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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    •ontinual expectoration of a white, viscid, frothy matter; oppression at the chest, and a wheezing, laborious respiration. These symptoms, during the spring and summer months, are usually considerably alleviated; but every succeeding winter brings them on with redoubled severity, until the constitu- tion becomes broken : the patient is agi- tated and fatigued ; he is deprived of rest; a lurking fever preys upon his vitals; his lungs are shaken, and their action impaired; digestion, and all the other functions essen- tial to life, are impeded; and at length he is relieved, by friendly Death, from a state of the most miserable existence. Ask the majority of these sufferers, to what they ascribe the origin of their maladies, and they will uniformly tell you, neglected cold.