The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-12-31
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Catarrh:consIstsO tsOfinfammation OF beginning
behind and a little above the veil OF the pal
ale, anu extending upward into the nose
and air cavities OF the lace. II creates pei per
ing as II something was sticking in the up
per and back part of the throat. AS the dis
ease becomes chronic, the matter concretes
into hardened Jumps, the matter secreted
becomes pur1form, the breath Is Offensive,
and the voice assumes a nasal twang, while,
on rising in the morning, great ehort Is re-
qulred TO c'enf The head and throat. There
Is often feeling OF pressure across the lower
part OF the forehead, causing headacne, az
illness, and confusion of thought and loss OF
TINE sense OF smell becomes impaired, the
eyes are weak, and, as the Inflammation eX-
tends up the eustaceian tubes into the inter
nal ear there is partial deafness with throb-
bing. hummIng or ringing noises in the ear.
In sleep the Catarrhal matter is uncon-
sclously swallowed, which, in time, de-
ranges the stomach and impairs digestion.
cOrdant symptoms, which are often mis-
taken for other diseases. To the foregoing,
add the fact that every breath OF air drawn
into the lungs Is drawn over the diseased
EuTfICs, fostering with Catarrhal matter, and
who can deny the assertion that 10 neglect
CatarTh Is TO iTUiLe Consumption; Fs.N Z.
Consumption the one prevailing disease,
| at the present day, with which the young
do DOT the lungs receiVe the primary shock II
| Is first "a cold In the head" which resolves
| into Chronic CatarrhI from which the su ect
| feels no alarm, until, stepby stepi 1T reaches
the lungs, when all attempts at cure are lit
| Tie better than blind experiments.
With every incentive to enjoyment mt, ana g 1Id
dying in the morO1ng of life, OF Consump"
| ton, who can look back six months, a year.
! 1t was ..Gtl catdrrI,." Neglected at a time
when (or0perLy treated cure was possible,
silently and almost 1mperceptibly II has
transformed the bright, ruddy features OF
youth into the dull, wan listleSsness of pre-"
mature age, as II has drunk up the vitality
| rom the blood and fluids OF the wasted
! md M W.. when hone dead. and tl e
| life foices one by one are ebbing away, the
mind turns monrnfnuy backyard 10 what
might have beens" and trembungly forward
| to what soon must be, l-.. .-.. ...r. .
CONSEQUENCES OF NEGLECT.
Those who indorse the stupid assertion
that .'Catarrh. will get well of 1tselt, or Is
durable by snuthng or tnhaling the nos
| trums in common use, will do well to re-
member that the tocat disease dePends e 11; a.
Medical writers are wont TO speak OF Ca.
| tarrh as a simple local 1ntammattOnI ana
both It's importance and rational treatment
are either wholly ignored or receive but
poSSing notice from the general practlttOner;
and thus Catarrh as surely predlsposes 70
| Consum ption as does the day preCede the
night, and is in fact the prelude to that
disease in eight cases out of ten.
| The disease is everywhere prevalenti peo.
pie resort to such means as always fail, then
| give heed to the popular Eallacy that II Is In
durable, and settle Into sort OF mental
| apathy, encouraged by the belief that the
! family physician knows all that is known
| on the subject, and thus matters stand, while
the disease progresses until hope is dead, and
| life becomes a mockery, when comes the
sIere0Iyped and hackneyed advice of "a
visit 10 the country,'''Ea change of climate -
~ sea yoyage,""a return OF health In the
spring." ETC.; but, alas !! the country referred
| TO is that which lies beyond the confines OF
the fostering grave, and the spring Is that
season which blooms eternal when nies nj
Let those who donbt this portrayal OF Ca
ta1rh question the poor COnsumpttYe, whose
Snn of life is going down at noon, or watch
| lis progress upon those who neglect its time
| iy and judicious treatment. a little while
and we miss their coming; youth and healLn
from the eye has gore out, the hands are
foldedly peaceably over the still heart-they
are gone.