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In 1828 he published his results, identifying what he called catarrhus aestivus hay fever.
American Connections James Burke 2007
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In 1828 he published his results, identifying what he called catarrhus aestivus hay fever.
American Connections James Burke 2007
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This may be termed catarrhus sensitivus, to distinguish it from the catarrhus contagiosus, and is in common language called a violent cold in the head; it differs from the catarrhus calidus, or warm catarrh, of Class I. 1. 2. 7. in the production of new vessels, or inflammation of the membrane, and the consequent more purulent appearance of the discharge.
Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766
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Professor Busch, of Bonn, authorises me to say that he succeeded in two cases of 'catarrhus aestivus' by the same method: a third patient was obliged to abstain from the use of quinine, as it produced an unbearable irritation of the sensible nerves of the nose.
Fragments of science, V. 1-2 John Tyndall 1856
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The catarrhus contagiosus is a frequent disease amongst horses and dogs; it seems first to be disseminated amongst these animals by miasmata diffused in the atmosphere, because so many of them receive it at the same time; and afterwards to be communicable from one horse or dog to another by contagion, as above described.
Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766
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