The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-11-30
DR.LIGHTHILL
ON CATARRH.

Among civilized communities there is no dis
| ease more prevalent, more universally offensive,
| more productive OF discomfort, or more liable
TO give rise to variety OF distressing and dan
| perous complications than Catarrh In its pro-
eressive stages of development, the senses OF
| smell and taste are frequently lost, hearing and
sight often suffer severe injury. Throat Alice
| tions, Asthma and Bronchial Complaints are
excessively introduced, and Consumption is
| almost its inevitable result.
Catarrh usually manifests itself at first in the
cavity of the nose, but spreading beyond its
primary seat it soon penetrates into every coll,
| crevice and cavity of the head with which the
nasal passages communicate, and Mt length be-
comes diffused over the entire extent OF the
| muco-pulmonary tract.
The earliest, most prominent and character.
istic features of Catarrh is discharge from the
head consisting sometimes of n clear acrid fluid,
but oftener of thick purulent yellow of green.
| ish yellow matter which is usually secreted in
excessive abundance, and assumes very fetid
odor. This purulent substance is discharged
as thick offensive fluid or in hard flakes
through the nostrils or throat and frequently
| by both channels.
IL many instances the discharge is of very
tenacious or gummy character, adhering to the
GS ffee@nsovabe ony With gFeat
fact is more particularly noticed on rising in
the morning, because during sleep the purulent
secretion hardens and accumulates with greater
facility.
The efforts to relieve the head, at those times,
| by hawking or blowing the nose, are, therefore,
| frequently most distressing to the one affected,
| and most disagrecable TO those around him.
Often they have to be so violent and persistent
that the lungs and chest become strained and
sore nausea retching, and even vomiting en-.
sues and severe headache or dizziness not unu
sually follows, and augments the general dis.
tress. In some cases even the most powerful
| efforts may fail to clear the head, until some
food or stimulant is swallowed and after which
the viscid secretion becomes somewhat softened,
and is then discharged more readily.
Again, the offensive matter concerts into dry,
hard masses or crusts, which obstruct breath.
ing, and are very difficult to detach, their dis.
Judgment often requiring the most folent
efforts. Sometimes these demonstrations come
away in small hard Jumps, or fragments of
deep green tint but occasionally broad and fiat
casts of notable size are expelled, on which
traces of blood may at times be observed. This
condition is very liable TO run TO serious
liberation, involving loss of the bony struC.
ture of the nose, and subsequent fiattening of
that organ.
In cases where the discharge is copiOus, and
OF loose and fluid character, II frequently dis.
turbs the sufferers rest by the necessity of FIRE.
quent e1pectOratiOn, because the purulCnt fluid
is naturally more apt to run into the throat
when, as during sleep, the head Is thrown back.
Should eIpectoration be neglected, rs may occa.
sionally happen during heavy sleep, the invalid
is startled from his rest by a sensation of chOk.
ing, caused by the filling up of the throat with
the accumulated secretion from the head
The nasal membrane is usually very much
thickened and congested, causing the nose to be
stopped up sometimes on one side, and some
times on the other, and often on BOTH giving
rise to disagreeable stuffy sensation in the
head, and occasionally to violent paroxysms of
sneeZing