The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1866-11-19
or CATARRH.
5HY DOCTOR FOSTER
PHILLIPS HOUSE. DAYTON.
NOW rnAcrIcING Ar Tni

CATAnRn is a disease of the mucous menu
brane of the nasal passages and those cavi-
ties of the head communicating with them.
Insignificant rs it appearsin is first stages.
1t Is apt in its progress to become instru-
mental in causing the loss or impairment
of smell, taste, hearing, and sight aud in
creating serious constitutional derange-
inents not nnfrequently terminating in
consumption.
At the commencement of the malady, the
symptoms are those of an ordinary cold. A
feeling of irritation, sensitiveness heat or
pain is experienced in the nose, the edges
OF which are red and swollen. and which is
stopped up sometimes ON one side some
times on the other, and occasionally ON
both, rendering respiration through iteither
difficult or impossible. This condition
is accompanied by a frequent desire to
snce2e, and a discharge of, at first clear,
acrid water, afterwards of proflse thick,
yellowish and extremely offensive matter
This secretion becomes purulent and in
creased In quantity rs the complaint pro-
crosses, assumes AN exceedingly fetid odor
and forms one of the most Characteristic
featu-es of the disease, and a source of the
greatest annoyance and danger. lt escapes
not only by the nose, but passes into the
throat, producing by its lodgment local
irritation, and requires frequent eNpectOrn-
tion. hawking, or scraping for its removal
As its passageinto the throat Is very much
facilitated by horizontal position Of the
body, sleep is frequently disturbed by a
sensation of choking In consequence. and
many are obliged to lie i'm semi-recum-
bent position to obtain necessary reposc.
Owing TO the inflammation and heat in the
head, the watery portion of the discharge
often evapOrates. and the rest, assuming
condition of solidity, Is deposited upon the
membrane of the nose and upper part of
the throat in the shape OF crusts or hard
ened Jumps. The accumulation of these in
crustatinns produces feeling of discom-
fort, and narrows the nasal passages so us
TO embarrass respiration, therefore. fire.
quent efforts are required to remove them.
either by forcibly blowing the nose or by
persistent hawking. n practice ms disagree
able to the one affected as il Is to those
around him. That side of the incrustation
which adhered to the mucous membrane.
will, after its removal, sometimes be found
bloody, a fact which explains the force re-
quired for its diSlodgment. During sleep
these incrustations accumulate more rap
idly, and the feeling Is therefore most un-
comfortable in the morning. Sometimes
all efforts TO clear the throat are futile un-
ill after breakfast, OF after some stimulant
has been swallowed. liberation of the
mucous membrane of the nose takes place
frequently, sometimes attacking the bone,
when small particles of this substance will
occasionally bc found mixed with the dis
charge
The breath assuming an excessively fetid
and sickening odor, and becomes OCCASION
ally so offensive as 10 render the patient an
object of disgust to himself rs well as to
others.
The accumulation of the discharge to-
gether with the tlickcncd condition of the
mucous membrane, renders respiration
through the nasal passages very difficult,
.aifd ottentimcs impossible, uecessitatng
respiration principally through the mouth
"A method very deletcrous 60 the general
health, but more particularly so to the
lungs which become weak and irritable.
The voice loses its musical quality, and as
sumes n discoWant, harsh. and nasal char
actor; the sense of smell becomes much
Impaired or eptirely lost. ard the same ei-
feet. though less frequent, il produced on
taste. Occasionally, while blowing the nose
a cracking or bubbling sound is heard in
the ears, ami hearing becomes quite thick
or stopped up, bnt returns suddenly, with
something like snappiug sound. This
phenomenon may br repeated times. 4
until hearing does no, return, but remains
permanently injured. In other cases hear
ing is lost so gradually that considerable
degree of deafness may exist before tile
person is really aware of the fact. EithprI
condition Is often accompanied with noises
in the head of every conceivable descrjp-
tlon, materially increasing che disotess ofI
Che suilcler.
Theeyes are aptto become weak irritable. !
and disposed to water on exposure to cold |
and wind, or after the slightest eNcrtiOn |
A pain, more or less acute, or distressing
feeling of pressure is experienced over the |
eyes, ana sometimes on the top or back of
the head and also pain in the face, closely |
resembling neuralgia, for which IL is very |
often mistaken. The distress i'm the head |
weakens the memory and produces ifrrita-
bllity and noroseness of disposition. The |
stomach generally suffers more or less, and
becomes weak and irritable; the appetite |
Is capricious and nearly always bad in Inc
Ia severe eases the system
becomes feeble and prostrated. TEis Is
by n disposition 10 drowsiness
and sleep. aversion to either physical or
mental eNertion, and feeling Of fatigue
and weakness.
MOI unTeuueHliA CIV Nfu 'NNNeS lat.il,
either by facilitating la4 - 81, 80 and wear
ng ont the patient. or by travelling DOWN
ward and producing throat affections.
and, finally CONSUMPTION. Itl
nay be safely asserted that, after heredita-
y predisposition, catarrh is the mostl
frequent aad important cause of this fatal
The symptoms of eatarrh vary consider
lbly in different individuals, the degree oil
heir severity depending upon constitution
i idiosynGgasIes and various eXtornal in
lnences. With some the complaint con
inues for n nslmbero OF years in mild form.
md without causing any of the injurious
'esults above described, while with Others
Ill the worst effects are prodnced In a short
pace Of time, and eases apparently mostI
harmless may, through imprudent expo Ii
ure, additional cold, or unfavotablel
hanges Of the weather, suddenly exuihitl
III the violence aud malignity which char
.ctcrize the seYerest ones.
With some persons this disease becomes
periodical, attacking them regularly atcer-
ain seasons each year rs in the early part