A Cure for Golds in the Head.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 880, 11 January 1889, Page 4

A Cure for Golds in the Head.

It would seem as if the cure for those worst ‘of small nuisances, colds in the head, which Dr Farrier of King’s College suggested in the Lancet, might prove to be a remedy of very great value. It is a snuff—a white powder—composed of the following ingredients : Hydroohlorate of morphia, two grains; acacia powder, two drachms ; trisnitrat* of bismuth, six drachms—the whole making up a quantity of powdor of which from onequarter to one-half may be safely taken, if neoessary, in the course of twenty-four hours. Dr Ferrier says that with this snuff he has twice cured himself of very violent colds, once, indeed, by taking tiisnitrate of bismuth alone, which is a very powerful remedy for catarrh of the mucous membrane, and is .the most important ingredient in this snuff. Dr Ferrier mentions two other persons who were cured of violent colds by the same Banff, and to these instances we may add that of the present writer, who having a very violent cold coming on, with the sensation of weight iu the temples and the usual disagreeable feeling in the throat, as well as ordinary catarrh, made trial of Dr Ferrier’«„ remedy one evening, and got up on the following morning completely free from cold, which has not since recurred. The snuff, instead of increasing the tenienoy to sneeze, almost immediately begins to diminish London Spectator.