Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-29
CATARRH as CAUSE OF DISEASES.
Haye / Catarrh? Is a Question Which
Everyone Ought to Care
fully Decide.
HEALTH AND cATAHRH INCOMPATIBLE

fl were asked to name the disease which
most rarely destroys life l would name
catarrh. But were 1 asked to name the
disease which sets up in the system
oftenest diseases which do destroy life
would again name catarrh. Catarrh. while
it remains simply catarrh, very rarely de-
stroys life. although it makes life misera-
BILE; but catarrh surely leads to a host of
diseases, many of which are fatal to life.
The following list of diseases, too we'll
known in this country, are each and all
simply catarrh affecting different organs of
the human body: Consumption, bronchitis,
laryngitis, pharyngitis, stomatitis, rhinitis,
otitis, conjunctivitis, gastritis dyspepsia,
intestinitis (chronic diarrhea and dysen-
tery), yaglnitis, urethritls, nephritis and
cystitis, are each thought by most people to
be essentially different diseases; but the
truth is they are catarrh 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 its cause the same condition.
Catarrh is catarrh wherever located. and the
remedy that will cure it in one organ of the
body 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
composed chiefly of very minute blood
vessels, and that this lining is called mucous
membrane. When this membra is healthy
there is constantly exuding from its surface
a clear, soothing fluid, called mucus; but as
soon as the mucous membrane becomes af-
fected by catarrh the mucus becomes poison
Gus and irritating, causing the mucous mem-
branes to become inhamed or liberated, and
sometimes entirely destroying them. Thus
it is that the mucus, which is 80 useful in
lubricatIng and protecting these delicate
membranes in health, becomes, when
changed by catarrh, corroding and dam
gerous fluid, which frequently eats its way
completely through the tender membrane,
sometimes even destroying adjacent organs.
have seen many cases where the poisonous
catarrhal secretlons of the middle ear had
entirely destroyed the organ of hearing and
had liberated deeply into the bones OF the
head and face. These cases sometimes ter
inmate in death, and never fail to be
source of great discomfort and harm.
Catarrhal secretons in the frontal sinus
"a little cavity in the bone of the forehead
between the eyes) never fails to give rise to
the most persistent headache or neuralgia.
Catarrh in the throat or bronchial tubes
gives rise to an abundance of this acrid,
harmful mucus, which so irritates the
bronchial tubes as to produce chronic
hoarseness or cough, and in thousands of
cases the fluid finds its way down into the
lungs, producing the most fatal form of con-
sumption.
am persuaded, after many years of ex-.
perience 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 no alarm; but suddenly the dread
symptoms of consumption make their ap-
pearance, many times too late to be cured.
A similar explanation will apply TO eatarrh
of the stomach and bowels, which so de-
ranges the fluids of digestion as to produce
dyspepsia, diarrhea and dysentery. When
catarrh attacks the kidneys it at once pro-
duces chronic Inflammation OF these organs,
in every respect resembling Bright's disease
of the kidneys. The acrid mucus formed in
the kidneys by catarrh not only sets up de-
rsngemenis 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 scaldng duids, which destroy and in
fame every part they come in contact with.
Applications to the places affected by
catarrh eau do little good save to soothe or
quiet disagreeable symptoms. Hence ft is
that gargies, sprays, atomizsrs and inhal-
ants only serve as temporary relief. ANY
medicine, to effect a cure, must be taken !
into the system. Pe-ru-na has shown itself |
in cases innumerable to be.capable Of curing |
catarrh by removing the cause.
So long as the irritating secrstions Of |
catarrh continue to be formed, 80 long will |
the membranes continue to be infamed, |
no natter what treatment is used. As soon
as Pe-ru-na has been taken long enough to
act ON the system it changes the |
burning, harmful secretions 70 healthy /
mucus, and the infamed membranes soon
are as well as ever. Pe-ru-na will have |
this effect whether the catarrh affect the |