Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-02-01
DR.. S.. B. HARTMAN,
Of the Surgical Hotel, Columbus, o.,
Lectures on Catarrh-
Catarrh, a Prolific Source of Disease In
Vulnerable.
Catarrh Capable of Destroying Four Out Of
the Five Senses
A RADICAL AND PERMANENT CURE DISCUSSED.

A RADICAL AND PERMANENT CURE DISCUSSED
Health is the perfect adjustment Of the
human body to its surrounding conditions.
Disease is the failure of the human body to
perfectly adjust itself to its surroundings
| (environment). In hot countries the body
must adjust itself to great and continued
heat or die. In cold countries the body
must adjust itself to low degree of tempera.
ture or perish. In (so-called) temperate
countries. where the depressing heat of the
| tropics prevails part of the season, and the
piercing cold of the arctics the other part,
| the human system must somehow adjust it
self to these fluctuations or disease and
death is the result. The change from cold
to heat which occurs in the spring tends to
produce disease of the blood and nervous
| system, while the change from warm to cold
which takes place in late fall or early
winter tends to the production OF catarrhal
| diseases.
Catarrh is the source of frightful list of
| diseases. It is silent and insidious in its
ravages, but it pervades nearly every house
hold and hovers like pestilence over every
hamlet and city in our land. Catarrh (and
its legitimate consequences) have desolated
| more hearthstones, made wretched more
| happy lives, and ended more brilliant careers
than all other diseases combined. Catarrh
may end in deafness, blindness. loss of
smell, loss of taste, or the entire loss of
| voice. Diphtheria, bronchitis, pneumonia,
consumption and pleurisy begin almost al
| ways as the result of q catarrhal attack.
The worst forms of dyspepsia and Bright's
disease of the kidneys are also the direct
| consequence of neglected cases of acute
catarrh. Even when the victims of acute
catarrh escapes all of the aforementioned
1ioh fbara rapnoipc tho oroha-
bility OF its ending in chronic catarrh. 1t
| is beyond the descriptive powers of language
to portray the peculiar misery of subject
| of chronic catarrh. While these patients
| do not suffer tine acute pain of rheumatism
and neuralgia, or the indescribable anguish
of diseases of the nervous system, yet it
would be very difficult to overpaint the
picture of woe which usually befslls the
sufferers from chronic catarrh.
THE FIRST STAGE OF CATARRH
Cor acute ca:arrh) is commonly known as
ga cold" Catching cold" is the ordinary
phrase for an attack of acute catarrh. 1t
may begin with a slight cough. or hawking
and splitting mucous from the throat or
| running at the nose, or watery eyes; but
| these symptoms, in q large per cent of
cases, continue to grow worse until grave
or fatal disease sets in. Of course some
cases recover without any treatment, but it
is extremely dangerous and foolish to run
such risks. If no attention is paid to the
acute stage it either sets up diphtheria,
| pneumonia, consumption or some other dis
ease or develops chronic catarrh, or at least
leaves the mucous surfaces of the head and
throat especially liable to another attack at
the slightest exposure.
As soon as chronic catarrh has become
| established the victim is never free from a
/ list of disgusting and troublesome symptoms
which are sufficient to make life almost un-
endurable. If the chronic catarrh is of the
| humid variety, an incessant splitting, hawk
ing and blowing of the nose is kept up, to
the great annoyance of patient and others.
The thickened membranes of the nose and
| throat produce snoring, watery eyes and
| deafness.
If the chronic catarrh takes the form of
the dry (atrophic) variety, the thinned mu-
| cous membranes allow free breathing, but
there is continual raw feeling in all of the
air passages, sometimes extending into the
bronchial tubes and lungs. There is also
very offensive breath, dry scabs In the
nose, more or less loss of smell and taste,
and other symptoms too numerous to men,
tiou.
1t would be, indeed, folly for me to de-
scribe in detail this exasperating disease
unless had in view some relief or cure of
those people who are so unfortunate as to
be afflicted. 1t is no longer a question in
my mind as to whether Pe-ru-na can be re-
lied on to cure all such cases. During the
| many years in which Pe-ru-na has been put
to test in all forms and stages of acute and
| chronic catarrh no one year has put this
remedy to greater test than the past year,
especially the winter of 1890. The La
Grippe spread from ocean to ocean like a
devastating fire, leaving in its trail catarrh.
al affections of every conceivable variety in
| such numbers as was never before known in
this country. Pe-ru-na being we'll known
as the best catarrh remedy yet discovered,
| the demand for 1t was SO great that the man
ufacturers could scarcely fill the orders for
1t that came pouring In from all parts of
the United States.
Pe-ru-na was so invariably successful in
| the cure of the thousands of cases in which
it was used that great number OF old cases
of catarrh who had given up all hope of
cure began to use it, with such astonishing
results that it leaves no room for doubt that
every case of catarrh, however long standing
and difficult of cure, can be cured by the
| use of Pe-ru-na.
| TREATMENT
In acute cases, which come as severe
| cold, winegiassful taken in hot water. fol-
ioHeo ny teaSpoonIul every hOur or
| tablespoonful every two hours, as is most
convenient to the patient, should be taken.
In ordinary colds or catarrhal attacks 1t
will be sufficient to take this remedy as
directed on the bottle.
| In old cases of catarrh, whether of the
humid or dry variety, it is only necessary
to take Pe-ru-na exactly as directed on the
bottle. Any one using Pe-ru-na who does not
| realize the benefit they ought from its use
should write me, giving description of the
circumstances, and 1 am usually able to
discover the reason of the failure and help
them to speedy cure. But it is only nee.
essary in the great majority of cases to iol-
low the direction on the bottle and cure is
| certain.
For complete treatise as to the use of
Pe-ru-na in the various stages, varieties and
complications OF catarrh, send at once for a
copy of the Family Physician No. 2. sent