The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1869-05-03
NASAL CATARRH
THE SYSTEM.

Catarrh consists sofinflammation of beginning
behind and little above the veil OF the pal:
am apd Upward into the
petual desire to swallow, and causes 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 concretee
into hardened Jumps, the matter Secreted
becomes puriform, the breath Is offensive
and the voice assumes nasal 1wang, while,
on rising in the morning, great effort is re-
quired to G ear the head and throat. There
part Of the forehead, causing Headache, lead sd diz- e
ziness. and confusion OF thought and loss OF
| memory.
The sense OF smell becomes impaired, the
eyes are weak, and, as the Inflammation ex-
tends up the eustaceian 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 -t0mach and impairs digestion,
causing dyspepsia and a multiplicity OF dis
cOrdant symphonic, 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
surfacs. fostering with Catarrhal matter, and
Catarrh is TO i,sUite Consum ption:
Consumption IS the one prevailing disease,
at the present day, with which the young
Is first "a cold in the head" which resolves
feels o alarm, until, step by step, it reaches
the lungs, when all attempts at cure are lit
tie better than blind experiments.
With every incentive to enjoyment and
usefulness, there are hundreds all around us
dying in the morDing of lie. of ConAump-
ton, who can look back six months a year,
or longer, as the case may be, to q time when
1t was "6ut cGtdTTh." n neglected at a time
when C10roperLy treated a cure was possible,
silently and almost 1mpercepubly 1t has
transformed the bright, ruddy features OF
youth into the dull, wan nstlessness 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 one are ebblng away, the
might have been" and tremblingly forward
to what soon must be,
CONSEQUENCES OF NEGLECT.
Those who indorse the stupid assertion
that ''Catarrh will get well OF ITSELF" or is
curable by snuffing or inhalng the nos
trums in common use. viii do well TO re-
ways upon Preventative condition Of the blood
Medical writers are wont TO speak OF Ca
both It's importance and rational treatment
are either wholly Ignored or receive but
ptss, tEI,u eteIrb ss snTeIv nreisposes
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; peo-
pIe resort to such means as always La1l, then
Five heed to the popular fallacy that it is in
cnrable and settle into a sort of mental
apathy, encouraged by the beltef that the
family physician knows all that Is known
On the subject, and thus matters stand, while
the disease progresses until hope isdead, and
iife hecomes a mockery, when comes the
stereotyped and h9ckneyed advice OF "a q
visit to the country" ia change OF CLIMATE, rs e.
snring Z" 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 Blooms eternal when LIES 1T
full fever Is over.
Let those who donbt this portrayal of Ca.
tarrh question the poor consumpt1ve, whose
sun of life is going down at noon, or watch
It's progress upon those who ueglect It's time
ly and iudicious treatment. 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 the still heart-they
arc gone.