The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1891-03-25
Catarrh as Causes of Diseases
Have Catarrh2 ? Is a Question
Which Everyone Ought to
Carefully Decide.
Health and catarrh Inoompatlble.

Carefully D0ClQe.
Health and Catarrh incorn patibie.
III were asked 10 name the disease which
most rarely destroys life ! would name ca
which sets up in the system oftenest dis
eases which do destroy life would again
name caiarrh. Catarrh, while it remains
simply catarrh, very rarely destroys a life,
although il makes life miserable; but ca
tarrh surely leads 70 a host Of diseases many
of which are fatal 20 life The following list
of diseases, too well known in this country,
are each and all simply catarrh affecting
differ Mt organs of the body Consumption,
bronchitis, laryngitis phsrgngti', stomstitis'
rhinitis, otitis, coHjunctivitis, gastritis,
tdyspepsia). intsstini is (ohronic diarrhea
aad dysenteryl. vsginitis, urethritis, neph-
ritis and cysutis, are each thought by most
people to be essentially different diseases
but thetruth is they are catarrh Of the mu-
Gus lining Of the various organs. A medi-
cine that is applicable to any one Of the
above list of diseases is applicable 10 them
all, as each one has for its cause the same
condition. Catarrh is catarrh wherever To-
Gated, and the remedy that will cure it in
one organ of the body will also cure il in
any other organ.
As have bad occasion TO frequently say
in former lectures, all the organs Of the body
are lined by delicate pink lining compos-
ed chiefly of very minute blood-yesseis, and
that this lining is called mncus membrane.
When this membrane is healthy there is con-
stantly exuding from its surface clear
soothing fluid, called mucus; but as scon as
the mucus membrane becomes effected by
catarrh the mucus becomes poisonous and
irritating, causing the mucus membrane TO
become inhamed or liberated, and some
times entirely destroying them. Thus il is
that the mucus, which is 50 useful in lubri-
eating and protecting these delicate mem
branes in health, becomes, when changed
by catarrh, a corroding and dangerous fluid,
which frequently eats way completely
through the tender membrane, sometimes
even destroying adjacent organs. have
seen many cases where the poisonous ca
tarrhal secretions of the middle ear had en-
tirely destroyed the organ of hearing and
bad liberated deeply into the bones of the
head and face. The cases sometimes ter
inmate in death, and never fail 10 be a
source of great discomfort and harm.
Catarrhal secretions in the frontal sinus Ia
little cavity in the bone of the forehead be-
tween the eyes never fails TO give rise to the
most persistent headache or neuralgia. Ca
tarrh in the throat or bronchial tubes gives
rise to an abundance of this acrid, harmful
mucus, which so irritstes the bronchial
tubes as to produce chronic hoarseness OF
cough, and in thousands Of cases the fluid
finds its way down into the lungs, producing
the most fatal form Of consumption.
I am persuaded, after many years Of expe-
rience in the treatment of consumption, that
nearly every case is due to chronic catarrh.
The catarrh may have been so slight previ-
Gus 20 the development as 20 cause no alarm
but suddenly the dread symptoms of con-
sumption make their appearance, many
times too late to be cured. similar ex-
PLANTATION will apply to cstarrh of the ston.
| ach and bowels, which so deranges the fluids
/ ofdigestion as to produce dyspepsia, diarrhoea
and dysentery. When catarrh attacks the
kidneys it at once produces chronic inham-
nation of these organs, in every respect re-
sembling Brights disease of the kidneys
The acrid mucus formed in the kidneys by
! catarrh not only sets up arrangements OF
these organs, but frequently also the other
urinary organs.
In short, catarrh is capable of changing all
Of the life-giving secretiOns of the body into
scalding fluids, which destroy and infiame
every part they come in contact with. Ap
/ plications 10 the places affected by catarrh
can DO little good save TO sOothe or quiet
disagreeable symptoms. Hence it is thai
/ gargles sprays atomizers and inhalants only
serve as temporary relief. Any medicine, to
I effect a cure, mast be taken into the system.
! Pe-ru-na mas shown itself in cases innumer-
able 10 be capable of curing catarrh by re-
! moving the cause.
So long as the irritating secretions of ca
tarrh continue TO be formed. so long will the
membranes continue to be inhsmed, no
matter what treatment is used. As soon a.
Pe-ru-na has been taken long enough TO
thoroughly act on the system it changes
the burning, harmful secretions to healthy
mucus, and the inhamed membranes soon
are as well as ever. Pe-ru-na will have this
/ effect whether the catarrh affect the head,
I lungs, stomach, bowels OF kidneys.
When the Pc ma has overcome the harm
fnl effects of the catarrhal discharges the
medicine should be continued long enough
TO allow the injured membranes time enough
10 entirely recover, which will insure per
manent cure Each bottle of Pe-ru-n is &C
companied with all necessary directions fol
use.
Any one desiring to become well inform
e ! as to the nature and cure of catarrhal dis
eases should send for The Family Physician
No. :. sent free by The Peruns Medicine
Company, Columbus, Ohio.