Lectures on the physiological laws of life, hygiene, and a general outline of diseases peculiar to females .. . cure. Personsthus afflicted should employ an oculist of skill. Thosewho profess to cure these chronic diseases in a fewdays, or by a few treatments, are impostors and quacks,no matter whether they are traveling or permanentlylocated with you. If you are afflicted with this dis-ease do not procrastinate, but buckle on your armorand fight for your health, if you do not wish to throwit away. Chronic catarrh of the air passages of the nose isthe form which is the most prevalent. It diffe
Lectures on the physiological laws of life, hygiene, and a general outline of diseases peculiar to females .. . cure. Personsthus afflicted should employ an oculist of skill. Thosewho profess to cure these chronic diseases in a fewdays, or by a few treatments, are impostors and quacks,no matter whether they are traveling or permanentlylocated with you. If you are afflicted with this dis-ease do not procrastinate, but buckle on your armorand fight for your health, if you do not wish to throwit away. Chronic catarrh of the air passages of the nose isthe form which is the most prevalent. It differs muchin different persons, and also in severity; some haveit for years in a very mild form, whilst others aregreatly afflicted with it, because of the disgusting dis- LIFE AND HYGIENE. 181 charge of a very offensive character, and of a greenishyellow color, sometimes almost like water; whilst inothers it is thick like pus—matter, and stains whitelinen. Again, the discharge may be in the form ofgreenish scabs, a complete or partial cast of the nosedry on its inner surface, and purulent on its outer sur~. Chronic Nasal Catarrh. (After Robinson.) Treatment of chronic nasal catarrh, with the douche spray attached to universal douche. face. This form is of all the most distressing, as it isfrequently quite difficult to bring the scabs away byblowing the nose. I have seen cases where those scabswere over an inch long and hollow, a complete shellor cast of the mucous tract, and so offensive that flieswould follow the sufferer; and yet I have treated andcured such cases; but it often requires from six months 182 THE PHYSIOLOGICAL LAWS OF to three years. But few will continue the treatmentsufficiently long to overcome this loathesome and dis-gusting malady. Ulceration often supervenes, and thevomer partition of the nose is eaten through, the nasalbones become necrosed, diseased or dead, and comeaway, permitting the fleshy part of the bridge of thenose to flatten. This i
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