The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-04-13
Stop that Cough.

This is not going to be an ADVERTISE
ture which, while it may relieve the
tickling in your throat, is quite likely
to make you sick somewhere else. The
medicine we want you 10 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 a burn, when it is nearly
well it will itch. and 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 lei
it alone. When you want to cough it
ls because some spot in your throat,
bronchial tubes, or lungs is sore and
"itches." 4 "hacking" cough does for
this sore spot just what scratching or
rubbing would do for sore on the out
side of your body: it only makes it
worse.
A lady who was brought up by a
very stern grandma told ME that when
she coughed in the night her grandma
always whipped her. I asked her if
it cured her cold and her answer was,
"No, but it stopped the cough.
seemed to remember even in my sleep
what would happen if / coughed, and
the dread kept me from coughing.n
am not recommending whipping as
cough medicine, but tell this to show
what the use of the will power can ac-
complish. In cbildren's hospital in
New York half the children sick with
colds in various stages. were put in one
ward and forbidden to cough, being
kept from it both by fear of punish
ment AID hope of reward. The other
children were put in another ward and
allowed to caugh all they pleased,
This was an experiment to see wheth.
er coughing helped or hindered recov.
cry, and it was found that it hindered
very decidedly, as the children who
wete not allowed to cough Were cured
much more quickly than the Others,
though in every other way their treat.
memt was the same.
Now that you know it is better for
you not to cough, and that yov need
not if you will not, will you try the
next time you have cold this strange
cough medicine? 1t isn't bitter any
way, and certainly will not hurt you,
even if it does not help you, and if does
not cost anything.
Here is story which tells how one
minister proved to his people that they
could keep more quiet if they tried:
at was during the prevalence of the
influenza last winter that the Rev. DR..
Blank gave gave his congregation q
reminder that will not soon be forgot
ten. The various forms under which
the epidemic presented itself had in
conn mon the faculty of making people
cough in church, and the disturbance
which Crose from this source set all
the sensitive nerves of the. divine on
edge.
lone Sunday morning in particular
| it seemed as if half the people in the
congrega ion were coughing already,
while the others were rapidly joining
in with them from the sheer force OF
example.
"Dr. Blank was preaching eloquent
ly that morning, and partly with the
interest in his subject, and partly from
the necessity of raising his voice to
make himself heard, he was part'cu-
larly impressive. Suddenly, with no
warning whatever, he stopped in the
very midst of sentence, and stood
perfectly silent. Surprise beld the
congregation silent also.
ut is well-known to physicians that
persons taken by surprise will stop
coughing, and during the moment for
which DR.. Blank stood regarding his
congregation not sin gle cough was
heard in the church. The preacher
held the attention of the audience for
space which, although really brief,
under the circumstances seemed long.
~ paused to remind you," he said at
length. that coughing is more largely
accustomed TO suppose
"He took up the thread of his dis
course and went on, but for the rest OF
that day at least.there was remarkable
little coughing in that church."