The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1869-04-30
NASAL CATARRH
THE SYSTEM.
AND ITs EFFECT:UPoN

CRtRrrh consists tsofinflammntlon 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. 1t creates per
petual desire TO swallow, and causes q feel
ing as II something was sticking in the up
per and back part OF the throat. AS the dis
ease becomes chronic, the matter concrctcg
into hardened Jumps, the matter Becreted
becomes purtfOrm, the breath Is offensive
and the voice assumes nasal twang, while,
on rising in the morning, great effort Is re-
QuiTed 10 C ear the head and throat. There
Is often feeling Of pressure across the lower we
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 euStaceian tubes into the inter-
nal ear there is partial deafness with thrOb-
bing humming or ringing noises In the ear.
In sleep the Catarrhal matter IS uucon-
6CiOuGly swallowed, which, in time. de-
ranges the stomach and lmpalrB digestion,
causinG dyspepsia and q multiplicity OF dis
cOrdant symptoms, which are often mis-
taken for other diseases To tho foregoing,
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 tho assertion that 10 neglect
CatarTll is to iHTtte Consumption:
Consumption is the one prevailing disease,
AT 5ne Ee 1er9 5He sedo eSd1n
do the lungs receive the primary shock 1t
is first ga cold in the head" which resolves
feels no alarm, until, step by step, 1t reaches
the lungs, when all attempts Mt cure uIe lit
lie Oettef IQnQ DllQu experiments.
With every incentive to enjoyment and
usefulness, there are hundreds all around us
dying in the morning OF lie, OF Conkump-
ton, who can Iook back six months, year,
or longer, as the case may be, to n time when
IL was "6tn cdtdTTh." Neglected at q time
when CpTODerlU treated a cure was possible,
silently and almost imperceptibly 1t has
transformed the bright, ruddy features OF
youth into the dull, wan lisuessness 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
mind turns nournfulJy back ward TO ''what
might have been. ana tremblingly forward
TO what soon must be;
CONSEQUEHCES OF NEGLECT.
Those who indorse the stupid assertion
that ''CatarTh will get well OF itSelf,' or Is
trums In common use, will do well to re-
member that the local disease depends al
ways upon aIe1mentdttte co'!dttton o. e 5t93C' S
tarrh as a simple local inflammation, and
both its importance and rational treatment
passing notice from the general practitioner;
and thus Catarrh us surely predispoSes to
Consumption 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-
ple resort to such means as always fall, then
give heed TO the popular fellacy that II Is In
curnble, and settle into sort OF mental
aDathY, encouraged by the belief that the
family physician knows all that is known
on the subject, and thus matters stand, while
the disease progresses until nope 1sdead' ana
lie becomes a mockery, when comes the
stereotyPed and heckneyed ADVICE St, Of "a
"a sea voyage" !" "a return OF health in the
spring" etc; but, alas the country referred
10 is that which lies beyond the confines OF
season which blooms eternal when LIES Mt
ful fever Is over.
Let those who donbt this portrayal of Ca
tarrh 0uestion the poor consumptiVe, whose
gun 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
foidedIy peaccabIy over tho still heart-they
are gone.