The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1895-06-03

A Terrible and mt Present Ipcurabie Dis
ease That freaks Up Homes and Destroys
Lifelong Friendships-A Cure For This
would he Boon.
Several years ago. when that best OF
table companions, Don Piatt, was alive,
we had arranged to have little dinner
together at an up town cafe. was on
time, but Piatt was late. When he did
come, he looked grave and said in the
low and well modulated voice so memo
rable:
81 am sorry, but the simple truth is
discover that am afflicted with an all
ment that will not yield to treatment
one indeed for which G,000 years of med
ical science have not been able to find
cure"
Though always on my guard for a joke,
the sadly solemn face Of my friend alb
solved him this time. and with all the
sympathy could throw into my words
| exclaimed:
"Why, my dear Piatt, don't you be
lieve It'll What is this maladyT
"Alas. old agel set out to walk here.
It was too much of an undertaking"
The Thickness Of this reference to the
infirnities 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 Ia 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
a 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
pat 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 n popularity of this NAL
ady that the sufferers are not confined to
those attacked. Like the delirium ire
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 suodue.
Those who fail to agree with me as to
the gravity, the seriousness or the time
liness 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 a victim to
: the inadequacy of medical science Ia
reach his case. His wife has left him
= taking the children with her, and while
it is unlikely that the case in Wis.
consin will be taken as precedent fol
procuring a divorce there can be nc
doubt that the couple are irrevocably
separated. That husband was deeply at
tached to his wife. He took the best Of
city of physicians, Philadelphia, in tn,
hope of restoration to normal method
of sleeping.
His medical experience was extensive
He began Ssith anodyne and ended with
serious contemplation of deadly strych
nine. He tried oxides and bromides
nerve foods and antifats, lactics and
laxatives, iodides and chiorides, acid.
and alkalis, oatmeal and cornneal. Al
ternating with these he took beer. baths
and blisters Knowing that belladonns
made large the pupils of the eyes, he
searched for medicine that would have
the effect Of a mydratic upon the nos
trils. Then he went to Dr. Curtis ant
had the cartilage of his nose removed
=. Somebody told him about the Prince o.
Wales being cured of insomnia by tn,
: use of hop pillow, and he tried that
without effect. His case was incurable
He grew desperate. He resorted to at
rophine, camphine, Observation-Disclosures
At this stage his wife left him. and on,
by one the servants in the house gave no
r tice.
Thus was a household wrecked be
: cause the head of it snored.
We all regard with serious apprehen
0 sion the threatened approach of epi
denies from the old world, and we re
member that from the same old worlC
was brought the sad, sad infirmity o
snoring-a gift that we could have don,
without and would have been happier
had they kept at home.
Now that recognition of the deplor
able seriousness of snoring is forthcom
ing would soberly suggest that som,
philanthropist offer prize for the spe
cifc thatwill antagonize and destroy thi
sunderer of homes and destroyer of hap
piness. The remedy must be real ant
= the cure effected permanent.
Snoring must be removed from tn
category of incurable afflictions.-Juliu
Chambers in New York Recorder.