Observations on epidemic catarrh

Of the Epidemic Catarrh of the Year 1788

N fome of the earliefh inftances I had occafion to fee of this epidemic in London, the patients dated their complaints from the latter end of June ; but the difeafe could hardly be faid to occur with much frequency before the fecond week of July; from which period, till about the fourth week cf that month, feemecL to be the fpace of time in which it was moft prevalent. In the beginning of Auguf...

Of the Epidemic Catarrh of the Year 1788

Infectious Catarrh of Mice

A natural outbreak of an infectious catarrh in a colony of Swiss mice is reported. The disease was generally characterized by a peculiar chattering sound during life and by a rhinitis, an otitis media, and a pneumonia at autopsy. The pneumonia was slowly progressive and terminated fatally in a high percentage of cases. The mortality in a group of 75 naturally infected mice was 95 per cent over ...

Senile Uterine Catarrh

The Rational Treatment of Catarrh

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