The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1869-04-16
THE SYSTEM

Catarrh consists sofInfiammRtion OF beginning
behind and little above the veil OF the pal
| ate, and extending upward into the nose
and air cavities of the face. 1t creates per
petual desire TO swallow, and causes 1eel-
| ing as II something was sticking in the up
per and back part of the throat; AS the dis
case becomes chronic, the matter concretes
into hardened Jumps, the matter 6ecreted
becomes purIfOrm, the breath Is offensive,
and the voice assumes nasal tWang, while,
on rising in the morning, great effort Is re-
quired 10 Gear the head and throat. There
Is often q feeling OF pressure across the lower
part of the forehead, causing headache, diZ-
illness. and confusion OF thought and loss OF
The sense OF smell becomes impaired, the
eyes are weak and, as the Inflammation ex-
tends up the custaceinn tubes into the inter
nal car there is partial deafness with throb-
| In sleep the Catarrhal matter IS uncon-
scIously swallowed, which, in time, de-
ranges the stomach and Impalrs digestion,
| causing dyspepsia and o 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, fostering with Catarrhal matter, and
who can deny the assertion that to neglect
Catarrh is to f'lrtte Consumption;
Consumption is the one prevailing disease,
at the present day, with which the young
and middIe-aged die. And yet very seldom
do the lungs receive the primary shock 1t
is first "a cold in the head" which resolves
into Chronic Catarrh, from W hich the su Get
feels no alarm, until, step by step, it reaches
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 ConAump-
ton, who can look back six months, year,
or longer, as the case may be, 70 a time when
1t was "Cut catGrTh Heg!eeted at 1,it!n diine
silently and almost imperceptibly 1t has
transformed the bright, r1ddy features OF
mature age, as II has drunk up the vitality
from the blood and fluids OF the wasted
frame, and now, when hope is dead. ana me
life forces one by Que are ebbing away, the
mind turns mournfully backward to ''What
might have been." and tremblingly forward
10 what soon must be,
CONSEQUENCES OF NEGLECT. -
Those who 1ndOrse the stupid assertion
tllht ''Catarrh will get well OF ITSELF" or Is
curable by snutilng or inhaling the nos
trums in common use, will do we'll to re-
member that the local disease depends al
ways upon aJeTnte'.tt'tt,e co'!dtIo o. ne ot3oa 2
tnrrh as n simple local tnfnmmattonI ana
both its importance and rational treatment
passing notice from the general practitioner;
and thus Catarrh rs surely pred1spoSes TO
Consumption as does the day pTecede the
night, and is in fact the prelude TO that
disease in eight cases ont OF ten.
The disease is everywhere prevalent; peo-
plo resort to such means as always @ ehen fn1
curable, and settle into sort ot mentai itIa
apathy, encouraged by the beltef that the
family physician knows all that Is known
on the subject, and thus matt ers stand, while
the disease progresses until hope isdead and
stereotyped and hackneyed advice of "a
visit 10 the country,"'a change of climate"
"a sea voyage" "a return OF health in the
snring !" etc; but, alas the country referred
t. is That which lies beyond the confines of
the fostering grave, and the spring Is that
season which Blooms eternal when LIES Mt
Let those who donbt this portrayal of Ca.
tarrh question tho poor cOnsumptve, whose
lis progrees 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 check. the light
from the eye has gore ont, the hands are
foIdedIy peaceahly over tho still heart-thcy
are gone.