The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-10-29
ON CATCHING COLD

| This Dr Brady who writes the articles for your health column, a correspondent from an other city informs us, may be a wise man but he is certainly cracked catching cold. don't pretend to say germs never cause disease but assured by our own health com missioner that these germs with Dr Brady lharps about are always present in everybodys nose throat and it is only after resistance has been lowered by exposure or fatigue that the cant tell M me there's no such thing as catching cold. I've had experience. Take 1t rom me. co. T. M.)
 o. T. M. is right You can take it from him, by approval of the health commissioners. l don't know just which health commissioner he means but I know many of them are still teaching that the rms of what they call colds are normally usually present in the nose and throat and some of these comic opera health commissioners we support here in Yankeeland actually teach that the germs just "lurk' there waiting till you get your feet wet or get caught in draft, whereupon the microbes jump in and hit you when you're down, or
 words to that effect.
 It is because so many of these political acci- dents who occupy soft berths in our so-called health departments cherish and teach that quackish notion that have to harp on the germs and the important and often overlooked fact that the disease vulgarly called colds are CATCHING.
 | Again I deny the health commissioners al- legation that germs capable of producing or in any way contributing toward the development of any known disease or indisposition com- monly occur in the nose and throat or even rarely occur there when the host is not suffering with or coming down with the specifc disease. The only exception to this is the case or the germ carrier, say a diphtheria carrier, who har-
 bors diphtheria germs in nose or throat. put Is himself neither i'll of nor susceptible to dlph- theria, since he has had the disease and &C., quired sufficient immunity to recover But his germs are menace to susceptible persons | around him. | Even if this health commissioners unscien- tific and untenable argument were well found- ed, that would add nothing to the strength of the suggestion that everyday exposure to wet or cold or drafts sudden changes In any way impairs health or vigor.
 | QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS | Musca Domestica
 | We have a new house. built just a year, but
 we have been infested with flies from the first
 People say it is because we are in the country -our home is in the suburbs. NMrs J. F. IF
 or manure piles, garbage dumps and the like
 favors the breeding of flies. Flies spell filth. in
 short. Send a stamped envelope bearing your address and ask for instructions for eXtermin-
 ating flies.
 | Noticing your symposium on kerosene (coal
 oiD as a remedy, cut my thumb badly with n
 saw, tearing 1t open to the bone. l washed il
 immediately in Kerosene which soOthed it, and
 wrapped 1t in q cloth wet with kerosene. It
 healed quickly with no pain or matter (S. F.)
 Answer-Your wound would have healed as
 well If you had bound 1t with just freshly
 lroned cloth. no doubt. Kerosene Is rather ir-
 ritating. as a rule.
 Every Day Is Friday
 My husband has chronic Bright's disease.
 give him all kinds Of vegetables and fruits
 cooked. I also give him chicken once week
 and fish twice, but NO MEAT. Mrs D. O
 Answer---Well, 1 suppose that Is better than
 giving the poor fellow nothing at all, but
 know of no good reason why q nephritis patient
 should not have meat in moderation unless he
 k doing penance or something.
 | Btrabismus
 | PIeasc inform me where there is . hospital thnt Will perform isii operation for crOsseye f0r Q person free 0f chnrge or fer free Of charge 0f for small amount. tAfrs F. V) | Answer--.The operation, if advisable can be dono In any hospital. Tho physician whp ad' ylses tho operation can take care Of tho matter | of 0xpense, There is,ne hospital worthy Of public confidence whore q laymhp can arrange | To such treatment without the adyleo Of pbysi. | giaD, 1 never recommend hospithis t0 core: | spOndenis That ts . question 70 be dinnuhses wbh the physician ln cbarse. The pfheiire of surgery ls an indiyidnai or pefsonal sarVlee' Ipsrs0Dai corporation oan be concerned with it