The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1869-04-05
NASAL CATARRH
THE SYSTEM.
AND ITS EFFECT:UPoN

Catarrh consists CONTAMINATION 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
potual desire to swallow, and causes a ieeI-
ing as II something was sticking in the up
per and back part OF the throat. AS the dis
case becomes chronic, the matter cOncretea
into hardened Jumps, the matter Recreted
becomes puriform, 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-
ziness and confusion OF thought and loss OF
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-
In sleep the Catarrhal matter is uncon.
BciouBly swallowed, which, In time, de-
ranges the stomach and impairs digestion.
causing dyspepsia and multiplicity OF dis
corlant symptoms, 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 TO neglect
CatarTh is TO inCite Consumption:
Consumption is the one prevailing disease,
at the present day, with which the young
do the lungs receive the primary shock It
is first 'R cold in the head" which resolves
into Chronic Catarrh, from " hich the su ect
the lungs. when all attempts at cure are lit
lie better than blind experiments.
With every incentive to enjoyment and
usefuInesss, there are hundreds ali around us
dying in the morning of lie, OF Consump-
tion, who can look back six months, a year,
It was "6ttt cdtdrTh." Neglected at a time
when CpTopeTly treated a cure was possible,
Transformed the bright, rnddy features OF
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 one are ebblng away, the
mind turns pnournfulIy backward to 'what
might have been," and trembliugly forward
to what soon must be,
CONSEQUENCES OF NEGLECT.
Those who 1ndOrse the stupid assertion
that :'Catarrh will get well OF ITSELF or Is
trums in common use, will do well to re-
member that the local disease depends al
ways upon Preventative condition Of the blood.
Medical writer's are wont to speak OF Ca
tarrh as a simple local Inflammation, and
both its importance and rational treatment
are either wholly ignored, or receive put a
passing notice from the general practitioner;
and thus Catarrh as surely predispoSes TO
Sieht. and is In fact the prelude to that
disease IN eight cases out OF ten.
The disease Is everywhere prevalent; peo-
ple resort to such means as always fa1l, then
give heed to the popular fallacy that 1t is in
Curable, and settle into sort or mental
apathy, encouraged 6y the 1eiieI =, snaI 1 1I Tue
on the subject, and thus matters stand. while
the disease progresses until nope Is sdead, ana
lie becomes a mockery, when comes the
stereoiyPed and heckneyed advice OF "a 9,
Ha sea voyage" "a return OF health in the
Epring," etc; but, alas the country referred
ID is that which lies beyond the confines of
season which blooms eternal when LIES tit-
fuI fever is over.
Let those who doubt this portrayal OF ca
sun OF life iB going down at noon. or watch
It's progress upon those who neglect It's time
iv 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 gone out, tne hanus ,t. nre
are gone.