The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-10-22

J. NEWTON HATHAWAY.
Catarrh is the mother of consumption.
BY this l do not mean that every case
of catarrh develops into consumption but
! do mean that catarrh when unchecked.
and when given the proper opportunities
for extension from its place of beginning,
which is the nasal passages, deeper and
deeper along the breathing tract, invara-
bly, ends in consumption of the lungs
CONSUMPTION.
That diseased condition which is catarrh
when it is confined TO the nose and upper
throat, becomes laryngitis when il attacks
the vocal cords and lower throat; Is bron-
chitis when II passes along the mucous
lining of the bronchial tubes and deve-
opes into consumption of the lungs when
it attacks the lung cells themselves.
Catarrh seldom destroys any considera-
BILE part of the mucous surface of the up
per air passages; It infiames and congests
them, causing usually "a superabundant
and offensive discharge; but when il
reaches the intensely delicate lining of the
hair-like lung tubes, and little lung cells,
the inflammation and congestion which it
causes, closes these small air passages,
and, allowing the putrid discharged matter
to accumulate, causes a rotting away of
the membrane resulting in what we call
consumption of the lungs
HOW CONSUMPTION IS CAUSED.
Imagine, If you can, the mucous which
drops back into your throat when you have
catarrh, collecting in a cavity in the back
part of your throat and remaining there;
how long do you think Il would be before
the decay of the membrane containing this
putrid matter would begin? This is pre-
cisely what does happen in the deep re-
cesses of the lungs when catarrh has en-
tered them.
THE TENDENCY OF CATARRH.
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once obtained a foothold In any portion
of the mucous membrane which lines ev-
cry cavity of the body, is to constantly
extend in every direction.
Catarrh in almost every instance starts
with what Is commonly known as cold In
the head. This cold is added to by anoth-
err, because of some extra exposure or
weakening of the system, and becomes
chronic. Nasal catarrh is the result. I'm
less a radical cure of this condition is ef-
fected, the disease passes rapidly TO the
throat to the bronchial tubes and then to
the lungs themselves.
A WARNING.
wish in this article to sound
note of warning so strong that no
sufferer from catarrh. even In its most
simple form will misunderstood.
Catarrh, unless cured before IL reaches
the smaller tubes and small cells of the
lungs. is just as sure to result in con-
sumption-that most fatal of all diseases
as is the moon to wane and grow.
NEW LUNGS.
Consumption cannot be cured. New
lungs cannot be made for man any more
than new fingers or new nose: but ca
tarrh can be cured in all its stages except
this final and always fatal one.
A CERTAIN CURE.
In an experience of twenty years, dur
ing which time / have treated many thou
sands of cases of all forms of catarrh,
have never yet failed to effect a radical
and permanent cure. The method / EN-
ploy is one exclusively my own, and the
remedies which I use are prepared under
my personal direction in my own iabora-
tories.
TOO LATE.
No sufferer from catarrh should allow
another winter to add to his disease. He
should begin a systematic course of treat
ment at once before the severe weather
of winter drives the disease deeper and
deeper along the mucous lining of the
air passages A very severe case may be
cured now with comparative ease that next
spring would be beyond the help of hu-
man skill.
Many people imagine they have consump-
ton, when in reality the disease has not
quite reached that stage. l am treating
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So long as the process of decay had not
begun in the lungs themselves. can make
the patient perfectly well and strong again.
DYSPEPSIA.
/ wish also to say word about that
very common disease, dyspepsia. More
than four-ffths of the cases of dyspepsia
which have come under my observation
during the last twenty years were trace
able 10 catarrh-either catarrh of the
stomach or the constant swallowing OF
poisonous mucous which had dropped from
the nose back into the throat, irritating
the stomach and seriously interfering with
the digestion of food.
BLADDER TROUBLE.
Another not uncommon form of catarrh
is catarrh Of the bladder, a most painful
disease indicated by an intense burning
sensation when urinating, frequent desire
to urinate, and a constant bearing down
and burning sensation in the lower part
of the pelvis.
have to see a case of either catarrh Of
the stomach or catarrh Of the bladder that
l cannot speedily relieve and absolutely
cure.
BEGIN AT ONCE.
Let me once more urge all catarrhal suf-
ferers to begin treatment at once, for a
month OF treatment at this season Is bet
ter than the three months of January,
February and March.
| shall make for the next month a spe-
cially low fee for the treatment Of catarrh
not complicated by other diseases, making
no extra charge for all medicines, etc,
that may be required.
J. Newton Hathaway.
DR. Hathaway g. Co.,
% East Bryan street, Savannah, Ca Of
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