Catarrh

Simply the fear of "cold" -- an unfortunate name for that low form of fever properly called catarrh, and a name which is largely responsible for this mistaken idea. ❋ John Kirk (N/A)

'My health seems in general to improve; but I have been troubled for many weeks with a vexatious catarrh, which is sometimes sufficiently distressful. ❋ Boswell, James, 1740-1795 (1887)

[Illustration: E.M. Baily, Esq.] _Gentlemen_ -- I write this to let you know that I am well of that disease called catarrh of the head. ❋ Ray Vaughn Pierce (1877)

Chronic inflammation of the bladder, sometimes called catarrh of the bladder, an affection that is elsewhere herein fully treated of, and chronic inflammation of the kidneys, and true Bright's disease, as well as prostatic disease, are all liable to result from strictures of the urethra. ❋ Ray Vaughn Pierce (1877)

In the same manner, there is a catarrh, which is liable to afflict persons who have often been subject to an inflammatory cold, particularly persons advanced in years; and this depends on a state of indirect debility of the parts, the excitability of which has been exhausted by frequent and violent inflammatory affections. ❋ Thomas Garnett (1784)

This situation sometimes continues many months, or even years, and so much matter is evacuated after making water, or at the same time, by the action of the muscles in the vicinity of the sinuses, that it has been mistaken for an increased secretion from the bladder, and has been erroneously termed a catarrh of the bladder. ❋ Erasmus Darwin (1766)

When it is stopped by any reason, such as catarrh or disease, the skin fails in its work, and the noxious matters, instead of being expelled from the body, are thrown back into the system. ❋ Unknown (2004)

.. n V 1 and sale of or corporation to manuiacture any so-called catarrh pow - cocaine, etc., prohibited. ❋ Unknown (1663)

a desquamation of epithelia -- the latter usually slight in character -- which constitutes what is known as a catarrh; while with a fibrinous or albuminous exudation there is usually more or less destruction of the tissue itself, when, for example, we have "croup" or ❋ Unknown (N/A)

Of the more common causes as given above, the adenoids should be removed, and the chronic catarrh which is invariably the cause of the ulcer should be cured. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

She replied that she was troubled with a kind of catarrh, and that she could neither move hand nor foot. ❋ Unknown (1855)

That afternoon my "catarrh" was in such a state that Charles Sumner, coming in at five o'clock and finding me covered with mustard poultice, and apparently voiceless, turned to Dolby and said: "Surely, Mr. Dolby, it is impossible that he can read to-night." ❋ Charles Dickens (1841)

‘My health seems in general to improve; but I have been troubled for many weeks with a vexatious catarrh, which is sometimes sufficiently distressful. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Evidence abounds that induced air-borne diseases such as catarrh, cough, lung cancer and impaired vision that have affected the lives of numerous citizens in that geo-political zone could be traced to gas flaring and unbridled oil spillage. ❋ Unknown (2009)

"My health feems in general to improve; but I have been troubled for many weeks with a vexatious catarrh, which is fomedmes fufficiently diftrefsfijl. ❋ Unknown (1791)

And by this simple process of basic epidemiology grotesque, slime - and catarrh-dwelling, tendril-dragging germs gain direct access to our apartment building. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Patients with the highest positive scores (over 50 percent of patients who self-scored a +2 or +3 on a 7 point Likert scale from -3 to +3) were achieved in the treatment of anxiety, catarrh, colic, cystitis, depression, eczema, irritable bowel syndrome, and PMS. ❋ Dana Ullman (2010)

I've had a [cold] and its [left me] with a lot of [catarrh]. ❋ Knitting Nanny (2018)