Pharyngitis
Your throat is a tube that carries food to your esophagus and air to your windpipe and larynx (also called the voice box). The technical name for the throat is pharynx.
You can have a sore throat for many reasons. Often, colds and flu cause sore throats. Other causes can include:
- Allergies
- Mononucleosis
- Smoking
- Strep throat
- Tonsillitis
Treatment depends on the cause. Sucking on lozenges, drinking lots of liquids, and gargling may ease the pain. Over-the-counter pain relievers can also help, but children should not take aspirin.
WARNING: All medicines, drugs, plants, chemicals or medicial precedures below are for historical reference only. Many of these treatments are now known to be harmful and possibly fatal. Do not consume any plant, chemical, drug or otherwise without first consulting a licensed physician that practices medine in the appropriate field.
Physician's Therapeutics Memoranda on Pharyngitis
PHARYNGITIS
General treatment the same as ilr incipient bronchitis. Locally, use frequently as a gargle A ntiseptine or Alkal-antiseptine diluted with four to eight parts of hot water; paint the throat once or twice with tincture ferric chloride containing 5 grs. to the drachm of quinine sulphate; apply suprarenal extract to relieve congestion; gargle with a solution of potassium chlorate and ferric chloride; apply antipyrin by spray. In Chronic Pharyngitis occasional applications of a solu tion of silver nitrate, or of bordglyceride or of glycerite of tannin are often useful; lozenges containing cubeb or menthol.1
General treatment the same as ilr incipient bronchitis. Locally, use frequently as a gargle A ntiseptine or Alkal-antiseptine diluted with four to eight parts of hot water; paint the throat once or twice with tincture ferric chloride containing 5 grs. to the drachm of quinine sulphate; apply suprarenal extract to relieve congestion; gargle with a solution of potassium chlorate and ferric chloride; apply antipyrin by spray. In Chronic Pharyngitis occasional applications of a solu tion of silver nitrate, or of bordglyceride or of glycerite of tannin are often useful; lozenges containing cubeb or menthol.1
References
1) Nelson, Baker & Co., 1904, Physician's Handy Book of Materia Medica and Therapeustics, Detroit, Michigan.