Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-10-22
OZGNA.

OZGNA.
Oz9na is the professional or technical name
given to an advanced form of catarrh, in which
liberation has eaten through the membrane
Any case OF catarrh may end in ozeena, but it
n, most frequently occurs in those who are
place through the nostrils or through the
throat, and is generally OF yellowish or
gres nish- yellow color, frequently tinged with
blood, and almost always attended with an
offensive smell. In the language OF DR.. Wood,
OF Philadelphia, the disease is the most obdur-
ate and disagreeable which the physician has
patient becomes SO revolving as to isolate him
from society, and render him an object of dis.
gust even to himself.
In some cases pieces of bone become separ.
ated and slough of, leaving deep, unhealthy
ulcers, which secrete q bloody matter, and are
extremely difficult to heal.
After ozUna las continued for some time the
sense of smell becomes impaired and often
lost.
quences, and results from its extension through
the eustachian tube to the internal ear
Pains in the bead and over the frontal sinuses
impajring memory, and even insanity fire.
quently springs from its extension to the brain.
The greatest danger, however, because the most
common, is that 1t will extend downward and
affect the lungs In most cases OF pulmonary
disease catarrh is present to some degree, and
in many cases it causes large share of the
patients discomfort.
Besides these grave consequences, all of
which are liable to spring from scrofulous
catarrh ozHns, there are others which, if
less dangerous, are sufficiently unpleasant.
1t occasions great unhapp1ness to thousands
OF both sexes by isolating them and prevent
Ing their settlement in life. An offensive run
ming at the nose, with foul breath, is about
as great calamity as can befall young people
Every disease of this kind can be cured by our
new system of practice.
The following are the Distinguishing features
of our mode of treatment.
l. A single application gives immediate
comfort and relieves at once the most dis
2. The hardened secreioIs are soitened and
removed causing the greatest amount of relief
to the sufferer.
3. The liberated surface is de odorized, every
unpleasant smell Is removed, and the breath is
restored to its natural purity erd sweetness
the throat is neutralized and arrested and
threatened consumption averted and last of all
complete and radical cure fully established
5. The applications employed can be made
at home with perfect success and without in
reference with diet or business.
=, In all cases OF catarrh, where the system
suffers from the deleterjous effects of scr0fula
or other vitiated condition of the blood, local
treatment is Invariably conjoined with consu-
tutional remedies.
Persons desiring treatment by this system of
practice can use the remedies at home as well
as ct our Office, and which will cause no incon-
venience or hindrance to business whatever
that do not conaider any case hopeless, un-
less the disease has advanced o the chest and
both lungs are seriously involved. The in
haiations aid us in dissolving the mucus and in
contracting and healing the cavities, which
nothing else can do with the same success.
ready cured.