The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1869-02-19
NASAL CATARRH
AND 1Ts EFFECT UPON
THE SYSTEM-


Characteristics of Inflammation beginning
behind and a little above the veil OF The pal
ate, and extending upward into the nose
and air cavities of the face. II creates per-
petual desire to swallow, and causes a feel-
per and back part OF the throat. As the dis
ease becomes chronic, the matter concretes
into hardened Jumps the matter secreted
becomes puFiform, the breath is offensive,
and the voice assumes a nasal twang, while,
on rising in the morning, great effort is re-
0uired TO c ear the head and throat. There
Ii often a feeling OF pressure across the lower
Dart OF the forehead, causing neadacnes ulz-
illness, and confusion OF thought anu loss OF
The sense of smell becomes impaired, the
owes arc weak, and, ms the Inflammation ex-
tends up the custaceian tubes into the inter
nal ear there is partial deafness with throb-
bing hummInE or ringing noises IN tile ear
In SIeep tine Catarrhal matter Is uncOn-
ranges the stomach and impairs digestion,
causing d dyspepsia and II multiplicity OF dis
taken for other diseases. To the foregoing,
add the TACT that every breath OF air drawn
surface. fostering with Catarrhal matter, and
who can deny the assertion that to neglect
Catarrh 1s to Invite Consumption:
Consumption is the one prevailing disease,
at the present day, with which the yonng
and mIddle-Rged die. And yet very seldom
ia ia tirst t So Cold in the head" which resolves
into Chronic CataTrh, from which tho su ect
feels no alarm, until, stop by step, it reaches
lie better than blind experiments.
with every incentive to enjoyment and
it.i,a fI3 tba 1neriinp Of lie. or Sonsump
tiOn, who can look back six months, n year,
or longer, asthe case may be, TO time when
when CproperIV treated cure was possible,
silently and almost 1mperceptIbly 1t has
Vontii into the dull, wan listlessness OF pre-
mature age, as IL has drunk up the vitality
from the blood and fluids OF the wasted
yI1nV1 linn c
life forces one by one are ebbing away, the
mind turns monrnfuIIy backward to "what
might have been" and trembungly 1oIWAru
10 what soon must be,
CONSEQUENCES OF HEGAECT.
Those who indorse the stupid assertion
that .'Catarrh will get we'll OF 1tSe1l, or Is
curabIe by snuning or 1nnalng tne nos
trums in common use, will do well TO re-
member that the local disease depends al
ways upon Je1ne1ltGtiUe condition Of The blood
Medical writer's are wont TO speak or Cn-
&arTh as a simple local Inflammation, and
both It's importance and rational treatment
are either wholly ignored, or TecelVe bnt I.
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 out OF ten.
The disease Is everywhere preVaIenIi Pco-
pie resort to such means as always fai!' then
give heed to the popular 1aIlncy tnat II ls m
curable, and settle into q sort OF mental
apathy, encouraged by the belle1 that the
family physician knows all that is KNOWN
the disease progresses until hope is dead and
life becomes a mockery, when comes tne
stereotyped and hackneyed advice OF "a
visit to the country, ,"'a change OF Sllmste; f ,1
sDrinq. etc.: but alas the country referred
70 is fhat witch lies beyond the confines e OF
the fostering grave, and tne spfIg ~ rs tt1'tt ~
Lei those who donbt this portrayal of Ca
tarrh question the poor consumPtiNe, whose
ann OF life is going down at noon, or watch
It's progress upon those who neglect Its time
Iy and judiciOus treatment. A Nttle WniIe
have faded from lips and cheek: the light
from the eye has gore out, the hands nre
fOIdedIy peaceably over tho still heart-they
are gone.