The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1869-02-03
Mel URE HOUSE,
ON
NASAL CATARRH
AND IT'S EFFECT UPON
THE SYSTEM

CatarrhconsIsts sOfinflammatiOn of beginning
behind and a little above the veil OF the pal
ate, and extending upward into the nose
and air cavities OF the face. 1t creates per
pcIual desire TO swallow, and causes a teel-
Ing ns II something was sticking IN the mp
per and back part of the thTOat AS the DIS
cHSo becomes chronic, the matter concretH9
into hardened humps, tho matter secrGted
becomes purlfOrTn, the breath Is offensive,
and the voice assumes nasal wang, WnlIe'
ON rising i'll the morning, great effort is re-
UuiTcd To c ear the head and throat. Inere
Is often a feeling OF pressure across the lower
part OF the forehead, causing hcadache, olH-
IineSS, and confusion of thought and loss OF
Tie sense OF smell becomes impaired, the
ewes are weak and, as the Inflammation ex-
tends up the eustaCean tubes into the inter
nal car there Is partial deafness with throb-
bling. huIumInE or ringing noises III tie ear.
III sleep the Catnrrha! matter is unc0n-
EciOusly swallowed, which, in time, de-
ranges the stonach and impnirS dlgestlon'
causing dyspepsia and multlPllclty OF ois-
cOrdHmI symptoms, which are often mis-
taken for other diseases. To the foregoing,
ndd tlIC, tact 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 1l"Ot'ct
CataTTh Is TO inCitc Consumption.
Consumption is the one prevailing disease,
at tie present day, with which the young
do the lungs receive the primary shock IL
IL FIRST ~ cold in the head" which resolves
into Chronic EltaIIh, from W hich the sll eel
feels TO alarm, until, step by step, IL reaches
the lungs, when all attempts nj cure are lit
lie better than blind experiments
usefulness, there arc hundreds ali around us
dying in the morning OF lie, OF COnhump-
ton, who can IOok back six months, year,
II was ''Gur CutIITh." Neglected at time
when (JIrOPCTiV tTCdtCttl cure was possible,
silently and almost llnpcTcepuDly IL mas
transformed the bright, ruduy features OF
youth into the dull, wan lisLlessnesS OF pre-
mature age, as II has drunk up the vitality
from the blood and fluids of the wasted
frame, and now, when hope is dead, and the
lifo forces one by ono are ebblng away, the
mind turns mOurnfuIIy backward TO what
might have been. ana tIemDIlnBIy IOIWaFd
To what soon must be.
CONSEQUENCES OF NEGLECT.
Those who indOrse the stupid assertion
that ''CaEIrTh will get well OF ITSELF, or Is
CurabIc by snutllng or inhRl!ng tue nos
trums In common use, will do we'll TO re-
member that the local disease depends al
WAYS upon JC71ICHtntiUe condition Of the blood.
Medical writer's are wont to speak of Ga
larrh rs Il simple local Inflammation, and
both its Importance and rational treatment
are either wholly ignored or receive put
Dnssing notice from the general practitioner;
md thus CNtaTTh AS surely predlSpOSeS TO
Consumption as does the day Precede the
night and Is in fact the prelude TO TINT
disease III eight cases out OF ten.
The disease is everywhere prevalent; re0-
pIp resort TO such means as always faII, then
vIV1. heed 10 the popular nIlInCy that II IL IN
Curublc, and settle into Il sort OF mental
unaihy encouraged by the belief that the
family phykicinm knows all that is known
on the subj ject, and thus mntierSStanu, WhlIe
the disease progresses until hope isuead' ana
life becomes Il mOckery, when comes the
stcre"ryped and hackneyed advice OF q
visit TO the country, "a change OF climate.
spring" ..ic; but alas the country referred
10 III that which lies beyond the confines OF
the fostering grave, and the spring Is that
season which blooms eternal when LIES ht-
Eul fever is over.
Let those who donbt this portrayal OF Ca
taTru question the poor cOnsumptlEe, whose
Hun OF lie IL going down at noon, or watch
It's progress upon those who neglect It's time
Iv and tudIciO OuS treatment. little while
and we miss their coming; youth and health
have faded from lips and cheek, the light
from the eye has gone out, the handE arc
fnliediy peaccnbly over the still heart-thcy
are gone.