The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-03-25
JUST how not TO CATCH COLD
SPONGE BaTH AND RUBDOWN
IN THE MORNINGS TINE THING.
Rinse the NsstrtIs with warm salt water
DaIiy-Be WARP % ONerheaNS, Non
Conductor nderctOthing ~ SOu
VIA, Take COId when You're HoI.

The roOmy lecture hall ~ the New York
Academy " Medicine IN West Forty
third street could not hold all at the
T,..ople. women mostly. who went ysster-
day afternoon To hear some men and
women doctors talk On the Caus" and
prevention of common colds. And even
when tn. adjoining smaller hall was
thrown open there was but little room
20 spar. when Or. Abraham Jacob, the
first speaker. began 10 tell what he knew
about the pesriferous everyday variety
Of hard cold
DR. Emily Levi was the second speaker.
and she was followed by Doctors William
Kelly simpson. Mary Macmillan and
Alexander Lambert all Of them speaking
under the Joint auspices of the public
health education committee Of the Medical
Society 81 the County of New York and
the hygiene committee Of tn" City
Federation Of Womsn's Clubs.
There was no wide divergence Of pro-
Sea=ional opinion expressed except az to
TN. degree OF guilt which can be laid TO
germ diHeases IN the matter Of the com
mon or everyday variety Of cold. and
what follows here 10 a composite report
IN part Of the lectures.
To begin With Won don't take cold by
being cold but by a sudden and unequa!
lowering 81 the temperature OF some
mart of the body. Indeed you frequently
take cold because YOU are too hot. a.
when You sleep in a warm room WIN TOO
many badclothes over YOU ana ~ that
distressing condition kick some OF them
on .xp0Sing bare or but slightly pro-
,~c,sd skin go a temperature OF lower
d..grea but still too warm. Ana again
by wearing too warm clothing OF SLOWLY
absorbent quality next To the SKIN you
bring about a condition w whIch you
readily take cold, although. AZ you com
plain TO tbs. doctor when you call Tor him
next day. you have been suffering from
the heat.
The newt hest thing Ia having light
and nuickl absorbent material neNi
Ia the skin. II yo,1 want 10 De IN a seheIs
condition Of health to resist taking cold
- 20 acc,iStoni Yourself To the daily
cold sponge bath. This vas insisted upon
stronRly IL appears that the cold water
the doctors recommend for this daily
splash il not 40 much a pr-NentlS" h
itself as a means TO an end. the end heing
the briSk rundown after the wefdOvn.
This rundown should be- vigorous ana
m It's process more than ore towel -ho'ld
be- useN That lively friction 81 the bodN
~ what puts " into a condition TO r.
.,st the sIdden congestion 81 ire sNlu
" women will persist IN wearing MN
-ols-d shoes and finIsy stockings they
canno, hope to avoid taking cold hy
treating their cold feet either with hot
water bags or with electric mune. Again
there must be an application Of cold wEiei-
a cold footbath extending halt way mp
10 the knees and then that lively ruh-
down ~ the only way 20 get conge-ted
~ in Of the feet and ark lee into any proper
condition 10 resist the taking OF a cold.
The long list Of diseases which SOME
have believed result from the com
mon cold result from something else
sa,d the speakers The cold leaves the
affected membranes IN condition
wnere they cannot throw on the millions
of disease germs which are constantly
attached. Then the germs. not being
driven away or resisted a. they are by
a normal membrane. get In their work.
that ~ 90 say they get into the circulation
II the blood and have their way. There
~ very simple way OF keeping the
membrane Of the noNe. which shelierT
80 many disease germs. In . healthy
condition. That 10 nv a daily morning
and evening application Of warm -alt
water. Take n glass 81 water that Ia NJ
blood heat. add half q teaspoonful ~
salt. and with that rinse the nasal pas
aagcs. And then u you do take cold you u
suffer less catarrhal miseries and at all
times you'll be iers likely 10 absorb any
germ disease.
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