The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1869-01-27
THE SYSTEM
AND ITS EFFECT UPON

Catarrh'conEISts OF in fiammatlOn beginning
behind and a little above the veil OF tue pal
lite, ami extending upward lntO tle nose
and mir cavities OF the face. IL creates per
uetual desire TO swallow, and causes leel-
ing as II something was sticking In the up
per and back part OF the throat. AS tne uis-
case becomes chronic, the matter concrcteS
into hardened Jumps, the InalteT hecTGleu
becomes puTifOrm, the breath Is offensive
and the voice assumes n nasal tWanB, Whlle,
on rising in the morning, great effort Is re-
uuITed TO ear the head and throat. 1here
Is often feeling OF pressure across Inc lower
part of the forehead, causing hcAuhcnG, uIH-
Zine4x and confusion OF thought ana loss OF
The SHnse of smell becomes impaired, the
ewes are weak, and, as the Inflammation eX-
tends up the eustaceian tubes into the Inter
mnl car there is partial deafness Win lhroD-
binR hummlng or ringing noises IN the ear
III sleep the Catarrhal matter III uncnh-
sciOusly swallowed, which, in tIme, de-
r"nges the stOmach ana I'M t
CIruAnL symptoms, which are OIlen his
tuken for Oiher dIseaScS. To the foregoing
add tho fact that every breath OF air drawn
into the lungs is drawn over the diseased
surface, fostering with Catarrhal matter, and
G'ntarI II Is 10 inuLc Consumption.
Consumption Is the one prevailing disease,
mt the present day, with which the young
do tho lungs receive the primary shock IL
Ii first "a cold in the head" which resolves
INTO Chronic CRtarrh, from W men me hI ect
feels 70 alarm, until, step by step, II reaches
the lungs when all attempts mt cure arc lit
IIe let ter than blind experiments.
With every incentive to enjoyment anu
usefulness, there are hundreds nll around us
dying in the morning OF life, OF tonAump-
lion, who can IOOk back six InonthS,h II year,
or longer. as tile case may he, To 81 time when
IL was "but CntdTTh." Neglected al time
when (prOIsTIU hCdteCD n cure was possible,
silently and almost lmperceptlbIy 1t has
transformed tho bright, ruddy features OF
youth into the dull, wan liStleSsneSS OF pre-
mature age. Rs II has drunk up the vitality
from the blood and fluids Of the wasted
Frame and now, when hope Is dead, ana inc
life forces one by one are ebbing away. me
mind turns mOurnfulIy back ward to "WhhI
InIDht have been, !" ana tTeInbliDHly forward
To what soon must be.
CONSEQUENCES OF NEGLECT.
Those who indorBe tho stupid assertion
that :'Ca!aTh will get well Of ITSELF, or IL
trumB in common use, will do well to re-
member that the local disease depends III
ways upon JcI7nCIlfdtfre condition GJ The btO0tt
Medical writer's are wont TO speak OF ca
tnrrh HS u simple local Inflammation, anu
both its importance and rational treatment
are either wholly ignored, or receive but
passing notice from the general practitioner;
and thus Catarrh as surely predispOSeS to
Consumption ms does the day Precede the
I,ipht and is in fact tho prelude TO that
disease IN eight cases out of ten.
The disease is everywhere prevalent; peO-
nIe resort to such means rs always fail, then
give heed to tho popular fallAcy that IL is III :
CurabIe and settle INTO sort OF mental
Hunthy encouraged by the belief that the
family physicIan knows all that is known
on the subject, and thus matters stand, while
lie becomes a mOcIfery, when comes the
srereOtyped and hackneyed advice of "a
visit TO the country, - "a change OF climate,
..a ses voyage" "a return OF health in the
spring" eIc; but, alas the country referred
TO IL that which lies beyond the confines OF
the fostering grave, and the spring Is tnnI
season which blooms eternal when ufe's 1lt-
fuI fever Is over.
Let those who donbt this portrayal OF Ca.
tarrh question the poor cOnsumptlVe, whose
sun of life is going down at noon. or Watch
It's progress upon those who neglect us time
ly and iudici GUS treatment. A little Whlle
and we miss their coming; youth and health
have faded from lips and cheek; the light
from the eye has gone out, the hands are
are gone.