The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1869-04-07

Catarrh conAlsts ofinfiammation OF beginning
behind and 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 ieel-
Ing as II something was sticking in the up
per and back part OF the throat. AS the dis
into hardened Jumps, the matter secreted
becomes puriform, the breath is offensive,
and the voice assumes a nasal twang, while,
on rising in the morning, great effort Is re-
Quired 10 c ear the head and throat. There
is often feeling OF pressure across the lower
part OF the forehead, causing headache, d1z-
ziness and confusion OF thought and loss OF
memory.
TINE sense OF smell becomes impaired, the
ewes arc weak, and, as the Inflammation ex-
tends up the eustRceian 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 uncOn-
sciously swallowed, which, in time, de-
ranges the stomach and tmpairs digestion,
! causing dyspepsia and a multiplicity OF dis
cordant symptoms, which are often mis-
taken for other diseases. To the foregoing,
| add the fact that every breath OF air drawn
into the lungs Is drawn over the diseased
surface, fostering with Catarrhal matter, and
Catarrh is to inuite Consumption:
Consumption Is the one prevailing disease,
at the present day, with which the young
do dot the lungs receive the primary shock 1t
Is first ga cold in the head" which resolves
into Chronic CataIrh, from " hich the su;ect
the lungs, when all attempts at cure are lit
tie better than blind experiments.
With every incentive to enjoyment and
usefulness, there are hundreds all around us
dying in the morning OF life, or Consump-
ton, who can Iook back six months, a year,
or longer, as the case may be, to a Time when
IL was "6tn cdtdTTh." Neglected at q time
when (DrOpeTly treated q cure was possible,
silently and almost lmperceptl6ly It has
transformed the bright, ruddy features OF
youth into the dull, wan listlessness 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
life forces one by one are ebbing away, the
mind turns mournfully backward to what
might have BEEN. and tremblngly 1o1Wafu
to what soon must be,
CONSEQUENCES OF NEGLECT.
Those who indorse the stupid assertion
that ''Catarrh will get well OF ITSELF, or Is
tr11ms in common use, will do well to re-
member that the local disease depends al
ways pom ~ JeTle7ltdtre condtton o. Ete ot0oa' 1
tarrh az simple local Inflammation, and
both its importance and rational treatment
are either wholly ignored, or receive put a
passing notice from the general practitioner;
and thus Catarrh as surely predtsposes TO
Consumption as does the day pTecede the
night, and Is In fact the prelude 10 that
disease in eight cases out OF ten.
The disease is everywhere prevalent; peo-
ple resort to such means as always fail, then
live heed to the popular Enllacy that II ts In
curable, and settle into a sort OF menIal
apathy, encouraged by the belieI tnat the
family physician knows all that Is known
on the su6je and thus matters stand, while
the disease progresses until hope tsdead, and
iife becOmes a mockery, when comes the
stereolyPed and hsckneyed advice " t;,d, OF 10 "a 2
:: q 1ae sea vovaee," "a return OF health in the
spring," etc.; but, alas the country referred
to is that which lies beyond the connneS OF
the fostering grave, and the spring lS tnat a.
season which blooms eternal when LIES Mt
full fever Is over. ~.
Let those who donbt this portrayal OF "a "a.
tarrh question the poor consumpt1Ve, WHOSE
snn of life is going down at noon. OF watch
its progress upon those who neglect It's time
lv and iudicious treatment. A little Wnlle
and we miss their coming; youth and health
have faded from lips and cheek, the hgnt
from the eye has gone out, the nanos are
are gone.