CATARRHAL • E-FREE TRANSLATION.COM • Definition of Catarrhal

... seen trained nurses make ready to give baby its first bath in rooms, during the night, that were not heated adequately. I am convinced that many babies have been victims of this careless habit to the extent of grafting on them the tendency to catarrhal colds and bronchitis because of undue exposure at this critical period. If one will remember that a baby has just been removed from an environment where the temperature was suitable and constant, to ...

— The Eugenic Marriage, Vol 2 (of 4) - A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies • W. Grant Hague