Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1922-06-12
Health Talks by DR.. Brady
Laying II on tho Climate.


a LADY who lives in Duluth and mothers
i've children forsooth. the oldest lust I'VE
four others alive. believe II or not, III. tho
truth. sends this note from Los AnsaIes Cal
We arc tho proud parents OF five chill
drcn- the oldest is just i've A few months
ago YOU asserted in one Of your talks tina,
~ Is NOT necessary for children to have Group.
i write {" ask how to avoid e. We left IN
luth In January TO spend the winter months
mere thinking the children would hc trno
from colds and Group in this climate. Rut not
so They have had quite as many cold. a nd
tn" Group has been even more severe than
they ever had at home Isn't this stranre7
w" cant quite understand IT,
Accept mothers thanks for tho MANY
many helpful things you have taught through
your delightful articles and for the many
many times your teachings have proved of
practical benefit in household"
II the city OF Duluth should nurch,s.
reasonable amount OF the stun that sells
Los Angeles to the far country, no doubt many
Angels would come 10 Duluth to spend the
winters and escape the depressing raw wei
seasons that discourage so many victims Of
tho catching cold phobia In California;
He who believes In taking cold from
wet change. draft or chill, should accept
Group with resignation and humility am
not casting pebbles at this misguided mothor
for she apparently believes what the old
f"Sy health authorities still teach. namely
that tho respiratory diseases are germ dis
eases and all OF a more or less communicable.
confused ard uncertain to Just which
respiratory disease the patient has in which
cas-" he draws a herring across tho trail he
bangles m" diagnosis. leaving tho patient
or family 10 derlorc the climate the weather
or the wctncss Of the ground. until he the
doctor. can determine whether II is dim.
iberia. measles. meningitis. infantile paralv.
SIS or sinusitis. And the popular Doctor
DANGER has the hearty support of the polti-
cal accidents that administer public health In
some OF these Great Lake cities. The health
commissioner Of one Great Lake city mot
puluth) recently issued through the news
papers warning ~ rho simple citizen To tax.
hot mustard foot bath. some hot drinks and
go to he'd immediatcly-as a good treatment
for WET FEET,
Climate has about as much 10 do with
Group as II has 10 do with tuhnrCulosis or
diphthcria. That Ia 10 practically moth
ing at all. Early in April received letter
from a man In Maine who actually wished 10
know whether certain electric belt is good
for the nervous system something like
that!
the voice box. induced hy a ,rinine irrita-
tion of the lining Of the voice box (rlottis
or iarynN) from mild Inflammation In an
adult such slight irritation would scarcely
induce such spaSmodc reaction of tho lit
tie inside muscles Of the voice box Croup
only goes to show how cruelty and harshlv
nature deals with the weak and tho heIn,nss
And although spasmodic Group is never fatal
the prompt relief afforded the child nv
dose two Of the family doctors autispas-
modic drug. generally gives the parents
something To be thankful for even though
they have mo faith in mere pills and potions