The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1869-03-19
NASAL CATARRH
AND ITs EFFECT UPON
THE SYSTEM

Characteristics sofiniammation OF beginning
behind and a little above the veil OF the pal
and air cavities OF the face. 1t creates per-
petuRl desire TO swallow, and causes 1eel-
ing as II something was sticking IN the up
neP and back part OF the throat. AS the dis
ease becomes chronic, the matter concreteS
into hardened Jumps, the matter secreted
becomes pur1fOrm, the breath Is offensive,
and the voice assumes a nasal tWang, while,
on rising in the morning, great effort Is re-
duired 10 clear the head and throat. There
is often a feeling OF pressure across the lower
mari of the forehead, causing headache. diZ-
Einets, and confusion Of thought and loss OF
memory. ,,, A.,
ewes are weak, and, as the Inflammation eX-
tends up the eustacelan tubes into tne inter
nal ear there is partial deafness with thrOD-
6inR humming or ringing noises in the ear.
In sleep. the Catarrhal matter is uncon-
sciously swallowed, which. in time, de-
ranges the stomach and impairs digestion,
causing d dyspepsia and a multiplicity or dis
cortianI symptoms. which "a are often n,di1I;s mis-
add the fact that every breath o! air drawn
Into the lungs Is drawn over the diseased
who can deny the assertion that to neglect
Catarrh Is TO inUite Consumption:
Consumption Is the one prevailing ,Y disease, e
and middle aged die. And yet very seldom
do the lungs receive the primary shock IT
is first "a cold in the head" which resolves
into Chronic Catarrh, from W hich the sulcct
feels no alarm, until, step by step, 1t reaches
the lungs, when all attempts AZ cure arc Ill
With every Incentive TO enjoyment anu
usefulness, there are hundreds all around us
diving in the morning OF life, OF ConAump-
lion. who can look back six months, a year,
or longer, as the case may be, to a time when
II was slut Cutd1rh." Neglected at a time
when (lrOpeTly tTeGted) cure was possible,
silently and almost lmpercepl1ly 1t has
transformed the bright, r1ddy features OF
youth into the du h wan InE 6S tSe vitapifv m
from the blood and fluids OF the wasted
frame and now, when hope Is dead, anu me
life forces one by one arc ebbing away the
mind turns mournfully backward to ''what
might have BEEN" anu remDliuBly forward
to what soon must De'
CONSEQUENCES OF NEGLECT.
Those who indorso the stupid assertion
that .ICatarrh will get well of ITSELF or Is
curable by snutilng or inhalIng the nos
nen1her that the local disease depends al
JYaVs upon IeTneIItGtiUe condition Of NE 6EO0t
Medical writer's are wont TO speak or "a,
turrh ag a simple local Inflammation, and
hOth its Importance and rational treatment
are either wholly ignored, or receive but a
naSsinR notice from the general practitioner;
and thus Catarrh as surely predispOses To
Consumption as does the day precede the
night, and is in fact the prelude 10 That
disease in eight cases out OF ten.
The disease Is everywhere prevalent; peO-
ple resort to such means as always fail, then
live heed to the popular fallacy that 1t IL In.
ssnrabie. and settle into sort of mental
apathy, encouraged by the belief that me
family physician knows All tnhG Ii ~ hnTTLa IniHTI
the disease progresses until hope isdead, anu
lie becomes a mockery, when comes the
stereotyPed and hsckneyed h adTlce ~ c,Ha,e 0a =
"a XS1e sea a. voyage" "a return OF health iii the
spring ETC; but, alas tho country referred
the festerinE grave, and the spring is that
season which blooms eternal when LIES Mt
'''i Let those who doubt this portrayal of Ca
tarrh question the poor cOnsumptive, whose
sun OF life Is going down at noon, or watch
itE progress upon those who neglect its time
Iy and iudicIOus treatment. A little while
and we miss their coming; youth and health
have faded from lips and cheek. the light
rom the eve has gone out the hands are
foIdedly peaceabIy over the still heart-they
are gone.