The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-12-26

ABOUT THE PASSING OF CATARR
INTO CONSUMPTION.
symptoms Indicating the Progress Of the Disease by Copeland

When Catnrrh has existed in the
head and upper parts of the throat for
any length of time, the patient living in
a district where people are subject to
catarrhal affections, and the disease has
been left untured, the Catarrh almost
invariably extends from the Throat down
the windpipe and thence into the Bron-
chiai Tubes. These tubes convey the air
into the different parts of the Lungs AS
a result Of the extension of the disease
the Bronchial Tubes becomes affected
from the swelling and the mucus that
Is poured out by the Catarrh, together
with the swelling. sometimes plugs these
tubes up so that air can not pass freely
through them as 1t should. Shortness of
breath follows, and one so afflicted
breathes with difficulty. In other cases
Ing inside the chest. AT this period Of
the extension OF the disease the breath
ing is usually more rapid than it should
he. There are frequently felt hot hushes
The pain which accompanies this con-
dition Is Of dull character, felt in the
present under the shoulder blade. This
pain may come and go, last few days
and then be absent for several others.
The cough that occurs at this time Is
dry, comes on at varying intervals, fs
hacking in charactersand Is usually most
troublesome in the morning upon arising
or on going to bed at night. This pecu-
liar character of the cough Is often the
first evidence that Catarrhal disease is
extending into the lungs. At first there
may be nothing brought up bv the cough,
then there will be little tough. sticky
mucus raised. which the patient finds
great difficulty in bringing up. Sometimes
there are fits of coughing, so violent,
brought on by the efforts to dislodge the
tough mucus, as to cause vomiting.
Later on the mucus that Is raised may
be found TO contain particles of yellow
matter. and this proves that the smaller
lung tubes are beginning to be involved
by the disease
the Throat and into the Lungs In a very
few weeks; In other cases 1t may be
months and even years before the disease
passes from the Throat into the Lungs.
When the disease invades the chest there
II almost sure TO be more or less fever.
and this differs In severity at different
periods OF the day.
In some cases the patient loses
strength and flesh slowly. the muscles
gradually wasting away. Then there viii
come mefids he will gradually regain
some OF his lost strength. only to lose Ii
again after a fresh cold has been taken.
The fresh cold causes the disease to ex-
tend further and go deeper into the Lung
Tubes. until finally IL enters the struc-
ture of the lungs themselves.
A weak stomach and a dislike for food.
which seems to have lost all its agreeable
taste. often causes. the sufferer to Imagine
that he only has disease of the stomach.
To show what can be done In the way
of preventing consumption, nothing is so
that Doctor Copeland every year treats
scarcely person who has been under
his care has been known TO develop lung
disease. THIS In proof beyond question
that by cutting catarrh development Of
consumption is prevented