Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1895-01-03
BEWARE OF PNEUMONIA.
Health Commissioner Edison of New York
Tells How to Ward 1t on.

Tells How to Ward 1t on.
Although more or less prevalent
throughout the year, pneumonia is Pc
culiarly dangerous during the opening
months Of winter. With the first frosts
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 works
toward the warm, moist earth, and the
house really acts as a sort of flue, which
forms ready mode Of egress for them.
The proper ventilation of rooms is there
fore an important factor in guarding
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is often overlooked.
Lack Of personal hygiene is the chief
predisposing cause of the disease. r.
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 years of age, between the ages
Of 90 and 40 and after so. The power
Of resistance against pneumonia grows
much feebler after 60 years Of age, and
nine-tenths of the cases prove fatal.
! Cold, damp weather is favorable to
the contraction of "colds' and the sub
sequent development of pneumonia, and
1t still exists to some extent in a modi-
fed form. This is the disease with which
pneumonia most readily combines, but
1t is found in combination with diph-
liberia, typhoid fever, measles, scarlet
fever and many others.
When severe or sudden chill has
been contracted, the main thing is to
act quickly, and many a serious illness
can be averted and valuable life saved
by little intelligence coupled with
promptitude. If possible, send for a
doctor Immediately and take ten grains
Of quinine and five drops Of spirits Of
oamphor in little water or ON lump
of sugar. These doses are for an adult
Then soak the feet in hot water ant
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
should be warmly wrapped in blan
ket, which should be kept ON until som,
time after the person has entered tn,
bed in order that free perspiration b.
continued and not checked.
A good thing to prevent "colds" is Il
wear wool next the skin. When this i
not possible on account Of the Irritation
sometimes caused, mixture Of woo
and silk will generally be found salts
factory. would not recommend cottol
in any form for underwear, as it is FIRE
quently the cause Of q dangerous col
by becoming wet and keeping the tenn
perature of the skin below the normal
Care should be taken that the feet d
not get wet, or if SO that prompt meas
ures are taken to dry them and chang
Of hose made.
The care taken Of the outside of tn
body must be supplemented by tho sam
care Of the inside. A moderate die
wholesome food, plenty Of rest, regula
hours, will keep the whole system 1
good order and enable 1t to throw o
the germs Of disease, which can onl
, obtain a footing when debilitation a
> fords an entrance for the disease and
fruitful soil for its development. C.
rus Edison in st. Louis Post-Dispatch.