The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1869-05-12
THE SYSTEM.

Catarrh consists OF Inflammation beginning
behind and little above the veil of the pal
ate, and extending upward into the nose
and air cavities of the face. It creates per.
petuaI desiIe 10 swallow, and causes ieel.
ing as II something was sticking in the up
per and back part OF the throat. AS the dis
ease becomes chronic, the matter cOncretet
into hardened Jumps, the matter Becreted
becomes puTlformI the breath Is offensive
and the voice assumes a nasal twang, while,
on rising in the morning, great effort is re-
Quired 10 ear the head and throat. There
Is often a feeling OF pressure across the lower
pert OF the forehead, causing headache, dlz-
Ziness, and confusion OF thought and loss OF
memory.
The sense OF smell becomes impaired, the
eyes are weak, and, as the Inflammation ex-
tends up the eustaceian tubes into the inter-
nal ear there Is partial deafness with throb-
biug; hummlng or ringing noises In the ear.
In sleep the Catarrhal matter Is uncon-
scioukly swallowed, which, in time, de-
ranges the stomach and impairs digestion,
causing dyspepsia and a multiplicity OF d is
taken for other diseases. To the foregoing,
add the fact that every breath OF air drawn
surface, feslering with Catarrhal matter, and
who can deny the assertion that TO neglect
Catarrh is TO intfte Consumption:
ConEum ptiOn IS the one prevailing disease,
at the present day, with which the young
and middle aged die. And yet very seldom
do the lungs receive the primary shock IT It
into Chronic Catarrh, from W hich the su ect
feels 20 alarm. until, step by step. It reaches
lie better than blind experiments. a
With every incentive TO enjoyment and
usefulness, there are hundreds all around US
dying in the morning OF lie, OF Consump-
tiOn, who can IOok back six months, year,
or longer, as the case may be, TO q Time when
1t was "b,A cdtGrTh." h Neglected at a time
when (prOperIu treated cure was possible,
silently and almost impercepubly 1t has
transformed the bright, ruddy features OF
youth into the dull wan listiessness @ ,tp,v 9t Pre-,
from the blood and fluids OF the wasted
frame, and now, when nope is dead, and the
life forces one by one are ebbtng away, the
mind turns mournfully back ward to 'what
might have been" and tremblingly 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
TRIMS in common use, will do well to re-
member that the local disease depends al
ways upon IeTnc7lLIttUe condition OF The bL00d.
Medical writer's are wont TO speak OF Ca-
tarrh as q simple local Inflammation, and
bol b its importance and rational treatment
are either wholly ignored, or receive put a
naS-ipR 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 to that
d disease in eight cases out OF ten.
The disease Is everywhere prevalenti peo-
pie resort to such means as always fail, then
Give heed TO the popular fallacy that 1t Is In
curable, and settle Into a sort of mental
apathy, encouraged by the belief that tho
family physician knows all that Ii known
on The su bject, and thus matters stand, while
the disease progresses until hope is dead, and
life becomes a mockery, when comes the
visit 10 the country, ga change OF climate. -
az sea voyage" "a return of health IN the the
spring." eic.; but, alas the country referred
to is that which lies beyond the confines OF
the fostering grave, and the spring Is that
season which blooms eternal when LIES 1T
Let those who doubt this portrayal OF Ca.
tarrh question the poor consumptiVe, whose
ann or life is going down at noon, or Watcn
lis progress upon those who neglect Its time
ly and iudicious treatment. "A little while
and we miss their coming; youth and health
rom the owe has gore out, the hands are
foidediy peacsably over the still heart-they
are gone.