Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1902-06-05
TO DEAL WITH COLDS.
METHODS OF PREVENTION AND
CURE DISCUSSED.
istressing Illness that IL Not Seri-
GUS of Itself and for Which No One
Receives Any Sympathy - Su&ges-
tions of an English Doctor.

At certain seasons of the year almost
everybody one meets is afflicted with
that trivial but annoying ailment-a
cold" This is one of the minor trOu-
bles of life. but it is a singularly per
verse affection all the same, and one
decidedly obstinate as regards its ten
denotes toward cure. Perhaps the cold
in the head" Is one of the most trouble
some forms of the ailment. 1t Is also
the Opprobrium medicinae. in that you
are told by your professional adviser
that it must run its course. and that
you must stay indoors In an even tenn
perature if you wish to get well with
fair speed.
Nobody follows this advice, unless.
indeed it be persons of leisure and at
tiuence. who can afford to nurse their
attiictiOn. But with running nose and
watering eyes. and general sense of
malaise, the man with a severe coryZa.
as it Is termed, is really an object for
pity and cOmmiseratiOn. Doctors tell
us that the cold in the head is an nfec-
tious trouble. therefore. | suppose. we
are to regard it as another triumph for
the ubiquitous micrObe. Doubtless they
are right, and the spread of cold
through a household may be account
ed for on the scientific principle of or
binary infection. The means of cure
are many. believe personally in TAX
ing an Opiate to start with, in the shape
of fifteen or twenty drops Of chlorodyne
in water, repeating the dose in. say.
four hours. A Dover's powder at bed.
time (say ten grains) and hot drink by
way of encouraging skin action. is also
an excellent remedy, provided risk of
cold and chill is avoided The man
who moves about may find much relief
from shifting up little menthOl snuff
now and again, while my experience of
colds in the head-a fairly large one
nally-accOrtlS to cubeb cigarettes
a high measure of success in treatment.
OF course you must bring the smoke
down the nostrils if it is to have any
good effect.
How to prevent colds is another and
a far more important matter. The cold
Oh the chest Is often the prelude to more
serious troubles. and for neglect Of Il
cough we have often to pay very smart
~ and dearly later on Many of us are
foolish in the matter of underclothng
and fOotgear. forgetting that warmth
of body and dryness of feet are safe
guards that nobody can afford to neg
lect There Is yet another point which
most people overlook in this matter of
cold-prevention. and that is the matter
of food. In winter our diet should in
clude larger proportion of fat than in
summer. and our own tastes lead us to
menu that is more liberal in this re-
spect in the cold season. A great many
colds might be avoided We're the system
braced up by additional fat taken as
food. We may make such an addition
agreeably enough in the course of our
ordinary diet. but many persons. and
children especially. would be well adj
vised did they employ, after meals, an
emulsion of cOd-liver oil or some allied
preparation. have been terrifying
myself OF late days by taking virol
which is pleasant to the taste, and
which. as regards it's composition. Of
fevs fat in an agreeable and easily as
simulated form. The long and short of
the story of cold prevention is the forti-
flying of the bodily citadel, and gener
Gus dietary, with an additional modi
cum of fat, is probably our safest
means Of effe ting this desirable end
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