Goldenrod is mentioned as an herbal remedy as far back as the Middle Ages ( its Latin name, solidago, means " to make whole, " ) and effusions of goldenrod leaves are good for catarrh and phlegmy throats and lungs.
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The word " catarrh " was widely used in medicine since before the era of medical science, which explains why it has various folk medicine of Appalachia, where medicinal plants have been used to treat the inflammation and drainage associated with the condition.
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That same year, he transferred to the Imperial Academy of Arts in Saint Petersburg, where he studied with Pyotr Shamshin and Pavel Chistyakov . In 1882, he was granted leave from the Academy due to " chronic catarrh " of the lungs.
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This was at Yale in the late'60s, during the last wheezing gasp _ the final catarrh _ of the patrician ethos that held that the ultimate status, the highest social perch, belonged to those who seemingly paid no attention to status.
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The Merck Manual of 1899 lists plenty of nostrums for " acute nasal catarrh, " including gargling with a carbolic acid solution, inhaling ammonia or chloroform, adding a bit of arsenic to your cigarettes or taking hot foot baths before retiring.
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Vivien variously suffered from neuralgia, menstrual cramps, fainting fits, malnutrition, " catarrh of the intestines, " septic influenza, paralysis, hysteria, manic depression, panic attacks, paranoia and obsessional behavior, meaning she constantly washed her hands.
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A yellow label on display briskly instructed users : " For catarrh and all head diseases, snuff very little up the nose five times a day until cured; before bedtime put grease up the nose, wash out with warm water next morning ."
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They say they make diverse sorts of it, some hot, some cold, and some temperate, and put therein much of that " chili "; yea, they make paste thereof, the which they say is good for the stomach and against the catarrh.
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She sent a last postcard on 15 July 1944, and died " in hospital " at Auschwitz on 17 July 1944, of " cachexia following intestinal catarrh ", strangely her name is not recorded in the Auschwitz Death Books published by the Auschwitz Memorial and Museum.
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Poor Viv, who gave Eliot his title for " The Waste Land, " but ended up institutionalized under Britain's Lunacy Act, diagnosed along the way with " intestinal catarrh " and an out of whack " moral barometer ."
