The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-03-20
!: FRIGHTS ABOUT DISEASE +;
By F. L. Oswald, A. NJ, NJ D.
(Author of Physical Education" The
Remedies of Nature Etc.)

A few minutes. rescued from years of
| educational absurdities, would suffice to
acquaint millions with the characteris-
tic symptoms of many diseases that
yield readily to simple remedies applied
in time.
| The knowledge of predisposing CON
dition is of almost equal Importance,
| and that circumstance would often give
home treatment an advantage over The
| best professional assistance. Patients
! of all classes are now and then apt to
be more candid with themselves than
with their doctor. THE devil knows
what made him bald-headed," says a
| Spanish proverb; but even bald-headed
deacons might hesitate to confide such
secrets to their medical advisers.
Fevers, closely resembling some
forms of typhoid, are often induced by
dietetic excuses, and L remember the
case of glutton who caused an cpl
demic scare by concealing his freaks
from a Board of Health officer. Com
ing home too late for supper, and find
ing that his wife had stepped out for a
chat with a neighbor, he revenged him
self by raiding the pantry and devour-
ing about a yard of stale liver sausa ge,
besides cabbage and pickles. After
midnight he became very uncomforta-
BILE, and the next morning felt the APP
preach of fever. Rest and a days
fast would have allayed the domestic
panic, but the mystified doctor remem-
bered complaints about contamination
of the water supply. and ordered the
patient to bed. Closed windows and
red-hot stove completed the mischief,
and before night they had him in de-
lirium, and the neighborhood gossips in
a shriek-and-cackle sensation.
The health inspector called the next
morning. Should he confess? Not if
he could help it. Much easier to pose
as victim of neglected sanitation.
Only on the third day his wife discov-
cred the enormous deficit of wurst. and
to obviate a sanitary blockade, commu-
nicated her suspicious and at once
Strengthened out the tangle of grew
some conjectures
Chronic catarrhs are still oftener mis- |
taken for more serious disorders. Sleep |
ing night after night in an illy-venti- |
lated microbe den at last overcomes the |
resisting power of the stoutest organ !
ism. The lungs begin to tester, and !
nature. has to remove the wasted It's |
sues by the expurgative process known |
as cough and eXpectOratlOn The risk |
of a final aggravation always exists, |
but, even after a years persistence. |
will yield promptly to the spe-
cific of nature-a liberal supply of pure
pure air preferred.
tuberculosis, in all but the last part |
of the development, admits of the same
remedy, but recovery is less rapid: the
deep-eaten sores have to yield before
the cough stops altogether Consump-
ton can also be recognized by the fire.
luency of night fevers and an abnormal
increase of temperature above 100 de-
yrees Fahrenheit every evening in some
cases. But the two most characteristic
of consumption are the hectic
lush, glazing on the cheeks of the pa
tents otherwise pallid face, and the
steady progress of emaciation. The
muscles shrink; the congested lungs are
40 longer able to fulfill their proper
functions in the work of blood manu-
'acture, and the starved system has TO
'all back upon its reserve stores.
Hemorrhage is suspicious but not
conclusive symptom. Con-
;umptives have been known to perish
If a gradual decline without ever hav-
ng noticed more than a faint admix-
ure of blood in their sputa. On the