Pneumonia

Hardly any one who has a large acquaintance, or who reads obituary or death notices in the public prints, can fail to have noticed how fatal a disease pneumonía is, especially in this city. It really seems sometimes as if it caused half the deaths that occur. Each winter it appears to grow more dangerous. This season it has been very vinilent, owing, probably, to sudden clianges and the unusual amount of snow. Pneumonía invariably begins with a cold, to which scarcely anybody attaches any impoi'tance, and the cold is neglected until it results in the painful, and always alarming, disease. "Only a cold i " echoed the renowned Abernethy. "A cold is always to be feared. Colds have killed more men than battles have." There seems to be no way of guarding against pneumonía. One person is as subject as another to it. Êugged constitution, vigorous health, general attention to hygienic laws, have no power to prevent it. Pneumonía slays a giant as quickly as it slaysapigmy; an accomplished athlete as quickly as a puny invalid. One meets this morniug a friend iiushed with youth - energy. Within tliree or four days he is tlead. Pneumonia has out him down. Persons who care to live - and the fact that they do live shows that they care to - cannot be too watchful of the beginnings of pneumonía, which is one of the most insidious and formidable foes of human ence. -