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are due to tuberculosis, heart diseases and pneu- 

 monia. Pneumonia is caused by a specific germ 

 and is slightly contagious. An attack begins 

 suddenly with chills and headache; then fol- 

 lows a high fever accompanied by a hard, dry 

 cough, pain in the chest and difficult and pain- 

 ful breathing. The patient soon begins to raise 

 a brownish-red phlegm from the lungs. In se- 

 vere cases delirium may occur. Nothing can 

 stop the course of the fever and inflammation, 

 which may run on for five to eleven days. 

 When the patient seems at his worst the crisis 

 occurs. In favorable cases the fever al> 

 and the breathing becomes easier, and the pa- 

 tient awakens feeling very weak but fairly 

 comfortable; death is caused by heart failure 

 or by suffocation. 



Pneumonia patients need especially careful 

 nursing, as there is no medicine known which 

 will cut the disease short. Physicians center their 

 efforts on keeping up the patient's strength, 

 supporting the heart and reducing the tempera- 

 ture. The application of hot poultices to the 

 chest has been found helpful in allaying in- 

 flammation. It is essential that pneumonia pa- 

 tients have an abundance of fresh air, and in 

 some hospitals they are treated on enclosed 

 porches or in tents out of doors. During con- 

 valescence it is customary to give tonics. When 

 possible removal to a dry, warm climate is ad- 

 visable. 



Pneumonia works greatest havoc among 

 drinkers and others whose bodily resistance has 

 been lowered. It is prevalent in winter and 

 early spring, and during these seasons one 

 should be careful to avoid exposure to cold 

 an> I dampness, and endeavor to keep up the 

 vitality by hygienic living. 



PO, the largest river in Italy, remarkable for 



its width, for the volume of water it carries 



i the mountains to the sea, and for the 



great fertility it gives to the lowlands which 



it waters. From its source in Monte Viso, in 



Alps, it flows in an easterly direction along 



a course of about 420 miles, n-r.-mnn tin 



MO, the Adda, the Mincio, the Penano 



and numerous other streams, and discharging 



igh a large d It . into the Adriatic Sea. 



The i>n; .3 on its banks are Turin. 



Cremona and Piacenza. In spite of artificial 



embankments, first built by the Etruscans 



nearly 300 B.C., disastrous floods repeatedly 



occur I rt continual deposits taise 



ter, and with the correspond- 



levation in the embankments the river at 



Ferrara has been raised to the level of th, 



housetops. The deposits from .the mountains 

 increase the extension of the delta into the 

 sea at the rate of 200 feet each year. The river 

 is well supplied with shad, salmon and stur- 

 geon. It is rapid in its upper courses but be- 

 comes a sluggish stream long before it reaches 

 the sea, and carries considerable local com- 

 merce. 



POCAHONTAS, pokahahn'tas (1595-1617), 

 an American Indian princess, born in Vir- 

 ginia. She was the daughter of Powhatan, chief 

 of the Chickahominy tribe, and her father's 

 dealings with the white settlers made her ac- 

 quainted with several citizens of Jamestown, 

 notably Captain John Smith. He mentioned 

 her in his True Relation of Virginia, pub- 

 lished in 1608, as a spirited and beautiful child 

 of about ten years of age. He declared that 

 his first meeting with her was in 1607, when 

 her father was about to kill him with a great 

 stone club. "At the minute of my execution," 

 says Smith, "she hazarded the beating out of 

 her owne braines" by placing her head upon 

 his and begging her father to spare him. Much 

 doubt has been thrown over the story by his- 

 torians, but whether true or false, it remains 

 the first American romance. Pocahontas fre- 

 quently visited Jamestown until Smith returned 

 to England in 1609, and then she was not seen 

 in the village for three years. 



In April, 1612, she was captured and held 

 as a hostage for white prisoners in the posses- 

 sion of the Indians, and one year later was 

 converted to the Christian religion and bap- 

 tized at Jamestown. In April, 1614, she married 

 John Rolfe, and in 1616 she went with him 

 to London. There she was introduced as the 

 daughter of an American king, and was wel- 

 comed into the homes of the royalty. The 

 new form of life, with its restraint and pomp, 

 did not agree with her. however, and shortly 

 after the birth of her son Thomas she died 

 at Gravesend, near London, where the record 

 of her death and her tomb may still be seen 

 in the parish church. Her son removed to 

 Virginia in his early manhood, and from him 

 sprang some of the most noted families of 

 Virginia, among the most famous of such <i< - 

 scendants being John Randolph. 



Consult E roles ton and Seeley'a Pocahontas ; E. 

 B. Smith's Pocahontas and Captain John Smith. 



POCATELLO, pnkatcl'o, IDAHO, the county 

 seat of Bannock County, is in the southea> 

 part of the state, 264 miles east and south of 

 Boise and 170 miles north of Salt Lake City. 

 It is on the Port Neuf River and is a division 



