Diseases of the throat and nasal passages; a guide to the diagnosis and treatment of affections of the pharynx, sophagus, trachea, larynx, and nares . of the hand disengages the vapor,which is snuffed up from time to time. When the vapor be-comes too irritating, the tube is to be withdrawn for a fewmoments and then the process is repeated. In this way theinhalation is alternated between the two nostrils, if both beaffected, the patient reclining in any convenient position, re-cumbent or semi-recumbent, and, if he likes, whiling away thetime by reading or musing. The iodine provokes a now ofser
Diseases of the throat and nasal passages; a guide to the diagnosis and treatment of affections of the pharynx, sophagus, trachea, larynx, and nares . of the hand disengages the vapor,which is snuffed up from time to time. When the vapor be-comes too irritating, the tube is to be withdrawn for a fewmoments and then the process is repeated. In this way theinhalation is alternated between the two nostrils, if both beaffected, the patient reclining in any convenient position, re-cumbent or semi-recumbent, and, if he likes, whiling away thetime by reading or musing. The iodine provokes a now ofserum, and thus relieves the distention ; and probably exertssome beneficial influence, in addition, upon the nerves of theaffected membrane. Pulverized camphor, or camphor and iodine, used in thesame way, is often useful ; as likewise inhalations of chlorideof ammonium, either nascent from the mingling vapors ofmuriatic acid and strong liquor-ammonia, or from the fumesof heated sal-ammoniac. The vapor of carbolic acid, aloneand in combination with the vapor of caustic ammonia is highly 1 C. J. B. Williams : Brit. Med. Jour.: Jan. G, 1SG8, p. ACUTE CORYZA. 339 recommended in Germany, where it is known as Hagers anti-catarrhal mixture. This mixture is composed of one part ofcarbolic acid, three of absolute alcohol, one of caustic solutionof ammonia, and two of distilled water, kept for use in a glass-stoppered dark bottle. When a catarrh is commencing, thepatient pours a few drops on a few layers of blotting paperfolded in a cone, which he holds to his nose, and from which hetakes deep inspirations as long as any vapor is given off, theeyes being closed meanwhile ; and the process is repeated atintervals of two Various other methods are employedmore or less successfully, which it is needless to A cheap and ingenious appliance devised by Dr. Pomeroy, ofNew York, for the inspiration or propulsion of vapors into thenasal passages (Fig. 82), consists of anegg-
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