The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1869-01-06
NASAL CATARRH
THE SYSTEM

CHIGTThcOnSlstS tSOfinilammaIIOn OF beginning
behind ard Il little above the veil Of the pail
alI, ana extending upward into the nose
and mir cavities of the face. 1t creates per-
petTal 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 cOncTeteE
into hardened Jumps, the matter Recreted
becomes purlfOrID, the breath is offensive,
and the voice assumes n nasal tWRng, while,
on rising in the morning, great effort Is re-
quiIcd 10 e ear the head and thrOnt. There
Is often 81 feeling of pressure across the lower
PHTt OF the forehead, causing headache, dlZ-
illness, and confusion of thought and loss OF
memory.
Tho sense or smell becomes impaired the
eyes are weak, and, MS the inflammation eX-
tends up the euStaCeinn tubes into the inter
nal ear there Is partial deafness with thrOb-
bling. hulnmlng or ringing noises i'll the ear.
In sleep The Catarrhal matter Is uncOn-
sciousIy swallowed, which, in time, de-
ranges the ,tOinach and impairS digestion,
causing dyspepsia and Il multiplicity OF d is
cOrdanJ symptoms, which are often mis-
taken for other diseases. To the foregoing,
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 to neglect
CutarTh is 10 inUite Consumption:
Consumption is the one prevailing disease,
at the present day, with which the young
do the lungs receive the primary shock 1t
is tirst "a'cOld in the head,' which resolves
into Chronic Cntarrh, from W hich the sU cct
feels 10 alarm, until, step by step, 1t reaches
the lungs, when all attempts aL cure are lit
tie better than blind experiments.
With every Incentive to enjoyment and
usefulness, there are hundreds ali around US
dying IN the moro ing OF lie, OF I:Onsump-
ton, who can IOOk back six months, n year,
II was 'GUi Cut0TTh." n eg!eCted at a time
when (JrOpeTLV tTeTte0) a cure was possible,
silently and almost lnperceptibly II has
transformed the bright. rnddy features OF
youth into the dull, wan lisLleSSness OF pre-
mat ure age, AS II has drunk up the vitality
from the blood and fluids OF the wasted
W. hone
life fOiccS one by OUe are ehbing away, the
mind turns nOMrnfuIIy backwar to 'whaI
might have BEEN. ana trenDIuSly foIWilru
10 what soon must he,
CONREQUENCES OF NEGLECT.
Those who indOrse the stupid assertion
that '.Caturrh Will get we'll of ITSELF or is
curAhle by snu1llnX or inhalng the nos
trIlIns in common use, Will do well 10 re-
member that the local disease depends al
WAYS uuDu J,,1n ItUtiTe COHdIiiOIi Oj the biOOi.
Medical writers are wont To speak OF "a.
tarrn iIS IL simple local Inflammation, and
TO h its Importance and rational treatment
are either wholly ignored, or receive DuJ n
puS- ing nOLICe from the general practitioner;
and thus C'atarTh as surely pTedlspOSeS to
I'Onsumrtilm as does the day prece'ic the
night, and Is in fact tn" prelude 10 lhat
d diSeAEe IN eight cases out OF ten.
The disease Is everywhere prevalent; peo-
pie resort to such means as always fall then
give heed to the popular fallaCy that II II in
Curablp, and settle into a sort OF mental
apathy, encouraged by the belief that the
family physician knows all that il known
ON the subject, and thus mat crs Stand while
the disease progresses until hope Is dead, ana
life becomes a mOckery. when comes the
StereOtyped and hRckneycd advice of "a
visit To the country, ,'"R change of climate"
"a sea voyage" ia return OF health in the
SpYi1E' etc; but, alas the country referred
To Is iiiat which lies beyond the confines OF
the fostering grave, and the spring is that
season which blooms eternal when life's Mt
Iul fever is over.
Let those who donbt this portrayal of Ca
taIrh question the poor cOnsumptlNe, whose
sun OF life is going down at noon, or WatCH
Its progress upon those who neglect its time
~ and judici0uS treatment. little while
ard we miss their coming; youth nnd henItl
have faded from lips and cheek. the light
from the eye has gore out, the hands are
fnldedIy poHCeably over the still heart-theS
nrr gone.