Abstract
What lurks in bottles besides nose drops has long been a subject of discussion. By dropper is meant the standard type of attached, screw capped bottle wherein the hangs submerged in the solution. The patient purchases a bottle of solution of one of the common vasoconstrictors, treats his cold, then puts the bottle away in the family medicine cabinet. It is brought out thereafter when any member of the household has a stuffy nose. The is inserted into the offending nostrils and is then put back into the bottle. Usually the has been inserted well into the nostrils; therefore the questions arise of nose drops being a possible source of transmission of infection from one member of the family to another and of a future cold being complicated by the use of nose drops contaminated from a previous cold. Most persons would not
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