Upon Googling "common cold", you're likely to get the standard laundry list of symptoms: sneezing, coughing, mucus production, headache, fatigue, possibly aches and shivering. Nothing serious. The advice is very general: rest and plenty of warm fluids, avoid chills, take pills, see your doctor if it takes a turn. We're so used to common colds - hence the "common", vulgaris, meaning "low" or "plain" or "ordinary" - that we generally don't give them a second thought. We go to work and school with them, spread them around willy-nilly, shrug them off as little more than a seasonal occurrence. Colds are so mild in most cases that we simply forget we were ever sick. And because of their seemingly run-of-the-mill nature, very rarely do we see an instance of the cold - that is, a very particular one in an individual patient - described in any meaningful way. Part of this, of course, is the grab-bag nature of cold symptoms, anything...
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