The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1869-03-29
THE SYSTEM.

Catarrh consists tEofinflammRtIon 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. It creates per-
petual desire to swallow, and causes ieel-
ing as II something was sticking in the up
per and back part OF The throat. AS the dis
enSe becomes chronic, the matter cOncretes
into hardened Jumps, the matter Eecreted
becomes puTlfOrm, the breath is offensive,
and the voice assumes nasal twang, while,
on rising in the morning, great effort ls re-
quired 10 C ear the head and throat. There
is often Il feeling OF pressure across the lower
part OF the forehead, causing headache, dlZ-
illness, 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 eustacean tubes into the inter
nal ear there is partial deafness with throO-
bing humming or InGing ger nIises in in te 9ca ear
sCiouAly swallowed, which, in time, de-
ranges the stomach and impatrs digestion.
causing dyspepsia and a multiplicity OF dis
cOrdanL sym ptOms which are often mis-
taken for other diseases. To the foregoing,
add the TACT that every breath OF air drawn
surface, fostering with Catarrhal matter, and
who can deny the assertion that TO neglect
Catarrl Is to inrite Consumption;
Consumption is the one prevailing disease
at the present day, with which the young
and miudle-Rgcu die. And yet very seldom
do the lungs receive the primary shock 1t
~ first ta Cold in the head" which resolves
into Chronic Catarrh, from W hich the su lect
feels no alarm, until, step by step, it reaches
tie better than blind experiments.
with every incentive to enjoyment anu
usefulness, there are hundreds all around us
diving In the morning OF lie, OF Conhump-
ton, who can look back six months, a year,
or longer, as the case may be, to a time when
II was "Gut CdtUTrh." Neglected at time
when (1,rODeriU treutetD a cure was possible,
silently and almost lmperceptlbly II has
transformed the bright, ruduy features OF
mature age, as II has drunk up the vitality
from the blood and fluids OF the wasted
frame, and now, when hope IS dead, anu ~ me
life forces ono by one are ebbing away, the
mind turns mOurnfully backward to ''what
might have been." ana tremblingly forward
to what soon must he,
CONSEQUENCES OF NEGLECT.
Those who indorSe the stupid assertion
that .'CatArrh will get we'll OF ITSELF or Is
curablc by snutDng or inhalng the nos
truTns In common use, viii DO vel 10 re-
ways upon a JCTIne1ltdtiUe condition OF NE Ot0O
Medical writers are wont to speak OF Ca
tarrh as SlIpie 5oGal nI5d rai,onaI tTeatment
are either wholly ignored, or receive but
passing notice from the general practitioner;
and thus Catarrh as surely predlsposes 10
COnsum ption as does the day precede the
night, and is in fact the prelude 10 that
d iseaSe in eight cases out OF ten.
The disease Is everywhere prevalent; peo-
pie resort to such means as always 1nll, tnen
gIve heed TO the popular fallacy that 1t is IN
Curable. and settle into a sort OF mental
npatllY, encouraged by the belief that the
family physician knows all that IL KnOWn
on the subject, and tnuS SmatteISstanu' WHue
the disease progresses until hope lSdead, ana
life becomes a 1nOckery, when comes tne
stereOfyped and hackneyed advice OF "a
VISIT TO the country" change OF CLIMATE; ma e.
Enring," ETC; but, alas the country referred
to is That which lies beyond the confines OF
the fostering grave, and the spring IS tnat
season which Blooms eternal when LIES 1T
Let those who donbt this portrayal of Ca
torrh question the poor consumptive, whose
sun of life is going down at noon, or watch
lis progress upon those who neglect It's time
iy and judlcious treatment. A 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 poRceably over the s'll heart-they
are gone.