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Example sentences for "common cold"

  • Whenever a child has the symptoms of a common cold, attended by hoarseness and a rough cough, always look upon it with suspicion, and never neglect seeking a medical opinion.

  • Hooping-cough commences with the symptoms of a common cold, which is more or less frequent.

  • The lesson for the parent to bear in mind is never to neglect in a child the symptoms of what may seem to be but a common cold, but to seek for advice the moment the cough shows any disposition to become hard, or the breathing hurried.

  • A common cold or catarrh is not one of the ailments of very early infancy.

  • It commences like a common cold, but is soon discovered to be more serious, &c.

  • It began like a common cold, as was remarked also in Ireland.

  • Those few who were affected by a cold in London early in June observed that it differed from a common cold, and resembled the epidemical cold of the year 1762, on account of the great languor, feverishness, and loss of appetite.

  • But there were several undoubted minor, and perhaps localized, outbreaks of an epidemic malady which was in each case judged to be truly the influenza, and not a common cold.

  • It also supervenes on common cold or sore throat.

  • Common cold should be thoroughly understood and intelligently treated in order to prevent more dangerous diseases.

  • This is a subacute or chronic inflammation of some part of the membrane affected in common cold, the disease just described.

  • A common cold or sore throat may be followed by pneumonia if neglected or improperly treated.

  • One of the most difficult practical points about the beginning of this group of diseases is to distinguish them from one another, or from a common cold.

  • A child kept in a badly ventilated room inhales into his nostrils irritating dust or gases, or, more commonly yet, the floating germs of some one or more of those dozen mild infections which we term "a common cold.

  • I know very well that that does not cause blackhead, as this disease comes from a common cold, which descends to the bowels and liver and kills the turkey after a few days' suffering if not relieved.

  • So far as any after-effects of vaccination are concerned, careful investigation of hundreds of thousands of cases has clearly shown that it is not so dangerous as a common cold in the head.

  • For instance, many cases of rheumatism, or rheumatic fever, come after attacks in the nose and throat, which cannot be distinguished from a common cold or ordinary tonsilitis.


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