The Savannah morning news., 1904-11-13
AFEW DON'TS"IN
TREATING A COLD
TREATMENTS TO BE AVOIDED.
wELL-MEANT ADVICE SOMETIMES
MAKES TROUBLE.

Hints on the Dangers of Sweat
baths and Lubricants-HOw to De-
tect symptoms in Child Too
Young to Describe Pain.
IF women. and men,. too, for that
matter, would take rational, sensible
view of colds and the treatment there
OF, the death rate would surely depre-
ciate." said a successful physician. If
there is one thing that the average in
dividual likes to experiment with, it is
a cold. He tries first his own favor
lite remedy, then in turn each one adj
vised 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 different remedy once
in twenty-four hours, expecting each
one to work a miracle, when a cold is
not a disease to be halted in such
short ORDER
cold neglected is the first step in
acquiring an acute and dangerous pull
mOnary or bronchial disease, and a
cold half cured is the straight and
narrow path which leads to pneumo-
MIA.
Here are a few cold don'ts" which
every home-maker win 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 consult
ing your family physician. Many of
these drugs act directly 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 have had a tendency to pleu-
risy, while you may be headed for
pneumonia.
Don't rub camphorated oil or SINH
lar lubricants on your chest unless you
cover ii over with flannel protector.
Lubricants of this sort open the pores
and aggravate the cold unless the
affected part is properly covered.
Don't experiment with the cold-wa-
ter cure unless you thoroughly under
stand ii. This is sometimes effica-
cious, but If improperly administered
1T is dangerous.
Don't experiment with poultices If
symptoms of pneumonia exist Flax
seed and bread-and-milk poultices
should be used only by trained
nurse, for If they are permitted to cool
they aggravate rather than relieve the
disease.
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 q few moments
before getting into bed, Is to do more
harm than good. Have the bath right
beside the bed, the latter warm and
well supplied with blankets. Turn
in at once and cover I'D to the chin.
Cold sheets or a draft will more than
counteract the effect of the sweat.
If you use iodine, don't fail to have
glycerine mixed with it, otherwise
you win blister the skin. If you apply
a mustard plaster have white of egg
or -four mixed with 1t for the same
reason
When a baby is suffering from a
cold don't administer sleeping 20
ton and imagine that your are reach
ing the seat of the trouble. The cold
works insidiously while the child is
sleeping so heavily under the infu-
ence of the opiate that you cannot
notice the aggravated symptoms.
If baby shows a tendency to take
cold on the slightest provocation, fol-
low its daily bath with an alcoholic
rub. Many mothers can testify that
children treated this way are abso-
lutely free from colds.
II the baby wakes out of sleep with
sudden, hoarse barking cough, this
is not an ordinary cold. but Group If
the child breathes stentorlously. or. as
the old village nurse used to say, IL
he has whistling cough, sharp and
shrill, look out for capillary bronchitis.
the most dangerous disease for babies
In either case take the child Of orca
INFO q warm room where no draft can
strike 1t and send for a physician.
After the first attack of Group a young
mother will know just how to act. but
she should treat the initial seizure
under the direction of a physician.