The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1869-04-19
THE SYSTEM.

CatRrrh consists sofinfammatlon OF beginning
behind and little above the veil OF the pal
ate, and extending upward into the nose
petual desire TO swallow, and causes a feel
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 purtform, the breath Is offensive,
and the voice assumes nasal twang, while,
on rising in the morning, great effort Is re-
quired 10 c ear the head and throat. There
S or the forehead can9g z
illness. and confusion OF thought and loss OF
memory.
The sense OF smell becomes impaired, the
eyes are weak, and, as the Inflammation ex-
tends up the eustacelan 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-
sciously swallowed, which, in time, de-
causing dyspepsia and a multiplicity OF dis
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
surface, fostering with Catarrhal matter, and
Catarrh is TO fnrfte Consumption:
Consumption Is the one prevailing disease,
at the day WIZ Tn1f1 7af the yS1ng
is first ga cold in the head" which resolves
feels no alarm, until, step by step, it reaches
the lungs, when all attempts at cure are lit
tie better than blind experiments.
With every incentive to enjoyment and
usefulness, there are hundreds all around us
dying in the morning OF life, OF Conhump-
tion, who can look back six months, a year,
1t was "Gut cdtdrTh." Neglected at time
when CproperEy treated a cure was possible,
silently and almost lmperceptibly 1t has
transformed the bright, ruddy features OF
youth into the dull, wan listleSsness of pre-
mature age, as II has drunk up the vitality
from the blood and fluids OF the wasted
frame, and now, when hope iS dead, and the
life forces one by one are ebb1ng away, the
mind turns % mournfully % backward 70 5oq1 What
to what soon must be,
CONSEQUENCES OF NEGLECT.
Those who indorse the stupid assertion
that "Catarrh will get well OF ITSELF" or is
durable by snufhng or tnhaling the nos
member that the local disease depends al
ways upon aJe1T1entdttre condition Of the blood.
Medical writers are wont to speak OF Ca
both its importance and rational treatment
are either wholly ignored or receive but
passing notice from the general pTactitioner;
Consumption as does the day precede the
night, and is in fact the prelude TO that
disease in eight cases ont OF ten.
The disease is everywhere prevalent; peo-
pie resort TO such means as always fail, then
give heed to the Popular faliacy that IL ls M
apathy, encouraged by the bele1 that the
family physician knows all that Is known
on the WAA4S
the disease progresses until hope 1sdead, and
life becomes mockery, when comes the
stereotyped and hackneyed advice OF 80
VISIT TO the country" change OF climate,"
sprinR," 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 lies Mt
Let those who doubt this portrayal of Ga.
tarrn question the poor consumptive, whose
sun OF life is going down at noon, or watch
its progress upon those who neglect Its time
ly and tudicious treatment. A little while
have faded from lips and cheek. the light
from the eye has gore out, the hands are
foldedly peaceably over the still heart-they
are gone,