The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-08-23
oATARRH CAN BE CURED.
Dr.. z. D. Hall has Home Testimonials
TO Prove the Assertion.


question with many persons suffering from
this dread .nalady if a cure can be effected
by any medical treatment known to the !
world. Those who doubt that Catarrh can |
be cured, as a general thing, are persons
who have been for some years under almost
constant local treatment; or, in other words,
have been treating the effect and not the
cause of the disease. Blood Root, Alum,
Chlorate of Potash. Aconite, Acids of all
kinds, Camphor, Glycerine, and long
list of preparations put upon the market
by patent medicine men, and sold under
the head of CdtarTb Cure etc., etc. Many
of these preparations inhaled into the ros-
trils not only do no good, but keep up
more or less irritation of the membranes,
and fatal results follow. No wonder many
persons, after such line OF treatment, be-
come discouraged, and conclude that Ca
tarrh cannot cured
But the sufferers have not been the only
class who have been in the dark. Some
OF the best skilled students of nature, and
some of the most eminent medical gentle
men 10 this country have made great blum
ders in treating Chronic Catarrh. And
you ask why it is that some Of our most
skillful physicians are not successful in the
the treatment of this dread disease? The
fact is this: In order to become pre-emi-
nentIy successful in the treatment of any
Chronic Disease, the student of medicine
must devote almost bis whole attention to
the study and treatment of this class of
diseases; and while we find many physici-
ans who do not treat Catarrh'as a specially
we find few who do; hence the failure. You
would not expect a physician who treated
Chronic Diseases exclusively to be. an ex-
pert in treating Fever, or any of the
Acute Diseases generally, and why should
you expect physicians who pay little or
no attention to Chronic Diseases to be sue
cessful in their treatment of them2 From
direct observation [ find that the American
people are too apt to grasp at the means
most ready oe access, without regard to re-
suits that must follow. And those persons
must suffer on until they find some kind of
effort to reach little out of their way, and
avail themselves of the means of cure,
which God in his goodness has given; for
there never was, IN my opinion, disease
without remedy to remove it. You
would not expect to obtain wealth without
an effort. Nature does not bring her mines
of gold to your door; you must go afte
them, and by the effort you make you are
sure IN a degree to be rewarded. Suppose
you should go one hundred miles to OBJ
tain from a physician the remedies to
effect cure in a Chronic Disease, and by
so doing save your lite. does it pay? Sup
pose, on the other hand, you are suffering
from Chronic CdtdTrh, you try a few
such remedies as are kept at your drug
gist's, and, in fact. try all the remedies
within. your reach. and stop here. Con-
sumption overtakes you, and you die with.
out having put forth an effort to obtain the
skill of one who makes a specially of such
cases as your own. you alone must answer
for that life.
!, There are thousands and thousands Of
people IN this country that are cut off il
the bloom Of youth and beauty and con
signed to untimely graves. Why is III
Did God intend it to be so? Did he in
tend that lives of usefulness in tAe worlC
would be cut on 80 short? think not
believe that by our indifference in thu
observation of Natures Laws and oul
failure to value, to high extent, the body
entrusted to our care, the uuskillful man
ner in which we treat the diseases, which
are often the results Of Natures trans
gressed laws, all tend to show why many
are cut off in the morning of youth. Thu
: fearful scourge, this insidious foe, Catdrrl
l speeds on its fatal course, Staying its ten
of thousands annually. | tell you, yot
8 must watch; and if it should faster
upon you, fight it with the most effectiv,
} weapons given you ny Nature, viz: "Th'
t Leaves of the Trees.
/ WHAT ARE CHRONIC DIsEA SEES?
e Chronic Diseases are habits. Everybod
D is aware of the force of habits: how endur
ing they are, how difficult to change them
y This is why parents so constantly inculcat
t upon their children habits of order. clean
t illness, truthfulness, obedience, etc. Th
k constant repetition Of an action forms thi
: powerful, persistent, we'll nigh unchange
able characteristic that is termed habit
=, just in the same way, in the physical frame
" does the deceased organs, when the abnor
= NAL state is long continued, assume thi
= diseased action as its habits. 1t has it
: origin, like habit, in continuance of IN
= healthy action; it acquires the intense hol
and grasp of habit, and thus, at length, pas
0 ses into the very character of nature itsel
diseased nature. Aud now, remedie
u which, 10 the acute stage would have bee
sufficient. are found utterly inappropriate
" and inefficient. From this necessary brio
e statement it will be seen that the treat
ment of Chronic Diseases may we'll const
o jtute special branch Of the medical prt
u fesion, as The surgeon is distinguished fror
= the physician, Chronic Diseases are pc
:: culiar in their obscurity and obstinacy
D, therefore their diagnosis and treatmer
IT are peculiar; and hence there must be
corresponding peculiar sagacity, springin
e from natural endowment, sharpened b
1t careful study, aud INSTRUCTED by lon
e and widely extended experience, to di,
< Germ rightly the source from which thes
1t Chronic Complaints have arisen, III
v course they have run, and the essenti;
features of the stage at which they hav
10 arrived.
a TO CURE CHRONIC DISEASES.
N Many suppose that all chronic diseases are me
. local difficulty which can be easily removed by Il
e use of any of the various Remedies" put up
g. bottles and so extensively advertised everywhe
II for the cure of an almost endless number of disc
" ses. No R.eater or more unfortunate mistake CO
possibly be made than TO suppose such Quack mi
~ lures viii cure anything like disease On the 9TH
hand, the etfectual removal Of all clronac dseas
require Fklllul and systematic treatment admin
Il tered by those qualified for the task by educatiC
= and the necessary experience.
- SYMPTOMS OF CATARRH.
" To give a summary of these for convenience v
)T mentiOnheHt and of the Inning of the nos
PAIN IN the frontal elnues, closing OF the tear
Inflammation of the eyes, and disturbance of til
sight, affections of the Eustaohan tube and dune
of hearing, discharges OF offensive matter from th
nose, and running from the ears, oss of smell al
taste, bronchial irritation, and finally consumption
d The Stomach and Kidneys often affected ,feebl
10 ness of memory may he noted. II units childre
20 for obtaining education, in many cases causiI
IS eruptions the face, glandular arrangements
to Probably no complaint has more baffied the sk
Of the most scientific practitioners than this disea
j-Catarrh.
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