Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-01-23
DR.. HARTMAN.
AsYNOPs1s OF his LECTURE ON COLDl

AsYNOPsIs OF HIS LECTURE ON COLDS.
How to Catch Tbsn-HOw to Avoid Them
How to Cure Them-The SneezInE Epi.
demic Outdone by Pe-ru-na.
NAMES IN COMMON USE.
The various names by which the malady
of Catching cold'' is known are many, and
subject to change with each change in
theory or within respecting its cause. In
fuenza, coryza, acute catarrh, distemper and
catarrhal fever have each their advocates,
who think their particular name the best
one. But the more common name of "catch-
ing cold" is, perhaps, as expressive of the
cause of this universal complaint as any of
the more scientific titles. Therefore, "a
cold" is the name that will be used in this
lecture to designate this distressing and
eVer-present disease.
CAUSES.
As is limited by the name, "a cold" is the
result of an exposure to cold in some form.
The exposure to produce the effect of 'ta
cold" must be q peculiar one. An equal
exposure of the whole body at one time,
whether sudden or gradual, rarely results
in catching cold. People who are much
exposed to the weather, fair and foul, are
not so liable to catch cold as those who
spend most of the time indoors. A par
tial exposure of the body to cold or wet
the feet, for instances much more likely
to cause "a cold" than a like exposure of
the whole body. A draft on u portion of
the body will cause one to take cold more
certainly than to face a gale with the
whole person. Depressed states of the
system, from too close confinement in
warm rooms, or illy-ventilated rooms, bad
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or incorporate habits, all are favorable to
frequent colds. Catching cold frequently
occurs without any seeming explanation.
One sometimes goes to bed at night perfectly
well, and wake in the morning with a cold.
A cold sometimes comes suddenly upon a
person in midday engaged in their usual
employment, with no intimation as to its
origin. Again. colds sometimes seem to
sweep over a country like an epidemic, due
to some miasmatic, electric or atmospheric
cause unknown.
SYMPTOMS.
In each case slight differences appear due
to the state of health and peculiarities of
the constitution of the Individual. Sneez-
ing and slight chilly feelings are followed
by a watery emulation from the nose, which
soon becomes sore, and cold sores may ap-
pear about the mouth-a puffy, bloated
feeling in the face and head, and sometimes
severe headache, cough, sore throat, loss of
appetite, aching in the bones of the whole
body, are more or less pronounced in nearly
every case. Hawking, splitting, blowing,
wheeling, sneezing, %shivering, yawning,
stretching, coughing, gagging and belching,
combine to make the victim as miserable as
Hny disease known to man.
THE DANGERS.
Although "a cold" is rarely directly fatal,
yet it is the most productive source of in
durable diseases that is known to the med
icaI profession. At least one-third of the
deaths in the United States are easily traced
to the effects of a cold. Group, bronchitis,
asthma, catarrh. consumption, pleurisy,
diphtheria, pneumonia, rheumatism, acute
heart disease, Bright's disease of the kid
neys, neuralgia and paralysis are, in thou
sands of instances, directly traceable to ga
cold" 1t is the most frequent, the most
dangerous, and the most neglected i'll of
life.
PREvENTIvEs.
They may be summed up as cleanliness,
all-wool clothing in all seasons, outdoor ex-
e%rcise, ventilated sleeping rooms, early re-
firing and rising, good food, and plenty to
do. Yet, in spite of every pr~ecaution, it
frequently happens that a cold is taken, and
this brings us to the treatment
THE TREATMENT
of colds ought to begin with the appearance
of the first symptoms. Many years OBJ
servation has convinced me that hot-drops.
quinine, hot slings, Dover powders, ginger
drinks and a host of similar remedies are
not only unreliable, but often injurious, as
they all alike AVE the effect of causing un-
natural perspiration, which is liable to be
checked by the slightest exposure, and the
cold increased thereby. Since 'a cold" has
the Invariable effect of producing congestion
Of some mucous surface, the remedy for it
ought to operate there also. The compound,
Pe-ru-ns, was devised by me with especial
reference to this effect. Itoperates by ~increas-
ing the circulation in the mucous membranes
of the whole body, and no matter where
"the cold" may lave settled, whether in
head, throat, lungs, kidneys or urinary
organs, Pe-ru-na will Immediately relieve
the congested membrane and stop the dis
charge. When first taken, a wineglassful
of Pe-ru-na in hot water, repeated more or
less according to the severity of the attack,
will scarcely ever fail to break up "a cold."
An old cold that has settled somewhere is
better treated by the regulardoses prescribed
on the bottle, which, if obeved, can be al
ways relied upon to make a permanent cure.
onOuIo the DoWelS pc Irregular, as they are
likely to be at such times, they should be
kept regulated by the use of Man-a-lin.
Whether the cold has settled in the head
and produced catarrh or deafness, or settled
in the throat and produced enlarged tonsils
or h~oarseness, or settled in the bronchial
tubes and lungs, producing cough or asthma.
or settled in the kidneys or bladder, pro.
ducing Bright's disease or gravel, Pe-ru-na
is the great remedy 1 have invariably relied
upon for my treatment of these cases.
Thousands of cases of colds, in all stages
and phases, are treated every year under my
personal directions or by my associate physi-
clans with Pe-ru-na; innumerable others
who buy it at the drugstores are using it in
similar cases, and the combined experience
and testimony is, that Pe-ru-na is the most
speedy and permanent cure yet discovered.
Pe-ru-na is equally valuable to prevent, to
cure and to entirely remove the effects of "a
cold" No family, especially at this season
of the year, ought to be without this excel
lent preventive and cure for that most in
sidious, ever-present, disease breeding
malady called "a odd"
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