The reformed practice of medicine : a practical treatise on the prevention and cure of disease, without the use of mineral or vegetable poisons / by Doctor Rosen.

  • Rosen, Doctor.
Date:
[1887?]
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    CHAPTER 4t. Diseases affecting the Chest, liUngM, and Broncliial Tulbes. Catarrh or Cold. This affection is of such common occurence, that it is apt to be too lightly treated or wholly ignored; and yet, no disease is fraught with greater danger. Many lingering and fatal diseases are the consequence of this every day malady. Fever, rheumatism, pleurisy, inflammation of the lungs, and consumption, are all more or less traceable to the simple cold, which if promptly attended to, would have been subdued with a few doses of hot composition tea, or simple herb iniusions, such as sage, yarrow, spearmint, calamint, &c. A severe form of catarrh or cold, sometimes prevails epidemically, and is popularly called influenza. This differs from the or- dinary catarrh only in the severity of the symptoms—the cough attending the common cold, is in this case more troublesome ; the expectoration profusa and frothy, and m the latter period of the disease, thick, yellow, or even greenish. Catarrhal affections, like other forms of disease are caused by obstruction, exposure to damp or cold, wet feet damp clothing, or a sudden change from an inordinately hot apartment into the cold air. These are the principal causes of the pores of the skin becoming closed, and the per- spiration checked. This, in a great measure, will point oat the treatment necessary for a common cold or catarrh, viz.: —composition, or any of the stimulating infusions above mentioned, to restore the due action of the skin ; and the American globules, to allay the irritation of the Bronchia, &c. But in the more severe attacks o f this complaiut, or it the cough is very troublesome and obstinate ; of long stand- ing and complicated, or threatening to attack the substance of the lungs, pleura, or the minute air cells ramifying the lungs, either of the Nos. 1, 2, or 4, will bo found to at once