Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-11-26
DOM IT'S" A COLD
WELL-MEANT ADVICE SOMETIMES
MAKES TROUBLE.
Treatments to Be Avoided by the Inc
experimentation to De-
tect Symptoms.

If wonderland men, too, for that mat
ter-would take a rational sensible view
or colds and the treatment thereof the
death rate would surely depreciate," said a
successful physician. eff there is one
thing that the average individual likes to
experiment with 1t is cold. He tries first
his own favorite remedy. then in turn each
one advised by his friends or neighbors,
and the physician is often his last court of
appeal. Sometimes the appeal comes too
late. have known women to try a differ
ent remedy once in twenty-four hours. ex.
pecting each one to work a miracle. when
cold Is not disease to be halted in such
short order"
A cold neglected is the first step in 40
qufring an acute and dangerous pulmonary
or bronchial disease. and a cold half cured
is the straight and narrow path which
leads to pneumonia.
Here are few cold don'ts" which every
homemaker will do well to hang in her
medicine closet along with the directions
for first aid to the injured.
Don't dose yourself with Quinine, anti.
kamnia, phenacetin or other standard
drugs without first consulting your family
physician Many Of these drugs act d.
rectly on the heart and weaken it, so that
there is not sufficient vitality left to fight
the cold.
Don't pin your faith on the remedy which
cured your next-door neighbor. He may
may be headed for pneumonia.
Don't Forget the Flannel.
Don't rub camphorated oil or similar luz
bricants on your chest unless you cover It
over with a flannel protector. Lubricants
of this sort open the pores and aggravate
the cold unless the affected part is prop
erly covered.
Don't experiment with the cold-water
cure unless you thoroughly understand IT.
This Is sometimes efficacfous, but If i'm
properly administered it Is dangerous.
Don't experiment with poultices If symp.
toms of pneumonia exist. Flaxseed and
bread-and-milk poultices should be used
only by a trained nurse, for If they are
permitt ssa TO cool a;. tney ageraVate rather
Don't undertake the sweat process before
retiring unless you have proper attendance.
To soak the feet in hot mustard water or
to take sitz bath and then stop TO turn
out the light, or trot around the room a few
moments before getting into bed. Is to do
more harm than good. Have the bath right
beside the bed, the latter warm end well
supplied with blankets. Turn in at once
and cover up to the chin. Cold sheets or a
draft will more than counteract the effect
of the sweat.
cerne mixed with 1t, otherwise you will
blister the skin. If you apply mustard
plaster have white of eggs or -four mixed
with it for the same reason.
Another Good Don't.
When a baby is suffering from a cold
don't administer sleeping potion and i'm
agine that you are reaching the seat of the
trouble. The cold works insidiously while
the child is sleeping so heavily under the
influence of the opiate that you cannot
notice the aggravated symptoms.
If baby shows tendenc yto take cold on
the slightest provocation, follow Its daily
bath with an alcoholic rub. Many mothers
can testify that children treated this way
are absolutely free from colds.
If the baby wakes out of sleep with a sud-
den, hoarse barking cough, this is not an
ordinary cold. but Group. If the child
breathes stentoriously, or, as the old VII
lage nurse used to say, Ii he has a whistling
cough, sharp and shrill. look out for capil-
larry bronchitis the most dangerous disease
for babies. In either case take the child at
once into warm room where no draft can
strike It and send for physician. After
the first attack of Group young mother
will know Just how to act, but she should
treat the initial seizure under the direction
of physician.