The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1916-01-28
Woods Hutchinson, Noted Iowa Au-
thority, Says That IT is Easy
to Stop This
Habit.
HE POINTS TO EXAMPLES
Many Sanitariuns For Tubereular
Patients Never Hear a Sound
Of Cough, il
Is Said.

Boston Herald: Dr. Woods Hutch
inson. the widely known popularize,
Of medical knowledge, wants people
to stop coughing, whether they have
colds or not He says that the san.
tariums for tuberculosis have been
able TO educate coughing almost out
of existence, SO that visitors frequent
| II comment on how seldom they hear
one OF the patients cough" A large
share OF credit of this change. be
says. is due to the gentle and per.
suasiye training and the good example
of the other patients. coughing does
the consumptiye no good whatever
and does him much harm by exhaust
| ing his strength. breaking his sleep
and increasing the danger Of ulcera-
ton II the habit can be stopped
among the tubercular ii is immeasur-
ably more inexcusabie among those
who can complain OF only an ordinary
cold
Try Not 70 Cough.
II ron have never tried ii, the next
time you are tempted to cough or
clear your throat, see how well you
can get along without doing SO, and
after little practice you viii find
your control complete. Coughing is
for the most part q nervous habit
due TO tickling in the throat brought
on by previous coughing. and also by
sort Of unconscious imitation.
Did you ever notice in a theater or
other place Of entertainment that no
body coughs in a highly dramatic or
otherwise especially interesting mo-
meut2 Did you ever notice that If
one person coughs lot of others do,
and that the amount OF coughing in
a public place depends not on con-
ditions OF throat and lungs. but upon
habit, tradition and usage?
Annoyed Billy Sunday.
The dispatches relate that Billy
SUNDAY expressed himself as decided
Il annoyed with his auditors at SYRIA
cuse the other day because they
coughed so much He was entirely
justified in this This coughing was
unnecessary. II may have reflected
a langufd attitude on their part which
they would not have experienced had
he made the occasion one of great
theatrical stimulus. But beyond that
they had no excuse for disturbing
him-except q bad habit.
4 local physician tells the story of
a patient riding with him one day
WHO 1AO LIE
necessarily. AS the young man had
been learning TO run motor car. the
physician offered him a chance 10
take the wheel So intent was the
beginner on his new job that for half
an hour not one sign Of a cough Or
throat clearing occurred. When AT
last z light rum bling appeared the
phgsician remarked: You must feel
that you are now familiar with the
nachine,7 and when the Young man
asked Why, the physician answered
BY abiding 10 the resumption of
something that only bore evidence Of
2 mind not fully employed.
Would Stop Winter MaIadies.
Much the same thing is true of
.nsszing. II il could become recog-
nized that TO cough and to sneeze
were each alike an unwarranted piece
o. selftadulgencs, both as much IN
DER the control Of the doer as the
picking Of his tse-h-sn equally dis
agreez BE hsbit-re should not only
get along without coughing or sneez
ing. but We would take long step
toward a-esttng the spread Of our
winter mzla6ieE. II you DO not be-
gteve that these things are optional
with yo1- just Iry for while TO see
how successful ron can be in getting
along without doing them; ron VIII
become your own advocate Of the
Woods Hutchinson theory.