The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-03-26
Catarrh as Cause Of Diseases,
HAVE l CATARRH? is A QUESTION
WHICH EVERYONE OUGHT TO CARE.
FULLY DECIDE.
Health and Catarrah Incompatible.

If were asked to name the disease
which most rarely destroys life l would
name catarrh. But were asked to name
the disease which sets up in the system of.
t9nest diseases which do destroy life
would again name Catarrh. Catarrh, while
it remains simply catarrh, very rarely de-
stroys life, although it makes lie miser-
able; but catarrh surely leads to host oil
diseases many of which are fatal to life.
The following list of diseases, too well
known In this country, are each and all
simply cataTrh affecting different organs OF
the human body: Consumption, bron.
ehitis, laryngitis, pharyngius, stomatits,
rhinitis, ottiis, conjunctivilis, gastritis,
(dyspepsia) lntestinIis (chrohic diarrhRa
and dysenlery), vaginitis, urethris, nephli.
It's and cystilis, are each thought by most
people to be essentially different diseases
but the truth is they are ca arrh of the
muCus lining of the various organs. A
medicine that is applicable to any one OF
the above list Of diseases is applicable to
them all, as each one has for 8 cause the
same condition. Catarrh is catarrh wher
ever located, and the remedy that will cure
it in on organ of the Lody will also cure it
in any other organ.
AS have had occasion to frequently say
in former lectures, all the organs of the
body are lined by delicate pink lining COM
posed chiefly of very minute blood vessels,
and that This lining is called mucus mem
brane. When this membrane is healthy
there is constantly exuding from its sur
face clear, soothing, fluid called mucous /;
but as soon as the mucus membrane be-
comes affected by catarrh the mucus be.
comes poisonous and irritating, Causing the
mucous membrane to become intlamed or
liberated, and sometimes entirely destroy
them. Thus 1t is that The muCus which is
so useful in lubricating and protecting
these delicate membranes in health, be-
comes when changed by calarrh, a corrod =
ing and dangerous fluid, which frequently
eats its way completely through the tender
membrane, sometimes even destroying ad
jaCent organs. | have seen many cases
where the poisonous catarrhal Sc retions of
the middle ear had entirely destroyed the
organ of hearing and had liberated deeply
mo the bones of the head and face. These
cases sometimes terminate in death, and
never fail 10 be source of great discomfort
aad harrA.- -...,..
Catarrhal secretions in the frontal sinu>
Ia litlleEcaviry in the bone of the forehead
between the eyes) never fails to give rise to
the most persistent headache or neuralgia a.
Calarrh in the throat or bronchial tubes
gives rise to an abundance of stEis acrld,
harmful mucus, which SO initiates the
bronchial tubes as to produce chrome
hoarseness or cough, and in thousands of
cases the fluid finds its way down into the
lungs, producing the most fatal form of
consumption.
am persuaded, after many years of ex-
perlence in the treatment of consumption,
that nearly every case Is due to chronic
catarrh. The catarrh may have been so
slight previous to The development as to
cause 10 alarm; but suddenly the dread
symptoms of consumption make their APP
pearance, many times too late to be cured
A similar explanation will apply to catarrh
OF the stomach and bowels, which 30 de-
ranges the fluids OF digestion as to produce
dyspepsia, diarraGa and dysentery. When
catarrh attacks the kidneys 1t at once pro-
duces chrome Inflammation OF these or
gans, III every respect resembling ,Brghts
diseases OF the kidneys. The acrld mucus
formed in the kidneys by catarrh not only
sets up deiangemtn ts OF these organs, but
frequently also the other urinary organs.
In short calarrh is capable of changing
all OF the life glVint secretons OF the body
into scaldlng fuldS, winch destroy AID in
flame every part the come In contact with,
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