The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1869-04-02
:THE SYSTEM.

Catarrh consists CONTAMINATION beginning
behind and n little above the veil OF the pal
and air cavities OF the face. 1t creates a per-
petual desire TO swallow, and causes a feel
ing al II something was sticking IN the up
per and back part OF the throat. As the dis
ease becomes chronic. the matter concretea
into hardened Jumps, the matter Secreted
becomes puriform, tho breath Is offensive,
and the voice assumes Il nasal twang, while,
on rising in the morning, great effort Is re-
quired 10 GEAR the head and throat. There
Is often feeling OF pressure across the lower we
illness, and confusion of thought and loss OF
memory.
Tho 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-
bling. huInming or ringing noises in the ear.
In sleep the Catarrhal matter Is uncOn-
ScIously swallowed, which, in time, de-
ranges the stOmach and 1Inpairx dlgestlon,
CnuSing Il spcpsIa and n 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 10 neglect
Catarrh Is to invite Consumption:
Consumption Is the one prevailing disease,
Mt the present day, with which the young
and middle-ageu die. And yet very seldom
is first ''t cold in tho head" which resolves
into Chronic Catarrh, from which the suicct
feels no alarm, until, step by step, it reaches
tie better than blind experiments.
with every incentive TO enjoyment and
usefulness, there are hundreds all around us
dying in the morning OF life. OF ConAump-
lion who can IOOk back six months, u year,
or longer, rs the case may be, TO a time when
1t was ''GUt c0tGTTh." n Neglected at time
when (1rOperIy treated cure was possible,
silently and almost impercept1bly IL has
transformed the bright. Tnddy features OF
youth into the dull, wan listleSsneSs OF pre-.
mature age, as II has drunk up the Vitality
from the blood and fluids OF the wasted
life forces one by ono are ebbing away, the
mind turns mOurnfully back kward to what
might have been." ana trenblingly forward
TO what soon must be.
Those who indOrse the stupid assertion
that ''Catarrh will get well OF ITSELF, or Is
curabIc by snutling or 1nhallng the nos
truns in common use, Will 40 wei 10 re-
vnys upOn II JC1nleIItdtUe condition Of the blood.
Medical writers are wont to speak OF Ca
tarrh MS a simple local Inflammation, and
both It's importance and rational treatment
are either wholly ignored, or receive put a
passing notice from the general practitioner;
Consump ption as does the day Precede the
night and Is in fact the prelude TO that
disease in eight cases out OF ten.
The disease is everywhere prevalent; peo-
pie resort to such means as always 1a!l, then
Five heed to the popular fallacy that 1t Is IN,
curabIe and settle into sort OF mental
SnafhV. 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 isdead, and
life becomes a mockery, when comes the
stereOIyped and hackneyed advice OF "a
visit to the coumtry,""a change OF climate; I9 tn
snrinQ." {" eic.; but, alas the country referred
10 is hat which lies beyond the confines OF
the fostering grave, and the spring Is thnt
season which blooms eternal When lies NJ
i''i .et I those Who donbt this portrayal of Ca.
tnrrh question the poor consumptiVe, whose
1I,,1 ~ life iH going down at noon, or watch
its progress upon those who neglect Its time
iv and iudicious treatment. A little while
and we miss their coming; youth and health
rom the eye has gone out, the hands are
foldedly peaceably over the still heart-they
are gone.