The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1892-04-21
St0p'That Cough.

This is not going to be an ADVERTISE
ment advising you to take some mixture
which, while it may relieve the tickling
in your throat, is quite likely to make
you sick somewhere else. The medicine
we want you to use is very simply, is
made of but one thing, and that is Will
Power.
"Make myself stop coughing? I can't
do that" All, but you can very often
when you think you cannot. If you have
burn, when it is nearly we'll it will
itch, aud you will want very much to
scratch it. But you are told, Don't do
that, it will only make it worse" and if
you are wise you let it alone. When you
want to cough it is because some spot in
your throat, bronchial tubes, or lungs is
sore and "itcaes." A Hacking" cough
does for this sore spot just what scratch
ing or rubbing would do for a sore on
the outside of your body. 1t cnly makes
it worse.
A lady who was brought up by very
stern grandma told me that when she
coughed in the night her grandma always
whipped her. asked her if it cured her
cold and her answer was, "No, but it
stopped the cough. 7 seemed to remem.
Der even in my sleep what would hap
pen if coughed, and the dread kept me
from coughing"
I am not recommending whipping as
cough medicine, but tell this to show
what the use of the will power can &C.
complish. In a children's hospital in
New York half the children sick with
colds in various stages we're put in one
ward and forbidden to cough, being kept
from it both by fear of punishment and
hope of reward. The other children
were put in another ward and allowed to
cough all they pleased. This was An ex.
pertinent to see whether coughing helped
or hindered recovery, and it was found
that it hindered very decidedly, as the
children who were not allowed to cough
were cured much more quickly than the
others, though in every other way their
treatment was tho same.
Now that you know it is better for you
not to cough, aud that you need not if
you will not, will you try the next time
you have cold this strange cough med
icine? 1t isn't bitter any way, and GER
tainly will not hurt you, even if it does
not help you, and it does not cost any
thing.
Here is a story which tells how one
minister proved to his people that they
could keep more quiet if they tried!
"It was during the prevalence of the
influenza last winter that the Rev. Dr..
Blank gave his congregation reminder
that will not soon be forgotten. The va.
rious forms under which the epide mic
presented itself had in common the fac
ulty Of making people cough in Church,
and the disturbance which arose from
this source set all the sensitive nerves of
the divine on edge.
"One Sunday morning in particular it
seemed as If half the people in the con-
gregation were coughing already, while
the others we're rapidly joining in with
them from tie sheer force OF example.
"Dr. BanK was preaching eloquently
that morning, and partly with the liter
est in his subject, and partly from.'he
necessity Of raising his voice to r.ake
bimself heard, he was particularly i'm
pressive. Suddenly, with no war. ing
whatever, he stepped in the very midst
of sentence, and stood perfectly ri eut.
Surprise held the congregation 81 ent
also.
"It is we'll known to physicians that
persons taken by surprise will stop
coughing, and during the moment for
which DR.. Blank stood regarding bis
congregation not a single cough was
heard 10 the church. The preacher held
the attention Of the audience for space
which, although really brief, under the
circumstances seemed long.
"I paused to remind you,' he said at
length, that coughing is more largely
under PERSONS control than We arc &C
customed to suppose
"He took up the thread OF his Discourse
and went on, but for the rest of that Jay
at least there was remarkably lille
coughing in that Church"
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