pleasant effect in thus using it, for, unlike any
other fluids (simple tepid water not excepted), it does not produce the
slightest pain or disagreeable feeling, but, on the contrary, leaves
such a cooling, pleasant sensation that its use soon becomes a pleasure
rather than a task. In a few minutes after thus using the remedy, it
should be blown out gently (never forcibly), to clear the nose and
throat of all hardened crusts and offensive accumulations, if any such
exist. Never blow the nose violently, as it irritates the passages and
counteracts, to some extent, the curative effects of the remedy. This
process should be repeated until the remedy has been thoroughly applied
two or three times, not blowing it out the last time of using it, but
retaining the medicine in contact with the affected parts for a
considerable length of time. No harm can result if the fluid be
swallowed, as it contains nothing poisonous or injurious.

A BETTER WAY. The manner of using Dr. Sage's Catarrh Remedy, advised
above, is somewhat imperfect and not nearly so thorough a mode as the
one to which the reader's attention will now be directed.

In a very large number of bad cases of catarrh, or those of long
standing, the disease has crept along and extended high up in the nasal
passages, and into the various sinuses or cavities, and tubes
communicating therewith. The act of snuffing the fluid _carries it along
the floor of the nose and into the throat_, but does not carry it _high
enough_, or fill the passages _full enough_, to reach all the chambers,
tubes, and surfaces, that are affected with the disease.

The fluid may seem, from the sensation produced, to pass high up between
the eyes, or even above them, but it does not. It is only a sensation
transmitted to these parts by nerves, the filaments of which are
distributed to that portion of the mucous membrane which the fluid does
not reach, just as a sensation is transmitted to the little finger by a
blow upon the elbow.

Now, in order to be most successful in the treatment of catarrh, it is
necessary that _the remedy should reach and be thoroughly applied to all
the affected parts_. This can be accomplished in only one way, which is
by _hydrostatic pressure_. The anatomy of the nasal passages, and the
various chambers and tubes that communicate therewith, is such that they
cannot be reached with fluid administered with any kind of syringe or
inhaling tube, or with any instrument, except