the actions from the bowels and favor the escape of poisonous matter.
The cool water has also a soothing effect upon the fever and nervous
system. If the fever is high, and there is delirium, small doses of
aconite, with water, should be used every half hour or hour, but all
depressing agents of this kind must be used with caution, as profound
prostration sometimes develops. Warm baths, repeated frequently, and
followed by hot lemonade, are of the greatest benefit in reducing the
feverish condition and quieting the patient. The bed should be warmed
after these are administered and the patient given hot lemonade to bring
on free action of the skin, kidneys, and bowels. Where the pulse is
weak, the free use of stimulants, as wine, coffee, tea, and brandy or
whiskey, are required, as the great danger of the disease is a
depression of the heart. In severe bronchitis, pneumonia, and other
complications, appropriate treatment should be applied.

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ACUTE NASAL CATARRH.

Acute Nasal Catarrh, or cold in the head, is an acute inflammation of
the mucous membrane lining the nasal passage which may confine itself to
these parts or extend to the pharynx, larynx, and air-passages below, or
affect the auxiliary sinuses or cavities communicating with the nasal
passages.

The most frequent cause of cold in the head is exposure to sudden
changes in temperature, or draughts of cool air, without taking proper
precaution to protect the body so as to prevent the rapid radiation of
animal heat. In most cases there is an inherited tendency or acquired
weakness, which frequently may be associated with a scrofulous condition
of the whole system, that render these points less resistant, and
consequently invite the morbid changes which result from exposure and
cold. Acute Catarrh also occurs during the initial stage of such
eruptive diseases as measles, typhus, typhoid, erysipelas, etc.

Seldom do we meet with an otherwise healthy individual, who is subjected
to a frequent cold in the head. Impure blood, inherited scrofulous
taints, enfeebled circulation, debility, either general or nervous, are
all advance agents, inviting catarrhal disease, and preventing rapid
recovery from an acute attack, so that a low grade of Chronic Catarrh is
generally the sequence.

SYMPTOMS. The attack is visually ushered in by a chill, or chilly
sensation, feeling of lassitude, followed by a slight fever. These
sym