This section is from the book "Materia Medica And Therapeutics Inorganic Substances", by Charles D. F. Phillips. Also available from Amazon: Materia medica and therapeutics.
A sulphurous acid spray applied to the nostrils often relieves the annoying symptoms of both these maladies. Sulphur-fumigation is also said to have cured them quickly (Dewar, Pair-man), but this cannot always be depended upon (McGregor: Edinburgh Medical Journal, October, 18G9).
 
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