Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-10-07
Cure Your Own Catarr i.
Prairie Farmer.

severe form, usually mild, Is one OF the
most disagreeable complaints. Many
millions of persons are afflicted, in our
changeable climate, for reasons named
below. Farmers are peculiarly subject
to it because of exposure to wet feet on
the cold soil, and to the damp, chilly at
mosphere while attending to morning
and evening chores. a talk on this sub
iect is therefore appropriate and even
important here. More than hundred
thousand dollars are annually drawn
from the people, simply for so-called
catarrh remedies. Part of this goes into
the pockets of those who sell these use
less medicines, got up at trifing cost
and sold at a thousand per cent. profit
because another part of the enormous
profit is paid for newspaper columns and
circulars to lead people into the belief
that there is virtue in the bepuffed stuff.
Excepting the murderOus soothing
syrups" which under false pretensions of
containing no Opiates, are literally de-
stroying vast hecatombs Of the innocents,
Or at least sapping their nervous consti-
buttons, we say excepting these, and
few others, the ''catarrh remedies" are
among the meanest nostrums: because
4 this malady can not be cured by faith,
while many of the advertised medicines
are not really sick, but think they are
Their faith in the long winded descrip-
tions of pretended remedies, cures them,
because only their imaginations are real
ly sick. But faith won't stop running
nasal organs.
Catarrh in its earlier stages is merely a
manifestation of general weakness of the
system. The interior of the nasal pas
sages, being constantly exposed 10 sudden
and violent changes Of temperature in the
atmosphere inhaled, and to Irritating i'm
purities carried in and out during the
breathing process, these parts are more
quickly affected than other parts of the
body which are not thus exposed. The
result of irritation is at first, slight de-
post Of unhealthy mocus. This in turn
increases the irritation, and there is more
of it deposited. If this is long continued
there is destruction of the cavities,
which ultimately extends tc%he 'ung struc-
ture. When such chronic stage of the
disease is reached, no medicine in the
world can cure the destroyed parts.
The first thing to be done for incipient
catarrh, is to tone up the system to great
vigor. Rare roast beef or rare beefsteak
which are easily digested and contain
much concentrated nutriment, or any
:
help catarrh. Quinine aids. A change
, to more equable climate is desirable,
but is practicable for only few people.
It is best to avoid very sudden changes
) from heat to cold, and the reverse. When
going from warm rooms or cars directly
into cold atmosphere, one has nearly
all the body thoroughly protected, but
the nasal organs and lungs get no prOtec-
ton when passing suddenly from 90 to
to 1000 of the thermometer into an at
mosphere at zero, often far below. Slow
: transition from the high to the low tenn
perature is desirable. This may often
! be effected by gradually lowering the
temperature of a hot room or car before
leaving it, or by first going into room
, that is only moderately cold.
remedy, at least a partial one, for
ordinary catarrh, a mere running or
! gathering matter, is the following: Into
a quart bottle, or other convenient size,
put few drops of common wood creosote.
. that can be cheaply obtained of most
. druggists Half an ounce will last a
! long time. For every drop Of creosote
:, add fully gill of water, little more or
less, according to the sensitiveness of the
! affected organs. 1t is well to use little
more water the first day Shake the
"
as the oily creosote does not dissolve,
but is only diffused through the water
+ by the hard shaking, and gathers in little
gobules If not shaken well before using.
! The bottle should be only partly full, so
that the water can be readily agitated.
Pour some creOsOted water into the hand.
and snuff it through the nasal organs
two or three times, ejecting it from the
mouth. The picnic Cor carboIic) acid in
the creosote destroys the accumulated IT.
ritating matter collected. By using this
) a few times day, the passage will be
: kept clean and sweet, excepting the creo-
sote odor, which is quite unpleasant to
some, until accustomed to it. With this
simple treatment, at least nine-tenths of
} ordinary catarrhs will disappear, or be
abated as they return, especially if the
system is toned up. We personally OBJ
tanned this prescription from a very
noted italian physician, Prof. Paccioti, of
the Medical University at Genoa, and
have written it out for hundred of per
sons. It has been effectuaI in three
forths, if not in nineteen out of twenty
cases. AS said above, after lcng-seated
chronic catarrh has eaten away the walls
of the nasal organs, they cannot be re-
stored; but even then, this simple remedy
will be relief in most cases.
FOR BRONCHITIS.
This is practically a catarrh of the
lungs. The fine tubes or passages in
these cannot be reached by creosote
water direct. We have cured it scores of
times, by using the creosote water as
gargling in the throat. After gargling
mouthful of it a few times as far back as
possible, swallow it. Do this several
times day, or often enough 20 swallow
about drops of the creosote in 3 gilIs of
water the first day, and or drops dur
ing each subsequent "a hours. Continue
until the lung irritation disappears A
little of the vapor of the creo5ote is car
ried into the lungs at each gargling. If
catarrh is also present, use some of the
creosote water by snuffing and ejecting it
! from the mouth.
CATARRH OF THE ORGANS.
AS eatarrh is deposit of matter from
the mucus membrane, it may exist when
ever this membrane is found. It covers