The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-01-30
A SPELL OF BAD COLDS
Butte Has Been Attacked by an
Epidemic of Coryza.
STARVATION IS A CURE
The Microbs Will Not Catch You If You
Use Ordinary Horse Sense-Words
OF Wisdom From the Lips
Of an Expert.

The very wet snow storm which has
been in session in Butte for the past
two days and nights has resolved to
infiict another spell of bad colds" en-
this patient and God fearing communi-
ty A man who does not sneeze is ever
ready to entertain his friends with a
correct imitation of a man trying to
ward off hacking cough.
When this generation was younger it
was taught to believe that it was ne
, cessary to feed a cold and starve a
fever" To-day an authority, so styled,
tells the people to stop eating if they
would cure their colds He says:
'On the authority of Is years expert
ence, the idea for which is not original
with me, it can be stated that colds
can be avoided altogether, and it can
also be asserted authoritatively that
the cold microbe will not catch you if
you have ordinary horse sense and are
not governed by your stomach. A
cold is simply too much to eat. No
hungry man ever caught cold,' no
matter what exposure he was subjected
to. To avoid colds altogether, don't
eat too much. To cure a cold, stop eat
ing altogether"
Some Is or 20 years ago one of the
leading physicians of Paris read before
the Paris Medical society a paper on
cholera infantum or summer complaint
which was afterward awarded the prize
as being the most valuable paper read
during the year. In 1T he took the
ground that every case of that terri
BILE disease could be cured, if taken at
any time short of the period of COL
Ia nv Ciy inn, ref aipi,
ing anything to enter the stomach of
the sufferer except little cold water.
In other words, that cholera infantum
was caused by improper food or over
eating, and that in giving the stomach
and bowels a complete rest, one was
absolutely sure of a cure. This also
has proved true in actual experience.
In one case poor, puny, sickly babe
of Is months was starved for five days
when afflicted with this trouble in
serious form and completely recovered
and is to-day q strong, sturdy lad of IA
years.
The reason Nansen and his men did
not have colds when in the arctic re-
gions was because their manner and
place of living demanded the maximum
of food the supply of which was lin
tied. They could not eat too much,
therefore no colds. When they got back
to civilization and a warmer climate,
where less food was needed by the sys-
tenn, they were feted and Toasted, and
of course caught cold-through their
stomach, not from microbes.
The theory is this: The body is a
furnace which will consume so much
fuel, the amount depending of course
on the climate employment and capac-
ity. Given more fuel that it can con-
sumo, like any other furnace, it De-
comes clogged up and cold is the re-
suit. Use little common sense with
your human furnace, quit firing up"
clean out the clinkers with a dose of
physic and, presto. the cold is gone
The correctness of this theory is borne
out by the fact that most colds are
contracted when the temperature is ris-
ing or after holidays, when feastng is
the rule.
The experience of Nansen is that of
soldiers. When they are on the march,
roughing it, with limited supply of
food, there are no colds, no matter how
great the exposure. In camp, with lit
tie to do and plenty to eat, the cold
microbe Is omnipresent