Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-10-07

Prairie Farmer,

ing to any of the quack nos trums so pro-
fusely advertised. Catarrh in mild or
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 a hundred
thousand dollars are annually drawn
from the people, simply for socalled
catarrh remedies, Part of this goes into
the pockets of those who sell these use
less medicines, got up at tritling 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.
Exec pting the murderous soothing
syrups" which under false pretensious of
containing no opiates, are literally de-
stroying vast hecatombs of the innocents,
or at least sapping their nervous consti-
tutions, we say excepting these, and a
few others, the "catarrh remedies are
among the meanest nostrums: because
this malady can not be cured by faith,
while many of the advertised medicines
of the pier sorts do cure those who
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 70 sudden
and violent changes of temperatures in the
atmosphere inhaled, and to Irritating i'm
purities carried in and ont 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, a 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 a destruction of the cavities,
which ultimately extends tcNhe Jung struc-
tura. 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
easily digested concentrated food will
help catarrh. Quinine aids. change
to a more equable climate is desirable,
but is practicable for only few people,
1t is best to avoid very sudden changes
from heat to cold, and the reverse. When
going from warm rooms or cars directly
into a cold atmosphere, one has nearly
all the body thoroughly protected, but
the nasal organs and lungs get no protec-
ton when passing suddenly from 800 to
to 1909 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
ters perature of a hot room or car before
leaving it, or by first going into a room
that is only moderately cold.
A remedy, or at least 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,
druggists. Half an ounce will last a
long time. For e cry drop of creosote
add fully gill of water, a little more or
less, according to tie sensitiyene5s Of the
affected organs. 1t is well to use little
more water the first day. Shake the
bottle violently every time before using,
as the oily creosote does not dissolve
but is only ditTused through the water
by the hard shaking, and gathers i'll 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 carbolic) acid in
the creosote destroys the accumulated ir-
ritating matter collected. BY using this
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 il. With this
simple treatment. at least nuetenths 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 very
noted Italian physician, Prof. Paccioti, of
the Medical University at Genoa, and
have written it out for hundred of per
sons. II has been eflectual in three
forths, if not in nineteen out of twenty
cases. As said above, after long-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 a relief in most cases.
FOR BRONCHITIS.
This is practically catarrh of the
lungs. The fine tubes or passages in
these cannot be reached by creosote
water direct. We have cured il scores of
times. by using the creosote water as
gargIing in the throat. After gargling
mouthful of it few times as far back as
possible, swallow it, Do this several
times a day, or often enough to swallow
about 2 drops of the creosote in gills of
water the first day, and 2 or drops dur
ing each subsequent "a hours. Continue
until the lung irritation disappears. A
little of the yapor of the creOsOte is car
ried into the lungs at ench gargling. If
catarrh is also present, use some of the
creosote water Toy shutting and eiecting it
from the mouth.
CkTABRH OF THE ORGANS
As catarrh is a deposit OF matter from
the mUcus membrane, it may exist when