The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1871-07-28
CATARRH.

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CATARRH.
It's symptoms, Rational Treatment, and
Positive Cure.
Statistics show that over one hun
dred thousand persons annually die in
this country of Consumption, and there
is the highest medical authority for
saying that with fully one-half, If not
two thirds of this number the disease
first commences as Catarrh in the nose
or head, the next step being TO the
throat and bronchial tubes-lastly the
lungs. Mental imbecility and insanity
are also among the frequent results of
this very prevalent disease. Catarrh,
then, although usually considered tri-
val affair, is really one of the most SER
ious diseases to which humanity is Ii
able not because It is dangerous in it
self, but because of the fatal and dread
full maladies to which it gives rise.
An eminent medical writer says:
Thousands are dying in the morning
of life, with consumption, who can
look back n few months 20 a time when
il was nothing Gut Cdtd1Th. Neglected
when u cure was possible, it has steadi-
ly transformed the features of health
and youth into the dull, wan listlessness
of premature age, while the hacking
cough, the torrent of blood gushing
from the lungs, or facilitating night
,weats, proclaim, significantly, that It is
Aow too late, and that a neglected Ca
ta1Th ends an the Craze"
symptoms OF Catarzh.
In consequence of frequent attacks of
acute Catarrh or "cold in the head" as
it is usually termed, the mucous mcm-
brance of the nose and air passages of
the head become permanently thicken-
cd, the mucous follicles or glands dis
eased, and their functions either de-
stroyed or very much deranged. Al
though Chronic Catsrrh is most COM
monty brought on in the manner above
stated, il sometimes makes its appear
ance as a sequel and result of typhoid
fever, scarlet fever, measels or other
eruptive fevers. In the early stages of
the disease the patient may be annoyed
with "only q slight dropping in the
throat" as many express it, the amount
of discharge from the air passages of
the head at this stage of the disease be-
ing only slightly in excess of health. In
some cases the discharge is thick, ropy
and tough, requiring frequent and
strong effort in the way of hawking,
blowing and splitting to remove it from
the throat, where it frequently lodges.
In other cases or in other stages of the
same case, the discharge is thin, watery,
acrid, irritating and profuse. The nose
may be stopped up from the swollen
and thickened condition of the lining
mucous membrane, so as to necessitate
respiration through the mouth, giving
to the voice disagreeable nasal twang.
From the nature of the obstruction in
this condition it is useless for the suf-
ferer to endeavor to clear the passages
by blowing the nose, which only tends
to render Il bad matter worse, by in
creasing the irritation and swelling of
the already thickened lining membrane.
The swelling of the mucous membrane
does not, in all cases, become so great
as to cause obstruction to respiration
through the affected passages. In some
cases the patient suffers from headache
n great portion of the time, or may ex-
periencc dull, heavy, disagreeable full
ness or pressure in the head, with con-
fusion of his ideas, which renders him
uufit for business, especially such as re-
quires deep thought and mental labor.
Memory may be more or less affected,
and the disposition of those who are
otherwise aniablesis often rendered ir-
ritable or morose and respondent. The
some cases as to result in imbecility or
insanity.
The sense of snell is in many cases
impaired and sometimes entirely lost,
and the sense of taste more or less affect
cd. Habitual cold feet, pain and sore
ness in different parts of the system,
lassitude, drowsiness and general debiI-
ity are SYMPTOMS which are common to
some stages of the disease. Hearing
may be more or less affected. The eyes
may be weak and sometimes suffer from
attacks of CONGESTION or Inflammation,
and the patient is heard to complain of
having Caught cold in his eyes"
The secretion which is thrown out in
the more advanced stages of Chronic
Catarrh becomes so acrid, unhealthy
and poisonous, that it produces severe
irritation and inflammation, which are
followed by excorirtion and liberation
of the delicate lining membrane of the
air passages in the head. Although
commencing in the lining membrane, the
Lucrative process eats away and grad
ually extends in depth until it frequent
ly involves all the component structures
of the nose-cartilage and bone, as well
as tibrous tissues. AS the liberation
cats its way up among the small bones
the discharge generally becomes pro-
quires the frequent use of the handker-
chief, and renders the poor sufferer dis
agreeable both TO himself and those with
whom he associates. Thick, tough,
brownish incrustations or hardened
Jumps are many times formed in the
head, by the evaporation of the watery
portion of the discharge. These Jumps
are sometimes so large and tough that
it is with great difficulty that they can
be removed. They are usually dis
charged every fourth, fifth or sixth day,
but only to be succeeded by another
crop. Portions of cartilage and bone,
or even entire bones, often die, slough
away and are discharged, either in large
flakes of blackened, half-decayed, and
crumbly pieces, or, as is much more
commonly the case, in the form of nu-
merous minute particles that escape
with the discharge and are unobserved.
Ii is painfully unpleasant to witness the
ravages of this terrible disease and OBJ
serve the extent to which it sometimes
progresses. Holes are eaten through
the roof of the mouth and great cavi-
ties excaVated into the solid bones of
the face, and IN such cases only the best
and most thorough treatment will
check the progress of the disease.
All of the above symptoms. as we'll as
some others, are common to the disease
in some of its stages or complications,
yet thousands of cases annually termi
nate in consumption or insanity, and
end in the grave, without even having
manifested one-half of the symptoms
which have enumerated.
CoMPLICATIoNs.-Cat in its va
rious stages is liable to become compli-
Gated by any extension of the disease to
other parts beyond the air passages of
the head. The acrid, Irritating and
poisonous discharge which, in some
stages of the disease, almost constantly
runs down over the delicate lining
membrane of the PharynN Cor throat)
is liable to produce in the lining men,
brane a diseased condition similar to
that existing in the air passages of the
head. The throat may feel dry, husky,
and at times slightly raw, or, from the
muco-purulent discharge that is almost
constantly dropping down over its sur
face, the patient may feel very little in
convenience from the disease of the
throat until it is far advanced-thea
moistening and lubricating effect of the