The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1890-01-24
DR.. HARTMAN.
A Synopsis Of Ills Lecture on colas.
How to Catch Them-How to Avoid
Them-How to Cure Them.
The sneezing Epidemic 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 of theo-
ny or within respecting its cause. Influenza
c)ryza, acute catarrh, dstemper and catar-
rhal fever each have their advocates, who
| think their particular name the best one.
But the more common name of catching
cause of this universal complaint as any of
the more scientific titles. Therefore, II
''cold" is the name that will be used in this
lecture TO designate this distressing and ev-
represent disease.
COLDS.
AS is limited by the name, 'cold" is the
result of an exposure to cold in some form.
The exposure to produce the effect of
''cold" mustbe a 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 70 the weather, fair or foul, are not
SO liable to catch cold as those who spend
most of their time indoors. A partial en-
for instanse-is much more likely to cause
''cold' than like exposure of the whole
body. a draft on a portion of the body
will cause one to take a cold more certainly
than to face gale with the whole person.
Depressed states of the system, from too
close confinement in warm rooms or lily
ventilated rooms, bad food, over-wOrk,
chronic disease. irregular or Incorporate
habits all are favorable to colds. Catching
cold frequently occurs without any seeming
explanation. One sometimes goes to bed at
night perfectly well, and wakes in the
morning with cold. A cold sometimes
comes suddenly upon person at midday,
engaged in their usual employment, with
no init nation as to its origin. Again, colds
seem to sweep over country like an cpl
denic, due to some msasmatic, electric or
atmospheric cause unknown.
SYMPTOMS.
In each case slight differences appear to
be due to the state of health and peculiari-
ties of the individual. Sneezing and slight
chilly feelings are followed by watery eX-
udation from the nose, which soon becomes
sore, and cold sores may appear about the
mOuth-a puffy, bloated feeling in the face
and head, and sometimes severe headache,
cough, sore threat 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 or belching, combine to
make the victim as miserable as any disease
known to man.
THE DANGERS.
Although 'cold" is rarely directly ia
tai. yet it is the most productive source of
incurable disease known to the medical pro-
fessiOn. AT least One-third of the deaths i'm
the United States are easily traced to the eff
fects of cold. Group, bronchitis, asthma,
catarrh, consumption, pleurisy, diphtheria,
pneumonia, rheumatism, acute heart dis
ease, Bright's disease of the kidneys, neu-
ralgia and paralysis are, in thousands of in
Stances directly traceable to "cold.' II is
the most frequent, the most dangerous and
the most neglected i'll of life.
PREvENTATIvES.
They may be summed up as cleanliness,
Atwood clothing in all seasons, outdoor
exercise, ventilated sleeping rooms, early
retiring and rising, good food and plenty to
do. Yet, in spite of every precautiOn. it
frequently happens that a cold is taken, and
this brings us to the treatment.
TIE TREATMENT
OF colds ought TO begin with the appearance
of the first symptoms. Many years of oh
scrvaion has convinced me that hot-dropS.
quinine, hot sings, Dover powders, ginger
drinks and host of similar remedies. are
not only unreliable, but often injurious, as
they all alike have the effect of causing UNI
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-rll-na, was devised by me with especial
reference to this effect. 1t operates by in
creasing the circulation in the mucuous
membranes of the whole body, and, no
matter where the cold may have settled,
whether in head throat, lungs, kidneys or
urinary organs, Pe-ru-na will Immediately
relieve the congested membrane and stop
the discharge. When first taken, wine
glassfu of Pe-rll-na i'm hot water. repeated
more or less according to the severity of the
attack, will scarcely ever fail to break up a
''celd." An old cold that has settled some
where is better treated by the regular doses
prescribed OH the bottle, which, If obeyed,
can always be relied upon to make perma-
nent cure Should the bowels be irregular,
a; they are likely to be at such times, they
should be kept regulated by the use of Man
a-in.
Whether the cold has settled in the head
and produced catarrh or deafness, or settled
in the throat and produced enlarged tonsis
or hoarseness, or settled in the bronchial
tubes and lungs producing cough or asthma,
or settled in the kidneys OF bladder, produc
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