The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1869-04-14
NASAL CATARRH
THE SYSTEM.

Catarrh consists contamination OF beginning
behind and little above the veil OF the pal
ate, and extending upward into the nose
petual desire to swallow, and causes a ieel-
Ing as 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 purlform, the breath is offensive,
and the voice assumes nasal twang, while,
on rising in the morning, great effort Is re-
qulred 10 G ear the head and throat. There
pa2t or the Sore6ead eaus1g @ Gis
Einess 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 eustaceIan tubes into the inter-
nal ear there is partial deafness with throb-
In sleep the Catarrhal matter Is uncon-
sCiouSly swallowed, which, in time, de-
causing dyspepsia and q multiplicity OF dis
cOrClant symptoms, which are often mis-
add the fact that every breath or air drawn
Into the lungs Is drawn over the diseased
surface, fostering with Catarrhal matter, and
Catarrh is to inTite Consumption:
Consumption Is the one prevailing disease,
at the dny with TH.f9 9ae the sSIng
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 nt cure are IT.
LIE Oett6r InaQ Dllnu Experiments
With every incentive to enjoyment and
usefulness, there are hundreds all around us
dying in the morning OF life, OF Conhump-
tion, who can look back six months, a year,
or longer, as the case may be, to a tIme when
II was "Gut cdtdrTh." Neglected at a time
when (1)rOpeTIy treated a cure was possible,
silently and almost Imperceptibly 1t has
transformed the bright, rnddy features OF
youth into the dull, wan hstleSsness 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
mimi turns mo1rnfnIIy backward to 'iwhat
might have been." ana tremblingly forward
to what soon must be.
CONSEQUENCES OF NEGLECT.
Those who indorse the stupid assertion
that "CatarTh will get well OF ITSELF" or Is
trmms tin in ~ common use, viii do well to re-
member that the local disease depends al
ways upon aJeInIe1tuttUe co1ldtttOn OF NE 0to0d
Medical writers are wont to speak OF Ca
tArrh aS a simple local inflammation, and
both its importance and rational treatment
passing notice from the general practitioner;
and thus Catarrh as surely pred1spoSeS 10
Consumption as s does 10 the the day yp pTeceede tn, the
disease in eight cases out OF ten.
The disease Is everywhere prevalent; peo-
give heed to the popular fallacy that 1t is in.
Curable, and settle into sort or mental
apathy encouraged by the 9eief ftn IL InaI eo Inc
on the subject, and thus matters stand, Wnlle
the disease progresses until hope Is dead, ana
stereoiyped and hackneyed advice OF "a
visit TO the country.""a change Of climate"
spring," 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 ht-
Let those who doubt this portrayal OF Ca.
tarrh question the poor consumpt1Ve, WhoSe
sun of life Is going down at noon, or watch
its progress upon those who neglect Its time
" 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 gore out, the hands are
foldedly penceably over the still heart-they
are