Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1894-06-02

Would YOU like to know the shortest
way of getting rid of cold
Treat it promptly, for a cold is the
first step to nearly every other disease
in the world. 1t is lowering of the
vital forces, for $50 interior bodily
heat is the limit of health.
The treatment after taking cold is
to get warm as soon as you can. A
hot bath is the surest and quickest
cure for a cold, whether of the de-
pressed, shivering order or of the fe-
verish kind. If you can get into a
bath tub with the waite, as hot as you
can bear it up to the neck, and stay in
1t fifteen minutes, adding hot water to
keep it at the parboiling point, there
will not be much of the cold left when
you get out.
One should be wiped dry quickly
with warm towels and slip into warm
hannels, then into bed with hot soap
stones or some kind of heaters for the
feet and back, to lie there as long as
it feels good to do so.
The feverish, bilious cold may be
further treated with a bowl of hot
lemonade and laxative. On rising
take care not to get fresh cold by
chilling the system. Do not be above
dressing in a warm room and having
fresh clothes we'll warmed before put
ting them on.
If the all over hot bath is net in
reach take hot sponge bath, putting
Oh fresh warm wooden clothing
next the skin atterward. Fresh cloth
ing is sanitary and refreshing. You
need to change frequently when in the
least out of health.
Take the hot lemonade if it is ac-
ceptable; if you don't feel like it, try
three or four drops of purified am
monia in glass of water, using enough
to make the dose hot and stimulating.
Drink half a glass of this every twenty
or thirty minutes till you begin to feel
better.
For IL cold IN the head, pour half a
pint of boiling water on drachm of
gum camphol, keep it hot aud inhale
ten to twenty minutes.
Shutting hot water, and holding the
face In 1t for ten minutes, relieves both
colds and hay fever. Rub the bridge
of the nose and between the eyes with
vaseline, cold cream, oil or fat on 60
ing to bed to relieve stuffy cold, hay
fever or catarrh. The oil or fat is alb
sorbed and soothes the irritated men,
branes within, beside loosening the
collections which give so much trouble
Vaseine on the saddle of the nose
will relieve a sneezing cold, and the
ammonia water mentioned above will
cure it.
In one of these colds which go all
over one-inhuenza, namely-Dr. John
Cutter says the best treatment is to
drink plenty of hot water Just as hot
as it can be taken. This dilutes and
washes away mucous and vitiated Sc
cretions and stimulates healthy action
preventing the horrible sutfocation
which attends Il stuffed chest
If a sore threat is attendant, wear a
wet cloth with dry flannel and piece
of oiled silk or rubber cloth outside,
which will keep the comp ss from
drying and preserve All even warmth.
If obliged to go out, rub the throat
with vaseline or sweet oil and wear a
thin flannel handkerchief over it.
Earache Is often a result of cold.
Drop warm sweet oil with a little
carbohc acid in it into the ear or Law
the head on warm block or soapstone
with moist flannel over it, and steam
the ear. If persistent, give hot foot
bath, get the patient in sweat with
hot lemonade and give a dose of salts
and SIENNA, rhubarb or any prompt
purgatlve. Always give the latter the
first thing in case Of neuralgia. acute
toothache or earache. 1t goes to the
root of the matter