Evening star., 1897-05-29

that The throat felt aud infnmci al fines
feeling as though sand busted on II or that a
horse hair had lodged in f.. lie would tell Won
that he had TO drink water to moist.n his thluai
ana tLat during the night his throat felt dry and
parched lf you watched him carefully for several
days he would tell YOU that most of the soreness
mad lett his throat; that the throat longer felt
dr!' Out t'at now he was called upon make an
EFFORT TO remove nasty, sticky discharge that was
constantly forming in the throat. lie would tell
you That when be retired for the night and fell
asleep he would he awakened after a time Ly
dropping In the back part Of his throat. which felt
as IL it had fallen from the back part of his ps.
ana this he had TO hawk up and eSp,l ni fr,.uuent
intervals He would tell YOU that every morning
on arising he was compelled TO hawk and spit up
n lot Of mucIs which had collected in his tbroat
during the night.
II You follow this still further yoa VIII no.
tice after n menth 80 that one ey,.niar the
young mans voice has become husky and the neat
morning you will notice that he is quite hoarse
along about noon you will find his boarscnese has
grown less marked, that he IL quite thirsty that
he Is making repeated Efforts to clear Lis truai,
and that toward night his hoarsencss returns otly
IL Is more marked than IL was In the morning The
next morning lac viii tell you Of restless sisJ, Of
difficulty TO breathe, and OF such Tickling scnsa-
tion In the throat that he is compelled tn ,io-
lent effort TO free IL. and this rritaies the trat,
makes II feel very sore and intamcd, and brings
a cough that is quite violent in character, and
he will tell you that after Il III of coughing
very little OF tough. sticky material
is brought up and spit out. In abnaI weeks
time. or possibly in two three weeks time. the
hoars'ncss will gradually disappear. and lac viii
only complain of slight tickling in the throat aud
a moist cough that comes on whenever he iniaies
any dust or Irritating material FROM the AIR.
Ii you followed this during the summer you
would find that his general health would Improve
and that NEST of his symptoms would disappear,
but In the fall during violent change Of weather
you would notice that lie had begun 20 lose flesh
and strength and that H. troubled with 4 very
severe cough that plagued him every night
when he fist retired bed AMI he
arose in the morning. You would notice that the
violent spells of coughing would bring up a white,
fiothy material mixed with yellow pus
He would tell you that he felt through the
chest result Of the coughing. aud that he
had n pain behind the breast bone. and lossibly
urder his shoulder blade. In about week
ten days he would inform YOU that when he
TO bed he would fall OF asleep only awake with
choked-up feeling and tighiness in his chest
that would bring violent FITS of coughing. and
that he would cough until his throat became
and sore. Tired out 10y the coughing fit and hathed
In ., aspiration from the effort 10 free his chest he
would fall asleep again only TO he awakened 10
another fit OF coughing. These fits of coughing
would continue till toward morning, breaking his
slumber, robbing him OF rcstful sleep and he would
arise not bit refreshed. but feeling tired
than when he went 10 bed.