A practical treatise on nasal catarrh / by Beverley Robinson.

  • Beverley Robinson
Date:
1880
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Credit: A practical treatise on nasal catarrh / by Beverley Robinson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    A TREATISE ON NASAL CATAUUU. CHAPTER VIL PROPHYLAXIS AND GENERAL REMEDIAL TREAT- MENT OP VARIOUS FORMS OP CORYZA. I. PROPHYLAXIS. In the prophylaxis of inflammatory affections of the nasal fossffi, I include attention to all habits which proceed clearly and forcibly from a due consideration of certain hygienic laws. If these habits be adopted previous to, or in antici- pation of, the development of an attack of acute nasal catarrh, many such will be effectually warded off. If practised subsequent to its initial stage, in a sense they become both proijhylactic and remedial, for whilst they prevent in great meas- ure the recurrence of similar attacks, they also help to abridge the duration and violence of one which is present. I shall consider in this connection a few simple, I might say banal facts of which the practical observance, however, is all important. 1. Care of the feet. 2. Cold bathing. 3. Friction and shampooing. 4. Clothing and temperature. 1. Care of the feet.—They should be kept warm and dry, for certainly there is no more frequent, efficient cause of attacks of acute coryza than cold, damp or wet feet, and as acute attacks of coryza, when often repeated, lead to chronic rhinitis, and to thickening of the pituitary membrane, one of the primary sources of these latter affections, should not be ignored. In order to ward off like troubles, let men, women, and children wear habitually in the streets thick-sole shoes which are suffi-
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