The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1869-01-20
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DR.. LIGHTHILL
VIII Return to the
McLURE HOUSE,
On Monday Noon, January IS,
REMAINING UNTIL
Wednesday Evening, January goth.
NASAL CATARRH
AND ITS EFFECT UPON
THEI SYSTEM
THE STEM

CAtarTh' consists OF Inflammation beginning
behind and a little above the veil OF the par
ale anu eXtenunS S,I uP%"i" nreatas per
peIual GesiIe TO swallow, and causes a leeI-
ing H. II something was sticking In the mp
per and back part of the throat. AS the dlS-
ease becomes chronic, the matter concreteS
into hardened Jumps, the matter Secreteu
becomes puTifOrn, bhe breath is onenSlVe'
and the voice assumes a nasal tWang, while,
on rising in the morning, great elIOrt is re-
Uuired 10 c ear the head and throat. There
Is often feeling OF pressure across tho lower
pa rt OF the forehead, causing headache, diz-
Zinesa, and confusion of thought ana loss Ol
memory.
The sense OF smell becomes impaired, the
eyes are weak, and, as the Inflammation tX-
tends up the eustaceian tubes into the inter
nal ear there is partial deafness with throb-
bling humming or ringing noises i'll the ear.
In sleep the Catarrhal matter Is uncOn-
SciouSIy swallowed, which. in time. de-
causing dyspepsia and a multiplicity OF dis
COrlant sym PLOms, which are often mis-
taken for other diseases. 70 the i0regoims,
into the lungs is drawn over the diseased
surface, fostering with Catarrhal matter, ana
who can deny The assertion that 10 1cytcCL
C.,tarrh is TO ilVite Consumption:
Consumption is the one prevailing disease,
nt the present day. with which M @ the yyfHn1; yfGH4nS
do the lungs receive the primary shock 1t
is first ''a cold in the head" which resolves
feels no alarm, until, step by step, 1t reaches
the lungs, when all attempts at cure are lit
tie better than blind experiments.
With every incentive TO enjoyment ana
usefulness, there are hundneds all around us
dying in the morning OF life. OF Consump-
ion who can IOOk back six months, Il year,
or longer, AS the case may bc, to a time " hen
IL was "LUi CdtIITh.' Neglected at time
when (J,ropc7lu trsTtc'O a cure was possible
silently and almost lmperceplDly IL mas
transformed the bright, ruddy features OF
youth into the dull, wan ltStlesSneSs or pre-
mature age. AS II has drunk up ne vltailCy
frame, and now, when hope is dead, anu Tue
life forces one by one are ebblng away, the
mind turns nOurnfully back kWard TO "Wha
might have been" ana tIemblingly forward
10 what soon must be.
CONSEOUENCES OF NEGLECT.
Those who indOfse the stupid assertion
TINT .'Catarrh Will get well OF ITSELF or iS
durable by Hnu1llnG or inhaIIng Lhe nos
truEuS In common use, VIII do Well 10 re-
InplubeT that the EOruL disease depends al
ways upon JClnICHtutiUC C6hdttL0n " INC CtOCo'
Medical writers are wont To speak OF Ca
turrh as 81 simple local inflammation, anu
both its Importance and rational treatment
arc either wholly ignored, or receive out II
passing notice from the general practitioner;
| and thus CatarTh as surely pTculSpOSe6 10
| CONSUMPTION as does the day preceue Lhe
| night, and Is in fact the prelude 10 that
| IiseuEc in eight cases ont OF ten.
| TiIc disease is everywhere prevalent; pco-
pie resort TO such means aS always fall, then
| give heed In the popular falIacy that IL Is m
curablc, and settle into sort OF nnen!al
apathy encouraged by the belief that the
| tImily physician knows all that is known
on the subJect. anu thllS lTtielA HttIlu' "
the disease progresses until hope Is dead ana
| life becomes Il mOckery, when comes tne
stereOIyped and hFckneyed advice of "a
visit TO the country" Yea change OF climate,
| "a sea VOYAGE ~ return OF health in the
spring eic; but, alas the country referred
| to is that which lies beyond the confines OF
| the fostering grave, and 1he spring II tllat
season which blooms eternal when Ines MT
| iuI fever Is over.
| let those who doubt this portrayal of Ca
| tarrli question the poor COnsumpItNe, whose
| sun OF lie is going down AT noon, or watch
| It's progress upon those who neglect its time
| Iy and judici OuE treatment. A little ~hiie
| aud we miss their coming; youth anu healtll
have faded from lips and cheek; the light
from the eye has gOIe out, the hands are
| fOldedIy peaceRbly over the Sill heart-Ihey
are gone.