El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-11-05

| breed We are so accustomed to chrome
| trouble of the sort that we hardly give
it thought. 1t is the severe acute IN
I fections, which we call bad colds, that
worry US.
Street Cars Dangerous.
One of the worst sources OF cold IN
! lection is the closed street car. People
suffering from colds get into the vehicle,
and fill the air with germs, which are
not easily waited out. Every time they
cough OF sneeze a fresh contribution is
made to the population of microbes in
the car. This is one of the ways in
which epidemics of bad colds are most
commonly spread in cities-those cpl
denies which are often spoken of as so
"mysterious."
+, Nothing is more common than for a
''bad cold" to run through family, the
( members of which catch it in turn.
Some get it worse than others, simply
for the reason that their relative i'm
munity is less high. Until recently such
phenomena were considered verv puzz-
ling. though constantly observed, but
now the cause of them is made perfectl''
plain. A person with a bad cold viii fill
whole house with germs by coughing
and sneezing, so that it is a mere acci-
dent if the other inmates do not contract
the infection. Recent scientific expert
ments, however, have shown that such
germs may be discharged from the
{ mouth and throat to a distance of five
feet by the mere act of talking loudly.
This was determined by catching them
on plates of gelatin held at various dis
tanees from the sufferer.
Catching Cold.
Many people "catch cold every time
they are exposed to the least change of
temperature. The fact that the mucous
membranes are 50 sensitive indicates a
condition of chronic congestion. which in
most instances is due to heart trouble.
The sufferer in many cases gets up in
the morning habituallv with feeling of
being "all stopped uD' and the sense of
discomfort is not removed until he has
coughed up a quantity of glairv mucous.
This state of affairs is attributable to
congestion of the air passa@es and sug-
gests poor circulation. The heart should
be examined.
Congestion Causes Coughs.
Not a few persons are troubled b. a
constant cough, which they call "cold. y
1t is not really such at all, but is due to
congestion. To such cause. at all
events. the skilled physician refers it. If
no evidence is found of tuberculosis
Thousands of people are eontinuallv- go
ing to nose and throat specialists for To-
cal treatment who would be much bet
ter off in the hands of a really good
general practitioner. Local treatment
may alleviate the symptoms temporarily.
but the fundamental cause is not at
tackled. In any case where the symp-
toms of "colds' persistently manifest
themselves, the nose man or throat man.
if capable ard conscientious. loses no
time in exam ming the heart. II he finds
that the organ is not working well, he
prescribes small and regular doses of
strychnine or digitalis, which stimulates
the actor of the heart, thereby improv-
ing the circulation, and cure the throat
OF nasal trouble incidentally
Persons who Give high" and are some
what cver-fat, are commonly troubled
with constant colds The habit of over
eating cOngests the bloodvessels, and
Liability to colds results
Find the Germ and It's Cure.
When the germ of disease has been
found. it Is often practicable to obtain a
cure for the malady in the shave of a
vaccine" which is made by breeding the
germ in question in beef SCUM. This
process results in quantity of soun that
is literally alive with countless billions
of germs of that particular species. All
of them are killed by heatin~ the SCUM
to boiling point, and the fluid containing
their dead bodies. and incidentally n
large quantity of their peculiar poison,
is the vaccine" Given by injection I'M
der the skin. it renders one immune to
further attacks By that germ
Nothing could be more simple. The
trouble with the method, as anplied to
colds. is that the latter are caused by