The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1869-01-22
THE SYSTEM
AND ITs EFFECT UPON

CHtarrI,cOnslsts tsOfInnammatIOn OF beginning
behind and n little above the veil of the pal
ale, and extending upward into the nose
and air cavities of the lace. II creates per
petuRl desire to swallow, and causes a Ieel-
ing az II something was sticking In the up
per and back part OF the throat. AS the DIS
IlLEe becomes chronic, the matter cOncTclcF
into hardened Jumps, the matter secretCd
becomes puTifOrm, the breath Is offensive.
aud the voice assumes n nasal twRng, while,
on rising in the morning, great effort IL re-
uuired 10 C ear the head and throat. There
Is often feeling OF pressure across the lower
part OF the forehead, cRuAlnR headache. diZ-
illness, and confusion OF thought and loss of
memory.
eyes are weak, and, as the Inflammation eX-
tends up the eustaceian tubes into the intoI-
nal ear there Is partial deafness with thrOb-
bling. humming or ringing noises in the ear.
In sleep the Catarrhal matter IL uncon-
Sciouhly swallowed, which, in time, de-
ranges the stomach anu lmpalrS dlgestion'
COrdAnL symptoms which are often mis-
taken for other diseases. To the foregoing,
add the TACT that every breath OF air drawn
into the lungs is drawn over the diseased
surface eAtering with Catarrhal matter, and
who can deny the assertion that 10 neglect
CutarIh Is TO inUILc Consumption.
Consumption is the one prevailing disease,
nt the present day, with which the young
and middle aged die. And yet very seluOIn
do the lungs receive the primary shock II
III tirHI "a cold in the head" which resolves
into Chronic Catarrh, from " hich the Su Get
feels alarm. until, step by step, 1t reaches
the lungs, when all attemp pts At cure are lit
lie better than blind experiments.
with every incentive to enjoyment and
usefulness there are hundreds all around us
dying in the mOrGing OF lie, OF COnkump-
ton who can IOOk back six months, a year,
or longer. as the case may be, to a Time when
IL was "bILt CdtdTTh." Neglected at time
when (lTODeTiy treuteCD a cure was possible,
silently and almost ImpoTCepLibly II has
transformed the bright, rnddY 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 ebbinG away. the
mind turns mourntuly back ward 10 mai
might have been." ana tTenblIugly forward
to what soon must be,
CON8EQUENCES OF NEGLECT.
Those who indorSe the stupid assertion
that .'CatarTh will get well OF itself.' or Is
Curable by snu1llnR or inhaI ny the nos
trumE in common use, will do well TO re-
member that the local disease depends al
ways upon JCT1Tel elItGtiUc condition 9f the bLoOd
Medical writers are wont TO speak OF Ca
tarrn as IL simple local Inflammation, and
both its Importance and rational treatment
are either wholly ignored, or receive but a
passing notice from the general practitioner;
and thus Catarrh as surely predispOses to
Consumption 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 prevalent; reo-
Dle resort to such means AZ always fail, then
give heed to the popular fallacy that II Is In
curabIe, 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 matt ems stand, while
the disease progresses until nope IL ueau, anu
lie becomes n mOckery, when comes the
stereOIyped and hackneyed advice OF II
"a sen voyage" IA return of health in the
spring etc; but, alas the country referred
To is that which lies beyond tho confines of
the fostering grave, and the spring IN tnaI
season which blooms eternal when LIES Mt
fuI lever is over.
Let those who donbt this portrayal of Ca.
tnTrh question the poor COnSumptive, whose
sun OF life is going down at noon, or whtch
Its progress upon those who neglect It's time
ly and judiCiOMS treatment. little Wlllle
aud we miss their coming; youth and henlti
have faded from lips and cheek; the Hghl
from the eye has gone out, the hanls @ h['
are gone.