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tarrhal variety of Coryza is mod frequently met with in 
clamp weather ; and, as might be fuppofed, ofcenett at¬ 
tacks perfons of the mod delicate habits. In general the 
increased fecretion induced gradually unloads the mucous 
membrane, and the complaint goes off. It is frequently 
connected with irritation of the bronchial lining of the 
lungs, and is then cured by the fame meafures as the 
latter affe&ion. 
C. catarrhalis in infants is often however of a violent 
nature ; fo much fo" indeed, that we fhall give a more full 
account of it than of the preceding varieties. This coryza 
generally attacks infants at the bread; it is charafferized 
by freezing, tumefaction of the nofe and eye-lids, and a 
fhining appearance of the flcin covering thofe parts; con- 
lfant open date of the mouth-, a rather dry date of the 
lips and tongue ; the refpiration is accompanied by a na- 
Ihl wheezing. Sucking is impeded, though liquids put 
into the mouth are fwailowed with facility; the infant 
takes the nipple in his mouth, but be has hardly made 
tiiree or four fuftions when his refpiration appears to 
be obdruCled ; his face becomes of a violet colour; he 
precipitately abandons the nipple, utters fome cries, and 
is feized with a fit-of fevere coughing, which leaves him 
in a date of partial dupor. Thefe accidents difappear in 
a fhort time, but are renewed whenever he again attempts 
to fuck. This fird dage of the difeafe lads for four or 
five days, or thereabouts; it is followed by a fecretion 
from the nafal cavities, the exidence and quantity of 
which, 3t lead in new-born children, it is notalways eafy 
to afcertain, becaule it either dries or falls into the pha¬ 
rynx when the infant lies horizontally on its back. The 
abfence of any appearance of malformation of the tongue 
or of the mouth, the facility of deglutition, the occur¬ 
rence of fits of coughing every time the infant attempts 
to fuck, joined with the particular fymptoms before men¬ 
tioned, fuch as a drilling appearance of the lkin of the 
nofe, with a tumefadfion of this part and of the lower 
-eye-lids, a nafal fniffling, the manner of refpiration by 
the mouth, clearly fhow inflammation of the mucous 
■membrane of the nafal cavities. The infant fhould be 
kept warm ; and we fhould direft the attendants to fo- 
urrent its nodrils with a warm decoftion, and carefully 
remove the mucus colledled in them. The infant will 
generally be able to fuck as foon as the date ot the nafal 
cavities permit it to breathe with the mouth clofed. 
S. C. ozsenofa, [from o£n, dench.] An trlcer fituated 
in the nofe, difcirarging a fetid purulent matter, and 
fonretimes accompanied with caries of the bones. Some 
authors have dignified by the term, an ill-conditioned ul¬ 
cer of the antrum. The fird meaning is the original one. 
The difeafe is defcribed as coming on with a trifling 
tumefadfion and rednefs about the ala nafi, accom¬ 
panied with a difcharge of mucus, with which the nof- 
ctril becomes obdrudted. The m.atter gradually affumes 
the appearance of pus, is mod copious in the morning, 
and is fometimes attended with lneezing and a little 
bleeding. The ulceration occalionally extends round 
the ala nafi to the cheek, but feldom far from the nofe, 
the ala of which alfo it rarely dedroys. The ozasna is 
often connected with fcrophulous and venereal complaints. 
In the latter cafes, portions of the oda fpongiofa often 
come away. After the complete cure of all venereal 
■complaints, an exfoliating dead piece of bone will often 
Iceep up fymptoms fimilar to thofe of the ozaena, until 
it is detached. Mr. Pearfon remarks, that the ozatna 
frequently occurs as a fymptom of the Cachexia fiphi- 
loidea. It may perforate the feptum nafi, defiroy the 
offa fpongiofa, and even the oda nafi. Such mifchief is 
now more frequently the effedl of the Cachexia fiphiloi- 
dea than of Lues venerea. The ozaena mud not be con¬ 
founded with abfcefles in the upper jaw-bone. 
The variety we are treating of has its origin, in com¬ 
mon cafes, from a violent degree of catarrhalis ; and 
therefore, when the former complaint is prefent, it is ne- 
ceflary to reprefs it as fad as poffible, by local bleeding 
and counter-irritants, before this unpleafant and intfaff¬ 
able dage of the complaint be induced. When drums 
orfiphilis is the caufe of the difcharge, the general treat¬ 
ment of thofe affedlions mud be had recourfe to. Caufes 
which arife from the former of thefe complaints are the 
mod traftable. 
2. Coryza atonica: defluxion limpid, and without 
acrimony, or fenfe of irritation. Three varieties. 
a. Algida ; from expofure to a keen, frody,air. 
( 3 . Senilis ; from old age. 
y. Superadla ; from long and immoderate ufe of drong 
aromatics, volatile alkali, or fnuft. 
Genus II. Polypus, [from its refemblance to the worm 
of that name.] A flelhy elongated excrefcence, fhooting 
from one or more Oender roots in the cavity of the nol- 
trils, running in different dire&ions, and aftefling the 
fpoech. 
It has lately been the cudom to apply the term polypus 
to a variety of concretions and excref'cences arifing in 
different parts of the body, of very different origins and 
textures, as polypi of the heart, which are perhaps 
always grumous blood, or concrete.gluten ; polypi of the 
uterus and bladder, which are caruncles with a flender 
bafe or peduncle ; and polypi of the trachea, which are 
alfo concrete gluten, occalionally coughed up, fometimes 
folid and branching, fometimes tubular. Dr. Good, how¬ 
ever, has followed Celfus, and mod writers from his time 
to that of Heider, in redoring and limiting it to the 
flelhy and ramifying excrefcence of the nodrils; and he 
divides it into two fpecies. 
1. Polypus pladicus, the foft polypus : foft, compref- 
fible, chiefly pale-red ; apparently originating from dif- 
tention or relaxation of the Schneiderian membrane. 
2. Polypus coriaceus, the bard cartilaginous polypus : 
firm, cartilaginous, chiefly deep-red ; apparently origi¬ 
nating from, or connected with, a caries of the ethmoid 
bone. 
This complaint, being modly the fubjeft of manual 
operation, will be treated of under the article Surgery. 
Genus III. Rhoncus, [Greek.] Hoarfe fonorous breath¬ 
ing from dagnation of mucus in the vocal canal. There 
are two fpecies. 
1. Rhoncus dertor, fnoring or fnorting : the found 
deep and loud ; produced in the larynx and fauces. 
2. Rhoncus eerchnus, wheezing: the found den fe, and 
impeded ; produced below the larynx. 
We cannot help confidering both thefe fpecies as fymp- 
tomatic; though Dr. Good fays, “it requires only a 
flight knowledge of the habits and morbid adlions of the 
animal fyflem to difcover indances in which both forts 
are idiopathic.” But his inode of proving this affertion 
feems rather to favour our opinion than his own ; for he 
dates, that u many perfons have a thick or wheezy refpi¬ 
ration, produced by corpulency, or by changes of the 
atmofphere from hot to cold, or from dry to moid, with¬ 
out any other difeafed adedlion.” 
Of the remaining three genera of this order we fiiall 
merely give our author’s divifions, the fubjeft being am¬ 
ply treated of under the articles Deaf and Dumb, Stam¬ 
mering, Stuttering, &c. 
Genus IV. Aphonia, [from u, priv. and (puvn, voice.] 
Dumbnefs; total inability of fpeech. (Mutitas, Cull. 
and Sauv.) This, we think, fhould have been the lad 
genus of the order-. It contains three fpecies. 
j. Aphonia elingium, duinbnefs from the want of a 
tongue. This fpecies is naturally divided into two va¬ 
rieties : a, congenita, where the deditution is coeval 
with the birth; and 6, where the fame is produced by 
accident, punifhment, or difeafe. In either cafe we may 
naturally fuppofe this to be a radical and irremediable de¬ 
feat. Privarion of the tongue, however, is not always 
accompanied with dumbnefs ; fince we have numerous, 
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