The Prescott daily news., 1916-08-22


 cured in the majority of cases if it is discovered early, while if it is not found out until it is advanced, it is hard to cure it at all
 Early Discovery Essential.
 A careful doctor will always strip our chest 10 ths skin for examination, and no examination through the clothes is of any use at all Further, he will study your fever every two hours for at least a week, will have your sputum examined in every case and will go very carefully into the past history of your case and your surroundings.
 Early Symptoms.
 If you cannot get expert advice, an intelligent study of your symptoms may make you reasonably sure Of what you have.
 The disease may begin in different ways. The most common early symp- tom is possibly a slight cough, usual ly, but not always, in the morning,
 
 Every cough that lasts more than three weeks should be regarded as suspicious. A chronic cough with splitting which has lasted for years, even though it has never made it's owner sick, Is very suspicious.
 Often, however, before a cough ap- pears there are other symptoms which warn us. and of these none is more useful than an unwonted sense of tiredness, exhaustion or weariness, coming on without any good reason. This is often supposed to be only lazi- ness. or is ascribed to malaria" nervous prostration,' or to other conditions It usually comes on in the afternoon between , and 6 o'clock. and may be accompanied by flushed cheeks, bright eyes and feverishness. Often the patient will waken just as tired as he went to sleep. Just as with the cough, so persistent weari- ness should cause you to consult your doctor,
 Again, a long continued hoarseness which does not leave is suspicious. An important symptom of the trouble is a steady and unexplained loss Of weight. and this should always excite ones thought A very suggestive early sign is loss of appetite or per sistent indigestion or stomach trou- ble." Frequently the trouble begins with a slight blood-spitting. which may not be followed for long time by the development of real trouble, and where the doctor can find no changes in the lungs, but such blood splitting. or blood-streaked sputum, IS practically always a sign of tubercu- losis and must never be neglected or explained away without long and careful study of the case. Night sweats will at times be the first symp- tom but they are usually proceeded for a long time by other symptoms; and are not common early symptom. A persistent pain in the chest, especially in the shoulder, should be carefully investigated, and not passed of as "rheumatism" or neuralgia as at times if is the first manifestation of a tuberculous pleurisy of the top of the lung,
 In some cases this may be matter of months and may make if too late to do any good. Therefore, in the face of such symptoms, what ever the doctor finds. alter your meth ods of living at once. increase your fresh air. improve your food, lengthen vour hours of sleep and rest, and, if at all possible, lessen your hours of work. Thus you may strengthen your bodv 10 the point where it can throw off the beginning of the disease. He who insists on being absolutely sure that he has the disease before he be- gins to treat it, will ofen throw away his best chance for getting we'll for