Consumption / by E.H. Stockwell.

  • Stockwell, E. H.
Date:
1858
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    consuming. Emaciation is a wasting of the flesh. Decline is a gradual diminution of the strength and flesh. Debibility is weak- ness. Bad habit is a mischievous or vicious state of the consti- tution. King's Evil is scrofula. The Evil is the same thing. All these words stand for a common disorder. The root in all these ills is the same. It may manifest itself at different localities, it may in different individuals manifest different phenomena, and it may be of all degrees, yet it is the same deceptive disorder in all the above specifications. Paleness, emaciation, and debility are always the symptoms of phthisis, whether it manifest itself pro- minently at the larynx, lungs, lymphatic glands, mesenteric glands, bones of the back, hip-joint or small of the back. And when the third stage arrives—the suppurative, hectic fever will occur in all the forms of the disease. The bad, evil habit pre- vails in all of them. So does the peculiar tuberculous material. A KNOWLEDGE OF PHTHISIS YALUABLE TO ALL. Statistics on a large scale declare that one-sixth of mankind die of consumption. A knowlege, then, of the nature, symptoms, prevention, and remote causes of a disease so universal and des- tructive, must be of immediate interest and utility to alh All may be easily made acquainted with the predisposing causes of this disease. The means for the prevention of phthisis are acces- sible to, and capable of application by all. Much of the remedv for the relief and radical cure of consumption is hygeianic, consequently within the reach and use of every judicious person. Besides, that part of the remedy which is medicinal, must often be left to the discretion of the patient and near friends in many particulars. Again, the disease, in its nature, during its onset and first stage, is sly, insinuating and deceptive, and rarely suf- ficiently alarms the subject to call a physician until the second stage, when it assumes a more defiant air. And as the first stage is by far the most curable one, its first symptoms should be known by all as familiarly as household words, so that it may be met in its weakness and infancy, for it grows to gigantic strength. Fur-