catarrh

• But you seem, I think, to say that you gained reputation even by your defeat; and reputation you will daily gain, if you keep Lord Auchinleck's precept in your mind, and endeavour to consolidate in your mind a firm and regular system of law, instead of picking up occasional fragments My health seems in general to improve; but I have been troubled for many weeks with a vexatious catarrh, which is sometimes sufficiently distressful. —  Life Of Johnson, Vol. 2
• Says another physician, "Though snuff has been prescribed for the head-ache, catarrh, and some species of opthalmia, and sometimes with good effect; yet in all cases where its use is continued_, it not only fails of its medical effect, but commits great ravages on the whole nervous system, superinducing hypochondria, tremors, a thickening of the voice, and premature decay of all the intellectual powers As a diuretic, Dr. Fowler, and others, have found it in some cases to be valuable. —  A Disquisition on the Evils of Using Tobacco and the Necessity of Immediate and Entire Reformation
• The inflammatory state has been called the acute rheumatism, and the other, the chronic rheumatism; I would, however, prefer the terms sthenic and asthenic rheumatism In the same manner, there is a catarrh, which is liable to afflict persons who have often been subject to an inflammatory cold, particularly persons advanced in years; and this depends on a state of indirect debility of the parts, the excitability of which has been exhausted by frequent and violent inflammatory affections. —  Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease
• Simply the fear of "cold"--an unfortunate name for that low form of fever properly called catarrh, and a name which is largely responsible for this mistaken idea. —  Papers on Health
• In the mild forms of nasal-gleet or chronic catarrh, administer the following: Ferri Sulphate, Potassi Iodide, Nux Vomica, each four ounces. —  The Veterinarian

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