St. Paul daily globe., 1892-03-20
Nasal Catarrh, the Insidious
and Treacherous Enemy
Of Mankind,
Produces Mora Painful and
Fatal Ills Than ALI Other
Causes Combined--Phar-
yngitis, Bronchitis, Pneu-
monia, Dyspepsia, In
flammation Of the
Bowels, Bright's Dis
ease, Even Dread
Consumption It.
self, Follow in
Its Wake.

gifts, bronchitis and consumption are
caused either directly or indirectly by
catarrh. The following will make it
plain why this is true:
From the back part of the throat two
large tubes lead downward. One is
called the 9sophagus, and leads to the
stomach. The other. and the one in
which we are now particularly inter-
ested, leads to the lungs, andis called the
trechea, or windpipe. The trachea
divides into two branches Of smaller
size, one leading to each lung. These
branches are called the bronchial tubes.
These tubes divide again and again until
the branches become very small, and
finally each one terminates in all air
cell of the lungs.
Over all these parts, beginning with
the nose, then leading TO the throat.
trachea, bronchial tubes and the many
branches of these tubes, even into the
minute and delicate air cells of the
lungs, there is spread that smooth, vel
yety lining, beautifully pink when
healthy, called mucous membrane. 1t
is called mucous membrane because 1t
exudes or deposits mucous. When this
membrane becomes infiamed in the
nose it is called coryZa, or, in common
terms, cold in the head, repeated at
tacks of which lead to chronic nasal ca
tarrh. when this membrane becomes
intlamed in the lower or back part OF
the throat it is called pharyngitis or
laryngitis-in common language sore
throat. When it becomes intiamed in
the trachea or bronchial tubes it is
called bronchitis or bronchial catarrh.
When the mucous lining of the air cells
of the lungs becomes intlamed it is
itself is attacked by wasting disease.
characterized by the presence of the
bacillus tuberculosis, it is phthisis pull
monalis, commonly called consumption.
Causes of Consumption.
1t has been cCnclusively demonstrated
that consumption is caused by bacil-
lus, and this bacillus has been positively
identified, and its existence in the lungs
is now the supreme and final test of
phthisis pulmonalis OF consumption of
the lungs. The bacillus tuberculosis
floats in the air in large quantities, and
lungs, and only the slightest abrasion
on the lung or bronchial tubes is neces
sary to afford the bacillus lodging
place, where it may multiply with Won
derful rapidity and pursue its deadly
work of breaking down and destroying
the lung tissue, and sooner or later
take the life of the victim.
The Inflammation once started in the
mucous membrane of the nose, see how
naturally and easily it follows this
same membrane wherever it leads, to
the throat, eustachian tubes, inner ears,
causing roaring and partial or total
deafness; to the trachea, bronchial
tubes, lungs, causing bronchitis, and,
indirectly, consumption. The symptoms
of bronchial catarrh are labored breath
ing Oh account of partial filling of the
bronchial tubes; severe. straining
cough, raising a tough, yellow mocus,
often streaked with blood; severe pains
in the chest, cutting through to the
back or shoulders; often some fever,
with chilly, creeping sensations: hot
and cold flashes; frequent wheeling or
asthmatic symptoms. The cough al
most tears the lungs, chest and bronchial
tubes, causing intense suffering, and
frequently bringing sleight stains Of
blood.
Dangers Of COnsumptfOn.
Only slight abrasion! Perhaps only
a slight tenderness or irritation between
catarrh and consump ton, between life
and death! Think of it. Do the thou
sands of catarrhal subjects realize the
awful abyss upon whose brink they
stand?
The physicians of the Copeland Medi-
cal Institute are in no sense alarmists.
Far be it from them to Overstate the
danger from any disease. But, seeing
long since the multiplied ills traceable
directly and indirectly to catarrh, they
believed that they could make them
selves more useful to mankind by de-
voting their lives to the study and cure
of catarrh and its long train of painful
and fatal complications than in any
other way.
The success which they have attained
is not matter of surprise when the time
and study and careful, painstaking labor
and original investigation are taken
into consideration.
The lesson OF this explanation is plain.
To those suffering from any form of
catarrh, whether of nose, throat or
bronchial tubes, the suggestions Of the
lesson are imperative. Take this trouble
in time. Do not wait for the catarrh to
spread from nose to throat, and thence
to run riot through the whole system,
undermining, weakening, poisoning,
breaking down lungs, stomach, heart,
impoverishing the blood. and injecting
into it its virulent impurities; making
the system cOngenial soil for the de-
velopment of every disease, and more
pregnant cause of consumption and
many other diseases than all other in-
huences combined.