New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-03-04

pairment OF SMELL taste hearing and sight and Of creating
seriou. constitutional arrangements unfrequeny tem
mating In consumption.
SYMPTOMS OF CATARRH.
feeling Of irritation sepsitveness, heat pain expert
enced IN the nose the edges Of which red and swollen and
which is stopped up sometimes side sometimes on tho
other and occasionally both rendering respetion through
either difficult impossible The irritation in the nose pro-
frequent desire sneeze accompanied with dis
charge Of either acrd what far oener the
profuse thick yerow.h and extremely offensive matter
which forms Of the most Characteristic features of the
disease and greatest annoyance and danger
As the disease progresses bi. secretion becomes pralent
quantity and exceedingly fd odor
escapes only by the nose but passes into the throat
producing irritation there and requiring frequent expectora
ton hawking scrapng for Ia removal its passage into
the throa, very much facilitated by horizontal position OF
the body sleep frequently disturbed by sensation Of chok
ing In consequence and many obse lie in semire.
cunben. position to obtain the necessary sleep
Owing to the in the head the watey portion Of the
discharge often evaporaes and assuming condition OF soid
N Is deposited upon the membrane Of the and upper part
Of the throat in the shape Of cruss hardened umpa The
accumulation Of these ncrusaons produces feeling Of dis
comfort and the nasal passages as to en0arss'
respiration Therefore frequent efforts have to be made to
remove them either By focby blowing the or by per
hawkng-a practice dasreeable to the one Affected
is to those around him. Aer the removal that side Of
the incrusaon which adhered the membrane will
sometime, be found bloody fact which explains the force
required for its dslOdgmen During sleep these nerustson
accumulate rapidly aud the feeling il therefore most IN
comfortable IN the morning Sometimes all efforts to clear the
throat aye futile until after breakfast after some s,imuant
had been swallowed liberation Of the membrane OF
the nose takes place frequently sometimes bones
when small PARTICLES Of that substance viii occasionally be
| found mixed with tie discharge
The breath assumes an excessively d and sickenns odor
and becomes occasionally offensive to render the patent
an object Of disgust to himself as well as to others
Tho Of the discharge together with the thick
ened condition Of the membrane renders respiration
through the nasal passages difficult and oentiine' I'm
possible necesstang respiration principally through the
moua method very dee.rous to the general health but
more particularly the lungs, which become weak and "
r.be The voice lose. Is musical quality and assumes dis
harsh and characters the of smell becomes
much impaired entirely lost and the same effect though
les. frequent produced Taste. Occasionally while dow
y IN. cracln, or bubbns sound heard in the ears
and hearing becomes quite thick stopped up but returns
suddenly with something like swapping sound This phe
may be repeated several times until hearing does not
return bat remains permanently injured In other cases hear
ing |, lost so gradually tina; considerable degree OF deafness
NAV ex., before the person really fact Either
condition is often accompanied with noises the head every
description materially increasing the distress Of
the sufferer.
The eve. are ap, 10 become weak irritable and disposed to
water on exposure cold and wind or after the slightest
erou pain more or less acute distressing feeling Of
pressure Is experienced the eyes, and sometimes on the
top or back Of the head and also pain in the face closely re-
.embng neuralgia which is very oien mistaken The
distress in the head weakens the memory and produces ira
by and moroseness Of disposition The stomach generally
suffer. more or less, and rabe the appetite Is ca
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cases the system becomes feeble and Frustrated.
This Is manifested by disposition to drOw'nes and sleep
an aversion to either ysica mental eXeon and feeling
fatigue and weakness
Not unrequenty catarrh proves fatal either by debitatn
the system and wearing out patient by travelling down
ward and producing throat affections, bronchitis and finally
con.umpon 1t may safely asserted that AFTER hereditary
predisuoson casrrh l. the frequent and mportan
cause of this fatal complaint
The syup,oms Of caarrh vary considerably in different ind
ydua and the degree their severity depends upon eons
tuona dioyncrasies and various external influences Witt
some the complaint continues for number yearsn milk
FORM and without causing any Of the injurious results allow
described while with others all the worst effects are produced
in short space of time and cases apparently most harmless
may through mpruden exposure additional cold or unavor
able changes of the weather suddenly exhibit all the violence
and malisnty which characterize the 'everest ones
| CAUSES OF CATARRH.
ANY Inflammation of tho membrane Of the throa
or nos. Is favorable to the production Of Catarrh Ordinary
colds II neglected or aggravated by additional exposure ar
art to become chronic and into Cata and tn
In nearly thirds Of oil the that present them
selves Scarlet fever measles dphthera and all the disease
aecps the throat the inhalation Of DUST impure atmospher
or IA vapors are among s most frequent melting