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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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