CAP. XCIX. De Coryza, seu Gravedine.
〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, seu Gravedo, The Pose is a defluxi∣on of the excrements of the brain be∣ing crude and thin like water) unto the nostrils, which is accompanied and attended with a fre∣quent sternutation, or sneezing.
Among all kinds of Catarrhs, that which is through the nose, levissima & tutissima est, ac citò curatur, si recens fuerit, & à causa externa concitare. Quae verò diuturna est, à contumaci ce∣rebri intemperie oriunda, difficilè curatur. As al∣so, when it proceeds of a hot distemper of the Liver, which sometimes causeth sharp and hot Catarrhs; by which the nose is often ulcerated, and ill-affected otherways.
Authors doe commend, for the removing of a Pose, the vapour of boiled Marjoram taken in∣to the nose: The fume of Vinegar sprinkled up∣on a red hot Iron is good for the same; and the better si in aceto rosae rubrae prius infundantur: If the defluxion be very cold, dry fumigations of Nigella, Frankincense, and the like, thrown