The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1869-03-31
NASAL CATARRH
THE SYSTEM.

Catarrh consists sofinflammatlon of beginning
behind and q little above the veil OF the pal
ate and extending upward into the nose
and air cavities OF the face. 1t creates a per-
petual desire to swallow, and causes a feel
ing a8 II something was sticking in the up
per and back part OF the throat. AS the dis
ease becomes chronic, the matter conCretes
into hardened Jumps, the matter secreted
becomes puTlform, the breath Is offensive,
and the voice assumes nasal tWang, while,
on rising In the morning, great enort Is re-
Quired TO Gear the head and throat. There
Is often feeling OF pressure across the lower
part OF the forehead, causing headache, dIz-
illness, and confusion OF thought and loss OF
The sense of smell becomes impaired, the
ewes are weak, and, as the Inflammation ex-
tends up the eustaceian tubes into the inter-
nal ear there Is partial deafness with thrOb-
bling; humming or ringing noises IN IN Ile = ear.
BciouAly swallowed, which, In time, de-
ranges the stomach and lmpairs digestion,
causing dyspepsia and a multiplicity or dis
cOrLlant symptoms, which are often mis-
taken for other diseases. To the foregoing,
add the fact that every breath OF air drawn
into tho lungs Is drawn over the diseased
surface, fostering with Catarrhal matter, and
who can deny The assertion that 10 neglect
CatRrrh is to invite Consumption.
Consumption Is the one prevailing disease,
at the present day, with which the young
and middle-ageG die: And yet very seldom
is first "a cold in the head" which resolves
into Chronic Catarrh, from Which the Sill ect
feels no alarm, until, step by step, 1t reaches
the lungs. when nll attempts at cure are lit
lie better than blind experiments.
With every incentive to enjoyment and
usefulness, there are hundreds all around us
dying In the morning OF lie, OF Consump-
ton who can IOok back six months, a year,
IL was "E,n cdtdrrh." Neglected at a time
when (OrOperLy treated cure was possible,
silently and almost mperceptibly 1t has
transformed the bright, ruddy features OF
youth into the dull, wan llstleSsneSs OF pre-
mature age, as II has drunk up the vitality
rom the blood and fluids OF the wasted
nd hnnR dead.
life forces one by one are ebbing away, the
mind turns mOnrnfully backward 10 "whaL
might have been" and trembllngly forward
TO what soon must ne,
CONSEQUENCES OF NEGLECT.
Those who indorse the stupid assertion
that HCatarTh will get well OF ltSelt,' or Is
INNS in common use, will do well to re-
member that the local disease depends al
ways upon a. Je7e1ltnttue condition Of tlie blood.
Medical writer's are wont TO speak or Ca
tarrh as simple local Inflammation, and
both its importance and rational treatment
are either wholly ignored, or receive put
passing notice from the general practitioner;
and thus Catarrh as surely predispoSes 10
consumption as does the day preCede the
night and Is in fact the prelude TO that
disease in eight cases ont OF ten.
The disease is everywhere prevalent; neo-
ple resort to such means as always fall, then
give heed to the popular fallacy that 1t Is IN,
curabIe, and settle into a sort OF mental
apathy, encouraged by the belief that the
family physician knows all that Is known
0n the subject and thus matters stand, while
the disease progresses until hope is dead, and
life becomes a mOckery, when comes the
stere0iyped and hackneyed advice of -
visit to the country, ""a change OF climate, "
''a yea voyage" "a return of health In the
apring, 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 Mt
fuI fever Is over.
tarrh question the poor consumptlVe. whose
Snn Of life is going down at noon, or watch
its progress upon those who neglect its time
Iy and judlcious treatment A little Whie
and we lss their coming; youth and henltn
have faded from lips and cheek; the light
from the eye has gone out, the hands are
foldedly peaceably over the Still heart-they
are gone.