Year: 1872

ed with "only slight dropping in the
throat" as many express it, the
amount of discharge from the air pass.
ages of the head at this stage Of the
disease being only slightly in excess
of health. In some cases the discharge
is thick, ropy aud tough, requiring fire.
qient and strong effort in the way Of
hawking, blowing and splitting to re-
move it from the throat, where it fire.
quently lodges. In other cases, or IN
other stages of the same case, the dis
charge is thin, watery, acrid, irritating
and profuse. The nose may he stop.
ped up from the swollen and thicken-
ed condition of the lining mucous mem.
brane, SO as to necesstale respiration
through the mouth, giving to the voice
disagreeable nasal twang. The dis
ease sometimes assumes a dry form,
there being very little or no discharge.
In some cases the patient suffers from
headache great portion of the time,
or may experience dull, heavy, disa-
greea5le fullness or pressur, III the
mead, with confusion of his ideas, which
renders him quite unfit for business,
especially y such as requires deep thought
aud mental labor, Memory may be
more or less affected, and the disposi
ti0n of those who are otherwise amiable
is often ren, cred irritable, or morose
and dependent. The mental faculties
suffer 10 such extent in some cases as
to result in insanity. The sense of smell
is in many cases impaired, and some.
times entirely lost, and the senses of
taste and hearing may be more or less
affected.


The secretion which is thrown out
in the more advanced stages of Chron-
lc Catarrh becomes 50 acrId, unhealthy
and POISONOUS, that it produces severe
irritation aud inflammation, which
are followed by excoriation and ulcer.
alton of the delicate lining meRbrane
Of the air passages in the head. As
the liberation eats its way up among
the small 5ones the discharge general
ly becomes profuse and often excess.
lively fetid, requires the frequent use
of the handkerchief, and renders the
poor sufferer disagreeable both to him
self and those with whom he associates.
Thick, tough, brownish incrustations
or hardened Jumps, are many times
formed in the head by the evaporation
of the watery portion Of the discharge.
These Jumps are sometimes so large
and tough that it is with great difficult
ty that they can be removed. They
are usually discharged every day or
two, but only to be succeeded by anoth-
er crop. 1t is painfully unpleasant to
witness the ravages OF this terrible dis
ease, and observe the extent to which
it sometimes progresses. Holes are
eaten through the roof of the mouth,
and great cavities excavated into the
solid bones of the face, and in such
cases only the best and most thorough
Treatment, both local and constitutional
will check the progress and fatal ter
mutation of the disease.


Only few of the large number of
symptoms which | have descI ibed as
common to the different stages of Ca
tarrh will be likely to be manifested
ut one time in a single case. Although
they are all common to the disease, in
some Of its stages, yet thousands OF
cases annually y terminate in cOnsump-
J ton or insanity, and end in the grave,
without ever having manifested one
i half Of the symptoms above enumer-
ated.


AS the disease progresses, or fre
quently in it's earlier stages, the
throat is apt t. become affected. 1t
becomes dry, sore or law, or studded
with very small ulcers, which, as seen
through the mouth, look like small
pimples or "canker sores" for which
they are often mistaken. The voice
J may be more or less affected, especial
ly on exposure to cold or over exer-
tion, and hacking cough is not un-
frequent. Creeping along the contin-
uous lining mucous membrane OF the
air passages, the disease gradually ex
ten Is 10 the tarynT, and by the same
process of extension the bronchial
tubes, aud lastly the substance of the
lungs, in their turn, are diseased, and
Bronchitis and Consumption firmly
established. Tightness in the chest,
with difficulty Of breathing, soreness,
darting, sharp or dull heavy pain, or
prickly distressing sensation, accom-
panied with more or less cough ahd
expecto alton, are evidence that the
bronchial tubes have become affected,
and should admonish the sufferer that
he is now standing uTon the stepping
one to Consumption, over whit b
thousands annually tread in their slow,
yet sure, journey to the grave.


TREATMENT OF CATARRH.


If you would remove an evil, strike
ut its root. This is the "common-
sense" or rational way to treat Ca
tarrh. As the predisposing or real
cause of Catarrh is, in the majority of
cases, some weakness, impurity or
J otherwise faulty condition Of the sys-