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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    constantly accumulating ? Indeed I have seriously asked myself, on many occasions already, whether one-half the diseases sup- posed to be due to bad drainage in our houses are not rather occasioned by the conditions just referred to. An open fire- place, with wood or soft coal as fuel, is after all one of the great purifiers and ventilators of all apartments, large or small, in cold weather, and is earnestly recommended for adoption by every one who can have one. What precedes is important to the loell-heing of the majority of people j in my opinion it is absolutely essential to the prophylaxis or cttre of those affected with catarrhal inflam- mation of the nasal fossce. II. ACUTE CORYZA. Definitio7i, Synomjms, iTwitor?/.—By this term is designated an acute catarrhal inflammation of the mucous membrane lining the nose and the cavities communicating with it. This mucous mem- brane is properly called the pituitary, or Schneiderian membrane, and its inflamed state is usually attended with discharges of fluid, watery, mucous, or muco-purulent in character. As synonymous terms with coryza, we have gravido, rhinitis, rhinorrhoea, acute nasal catarrh, or vulgarly running at the nose and cold in the head. The last of these terms remains in common parlance as an historical proof of the error of the older writers on this subject, who believed the products of secretion of the inflamed nasal membrane came down from the cranial cavity. It remained for Schneider (1660) to refute this classical mistake in his famous work, De Catarrhis. Nevertheless, amongst the ignorant the notion is still popular that nasal mucus is found in the blood of the brain. To us physicians it is to-day universally known that catarrh of the nose resembles similar inflammations else- where situated, with only those differences attached to it which arise from special situation and structure.
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