The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1869-04-21
.THE SYSTENG-

Catarrh consists contamination OF beginning
behind and little above the veil OF the pal
ate, and extending upward into the nose
petual desire 10 swallow, and. causes Ieel-
ing as II something was sticking in the up
per and back part OF the throat. AS the d is
into hardened Jumps, the matter secreted
becomes purlform, the breath is offensive,
and the voice assumes 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
part OF the forehead, causing headache, dIZ-
illness, and confusion OF thought and loss OF
memory.
The sense OF smell becomes impaired, the
eyes are weak, and, as tho 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-
causing dyspepsia and q multiplicity OF dis
cOrdant sym ptoms, 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 tnCite Consumption:
Consumption Is the one prevailing disease,
at the present day, with which the young
and middie:agen die: =, ana YET very seldom
Is first "a cold in the head" which resolves
into Chronic Catarrh, from W hich the su ect
the lungs, when all attempts at cure are lit
lie better than blind experiments.
With every incentive to enjoyment and
usefulness, there are hundreds all around us
dying in the morning OF lie, OF ConAump-
ton, who can Iook back six months, a year,
or longer, as the case ! may be, TO q time when l
when (prOI1eTly treated a cure was possible,
silently and almost imperceptibly 1t has
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
frame, and now, when hope Is dead, and the
life forces one by oEe are ebb1ng away tho
mind turns mournfuLy back ward 70 'Wnot
might have been,' ana trcmbl1ngly forward
to what soon must be.
CONSEQUENCES OF NEGLECT.
Those who indorse the stupid assertion
curable by snufflng or inhaling the nos
trums in common uSe, will do well TO re-
member that the tocGl disease ] dePenddss dsaI; al
Medical writers are wont to speak OF Ca,
tarrh as a simple local Inflammation, and
bo h its importance and rational treatment
are either wholly ignored, or receive but a
passing notice from the general practitioner;
and thus Catarrh ms surely predisposes 70
night, and Is in fact the prelude to that
disease in eight cases out of ten.
The disease is everywhere prevalent; peO-
nile resort TO such means as always fail, then
1iSe heed to the popular Eallacy that IL Is in
curable and settle into a sort OF mental
apathy, encouraged by tho belief that the
family physician knows all that Is known
on the subject, and thus matters stand, while
the disease progresses until hope Is dead, and
stereotyped and hackneyed advice of "a
visit 10 the country" ""a change of climate"
so yea VOYAGE" "a return OF health in the
snrinq,'' etc; but, alas the country referred
to is that which lies beyond the confines OF
the fostering grave, and the spring Is that
season which DlOOInb eteEuaI "nen Alo b AC'
Let those who donbt this portrayal of Ca
tarrh question the poor cOnsnmptiVe, whose
10 90 noon.
lis progress upon those who neglect Its time
ly and judicious treatment. A little while
nave faded from lips and cheek. the light
from the eye has gore out, the hands are
foldedly peaceably over the still heart-they
are gone.