The herald., 1896-01-01
ALMOST AN
EPIDEMIC.
Ninety mine Out of Every Hundred
Americans Are Suffering
From Some Form of
Catarrh.

| When the above statement was made to me
the other day was inc edulous, for, in com
i mon with most Americans, had always sup
| posed our people were among the very health
| lest in the world, and, but for the high stand
ing ami sincerity OF the gentleman making
| this startling statement, should not have be-
| lieved it.
| ''Yes, sir, it is a matter of record that nnety-
nine persons out of Il hundred in this country
are suffering from some form OF ca arrh. got
this extraordinary statement from the health
! report on various counties compiled for the
British government by The Royal College OF
| Physicians and surgeons OF London.
In their report they account for this preva-
! lence OF catarrh on the theory that, as rule.
the American people do not ventlate their
| apartments as frequently MS they hould. nor
! do they bRthe as often as do the English peo.
pie. The continued breathing over and over
| OF vitiated or impure air in whicn are floating
! minute particles or matter, such as dust,
causes deposit to be formed in the air pas
sages of the nose and throat. and as this de-
! posit grows it produces an irritation Of the
| delicate mucous mem branes linin these parts.
! This is followed by Inflammation which, II
not checked, speedily involves the mucous
membranes lining the stomach and other or
| gans of the body"
| Are any particular class Of persons more
subject to eatarrh than others?"
Yes, and this is prov II by the fact that
knife and scis o-s grinders in the large facto-
ries suffer from a peculiar phase OF cstarrh,
! caused by inhaling the minute dust OF the
metal they handle Bakers suffer from another
! phase of he catarrh Produced by flour dust,
! and millers also victims of the dusty at
! mosphere in which they labo. Postoffice
| clerks who work near open windows or doors
! suffer from another form OF catnrrh, and so Oh.
+ ;, long list might be given, proving not only
! that certain classes of people suffer from pc
! cuiiar phases of ca arrh, but also that catarrh
is largely induced by deposit of dust-like
| articles"
''ls perfectly we'll person liable to contract
/ catsrrh?"
! Not necessarily, although the continued de.
! posit of these particles will in time produce
! catarrh. The tpkng of cold, espe tally in
| the head, affords certain means of contract
| ing catarrh il the person be expos d to
dus atmosphere, and unless treatment is
| promptly applied the cat rrh will eventually
| become cnronic and result in numerous COM
| plications which unltss checked, often lead to
| fatal result
! "What is the most common form OF catarrh
| as found in Amerc ?'
"Generally speaking nasal catarrh, and it is
rarely suspected b. the patients thatt they have
| ca arrh at ALL 1t is commony called cold
| in the head accompanied by snuting, hawe-
| ing and splitting, from which the patient may
become so mu h better that they suppose they
| are we'll. Like ali little things Il cold in the
| h au receives bui little attention at the Time,
and that is one reason why SO many persons
suffer from mas 4 cntarrh.'
| "Can catarrh be cured?"
'Yes, sir. it can be perfectly cured, snd if
| trpateQ by DbVSicIAn who undarS Ia udS
| catarrh the cure will be speedy. Under the
| i'm proved methods of treatment used by those
| who understand this disease the old fogy no
| ton that catarrh blood disease and must
| be reached by sending medicine; all through
the system has been exploded by physicians
who arc up to date and understand this dis
| ease"
ais catarrh ever the cause of that bad, dis-
gusting breath which is sometimes found on
I persons?"
''Yes. very frequently. There are cases every
day where some mos charming ladies and the
| most cultured and elegant gentlemen are rem
! dered very offensive by a breath that should
! be sweet and fragrant, and as 1T is delicate
( subject for one friend to speak to another
about this unpe asant condition continues
| and the patients are ignorant OF what causes
| the aversion OF their fr lends -
"Does the successful treatment of catarr h
!
! ana cure this disease?"
''To successfully treat any disease requires n
thorough knowledge of the nature and cause
| OF the disease. and with the many hundred dis
eases now known to the medical pro ession Il
| human life is 100 short a span of time for any
| one man to acquire an accurate knowledge of
more than one class of disease, and tho Z who
master one class OF disease are terme. special
| lists for that disease.
There is in this Office a catarrh specialist
who. by reason of his long experience and in
| innate knowledge of catarrh in its various
! forms has achieved great success in treating
| this disease.
"Do not the services of such specialist come
| so high as to be beyond til reach OF most peo
ple?"
"Not at all. The English and German
! Specialists never charge dollar for their SER
vice and owing to the many cases OF catarrh
both among the rich and poor. their directors
/ have fixed the price for the treatment OF
catarrh at So month, including all medi-
cines, and their tatarrh sp cialist will give
one weeks trial treatment free to all who con
! suit him al the Offices of the English and Ger
man Specialists in the 8yrne building. III ad,
/ dtion to catarrh, tae eXperts of this staff
treat diseases OF the stomach liver and
bowels tape and round worm, niles and fistula,
diseases Of kidneys and bladder, asthma, con.
sum ption, nervous diseases, epilepsy, cancer,
| diseases OF the skin and scalp, diseases OF the
heart and circulation, chronic rheuma tism,
| obesity, deformities and surgical diseases,
| spinal diseases diseases of the eye and eur,
diseases OF the blood, diseases peculiar to wo-
men and private diseases Consultation al
| ways free.