The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1869-05-19
THE SYSTEM.

Catarrh consists contamination beginning
behind and little above the veil of the pal
Ie and dF into the nose
petual desire to swallow, and causes a feel
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 secreted
becomes Puriforrn, the breath ts offensive
on rising in the morning, great effort ls re.
| quired to G ear the head and throat. There
Is often feeling OF pressure across the lower
| part of the forehead, causing headache, diz-
illness. and confusion OF thought and loss OF
memory.
eyes are weak, and, as the Inflammation eX-
| tends up the custaceian tubes into the inter-
nal ear there is partial deafness with throb-
bing. humming or ringing noises in the ear.
In sleep the Catarrhal matter Is uncon-
sciously swallowed, which, in time, de-
| ranges the stomach and 1mpa1rs digestion,
causing d dyspepsia and multiplicity OF dis
| cOrtlRnt symptoms, which are often mis-
taken for other diseases: TO the foregoing,
! into the lungs is drawn over the diseased
surface. fostering with Catarrhal matter, and
| Catarrh is 10 fntiLe Consumption:
Consumption Is the one prevailing disease.
and ar dh9 9{ddeasea deas lie. And yet very seldom
| do the lungs receive the primary shock 1t
is first ga cold in the head" which resolves
feels 4 alarm, until, step by step, 1t reaches
the lungs. when all attempts at cure are lit
With every incentive to enjoyment and
usefulness, there are hundreds all around us
dying in the morning OF life. OF Conhump-
| tion, who can IOok back six months, a year.
| or longer, as the case may be, to q time when
| it was "6ltt cdtdTTh." Neglected at time
when (EroperIv treated cure was possible,
! transformed the bright, rnddy features OF
youth into the dull, wan llstlessness of pre-.
from the blood and fluids or the wasted
frame, and now, when hope Is dead, and the
Ife f9TGe one 1y one I9 are eRIg a% t@ hn
might have been," and trembllngly forward
to what soon must be,
CONSEQUENCES OF NEGLECT.
Those who indorse the stupid assertion
that "CatarTh will get well OF ITSELF" or Is
durable by snuthng or 1nhaling I1I tn the ~ nos s
member that the local disease depends al
ways upon Preventative condition Of The blood.
Medical writers are wont to speak OF Ca
tarrh as a simple local Inflammation, and
both It's importance and rational treatment
are either wholly ignored, or receive but q
passing 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
disease in eight cases out OF ten.
The disease Is everywhere prevalent; peos
pie resort to such means as always fall, then
give heed to the popular fallacy that It Is In
curable and settle into sort OF mental
apathy, encouraged by the belief that the
family I9yslSan and kh3%s th1S a While
The disease progresses until hope sdeadI and
Iife becOmes a mockery, when comes the
stereotyped and heckneEed 81 adyics M Of "a
"a sea voyage" J" "a return of health in the
spring." eGc.; but, alas the country referred
to is That which lies beyond the confines OF
season which blooms eternal when LIES ut.
full fever Is over.
Let those who d0nbt this portrayal OF "a
tarrh question the poor consumptVe, whose
ann OF life is going down at noon. or watch
its progress upon those who neglect its time
ly and iudicIous treatment. A little while
and we miss their coming; youth and health
have faded from lips and cheek. the light
from the eye has gore out, the hands are
foldedly peaceably over tho still heart-tney
are gone.