The age-herald., 1902-02-11

ed the ear. The real organs of hearing C. 3, 4. D are nearly two inches inside the head The ear drum curtains or or blocks the air from the auditory canal entering the internal ear, therefore. air can only enter a sound ear through the canal, (B to ? called the "Eustachian tube" which passes from the throat to the cavity of the middle ear.
 Without air in the middle ear sounds cannot be heard. Most cases of deafness are due to either swollen mucous mem branes lining the Eustaschian tubes, or catarrhal secretions called ''mucus." " more or less blocking up or closing the tubes and interfering with the circulation of air in the middle ear.
 The chronic infiammatory process in the lining membrane of either EuStachian tube causes 1t to swell and in many cases actually become thickened so as to dimin- ish it's caliber or even close 1t up.
 Closure may be complete or only par tial the hardness of hearing being usual ly in proportion to the degree of ob- struction. Catarrh of the Eustachian tubes is the most frequent cause of head noises" as well as of deafness.
 Nearly all head noses'' are due to some interference with the circulation of air through the Eustachian tubes. Any swelling, thickening. excessive secretion, or disease of any kind that results in partial or complete closing of these tubes may cause ''tinnitus aurium. The va rious head noises may resemble the es- cape of steam, the roaring of the ocean, tha ringing of bells, the singing of a tea kettle, in fact almost every conceiva- ble sound may add materially to the ex- isting distress, irritate and annoy during the day and prevent sleeping nights.
 It is difficult to get local applications into the EuStaschian tubes and even if YOU could they would likely do more harm than good. Local applications will not cure catarrh for it is a constitutional or systemic disease of which the dis eased mucous membrane is but mani festation.
 The rational, proper and only successful trItment for catarrh is the internal ad- ministration of searching alterative reme- dies that will neutralize catarrhal poi sons and correct the constitutional or systemic taints, after this is accomplish ed the local lesons of the mucous mem branes will disappear.
 The same systemic remedy that will cure catarrh in one part will just as surely cure catarrh everywhere else it may be manifest
 A local application may drive in or sup press catarrh at one point only to have IL appear eiSeWhere' peiilaps III d more dangerous place. but it never really cures. The catarrh shows itself elsewhere or reappears at the original location when the local treatment is stopped.
 Not so where systemic remedies are used With them when the disease Is mastered it will stay cured.
 This is why those who have been cur ed by using Stuarts Catarrh Tablets are so enthusiastic regarding the remedy, and why these tablets uniformly cure ca tarrh in every nook and corner of the body, cure it flor keeps"
 Stuart's Catarrh Tablets can be bought at any drug store for 50 cents a box. The F. A. Stuart Co.,, Marshall. Mich, publish A book on catarrh and its cure which they will send. free and prepaid, to all who apply for it. A postal card will bring it Write for 1t today.