Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-11-26

/ IL heed not be said that the nose is the
must prominent feature on the face of the
average American. II speaks for itself. in
more ways than one, Ii is the hneal sue
"r OF the Roman nose, of which it was
saaTSIhe Roman knows no danger" So
'ie Esleflcan citizen is born boss. and
iear"ss. by virtue of the contour of his
prooosels. As well as by right of birth. In
uiis land of freedom lin spots) and occa-
sional fraud
But il is the interior of the American
nose which gives to it national character
anu an illustrlousness abroad. This Interior
with its memhranouS connections and be-
Iohgiiigs, has peculiar affection almost
universal: and when a man with a soft hat
on Is heard 10 blow his bugle, q Ia ex-Seis-
a'or thurman. on the Strand. in London.
the most famous and widely known of
ti"r"hshfares, the cockney within hearing
Instance winks knowing wunk with his
eye and remarks to himself. soto rocc,
E's an Hamerican.' And the cockney is
usually right.
When Archibald Forbes. the great war
correspondent and the teller of enormous
tales 10 the marines of Christendom, came to
this country he began at once 10 remark
ON the American nose and its sOnorousness.
ana To declare that catarrh was the Ameri-
can disease. We We're. according to this
noted chronicler. forever Wheeling. and
shorting, and choking. and splitting: but in
the end it appeared that this distinguished
foreigner, who came to us scoffing. left us
coughing. putting girdie of phlegm and
rheum around the world, by way Of Aus
tralia back to London.
Really, if the honest truth must ha told.
affections of the nose and throat are not
universal. We seem Ia have . catarrhal
zone, or belt, through the center of the
country from New England to Colorado,
embracing New York, Pennsylvania. Ohio,
Indiana, and Missouri. with states south of
'ie river. down to near the Florida line.
Michigan. Wisconsin. Minnesota, and
Iowa seem to be north of the catarrhal re-
gion, while Florida is south of it, In the
region last named and in Northern Michi-
gan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. even hay
fever patients are entirely free from the ef-
fecfs of their most tiresome and nauseous
afiiiction.
Why is il that medical men as class do
not grapple with this widespread physical
evil? There are quacks by the thousand
who assert that they can cure all cases of
catarrh, and who. by putting such claim.
convince all intelligent people that they can
cure none. And then there are specialists
who really cure an occasional sufferer
W hat Is needed is, not that man who has
abundant means may be cured by distin-
gulshed physician, but that medical men
shall be able to apply simple
OF to give instructions to their
friends and customers As to the proper treat
ment of the nose throat, and lungs.
Ii is little consolation to the sufferer to be I
told that the existence of catarrh is d-pTi0ri
evidence that the sufferer has more or less !
brain and is in an intellectual company of I
and blowers, and psiffers, who !
have harangued senates and electrified great
masses of admiring people between sneezes. /
This is naught - yea, It's nsught. |
What is demanded by the sufferer is, not Z
but cure. And if physicians B
cannot cure, or relieve. what are they for. I,