A popular essay on the disorder familiarly termed a cold : in which the means of obviating the various causes are explained in a manner familiar to the meanest capacity; with a collection of approved receipts, and observations on the most popular remedies; principally designed for the use of families / by E. L. White, surgeon, &c. ; to which are added, Annotations, explanatory and practical: exhibiting a new theory on the action of many of the predisposing and exciting causes of catarrh, with original and approved receipts for the cure of that disorder in the United States by J. Stuart,M. D., &c.

  • White, E. L., active 1808.
Date:
1808
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Credit: A popular essay on the disorder familiarly termed a cold : in which the means of obviating the various causes are explained in a manner familiar to the meanest capacity; with a collection of approved receipts, and observations on the most popular remedies; principally designed for the use of families / by E. L. White, surgeon, &c. ; to which are added, Annotations, explanatory and practical: exhibiting a new theory on the action of many of the predisposing and exciting causes of catarrh, with original and approved receipts for the cure of that disorder in the United States by J. Stuart,M. D., &c. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ing frequency of its occurrence, and by its being oftener followed by cala- mitous consequences. Errors in the conduct of individuals, sometimes the effect of ignorance, more generally, however, of folly, usually give rise to its production, and the common do- mestic mode of treatment, influenced by mistaken notions of its origin, tends to render it inveterate. A simple cold is the common fore-runner of the most dreadful diseases incident to human nature, and its importance cannot be too strongly impressed upon the minds of those who are ignorant of medicine.