Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1902-02-02
GOOD FROM DISEASE
sEVtRAL AFFECTIONS THAT HAVE
TIER CONVERSATIONS.

AiAc - Sufferers From Khcuf.ia. III,
and Gout Are Long Lived.
Have you lad smallpox? If vou
&aYe ana YOU have recovered from the
Serrible disease without your eyesight
CT hearing being seriously affected as
As very cften the case, You may CON
graduate Yourself that smallpox at
Tacked you, for you will probably. Lar
Siag accidents, live considerably longer
&nd ehjoy better general hcalth ijan if
Sou had neyor A;;,' the d.a,ase
Ii is tti35j. sale fact Uu2 Of ia
60res peculiar cJGHP>usat.eH5 - tEat
geoplo who lave aa."arcd from small
FSH generally jiy" longer than people
who have Hut Why 1tlis should Ne tl3c
ease there il oaiy an improved thaarE
20 explain aHd tAe theory is that he
microbes H5deil 50 u make smallpox,
being vcrE powerful and pugnaciuus,
swallow up the Hjeroies of many 9th
@s diseases which they fin1 in the sys
sehis Of the PEI SONS they attack; hence,
by contracting sn;J!poX severely. You
stand good chance Of eliminating
from yeni system ether diseases which
would seize upon you At some time or
sther and. likely enough, prove fatal.
AT the same time it must be admit
ted that smallpox is Eot scheduled as q
preventive medicine and the number
of persons it either kills. Mains or ia
flicts with mental incapacitics is prob
ably greater than the number of per
sons whose lives it prolongs
At the same time it is Il fact that tie
disease, though one of the most terri
BILE known to medical science, does you
great deal Of good if you are capable
of throwing it OFF without suffering
after effects of Il more serious charac-
ter than being pitted with the queer
little marks it almost invariably leaves
behind to distinguish it's victims.
Numbers of elderly persons in more or
less feeble health are kept alive by
coughs. such, for instance, as bronc!i-
tis. Chronic coughs are peculiarly com
mon to old people. and hundreds who
complain Of the distress caused them
by such affections are really indebted
to their coughs for their length of life
The reason Of this is that most elderly
persons suffer with weak hearts and
feeble circulation of the blood, and
weak hearts become weaker merely as
q result of their weakness. A constant
cough corrcets this. keeps the heart
beating mere strongly than it other
wise would and the strong heart beat
keeps the blood circulating more quick
~. and the vital organs are thus kept
fir state Of activity which could only
he maintained by artificial means aud
for limited time hut fer the trouble
some cough.
Moreover. the constant reminders
given hy the cou%h deter the sufferers
from running risks of catching colds.
In otheg words, they have to study
their health or suffer more acutely
from tEpr coughs. and. choosing Che
ferEHer tl}pY benefit accordingly.
Gout au9 rheumatism are eNrcelii:g-
" painful diseases and of coufsp III
some cases prove fatal, but they confer
many a blessing UPON mankind, and
rheumatism particularly is well known
to doctors as Il preventive of many oh
er diseases It is a notorious fact that
souty subjects generally live to a ripe
age. and albeit they suffer very Sc
yerely at times they generally enjoy eN-
eellent general health, the very causes
of the gout Keeping their blood ia good
condition and making it uncomfortable 10
many kinds of microbes.
Cases have occurred Of whole house
holds. except one member, being
stricken down with infectious diseases,
and the lucky exception has been
suffered from rheumatism or gout
which alone has prevented him from
contracting the diseases which have
gun through the house. Such sufferers
do not run half the risk Of catching
the common illnesses that nonsutfcrers
run, and a large proportion of the peo-
pie who reach ages Of fourscore years
are people who for years have suffered
from Sout or rheumatism to which
fact they undoubtedly owe many of
the years they have lived over the al
dotted span.
Take half q dozen persons over the
age OF seventy who suffer from rheu.
matism or gout and half dozen oth
ers who siEor FROM ithPr and N"u
will find thst except for their r6eU
matiSn Gr E0ut. they CiJ)N very mI'h
better Ga&!th than the nons;li:2&srs
and stand Splena.a chaucc OF azE'
ing the I&ttar. Moreover. sout and
rheumatism greatly enhaHce a suffer
er's chances of retaining his me0tal
faculties u0til ne eal \ large per
rentage cf centcnarians who died wiz!
all their wits a33aEt them and With -
eelent memories of the darS Of th".r
youth have sUtTeren for many years
from rheumatism and been particular
" free from other Diseases
The loss OF Il leg or an aFio is also
said to do you good in the ion" run
Perhaps that is an awkward rhl.lee te
apply to the loss Of a le@. Int 1T Il
stand. 1t certainly seems that when y
man is deprived Of :. leg or an 49,:
eha vifo litv and viror 0f ttp lost '>ah',A.