor Immediately and take ten grains
of quinine apd i've drops of spirits Of
camphoF II a little water or on a lump
of sugar. These doses are for an adult
Then soak the feet in hot water and
Jump into bed. Simple as these remedies
are, they have nipped in the bud many
prospective cases of pneumonia.
While soaking the feet the body
mould be warmly wrapped in blan.
ket, which should be kept ON until some
time after the person has entered tn,
bed in order that free perspiration be
continued and not checked.
a good thing to prevent "colds'' is TO
wear wool next the skin. When this is
not possible on account of the irritation
caused, a mixture of wool
md silk will generally be found salts
factory. would not recommend cotton
IN any form for underwear, as it is fire..
Iuently the cause of dangerous cold
by becoming wet and keeping the tenn.
oerature of the skin below the normal
Care should be taken that the feet do
lot get wet, or if so that prompt meas
Tres are taken to dry them and a change
# hose made
The care taken of the outside of the
'ody must be supplemented by the same
are of the inside. a moderate diet,
wholesome food, plenty of rest, regular
lcurS, wall keep the who @ system ii
,ood order and enable it to throw of
he germs of disease, which can only
btain footing when debilitation af.
ores an entrance for the disease and
ruitful soil for its development -Cy
US Edison in ST Louis Post-Dispatoh.