The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-10-16
HOME HEALTH CLUB

pTO4cneS IL IS The general custom or people who are not in perfect health to catch a severe cold which is hard 5 to overcome. It seems to keep get ting a TFmer hold and the. winter comes on with the cold still troubling and a deep seated catarrhal discharge or a troublesome cough. Why?
 If we know the reason for certain things or conditions we can, if VI will, guard against their evils. A few years ago, at one of the agricu1- turaI experiment static a, test of conditions and health was made upon a, certain number of cattle. by divid- ing them into three lots as nearly equal in health and condition as possi- ble. The first lot was comfortably housed in a well ventilated barn ana all properly cared for, fed and water ed and the barn cleaned every morn ing,
 The second lot were left in an open lot which had sheds that would keep off the snow and rain as well as the wind from the north and west. They were fed the same as the first lot. The third lot was left in an open field where the hills and the bare branches of the trees was the only protection. They also were fed the same rations as the first lot in the barn.
 The first lot suffered severely with colds and required the attention of the veterinarian from time to time,
 
 little with colds, yet they required some a.ttention- The third lot left in the open field appeared in perfect health throughout the entire winter and in the spring were in much better condition than either of the others DO you see the answer to fall co1ds?s
 Tn large cities 1t has been found Necessary to establish outdoor schools for weak, siclz1y children, for children that take cold easily or have weak lungs and 8. tendency toward con- sumption The strong robust, healthy children can stand the perfls of arti- nciaI1y heated schoolroons- Quite a number of them will take cold when the windows are shut and the heat turned on. Some of them will con- tract tuberculosis and other diseases, but the sick children that go to schooEI out doors get strong and we'll, they seldom are troubled with the many children's diseases.
 Gan you now answer the question of fall colds? You do not catch cold as long as the doors and windo ows are all left open both night and day. It's dn1y when the fresh pure air and sun shine are shut out that the colds and coughs and catarrh and consumption | get in
 am one of the trustees of The chi1dren's National Tuberculosis So- cfety A man who loves children hasi
 
 Beautiful grounds covered with fruit l trees and having a. fine lot of splendid l big buildings at Alamagordo, New Mexico, and one of the first things l we did when we opened~it for tuber- cular children was to build splendid | porches So it would not at any time 1 be necessary to sit indoors. The place | is now open and any poor child is | free to go there where he will be kepti in Gods pure air and sunshine, fed, | clothed and taught just the same assI though he was the possessor of un- limited wealth. Those who are able | to pay VIII pay. of course, but to the | poor tubercular child 1t is as free as the air and the sunshine
 Don't be in a hurry about shutting up the house in the fall. If it's cold | and raining, build up the fires and out the pure air Be sure to clean the | tstove and the furnace and the radia-I tors thoroughly before the heat is | turned on and let the furnace run a | few days with the windows and doors | wide open and then you can gradual ly accustom yourself to the poor | heated air of indoors without so much i risk, but don't forget that there is | life and health in the pure fresh air | and sunshine and there is sickness l eatarrh, colds consumption and death | in superheated, unventilated houses |
 
 Dear Doctor: I am constant read CT of the Home Health articles every | week and get inc most valuable help | From them The question asked by a | great many of the people are exactly | what one wants to know For in stance a. week or so ago, a reader | asked about a lump on her chfId,s forehead, caused from a fall One of my little boys had just such a lump over his eye We have been using | the cold applications as suggested | with great results Now [ am gofngI to ask your help concerning my oth- i CT little boy. He is three years old, | happy healthy, well developed boy Tor his age. He is bigger every way than some boys around here at five | years of age He has never been sick day since he was born, fibut a year ago he had a rash come out on his I legs and arms which has never en- tirely disappeare It first starts like little white elevations under the skin about the size of a Mi1Iet seed Some | do not develop any more, others form E in tiny-lit b1isterB which in turn become red and look as if a little Worm was in the center A few be come more indarned with a little pl1s 1n the center. They all go away in | time but seem to leave little brown 1 elevations which in turn fade away but at no time has his arms and legs been entirely free. [ have used every thing, but does not. seem to do an, good. The rash does not seem to [ bother him any, but am worried as do not know what it is His food consists of milk. bread and but ter He is not a big eater gets anJ orange every day and a lot of fruit.
 MRS. A. F. w
 am very glad indeed to note that your boy has been benefited by the Instructions given to another sufferert i1 the club note I find 1t difficult to determine in my own mind just what 1 his condition iss First, one would think 1t was eczema, but your descri1,- lion is not sufficiently clear to enable me to determfhe it positively. Some of the symptoms are those of what