The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-03-20

Copeland On the relation Of catarrh
to consumption that he has. In the
following talk, explained what his
experience has Taught him in all
the years OF his practice concerning
eatsrrh and consumption. Doctor
Copeland says:
''The great trouble that lind - to
explain to the people SO they will
understand the Importance of TAX
ing care of their breathing arpara-
tus, which Is undoubtedly the most
important part OF the body. While
man may tive quite "A time without
food and without water, he dies
In n very few minutes when robbed
Of air. and IL he does not get air
In sufficient quantity and of proper
quality he wiz, suffer and Hnger
along until he develops AN Incur
able disease. from which he will
die. IL is very hard to show the
people how ample. common ca
tnrrh. which IL so prevalent. Is
forerunner of such serious conse-
quences As bronchitis and consump-
ton.
GREAT RISK TAKEN.
81 would like to GppeaI directly
to every thinking person In the
world with n positive fact, namely.
that each one 1 address I want to
consider that lac Is running n Raunt-
let that Is nm extremely risky one
when he allows htmseif to remain
uncured from any form OF bronchial
or catarrhal lung disease. for no
matter who You may be, you stand
one chance out Of seven of dying
of consumption. In other words,
every seventh person In the United
Statea gets consumption and dies
than one out Of seven get consump-
ton, but some of them, by change of
climate and by proper doctOring.
get cured. I should think that fully
one person out of every ave devel-
ops consumption. while statistics
Of seven dies from 1t.
I'm a climate like ours people are
subject to diseases of the breathing
apparatus. and the greatest number
Of those so affected begin with ca-
tarrh Of the nose and throat. which
after . time, extends into other
parts.
DANGER FROM CATARRH.
"There are some persons. and in.
deed a number Of them. who have
IL will be found on close inyestiga-
ton thar such persons do not com
tract colds easily and do not de-
velop catnrrh from the colds. Every
person who has catarrh IL carrying
around with him disease that Is
liable mt any time To allow the de-
SeIopment of consumption.
I'm some persons the strength
and vitality Of youth allows them tn
prevent the advancement Of catarrh
into the lungs, and while they may
be annoyed with nasal or throat
catarrh during the early part of
their life. they suffer no serious
constitutional disease as the reauit
Of IL. but even such persons. when
they grow old. find they are begin
ming to cough. and the cough II nl-
ways very bad during the winter.
grow Older and weaker until at
last IL carries them away.
NO IMMUNITY FOR THE OLD.
at used to he thought that only
Young people and people of middle
age developed consumption. hut IL
hns been found of late years that
there are just ns many old people
there are young people. and that
old people suffer from that form
of consumption almost exclusively
that results from cntnrrh. Two
thirds or the people who live past
the sixtirth year In this climate die
from consumption that started with
ratarrh during the early part of
their Hives.
1T IL Hike thiss Youth can resist
much: good consultations cnn re-
Si.s much. hut In the latter end OF
nnn's existence his Gres burn low
er. his yonth is gone. his vitality -
gradually snpred and disease Is al
lowed to extend into his vital parts.
AS have said bef.re. ratarrh I'm
the form of catarrhal consumption
- not the only form of consumption.
,,ut the history OF nearly every
ease Of consumption IL the history
IT catarrh that ha, extended from
the nose tn the throat from the
throat to the bronchial tubes and
thence to the lungs. These people
even after they have developed con-
sumption. md anding that they
ssin take cold cnsfI. md have ea-
,Ggernf~d catarrhal symptoms.
often try to persuade themselves
chat they are oHly suffering from
-nfarrh, and that their lungs rre
not affected.