The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1869-04-23
THE SYSTBM-

Catarrh consists CONTAMINATION OF beginning
behind and a little above the veil of the pal
ate, and extending upward into the nos
| and air cavities OF the face. 1t creates per
petual desire TO swallow, and causes a feel
Ing as II something was sticking in the up
per and back part or the throat. AS the dis
ease becomes chronic, the matter concrete
| into hardened Jumps, the matter secreteC
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 AZ feeling OF pressure across the @ love- We
illness, and confusion of thought and loss O
| 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 ths 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
surface, festering with Catarrhal matter, and
who can deny the assertion that 10 IleOLec
CatarIh is to inCite Consumption:
Consumption is the one prevailing disease
| at the present day, with which the young
and middle-ageG, die; T. And nd yet very yal seldom
| is first "a cold In the head" which resolves
into Chronic Catarrh, from W hich the su ect
the lungs, when all attempts at cure are lit
tie better than blind experiments.
With every incentive to enjoyment and
dying in the morning OF lie. of COnAump-
tiOn, who can look back six months, a year,
or longer, as the case may be, TO time when
when (prOperEy treated a cure was possible,
silently and almost lmpercepttoly 1t has
transformed the bright, ruddy features OF
youth into the dull, wan lIstlessness OF pre-
mature age, as 1t has drum up the vitality
from the blood and fluids Of the wasted
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life forces one by one are ebbing away, the
mind turns mournfully backward to what
might have been" and trembllngly forward
to what soon must be,
CONSEQUENCES OF NEGLECT.
Those who indorse the stupid assertion
that ''Catarrh will get well OF itself'' or Is
curable by snufhng or inhalIng the nos
trums in common use, Will do well 10 re-
member that the local disease depends al
ways upon |eT1nEHtItiUe c0TIdttto1I Of the ot00d
Medical writer's are wont to speak OF Ca
tarrh as n simple local 1nnammauOn, and
6o! h It's importance and rational treatment
passing notice from the general practitioner;
and thus Catarrh as surely predlsposes TO
night. and is in fact the prelude to that
disease in eight cases ont OF ten.
The disease Is everywhere revalent; peo-
Dle resort to such means as always fail, then
give heed to the popular fallacy that 1t Is in
curable, and settle into q sort OF mental
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 isdead, and
stcTeoivped and hackneyed advice OF "a
Visit TO the country,""a change OF climate"
ia sea voyage" )" "a return of health in the
snring etc: but, alas the country referred
TO is that which lies beyond the confines OF
the fostering grave, and the spring ~ that
season which blooms eternal when LIES ht'
luI fever is over.
Let those who doubt this portrayal of Ca.
tarrh question the poor consumpt1ve, whose
VEaf 10 0fY1VF a NJ
lis progress upon those who neglect its time
Iy and judicious treatment. A little while
and we miss their coming; youth and health
have faded from lips and cheek: the light
from the eye has gore out, the hands arc
foldedly peaceRbly over the still heart-they
are gone.