The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1883-03-03

MR.. EDITOR Il nave been troubled with a
cold in the head" lately, due, 1 fancy, to the
unsettled state of the weather, and / have tried to
get rid of it in various ways. At last, after I had
given up all hope and ordered a couple of dozen of
stout handkerchiefs, 1 was advised to try st.
Jacobs Oil. 1 did so, and-my cold was as bad as
ever. This 1 discovered to be due to the fact that
the "only one thing" that the oil would not cure
was "a cold in the head" 1 had about deter
mined to abandon all further attempts at a cure,
and to resign myself to the few short years that l
should live, to a sneezy state OF existence, when 1
CHANGED to read the following in a late number of
Hdrper's Weekly. by DIR. Titus Munson Coan.
{" To cut short a cold in the outset. When the cold
begins in the head with sneezing, watery eyes and
defuxion, the following treatment will cut it short
four times out of five but it must be taken at
once, or at the latest within six hours after the
first symptoms occur. Fill a tumbler half full of
tepid water -four ounces)' (f he had said four
fingers 1 should have been able to measure more
exactly, add to it twenty drops of landanum,
close the left nostril with the forefinger of the left
hand, incline the head to the right, and holding
the glass in the right hand, press the edge of if
against the right nostriL inclining the glass, then
sniff up very slowly a quantity of the solution
until you feel it beginning to run down at the back
part of the throat. Reverse the operation for the
other nostril. Do not blow out the laudanum and
water at once. but let it remain a minute, or until
the singing sensation that it causes grows less.''
Such were the directions and though my hopes of
obtaining the promised relief were somewhat
dampened by the remarks in the directions that sit
must be taken at once, still 1 determined on
making a trial: 1 had some little difficulty in
purchasing the laudanum as, in the first place /
called tin consequence of the cold laudnub >
and the drug clerk didn't understand me and
then he wanted to know who had prescribed it,
and when 1 told him as we'll as my stuffed up head
would permit me, DOCTOR Titus Bunsud Coad,"
he professed ignorance of the existence of any such
practitioner, and 1 had to get a copy of the weekly
containing the article to satisfy him. Finally /
got the laudanum with the bottle ornamented
a half tumbler according to directions, as we'll as
my frequent paroxysms of sneezing and my watery
eyes would permit. 1 closed {" the left nostril with
the f~orefnger of the left hand, 4" land had 1.-THE
fnger-nearly blown off by a violent sneeze)
inclined my head to the right, pressed the edge of
the glass against the right nostril, inclined it a
little, and-blew the diluted laudanum out of the
tumbler, with another sneeze. After this convul-
sion had passed over I mixed another tumbler with
drops of something besides laudanum-and sugar
that 1 happened to have handy, which L drank.
After this mixture had ceased " to run down at
the back of the throat, 1 prepared another dose
of water and laudanum, and tried reversing the
process. That is 1 plugged up the right nos
tril with the f%orefnger of the right hand,
inclined my head to the left side, and inclin-
ing the glass attempted to " sniff up very slow
ly a quantity of the mixture I didn't feel
any of it permeating my nasal organ, and inclined
head and the glass a little more, and yet a
little more, and then felt it SO beginning to run
down the front of my throat ~(outside) and
saturating my shirt bosom and vest. The sudden
start I gave split the rest over the balance Of nv
clothing, and for the next minute the surrounding
atmosphere was murky with violent explosives
and a hr1rrioan e of SnaaZeS When / had nartioJIu
from the fit, / stopped up the broken
window pane through which 1 had hurled the
bottle and tumbler, and gathered up the
remains of the Weekly scattered about
the room. As I did so, the following caught my
infamed eyes 90 If the symptoms are not checked
by the first trial, repeat it a few times" 1
didn't read any further, but sat down to give you
the above experience. AH-KIsH-U