Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 19, 1893, Page 15

OCCIDENT AGAINST ()RIF.NT! Pennsylvania Petrolenm is Rapidly Extin- ‘ guishing the Light of Asia. LINGERING IN LANTERN LIGHTED CHINA Ameriean Ol morial Industry of the East Fancles In Lantern Ty nifieance of Color rtation Killing an Imme- Sumptuous nation-Sig- Lights. A corresponden t of the collector at Amoy #ays that the Pennsylvania and Caspian petroleum wells are playing havoe with one of the old industries in the extr Orient, Kerosene is so cheap and eficient that the unsightly and malodorous lamp is driving the lantern out of existence. With the lantern goes one of the prettiest features of Chinesc life after dark. No on Ahe artistic possibilities of the lantern until he has seen some great festival ina large city of this empire. T s variety in | sizes, shapes. colors and styles marked contrast to the illuminations at home, which consist in the main of monoto nous few bright transpar encies There east very poor are tiny sq and window glass, three inches square, which cost from 3 to »f modern origin, and result from ble cheapness of the materials employed. Equally common, but fifty cen turies older, are cylinders of about the same cubic size, made of bamboo splits and glazed | paper or gauze. These cost from 1 cent up- | wrad. The box contains a dimmutive lamp, which holds les gill of 0il and burns nployes a narrow those used home on It costs a fraction of a cent »m one to three hours For : the superh New Year's lan- t made in Canton by a guild which itself upon an unbroken descent from the Manchu Tart They ran in price cents to as many dollars, and are marvels of beauty and ingenuity. The more expensive are usually larg senting a clock tower, watch tower, pagoda and pyramid or cathedr The ners borrow from or follow eve known style of architecture in the out but in the details and decorations never pass beyond the limits of Chinese conventional art. The structures are square, pentagonal hexagonal, and run from one to four five stories in height. and in linear meas from two to twelve fect. Structures repre- | houses and palaces are very true to | The doors and windows can upon the verandas and in the en flower pots. stands, flowers and | doorways and window-frames on | silvered, or dect ! minute bas-reliefs | s are colored in bright | nd usually touched | knows end s andles and a s of lanterns in the Tor the boxes of tinplate kind are as man s the s and classes wre nches ind two nts. These are the rema candle seats. Th every floor are gilded, ther p Z3 or per. Wall spac and harmonious t up with flower di Tnside of the struc the ceiling of the fir suspended from the skeleton of the nou framework fine wires figures, animals s of ture. On each floor is going on before interested spec Actors and auditors, animals and furniture are made of paper, drawn and colored faithfully down to the smaliest items. The figures, which num- ber from fifty to 2,000, are well distributed 80 that nox from what point of vie the lantern is regarded there is always visi- ble one or more s Over the lamp i paper vanes. It is counccted by various figures in all parts of the bu ‘When the jamp is lighted the ascending cur- it of h s the mill going and puts all_the figures in motion. The move- * ments of cach figure are, of course, mouoto- nous, but the number of those in u is large us to produce the impression of a living race of pigmics. "The decorations of the buildings are very pretty, but somewhat incongruous. From the base hang silk cords, carrying tassels, gilt balls, crystal splieres or picces of coral or imitation jade. On the edges and angles of the differcnt floors, caves and ridge are flowers, and sometimes fruit made of rice paper, tiny figures of mythical mousters, glass beads and other minute objects. Asa whole, the New Year's lautern Canton js about as gorgeous an affair human mind ever evolved. They are tremely popular in south China. Every | family has one with which to start the New Year, and hangs it in the main hull in front of the ancestral tablets. Wealthy buyas many as there arve large 5 their home and hane one in each of the lat- ter. The ono in front of the ancestral tab- lets is kuown as the “‘regeneration lamp, and is commonly believed to be of great efficacy in promoting the increase of familie: This philoprogenitive influence, it may be added, is still further aided by prayer on the part of the mother and a richdiet for at least thirty days. The ‘regeneration lamp" is universal in Canton and other parts o Quang-tung, is known in parts of Quang-si and Fo Kien, but is practically unknown in other portions of the empire, The Festival of Lanterns, which is one of the great tetes of the Celestinl calendar, brings out an_extraordinary variety of gro- tesque designs. The lanterns are fashioned to represent not only human figures and all | the larger brutes, birds, fishes and reptil but also historical personages and mythical monsters. They are fixed on the top or rather around the top of a strong pole, which supports the lamp within the lantern. The Tamp holds from a half to a whole pint of ol and burns from dusk to dawn, These pole-lun- torns are used only are curried in | torchlight affairs of These festival lanterns are often cnormous dn their dimensions. The “Canton Dragon No. 1" is 100 feet long and 15 feet in dimeter in the mddle of the body. It is composed of fifty sections, so connected with | hinges as to enable the porters to carry it | around the sharpest corners or to coil or un it_n_the most approved serpentine s supported by a su so that the lantern iry ch pole is o large lamp When lighted the vertebral column, incandescent. Of enough to startle them for the first time, long, tigers, s and bulls, larger than elephants, and elephants as high as a house. To increase the effect the figures are colored at what might be called “concert pitch." The p s a rainbow, and the skin of the tiger would make a good pattern for the bandanna of a Congo woman The ordinary lanterns carried in funeral or wodding processions have a split bamboo | frame, covered with vaper or gauze, aud measure from two to three feet in dianiete On the su ainted the surname and titles of the family. If a wedding procession, the decorations and letters should be red and black, with as much red and as little black us possible. If a funeral, the coloring should be blue, no other tiut being permissi ble except in the case of o very high man. rin. Here yellow, the sacred or impe eolor, may Ve employed, or yellow and bl The common hierd is not permitted to the mandarin lanterns, at least such is the law. When, however, the celebrants are willing to salve the oficials' palws, the law becomes a dead-letter. For the poor, who can spare a little money, are globes and egg- ns, made of split bamboo,rattan glazed paper or oiled cloth. Th range from six inches in diameter to three and even four foet. The ground ef the ex- terior is either white or the natural color of the covering. Upon it are painted, in red or | Diue, great characters, which either indicate | the name of the owner or elso express some | favorite maxim or quotation from the poets. The idea of ing a lantern at night, on which is written the name of the owner and his rank and titles or his business house's nawe, is to show to the public that he is a citizen, and not a highwayman. If he has any title or rank be is admitted to places of entertainment without trouble, the Chinese ple paying more regard to titles and | nterns than to the person himself. Tu traveling at uight everyone uses a torch ©or lantern. Ordnary business men use a small and tin affair, which they swing ' they walk. The well-to-do and the man- a level floor, is a large 1 wire and bamboo From the same upport human ces of furni of the on similar to the American elec fifty bearers with a broad lamps look like a fler while the skin scems smaller size, though la rner who ses wick. | wh ated | L | sled and eribed to the arians employ the globes already d Two of them are usually fastened K of the tra of its furniture. At night the: one of them suspended from th ir and the other carried by a As a rule, the man's standing the larger his lanterns. he has a title it is painted on the ace in charac e as to surround the light A titled lantern takes the right of way plain one and, as between titles, the higher des the lower. The only exception is “joss-lantern,” are one belonging to a us procession, takes precec all others. House 1a aru of the higher a erns are le whos: A lar for reading and scwing consists in decorating ical quotations, geomet patterns in color or pictorial designs of various sorts " cost of these varies from 15 cents to £1 The next step makes the framework a pen. agon or hexagon, carves the woodwork and the gla in in the pre Iass, hese aro handsome range in prico from 50 cents A fourth stage substitutes fine woods, such as teak, ebony and ironwood for the commoner kinds, and hangs to the points and angles of the lantern ornaments in silk, tin scl and metal. Int fifth the artist makes the lantern in the shape of a pagoda, temple, house or boat, so that by day a han some ornament to the room, while at night it is both ornament and illuminator Oceasionally you run T ancient lan terns. Some of these are very curi on account of th richness of the framework and the povert glazed paper or silk which 1 panes, The frame is of bras: bro und even T, It is very sel Main, but nearly Mways carved or m 1 in very complex and [ patterns. Many of these » votive offerings to particular deities; ged to rich men and mandarins, while still others were once the furniture of forgotten palace. The Chinese have a high these antiques, and pay nishingly high prices for them, sften they indulge in the practice of removing the ancient silk pan nd putting common modern paper ones. he bronze mastery of a dynasty in such instances looks li 1 Vens tian palace converted intoa pension for s zaroni. 1t is used advance on this ies with poet- decorates appreciation of s prObch - SR UNFORGO : TEN, M'nneapolis Tribune er forget the long ngo, t memory of the pust, T love it! Spring tide of liope and love, whose flow Brought joy and sunshine safely with it Those sunny days and starlit skics Are still around my memory twining; Thy youthful laugh and loving eyes Aré still around my heart combining. hose golden hours of youth have fled, ike visions shortenéd by our waking: he woof of time, ah! ittle th nd! Dark pall that shades a heart still aching, Tho flight of yeurs, the set of sun And flecting seasons withont number, May pause whene'er their journey’s done: Thoul't never in my memory slumber, life's page o'er and o'er. kered of sunshine, tircsome, weary, to live those duys once niore. o' life oftimes is dark and dreary, he meniory of those happy hours Of youth and Jove and earnest longing, ¢ fresh within my soul, like flowers at bloom to drink the'dews of morni I turn « 0! wondrous book of life, soon read, _Of ruined hope and vain endeayor— Frail flower at morn, at twilight dead, And buried treasures lost foreve . Morning will break o'er death’s dark gloom, A day whose sunshine has no ending— Immortal spirits break the tomb, In one eternal unthem blending. e CHATS WITH LITTL. There is a little tot in the West End, only 814 years old, says the St. Louis Republic, who is possessed of an ambition to pronounce ge words col and is very proud of her accomp.ishments in that line. She has a little cousin, some months older, who not speak so plainly, and this fact incre: her pride. But her father often tells her, when she doesn't obey him promptly, that he has another little girl down town who PEOPLE, minds him always and is never disobedient. | This mythical little girl has grown to be a with her, and she imagines docs exist who has alienated her affections. . on baing reprimanded for a slight misdemeanor, her father said : “My other little girl down town wouldn't do that; she's a good little girl.” The child sat very still for a fow minutes, seemingly very much distressed over the comparison. Then she spoke up trium- phantly “But your other little girl down town tan't say rhinoceros.” Little Douglas, thotgh only 4 years old, says Harper's, his quite an idea of drawiog, and makes beautiful with four entire wheels visible, and four-legged animals with a leg protruding from each corner. But en gines and cars bafled bim. He brought his slate to his father one day with this request: dwaw a wailwoad twack with tars wun- | ning on it.” His father did as he was asked, and told Douglas to make a copy of it and show it to him. The little fellow puzzled over this for some time, and_finally brought the slate back with his picture, consisting of two par- allel lines only, mode underneath his fath- “Yes," said papa, “that's a very nice track, but where is the train? SWiy," said Douglas, “those twains wacin’, and mine's out of sight.’” is o ; “George,” said the eller Washington, “did you chop this tree down with your hatchet? “Papa,” replied the little fellow, “do not ax me."” Whereupon the father clasped his son to his bosom proudly. You will be the great American humor- ist,” he said. But the elder Washington was grievously disappointed. The son never rose higher than the presidency. The superiutendent of a school was cate- chizing a number of scholars, varying the ual form by beginning at the end of the techism, After asking what were the pre-requisites of confirmation, and receiving satisfactory rep lies, he asked ““And now, boys, tell me what must pre- cede baptism? Whereupon a lively urchin at once shouted out, “A baby, sir!" Mother (returning from a call)- have taken cold. You are feverish. you feel hot? Little Ethel—Yes'm. I've been Johnny tell me some ghost stories, malke cold chills run down does'ut do a bit of good. havin’ my back, but it “Papa, was Farragut very brave?" “Indecd he was, my son: he once refused to tip a sleeping car porter. “#Oh, I see. And that is why they made a statue of him." Little Johnny—May 1 hitch the dog to my have him pull me? Mother—I'm afraid_he'll bite you. Little Johnuy—It's the other ond I'm going to hitch. “Why did Columbus forgive the muti- neers?!’ asked the teacher. ‘Cause they was half seas over when tney kicked,” said Johnny. ' “Today was prize day at my school,” said Jimmie. “And did my litle boy get anything? sked papa. Yep. Got kept in. Tommy—What is this here lent, anyhow? | Jimmy—It's when the doods swears off for forty days. go News: Back- woods, Smith's Cor : Dear Uncle: Wifennd I very much regret that we have only five rooms and a little ce lar for our own family, and so will be unable to avail uurwf\'\-s of your kind offer to visit us during the World's fair, JOHN TOWNBRED. 1L Mr. J. Townbred, No. 9,085 Swelle Place, Chicago: Dear Nephew, Maria and me will take the cellar and the children ean have bunks in your room. Can only stay from May 1 to August 15, With best thanks, Reuben UNCLE REUBEN, or's sodan_chair as a_part are lighted, | rvant who 1| yver | ce over muslin | an- | one | s0's 10 | i SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1893-SIXTEE | CHOLERA ANDITS SANITATION Dr. Hanchett's Paper Upon the Subject Bo- fore the Homeopathic Society. Cremation of Garbage Urged Upon the City How to Fight the Coming of the Dread Disease—Brains and Money Will Accomplish Wonders, | At the meathly meetin | rathic society held in the ¢ Thursday evening, Dr, W. aper upon ““Cholera, Its Prophylaxis and nitation,” which caused much 'nt upon the evening in question and it readings. Dr. Hanchett shows close rescarch in his paper, and as he voices re forms which have been urged especially as to the cremation of gar paper is sduced that wider | may be the subject, so Omaha | prepared for a visit from the d | Dr. Hanchett said In all probability during th we wiil be visited by the dis of the com awe, his licity Wy be the Asiatic cholera, the best the b are us in the face. During the past y has been epidemi certain in calities has vages inan alarming Even in our own cof it is ad a few cases occurred. In New York lone_about half a dozen cases were | »d. These did not occur simultane nor with any regard to locality were in the upper and_better part of | | the city, while others were in the lower and | more filthy portions. The health board of w York ity made the most thorough and sweeping investigations as to how the cases | occurred and from what sc they came, However, the most scrutinizing study and research failed to give definite results. By | the greatest caution and excellent quaran- tine restrictions the epidemic was held aloof | from this country last year., Can it be done | this year? “The course of a disease has always been along the highways of travel and the epi- | demics have usually spread from east or southeast to the west or northw The fact that during the coming vear large num- bers of people will come to our country from 1 countries and all climes makes i nost sure that at least some cases of cholera will | | be imported; furthermore, the importation { of fabrics and merchandise and various | wares to this country durmg the present year will undoubtedly bring the germs of scase. ha' question vital one. The ad, | vention is worth a | very trite, in thi How much can be dis: itted f sanitation become that ‘an ounce of pre pound of cure, though 1se becomes very true me by sanitation in any or less of adebat- | we that every- { tends to cleanliness tends | in check of all epidem are so many theories pr 1 by scientific writers as to the quses of cholera that we have not yet any positive proof that even under the most san- itary conditions, the disease could alw > absolutely annihilated. We know by e ence that large armies, where the sanitar | conditions, always more or less below ! , have been visited by the most vicious | ks, and its ravages have been most fatal. We also know that cholera has vis- ited with the greatest fatality those por- | tions of large s where thous e | huddled together in tenement house poor ventilation and little sunli ir. ant thing for us during the coming year, is boards of health in every ze and hamlet and to have our quarantine ample and rigidly enforced: ®very port in the | United States should be carefully guard Immigration should be restricted, if not on- | ped, during the coming season. v vessel ontering our ports should be arefully inspected and on the slightest suspicion thoroughly fumigated, The cities k and Chicago should at oneo be- come the objects of national guardianship | From the highest authorities should come the mandates for sanitatio **As to our own city, every individual showd become one of the committee of the whole to sce to it that filth and garbage do not ac- cumulate in his street or alley. The Board of Health will, na doubt, do all in their power to see that sanitary measures are enforced The question of disposing of the city's garbage, which is now being agitated by our | public press, is one of vital importance. No doubt every physician, could he give his opinion, would be in favor of disposing of all garbage and_effete matter by cremation Wells and cisterns should be thoroughl cleansed and all water used for drinking pu poses should be boiled. There should be an inspector of all kinds of food products Nothing but the' freshest vegetables should be allowed to be sold in our markets. All | meat should be curefully inspected, and all foods should be thoroughly cooked “Our sewerage system should be rigidly inspected before the hot weather begins: cesspools and vaults should often be cleansed and thoroughly disinfected. The city should furnish disinfectants free to those who are notable to procure them. This would im- pose a tax upon the city.to be sure, but would be more than compensated for by the possible results it might bring. Many di infectants and _antiseptics are very cheap, common salt and lime being good example which nearly every one can afford. Carbol acid, bromo chloralum, bi-chloride of mer- cury and permanganate of potash should be intelligently used about dwelling houses, barns and outhouses. “The people should be taught that those who possess a calm and brave condition of mind are less liable to attack. Thorough sleanliness of body and caution in diet are also important factors in_preventing an_ at- tack from this disease. It has been thor- oughly exemplified during epidemics that those who care for the sick with a_firm and | resolute heart, seeing to it that their bodies were well nourished and takiag proper rest and sieep were scldom attacked, while, on the other hand, those who became over- worn with exertion or attended with fear and suspicion of attack, often became yic- tims of the disease, It1is to be hoped that the experiments which are now being made by such men as Prof. Koch and others will furnish us more light upon the question of provhylaxis and sanitation. “Prof. Koch claims that the seat of the dis- case is to be found in peyers patches and the glands of cholera patients, where only the peculiar shaped comma bacilli are found. He claims that they can be cultivated in meat broth, milk, blood-serum, cooked po- tatoes and best in gelatine specially prepared for the purpose and that this germ of a dis- | ease, under certain conditions, can be checked in its development, “Experiments which_have recently been going on_upon the cholera bacilli taken from the intestines of those who recently | died in New York city showed that they were the characteristic comma bacillus of Asiatio cholera, but it is believed that_the | conditions of atmosphere and other environ- ments were not favorable to their rapid propagation, bence the Qisease did not be- come more widely spread and the cases seemed more of @ sporadic nature. The theory is held by many scientists that the atmospheric conditions as well as the condi- tions of the soil and surroundings must_be favorable to ¢his disease or it cannot exist, just as any other epidemic of a malignant type. We observe some years s much greater predisposition to a disease. Certain years scarlet fever, diphtheria, measles and | many other diseases will take on a malicious and malignant type, causing great fatality, | and for which wo cannot account. Other years this same disease will seem to assume a much more benign and less severe form, | readily yielding and with a tendency 1 recovery. | “Let us hope that although we shall prob | ably'meet the disease in_some parts of our it gnay become more or less epidemic, yet by chrrying out the best sanitary measures we may find that the conditions of the soil and surroundings will not prove favorable to the promulgation and spread of the disease. And let us each do our part to further every effort made by the Board of Health and by the people of this city to prevent this terrible scourge.” phecte £t it o The No. Wheeler & Wilson with its ro tary movement, is the lightest running machine in_the market, and is unequalled for speed, durability and quality of - work. { Sold by W. Lancaster & Co., 614 South Six- | tenth street. to do then, ranize our { country, although RULES SET DOWN FOR OMAHA'S GUIDANCE | Homeo- | fe of the Paxton | H. Hanchett read | favorable | by Tne Bee, | | 1 disease, | present year | known s | o we may hope for | | they | ease of the heart, : | not the failure of the heart which is the PAGES. IRE! ——MISFIT—— The insurance companies have ordered a stil deeper cut and from now on the slaughter on the balance of the clothing will be ic at the CLOTHING PARLORS 1809 Farnam Street. Fire never touched the overcoats, suits and furnishing goods-—only smoke ---cnly water--while much of the clothing escaped altogether, and is sound as a dollar, but goes with the rest. this weeks' slaughter: oV l ERCOATS. COATS -now COATS now MAIL ORDERS RECEIVE PROMPT.ATTENTION. Open from SUI The following list gives an idea of TS. now now now now now now now now now now now now PANTS PANTS PANTS PANTS PANTS NN oo “owiw 00 il | = CALL EARLY AND GET FIRST U3 FARNAM STREET. DOCTORS 0N HEART FAILURE | One Avers the Existence:of Such a Disease; ~ Another-Denies, - — BIG . MEN DO* NOT ALL DIE OF IT While in a Great Majority of Chses the Heart “Fails” When Death Eusues, tho Term is Often Misapplied by the Doctors. WasmiNagTox, D. C. Feb. 18.—[Correspond- ence of Tue Bee.] —What is heart failure? James G. Blaine died of heart failure; ex- President Hayes died of heart failure; Jus- tice Lamar died of heart failure; Senator Kenna died of heart failure. Great men everywhere die of heart failure as if it were epidemic, and small men succumb to it as cagerly as they once sneezed under the sus- picion of hay fever. Butif it is anything worse than a gilt-edged certificate that “death loves a shining mark,” you would like to know and so would I; every time there comes the formal announcement of aunother death by heart failure, you are reminded,and s0o am I, of the owls judgment in the case of poor Cock Robin—‘he died for want of breath.” There's a sneaking belief in your mind that everybody dies of heart fa:lure; so there is in mine, and, to get some professional advice on the subject, I set out to see a doctor. The opinion of a Washington doctor has especial value, from the fact that Washington doo- tors have great experience. 1 say great ex- perience, understanding the possible appli- cations of the word great, as does the con- gressman who signs himself “‘your grateful servant,” and thus only persons in Washing- ton can understand it. The experience of doctors generally is great by virtue of ex- tent; in Washington it is great as their patients are so, though the crowning glory of a doctor is not so made to attend A great patient as it is to pleas- antly associate with his death. Thus there is one eminent physician of whom it is al- ways mentioned, “He attended General Sheridan when he died.” Of another, “He s present at the death of Abraham Lin- Another has lately achieved the profitable reputation of having had “all the deaths at the wnite house during the pres- ent administration.” A doctress, who able to command some credit on her own a count, is nevertheless invariably recon mended as the daughter of the doctor who died from the effec of close attendance upon President Garfifid‘ during his tragic last illness. The phyician most recently advanced by - the deat-of a distinguished patient is Dr. W. W, Johnson, who attended Mr. Blaine. Accordingly it was to Dr. John- son that I appealed for information con- cerning heart failure, * 3 *How do men die of-heart failure” T asked. hey do not,” saidsfp. Johnson, *only as might also be said to die for want of breath. It is an expre¢ssion employed solely by unintelligent or caygléss men in ascribing a cause of death, Suppose you had pneu- monia and strangled to death. To be sure, you would die for wang, 0f breath, but pueu- monia would be the cause of your deatu. Or if you received a fatatblow on the head, a state of coma would er@e, during which the action of the heart would become weaker and weaker, finaily /\teasing altogether, still you would not- then have died of heart failure, but of injury inflicted on the brain. Again, you have a distinct disease of the heart—fatty aegeneration, As the accumulation of fat increases. the heart fails more and more in the perforn ance of its function, and in the end fails utterly. Now, you have not in this case died of heart failure, but of a well recognized dis- In all these cases, it is cause of death, but a_disease of some par- ticular vital organ. But suppose you have a disease of the kidneys, which are not vital organs! In such case there will always exist some associated disease of a vital organ which is the immediate cause of death. It may be of the lungs. It is more often of the heart, as it was in Mr. Blaine's case. Ata certain stage of the disease the heart failed. It grew weaker and weaker until its action was at timgs momentarily suspended and eventually it was suspended beyond possibility of revival. Thus the i telligence was conveyed all over the world that Mr. Blaine died of heart failure. But you may have mnoticed that this " ___AWNINGS, 1 ‘jun’m_n/m& bl Omaha Tent-Awning | Chas. Shiverick & Co and Kubber Clothing: ena_for catalogae. 113 Furniture, Draperies’ Carpets and 1203 Farnam st. BREWERS. 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Heart “failure 1is an expression one might use upon occasions as a bridge builder would express himself one way to a day laborer and very differently to another bridge builder. “Here,” said Dr. Johnson, referring to his library, “here is a volume entitled ‘Medical Nomenclature.’ It is a standard work, published originally in Eng- land, and revised and republished in the United States. 1t contains the name of ev imary or immediate cause of death, and ‘is intended to aid physic in making out certificates of death. Let us see if heart failure is cognized here.” Then tracing carefully every line of the several pages de- voted to a chronicle of the causes of death which m; ise in the heart, Dr. Johnson found heart failure not among them. Later, however, I visited a doctor who must study a different book. He is also a doctor of great experience. He attended Senator Kenna when he died. “Dr. Sower 1 asked, ‘‘what failur It is a condition of the heart in which the action becomes weaker and weaker, finally terminating in death.” “Then it is recognized by the medical pro- fession as quite proper to say that a man dies of heart failure?” *Yes, to distinguish the cause of death from another condition of the heart which recognize as heart disease. For instance, you ma, acase of pneumonia that is progr atisfactorily. Congestion has been re ved, and“breathing has become casy. to all appearances your patient is on the road to recovery, when like the snap of the finger he is dead. The cause is heart ilure. The heart has been so impeded in action by the congestion of the lungs and has been driven to such an extraordis y effort to force the blood through the structed chaunels of circulation, that i worn out; just as overwork wears out thing else. It survives to a certain point of mortal strain, and then there is the sudden snap, which precipitates death, not from pneumonia, for that has been overcome, nor from any heart disease, for an ante-mortem examination of the heart shows no diseased condition existing, but heart failure, pure and simple, is the cause of death,” ““But why have men not always died right and left of heart failure? Nobody ever heard of heart failur few years ago.” “1 think the recent ravages of the grip ac count to & considerable extent for the pre valence of heart failure. Whether the disease itself, or the remedies of the disease are the cause, I am not so sure. All tife drugs which are commonly given in cases of the grip—anti-fibrine, anti-pyrine, tine, ete.—have a powerful influenc heart, and 1do not know whether it is this or the marked influence the disease has on the nervous system that operates in produ- cing frequent heart failure “Then the racognition of this elastic term a8 a proper means of designating a cause of death, undoubtedly furnished the ind ifferent or ill-informed physician an opportunity to shirk the task of exactly defining the cause of death in many cases. He car v it down to heart failure with an appearan ce of wisdom and the certainty of having de- livered himself of a judgment that sou nds is heart 'y ob- t is well if it explains nothing. 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