The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1869-04-12
THE SYSTEM.

Catarrh consists sofinfiammatIon OF beginning
behind and a little above the veil OF the pal
and air cavities OF the face. 1t creates per-
petual desire TO swallow, and causes a feel
ing sSd as i bscR nart 9 Tas he m tne & up
ease becomes chronic, the matter cOncretes
into hardened Jumps, the matter secreted
becomes puTlform, the breath ts offensive,
and the voice assumes a nasal twang, while,
on rising in the morning, great effort ia re-
quired to Gear the head and throat. There
Is often feeling OF pressure across the lower
part OF the forehead, causing headache, diz-
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 Ia partial deafness with throb-
bing, hunming or ringing noises In the ear.
In sleep the Catarrhal matter Is uncon-
sciously swallowed, which, in time, de-
ranges the stomach and impairs digestion,
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
who can deny the assertion that TO neglect
Catarrh is TO fnttte Consumption:
Consumption is the one prevailing disease,
at the present day, with which the young
do the lungs receive the primary shock 1t
is first ga cold In the head" which resolves
into Chronic Catarrh, from W hich the suiect
feels no alarm, until, step by step, 1t reaches
the lungs. when all attempts at cure are lit
With every incentive to enjoyment and
usefulness there are hundreds all around us
dying in the morning OF life, OF Conhump-
ton, who can Iook back six months, a year,
or longer, as the case may be, TO time when
1t was "6ut cGtdrTh." Neglected at time
when Cpr0perLy treated cure YVES poss1pie,
silently and almost 1mperceptibly 1t has
transformed the bright, rEddy features or
youth into the dull, wan liSt!essness OF pre-
from the blood and fluids OF the wasted
frame, and now, when hope is dead, and the
mind turns mournfully backward TO what
might have been," and tremblIngly forward
to what soon must BE-
CONSEQUENCES OF NEGLECT.
Those who indorse the stupid assertion
that "Catarrh will get well Of ITSELF" or is
trums in common nse, will do well TO re-
member that the local disease depends al
ways upon Preventative condition Of the Oto0d
MeIical writer's are wont to speak OF Ca
tarrh as n simple local Inflammation, ana
both its Importance and rational treatment
are either wholly ignored, or receive put a
passing notice from the general practitioner;
and thus Catarrh as surely predisposeS to
Sioht. and is in fact the prelude to that
disease in eight cases out Of ten.
The disease Is everywhere prevalent; peo-
nIo resort to such means as always fail, then
live heed TO the popular fallacy that 1t is In:
curable, and settle into sort OF mental
family physician knows all that is known
on the subject, and thus matterSs stand, whlle
the disease progresses until nope ls dead, anu
lie becomes a mockery, when comes the
stereOiyped and h9ckneyed ADVICE t,,, OF "a =
90 sea VOYAGE, :" "a return OF health in the
spring" etc; but, alas the country referred
10 is that which lies beyond the connnes OF
season which blooms eternal when LIES Mt
full fever Is over.
Let those who donbt this portrayal OF Ca
tarrh Question the poor consumptive, whose
sun of life is going down at noon, or watch
its progress upon those who neglect its time
Iv and iudicIous treatment. A little while
and we miss their coming; youth and health
have faded from lips and cheek: the light
from the eve has gore out, the hands are
foidediy peacoabIy over the still heart-they
are gone.