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Catarrh

There is perhaps no complaint so common as catarrh, or cold in caused by the inhalation of the pungent aroma of spring grass and hay, but the inhalation of the powder of ipecacuanha will also produce it in certain individuals. In places where the rose is largely cultivated, similar attacks sometimes occur; it is then called rose fever or rose catarrh.

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