The free press., 1895-01-10
CURING A COLD.
Here's How to Prescribe for Your
Suffering Friend.
Initiative and Developed Stages
Treated Differently.

No technical term SO eloquently e1-
presses ones suffering as the common
expression "caught cold" And, like
the toothache, no philosopher can am
iably stand its pangs
With the turn of the year the dis
ease-if it may be SO dignified--is all.
prevailing, and whiles frequently a
physicians prescription is unneces.
sary, glimpse into the drugs and
preparations used, enlightenment
as to home treatment.
Never forget that cold in the mi.
tiative period and in it's developed
stage are to be treated quite differ
emily. The same drugs are not given
in both stages.
The first intimation of coming
cold is, as we all know, an unpleasant
chilliness, sometimes q desire to sneeze
and always dryness about the upper
air passage of the throat. Where it
has been caught or how it is as use
less to inquire as who struck Billy
Patterson. No physician has yet dis
covered "cold-in- the-head germ, SO
contagion is not fully decided upon.
The first period is the time to take
Turkish bath, first dosing ones self
with ten grains of quinine and twenty
drops of chloranodyne. After the bath
insist upon smart rubbing down or
massaging, then retire, next morning
repeating the dose of quinine and
chloranodyne. If it is possible to stay
in bed all day, do so, for the functions
are then in no danger from exposure.
Turkish baths, however, are not al
ways accessible. Then the old-fash-
ioned remedy of a hot mustard foot
bath, hot lemonade after the new
remedy of chloranodyne and quinine
added, is good substitute. 70 get
ones self in profuse perspiration,
whether from our grandmother's adj
vice of wrapping in blankets or the fin
de steele method of athletics, is always
proper. Perspiration carries away
many evils
After this quinine should be kept
up every four hours.
Doctors advise now large quantities
of milk to be taken while suffering
from a cold. They say one must drink
a glass of hot milk before rising and
keep this up every few hours in the
day. Nothing warns and tones the
system up so we'll. With this eat all
the food you are capable of; for no
new doctor is SO progressive that he
banishes the old axiom, "Starve a
fever, feed cold"
After all, our grandmothers knew q
thing or two. The only trouble was
the crude way in which their remedies
were administered. Then one had
onions fried in sugar and mixed with
honey for hoarseness, now one takes
delicate lozenge. Then big, nau-
tious dose of castor oil followed by hot
sassafras tea was considered best; now
rhinitis is given i'll tiny pellets, alter
mated with antipyrine.
Everyone should own a small atom
izer for the nostrils. 1t is effective
when filled with six per cent solu-
ton of cocaine sprayed to clear the
air passages of the nose.
The simplest of all home remedies
is to gargle the throat with ten drops
of carbolic acid dropped into one pint
of water, which clears the tubes of
the throat very thoroughly. Oil of
pine needles, benzine, oil of eucalyp-
tus and menthol, mixed in equal parts,
is one of the finest of the new pre-
scrlptlons Another IS OF camphor,
chlorate of potash and muriate of
ammonia.
One of the new and quite efficient
cough mixture is preparation that any
woman can make. One-half ounce of
oil of tar, one and one-half ounces of
glycerine, two ounces each of alcohol
and camphor. This should be taken
in one teaspoonful dose every three
hours.
Increasing Anxiety.