Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1857-11-12
HOW TO PREVENT COLDS.

If people were blessed with common
sense, and o little wholesome self.denial,
they might often escape severe colds and
fevers by resolute measures adopted in sea-
son. A correspondent of the Evangelist
sends the following communication, giving
an infallible recipe for bad cold if it is
handled in time. Perhaps some of ourread-
ers may have courage to make the expert.
ment. ..-.-.... 49,.
"There is probably not man, woman,
or child, who is not as often as once year
afflicted with severe cold, which ends in a
cough or catarrh; and thousands there are
WHO die every yearof consumption, brought
on by taking cold. He, then, who should
discover a certain. and efeetual remedy for
this complaint, would be justly regarded as
one of the greatest benefactors of the age.
The writer does not profess to have discov-
cred such remedy, but he wishes to attest
the truth of the following certain and effect
ual expedient for preventinga cold. A cold
cannot be easily cured, but" if It can be pre-
vented, it is of no importance to know how
it may be cured.
GA bad cold, like measles or mumps, or
other similar ailments, will run its course in
about ten days, in spite of what may be
done for it unless remedial means are EN-.
ployed for it within forty-eight hours of its
inception, Many a useful life might be
spared to be increasingly useful, by cutting
a cold short off in the following safe, but
simple manner. On the first day of taking
a cold, there is very unpleasant sensation
Of chilliness. The moment you observe
this, go to your room and stay there. j. Keep
it at such temerature as will entirely pre-.
vent this chilly feeling, even if it requires
100 degrees of Fahrenheit.
"In addition to this, put your feet in wa
ter half leg deep, as hot as you can bear it,
adding hot water from time to time for q
quarter of an hour, so that the water shall
be hotter when you take your feet out than
when you put them in. : Then dry them
thoroughly, and put on thick, warm woollen
stockings, even if it be summer-for sum-
mer colds are more dangerous-and for
twenty hours eat not an atom of food, but
drink as largely as you desire of any kind Of
warm teas, and at the end of that time the
cold will be entirely broken without any
medicine whatever. Efficient as the above
means are, not one in thousand attends to
them; led on as the most men are by The
hope that a cold will pass away of ITSELF
Nevertheless, this article will now and then
pas, under the eye Of a wise man who does
not choose to run the risk Of trying physic
and dying too."-Nedical Journal.
The above expedient is severe one for
epicures and gluttons, but most persons will
find it easier to fast one day than to be sick
a fortnight. The writer has usually found
that fasting for three or four meals is sufi-
cient, but doubtless the whole remedy is
better than part. ..... q.
Let those who are often afflicted with
colds-ministers, students, and consump-
tives generally-cut out the above direc.
tions and preserve them !; if faithfully fol-
lowed, they will do you more good than all
the pulmouaries, cold cordials and other
hurtful nostrums, which now load your
shelves. ..