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not apt to be mitigated until much later
stage, when elubosis sets in. AS the mala-
dy progresses, It's course is marked by
violent changes, and the transition from
high temperature to arctic frigidity, and
then back TO high temperature, is often
times marvellous in rapidity, though the
first named is more noticeable in the fe-
male than the male. These periods are
always followed by lulls. which leave even
the expert diagnostician in despair The
variation in cases IS extremely great. but
il has been observed that in victims
where both were in moderate circumstan-
ces the pathological process OF evolution
in both patients displayed marked SINH
larity. while in the ,plutocratic stratum of
society the conditions were wholly diff
ferent, the thermometer never register
ing above fifty in the shade There are
only two permanent cures for this COM
plant: Time and orange blossoms.
To assert, as some practitioners have
done, that Tonguesolitus, that acute and
widespread disorder attacks only females,
is not true. That among females it at
tains its most enduring and permanent
form is not to be denied, but some of the
most notorious cases have been confined
exclusively to the male sex. When it as
sumes an after-dinner appearance it be-
comes positively dangerous and a men
ace to the community. In its presidential
form 1T is rarely innocuous, and because
of the liability from contact is more like
ly to spread. 1t varieSkin localities, the
Washiontonia Congressionalis being re-
garded as the worst localized type. But
from universal standpoint, the pulpit
or theological form can never be regarded
free from dangerous elements, especially
I'm time of excitement or war, when it
becomes source of extreme peril While
common and in some ways peculiar TO
all females, IT displays much more marked
activities in some than in others. The
domestic or matrimonial tonguesolitis Is
incurable, and IN numberless cases, rapid
~ fatal in its effects. What is known as
the wv. c. T. IL form is always intern
perate in it's nature, and runs a well-es-
tablished course. from simple loquitor to
acute damphoolishness. There is no hope
that this disorder win ever be checked.
Indeed. 1t seems to get worse and worse
as time goes on,
A malady that in the winter is confined
almost exclusively to large cities, but as
soon as spring appears, spreads out into
the more sparsely settled regions is
Smartsettia. AS a rule, it attacks the
wealthy. though in some cases where
the victim has led a seandalous life he
or she may be subject to its sphere of in
fluence. 1t is characterized by excessive
stupidity snobbery, flunkeyism, and cere-
bral anaemia, the patients never saying
or doing anything that can be considered
intelligent, and in it's acute form it is ty-
biographical. sporadic, and noncontagious.
Being strictly limited in its clinical as
poets, 1t is easily diagnosed, the Newport
form being the worst. 1t Is hereditary in
it's nature, but the scarcity of heirs tends
to make it the more exclusive, so that 1t
rarely endures to the third generation,
and consequently is more kept alive by
new recruits than by the stork method,
which Is considered more or less Of a
quacz remedy. There are many false
forms of this disease. the Newark, the
Boston Back Bay, the Chicago and others.
but they are easily distinguishable from
the real or Waldorf-Astoria. In its treat
ment, the Wall street pool cure has been
found effective in many cases. The victim
is slowly immersed in the pool and then
stripped and skinned alive. Foreign resi-
dence has been tried by some, but it has
been found that this only aggravates the
disorder One Of the most effective meth
DDS, however. Is to leave the patients
alone entirely unnotieed If this could
be@kept up long enough the disease. at
any rate in its worst form, might be en-
tirely eradicated.