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Credit: A practical treatise on nasal catarrh / by Beverley Robinson. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![productive of acute coryza, with great impunity. Certain in- dividuals get their attacks of coryza when they have been exposed to the inhalation of dusts, noxious vapors, or an ill ventilated atmosphere. I have known the mucous lining of the nose to be- come congested and cold in the head to be contracted in a room heated by a furnace, in which there was no perceptible draught and the temperature was elevated and nearly constant. At times acute coryza attacks those who are merely overworked, or pre- vented from taking sufficient rest at night. Each one can care- fully sift the many, and often quite singular efficient causes of an attack of acute coryza. All of those found to be thus influential in producing bad effects are to be rigorously avoided, as well as the more ordinary and well-known causes, such as wet and cold feet, draughts of air, prolonged exposure with insufficient clothing, going out of doors without a covering for the head, etc. Abortive Treatment.—I know of none that can always be relied upon. The one which has in my experience proved the most trust- worthy is the following. Whenever an adult is conscious of having taken a cold in the head, as indicated by the first uncomfortable sensations in the nasal passages, followed by one or more efforts of sneezing, let him commence to take one or other of the accom- panying prescriptions regularly. 1. Sp. ammoniee aromat .... § iss. S. One teaspoonful in sweetened water (§ i.- § iss.) every two hours. 2. ]$ Ammonii carb., Liq. morphise sulph. (U. S.) aa 3 i. Mist, amygdalae ad § iij. M. S. A teaspoonful in water (§ i.- § iss.) every hour during 6 hours and afterwards every hour and a half. For the morphine in the last prescription small doses of the tincture of aconite root may be substituted, with good effects, whenever there are evident febrile symptoms coming on, and the](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21963745_0077.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
