The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1869-05-17
TIF SYSTEM.

CatGrrh consists CONTAMINATION beginning
ate, and extending upward into the nose
and air cavities OF the face. 1t creates per-
petual desire to swallow, and causes 1eel-
ing as II something was sticking in the up
per and back part of the throat. AS the dis
case becomes chronic, the matter cOncretes
into hardened Jumps, the matter 5ecreted
becomes purlform, the breath Is offensive.
AMI the voice assumes nasal tWang, while,
on rising In the morning, great ef1ort ls re-
quired 10 ear the head and throat. There
Is often a feeling OF pressure across the lower
part OF the forehead, causing headache, d1z-
ziness, and confusion of thought and loss OF
The sense OF smell becomes impaired, the
cy es are weak, and, as the Inflammation ex-
tends up the euStaceian tubes into the inter-
nal ear there Is partial deafness with throb-
bing huInmIng or ringing noises In the ear.
In sleep the Catarrhal matter Is uncon-
scioukly swallowed, which, in time, de-
ranges the stOmach and 1mpa1rs digestion,
causing spepsia and multiplicity OF dis
cOrdanI symptoms, which are often mis-
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 10 neglect
Catarrh Is TO tnTite Consumption.
Consumption IS the one PREVAILING @ disease.
and mfddle-ageu die. And yet very seldom
do the lungs receive the primary shock It
Is first "a cold in the head" which resolves
into Chronic Catarrh, from W hich the su ect
feels L O alarm, until, step by step, 1t reaches
the lungs. when all attempts at cure are III
With every incentive to enjoyment ana
usefulness, there are hundreds all around us
diving IN the morning OF lie, OF Conhump-
ton, who can Iook back six months, a year,
or longer, as the case may be, TO q time Wnen
1t was ''Gut cdtdTTh." \ Neglected at time
when (pTOIIeTLy tTeGted) cure was possible,
silently and almost imperceptbly 1t has
transformed the bright, rnddy features or
youth into the dull, wan Istlessness OF pre-
mature age, as IL has drunk up the vitality
from tho blood and fluids OF the wasted
frame, and now, when nope ts dead, and the
mind turns mo1rnfully backward to 'what
might have BEEN" and tremblingly forward
to what soon must be,
CONSEQUENCES OF NEGLECT.
Thope who indorse the stupid assertion
that ''CatArIh will get well OF 1tSelI' or ls
durable by snuftlng or lnhal'ng the nos
member that the local disease depends al
ways upon Preventative condition Of the blood
Medical writer's are wont to speak OF Ca,
tarrh az a simple local inflammation, and
bOlh it's importance and rational treatment
are either wholly ignored, or receive put {:
and thus Cntarrh as surely predisposeS 10
Consum ption 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 fail, then
give heed TO the popular fallacy that II is IN
curabIe and settle into sort OF mental
apathy, encouraged by the belief that the
family physician Knows an tnat is 81 Kn1Wn TIa
the disease progresses until hope lsdeau, ana
iiEo hecOmes a mockery, when comes the
stereoiyPed and heckneyed adyics 1 Of "a
s.a sea voyage" "a return OF health In the
snrinr,'; efc.: but, alas the country referred
to ia hat which lies beyond the confines OF
the fostering grave, and the spring Is t1at a.
season which blooms eternal when LIES ht-
full fever Is over.
Let those who donbt this portrayal of Ca
tarrh question the poor consumpt1Ve, whose
san OF lie is going down at noon, or watch
its progress upon those who neglect us time
ly and judiciOu treatment. A little Whlie
and We miss their coming; youth and healtn
have faded from lips and cheek: the light
from the eye has gore out, the hands are
foldedIy peaceably over the still hear-they
are gone.