The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1869-02-15
NASAL CATARRH
AND ITS EFFECT UPON
THE SYSTFM-

TIE SYSTEM
CatarrhconsIsts stsofinCammatIOn of beginning
behind and little above The veil OF the pal
and air cavities OF the face. It creates per
petual desire TO swallow, and causes a 1eel-
Ing as II something was sticking IN the up
ease becomes chronic, the matter concretea
Into hardened Jumps, the matter secreted
becomes puriform, the breath is offensive
and the voice assumes n nasal wang, while,
on rising in the morning, great effort is re-
quired 10 c ear the head and throat. There
Is often q feeling of pressure across the lower
part OF the forehead, causing headache, d1z-
illness, and confusion OF thought and loss o1
memory.
TINE sense OF smell becomes impaired, the
ewes arc weak, and, as the Inflammation eX-
tends up the custaceian tubes into the intel
nal car there is partial deafness with throb-
bling, humming or ringing noises In the ear.
in sleep the Catarrhal matter Is uncon-
rnnees the stomach and impairs digestion,
causing Il spcpsiH and n multiplicity OF dis
coTdant symptoms. which t are - often mis-
add the TACT that every breath OF air drawn
into the lungs is drawn over the diseased
surfacs, fostering with Catarrhal matter, and
who can deny the assertion that 10 neglect
CatarIh is 10 intite Consumption;
av is me iiS @nS WSich Tie vouns
and mfddIe-aged die. And yet very seldom
do the lungs receive the primary shock II
is first "a cold in the head" which resolves
into Chronic CatarTh, from W which the suiect
feels alarm, until, step by step, it reaches
the lungs, when all attempts al cure are 1T
lie better than blind experiments.
With every incentive to enjoyment and
usefulness, there are hundreds all around us
diving in the morning of lie, of Consump-
tion, who can look back six months, n year,
or longer, as the case may be, to a time when
II was "Gtn catGTTI." Neglected at time
silently and almost lmpercepIbly 1t has
transformed the bright, ruddy features OF
youth into the dull, wan ltstleSsness 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 mournfuIIy backward to "what
might have been" and tremblingly forward
TO what soon must be.
CONSEQUENCES OF NEGLECT.
Those who tndorse the stupid assertion
that .'Catarrh will get we'll OF ITSELF" or Is
durable by EnunlnB or 1nhalng the nos
trums In common ING ,nstI USE 6isaase %a @ denends al
Wavs upon JeT7n67ItGttue condition Of the blood.
Medical writers are wont 10 SPEAK OF "a,
tarrh as a simple local inflammation, and
both It's importance and rational treatment
are either wholly ignored, or receive but
nasSinV notice from the general practitioner;
and INNS CatarTh as surely predisposes to
Consumption as does the day pEecede the
night, and is in fact the prelude 10 thnt
disease in eight cases out OF ten.
The disease is everywhere prevalent; peo-
pIe resort to such means MS always fa1l, then
give heed TO the popular l9liacy tnat II Is ~
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
stereOtyped and hackneyed advice OF -
visit IN the country - "a change OF climate" "
"a sea voyage, ;" IA return OF health in the
spring" ETC; but, alas the country reierIed
II ia That W nich lies beyond the confines OF
Tho Testering grave, and the spring is that
season which blooms eternal when lifes tit-
fuI fever is over. .,er. r..
taTrh question the poor conSunpttVe, whose
sun OF life is going down at noon. or watch
Iis progress upon those who neglect It's tlme-
10 and fudici Gus treatment. A little while
npd we miss their coming; youth and health
have faded from lips and cheek. the light
from the eye has gore out, the hands arr
foIdetily peaceabIy over the still heaTt-thty
are gone.