The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1869-02-17
NASAL CATARRH
AND ITS EFFECT UPON
THE SYSTEM

Catarrh'conAIsts tsofInflammaton OF beginning
behind and a little above the veil OF the pal
Ato, and extending upward into the nose
and air cavities of the face. It creates per
petual desire TO swallow, and causes a 1eel-
ing as II something was sticking in the up
per and back part OF the throat. AS the dis
ease becomes chronic, the matter concreteS
into hardened Jumps, the matter Secreted
becomes puTtfOrm, the breath Is offensive,
and the voice assumes nasal wang, while.
QuIred 10 c ear the head and throat. There
Is often feeling OF pressure across the lower
part OF the forehead, causing headache' diZ-
xlness, and confusion OF thought and loss OF
memory. ,,, .,
ewes are weak, and, AS the Inflammation ex-
tends d D the euStaceian tubes Into the tnteI-
nal ear there is partial deafness with throb-
bing. humming or ringing noises In the ear.
In sleep the Catarrhal matter Is uncon-
scioukly swallowed, which, in time, de-
ranges the stomach and lmpatrs digestion,
causing dyspepsia and a multiplicity OF dis
cOrdRnt symptoms, which are often mis-
add the fact that every breath OF air drawn
into the lungs is drawn over the diseased
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,
and an in middle. aged die. And yet very seldom
do the lungs receive the primary shock IL
is first "a cold in tho head" which resolves
into Chronic Catarrh, from W hich the su.ect
feels alarm, until, step by step, 1t reaches
the lungs. when all attempts at euro are lit
With every incentive TO enjoyment and
usefulness, there are hundreds all around us
lion who can look back six months, a year,
or longer, as the case may be, to q time When
IL was "btLt cutdrrh." Neglected at time
when CDTOpeTLy tredtedDIa cure was possible,
silently and almost iinperceptbly 1t has
transformed the bright, rnddy features OF
youth into the dull, wan listlessness of pre-
mature age, as IL has drunk up the vitality
from the blood and fluids OF the Wasled
frame, and now, when hope Is dead, ana tne
FoSo lNTyN Nn ahhinV
mind turns mourn1ulIy backward to ''Wh nat
might have been." ana trenblingly forward
to what soon must be.
CONSEQUENCES OF NEGLECT.
Those who indorse the stupid assertion
that .'Catarrh will get we'll of itself,' or Is
curable by snutling or inhRl,ng the nCS-
mem6er that the local disease depends al
WayR upon p GeTnle1ltGttCe condition y the otood.
Medical writer's are wont 10 SPetaiR Oh a1G nd
GOih its importance and rational treatment
are either wholly ignored, or receive bnt
passing notice from the general pracutioner;
and thus CatarTh as surely predispoSeS 10
Consumption as does the day precede the
night, and is in fact the PIeluoe 10 'h"'
disease in eight cases out OF len.
The disease Is everywhere preValent; peo-
pie resort to such means as always 1ai!' thch
live heed to the popular lallacy that 1t Is IN
cnrabIe, and settle into sort OF mental
apathy encouraged by the belie1 tnat Lhe
family physician kp0wS R9S All eaI sand While
the disease progresses until hope lsdeau' anu
lie becomes a mockery, when comes the ne
stereotyped and hackneyed aaVlc9 ~ ct,,1oa,o o1 =
a. sea voyage, ;" "a return OF health in the
sprinR," eIc.; but, alas the country referred
the fostering grave, and the spring Is that
seSson which blooms eternal when lies nj
ct those who donbt this portrayal OF ca
tarrh question the poor consumptiVe, whose
sun OF life is going down at noon. OF Whtcn
Itg progress upon those who neglect It's time
Iy and judicious treatment. a little while
and we miss their coming; youth and healtn
have faded from lips and cheek: the light
from the eye has gore out, the hands arc
foIdedly peaceably over the still heart-they
are gone.