The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1869-02-10
NASAL CATARRH
AND IT'S EFFECT UPON
THE SYSTEM

THEj SYSTEM
Catarrh consists OF inflammation beginning
behind and n little above the veil OF the pal
nte and extending upward into the nose
and air cavities Of tho face. II creates per
petual desire 10 swallow, and causes n feel-
Ing an II something was Sticking IN the up
per and back part of the throat. AS the dis
ease becomes chronic, the matter cOncreteE'
into hardened Jumps, the matLeF ia SecreIeo
md the voice assumes nasal tWang, While,
on rising in tho morning, great effort Is re-
quired 10 c ear the head ana throhC. IheTe
- often a feeling OF pressure across the lower
part OF the forehead, causing headache, olZ-
illness, and confusion OF thought ana loss OF
Tie Sense OF smell becomes impaired, the
ewes are weak, nud, MS the Inflammation e1-
tends up the eustaceian tubes into the inter
nal ear there Is partial deafness with throb-
bling. humming or ringing noises IN Tho ear.
In sleep the catarrhal matter is uncon-
ScioukIy swallowed, which, in time, de-
ranges the tomaCh and 1mPatrS digestion,
causing dyspepsia and u multiplicity OF dis
COTdAnI symptoms, which are OGten mis-
taken for oIher diseases. To the foregoing,
add the IGCt that every breath OF nlr drawn
into the lungs Is drawn over me dlseased
WHO can deny the assertion that TO neglect
Catarrh Is TO inIftc Consumption:
COnsumption is the one prevailing disease
mt the present day, with which the young
and mfddle-ageu die. And yet very seldom
do the lungs Ieeeiye the d iHc Sh0e6 Esa6,vd
into Chronic CatarTh, from " hich the suH2ct
cells no alarm, until, step by step, 1t reaches
the lungs when all attempts 0t euro are lit
lie beIIsr than blind experiments.
with every incentive to enjoyment anu
usefulness, there arc hundreds al around uS
diving in the morning OF life, OF CCnAump-
IiOn who can IOOk back six months, n year,
or longer, as the case may De, 10 u tllne when
when C1lrOperlv tredtctD cure was possible,
silently and almost lmperceptlDly 1t mas
transformed the bright, rnddy features OF
youth into the dull, wan liSueSsneSs OF pre-
mature age, as II has drunk up the vitality
from the blood and fluids of the wasted
frame, and now, when nope Is dead, anu m tIie
life forces one by Que are ebbing away, The
mind turns mOurntulIy backward 10 Whai
might have been" ana tremblingly forward
To what soon must be,
CONSEOUENCES OF NEGLECT.
Those who indOrse the stupid assertion
that .'Catnrrh will get well of ITSELF" or is
Curablc by snu1llng or lnhRlIng the nos
member that the local disease depends al
WAYS upon CC7TneTItfUe condition ct The blood.
Medical writer's are wont to speak OF Ia
taTrh AS a simple local lnllammhLon' ana
hOiIl its i'm portanca and rational treatment
arc either wholly Ignored, or receive buL Il
passing notice from the general pTacLlioneI'
and thus Cntarrh aS surely prediSpOSeS to
Consumption as does the day precede the
night and is in fact the prelude TO that
disease III eight cases out OF ten.
Tic disease is everywhere proVnlenti peo-
nIe resort TO such means rs always fail, then
give heed to the popular fallacy thaLl Is IN
S:urHble and settle into a sort OF mental
unathy encouraged by tho belief that tho
family physician knows all that is known LlSId
tho disease progresses until hope Is dead, and
life becomes a nockery, when comes the
stereOiyped and hackneyed advice OF ~
vIsIt IN the country, "a change OF climate,
"a sea voyage" ~ return OF health III the
spring" eic; but, alas the country referred ri at
tEe festerinE grave, md the spring Is that
season which blooms eternal when LIES MT
full fever is over. ~,
Let those who donbt this portrayal OF Ca
inTrh question the poor cOnSumpuVe, whose
sun OF life is going down at noon; or Wntch '.'a
Iv and IudiciOus treatment. A little while
nnd we miss their coming; youth and healtn
have faded from lips and cheek: the llShL
from the eye has gore out, the hands are
fOdcdIy peaccably over the still heart-they
arc gone.