The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1869-04-28
NASAL CATARRH
THE SYSTEM,

Catarrh consists sofinnammatIon beginning
behind ard q little above the veil of the pal
ate, and extending upward into the nose
petual desire to swallow, and causes Ieel-
ing as II something was sticking in the up
per and back part or the throat. AS the dis
ease becomes chronic, the matter cOncretea
into hardened Jumps, the matter secreted
becomes purlform, the breath Is offensive,
and the voice assumes a nasal twang, while,
on rising in the morning, great effort Is re-
Quired to c ear the head and throat. There
Is often feeling Of aGro the
illness, and confusion OF thought and loss OF
memory.
eyes are weak, and, as the Inflammation ex-
tends up the euStaceian tubes into the inter-
nal ear there Is partial deafness with throb-
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 d is
cOrdanC symptoms, which are often mis-
taken for other diseases. To the foregoing,
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 mute Consumption:
Consumption is the one prevailing disease,
at the present cay with Tnlf9 nc 9e L1e SGn7g STGIng
is first "a cold in the head" which resolves
feels o 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 lie, OF COnkump-
ton, who can IOOk back six months, a year,
or longer, as the case may be, to q time when
II was "Gut c0tdrrh." Neglected at q time
when (10rOperLy tredtecD a cure was possible,
silently and almost tmpercept1bly II has
transformed the bright, ruddy features OF
youth into the dull, wan listlessness OF pre-
mature age as and has %ds up Up the yfSg aseg
frame, and now, when hope is dead, and the
life forces one by Que are ebbing away, 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
durable by snuttlng or inhalIng the nos
trums in common use, will do well TO re-
member that the LOcrL disease depends al
ways upon Preventative condition Of The 6t0Od
Medical writers are wont 10 SPEAK OF Ca,
tarrh flS a simple local Inflammation, and
both its importance and rational treatment
are either wholly ignored, or receive but
and thus Catarrh as surely Predtsposes TO
Consum ption as does the day precedo the
night, and is in fact the prelude TO that
disease in eight cases out OF ten.
The disease is everywhere prevalent; peo-
pie resort to such means as always fail, then
give heed to the popular fallacy that 1t Is In
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
lie becomes a mockery, when comes the
stere0iyped and hackneyed advice OF "a
visit to the country ia change OF climate,
"a sea voyage, -" "a return OF health IN the
snring" eTc; but alas ! the country referred
10 is Inat wnich lies beyond the confines OF
tho fostering grave, and the spring IS that
season which blooms eternal when life's hit.
full fever Is over. .,o-
iet those who donbt this portrayal OF Ca.
tarrh question the poor consumpt1Ve, whose
sun OF life is going down at noon. or watch
It's progress upon those who neglect Its time
Iv and judicIOuS treatment. A little Whlle
ard we miss their coming; youth and health
have faded from lips and cheek. the light
from the eye has gore out, the hands are
foldedly pencoNbly over the Still heart-theS
are gone.