The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-07-22
HEAT, COLD OR WHAT HAVE YOU

Program of New York County Medical SO ciety session in academy of medicine Aprll 70 :: Symposium on the Common Cold.
 1. Biological Factors (a) Filterable Vlr- uses, (b) Bacteria
 g. It's Relation to Rheumatic Fever.
 B. It's Relation to the Heart and Blood Yes sells.
 4. It's Relation to Allergic Manifestations
 G. Its Relation to Involvement or the Far anasal Sinuses and Ears.
 Discussion.
 What torture it must have been to the mere members if any present to listen to the five specialists sounding off! A specialist IS never so fluent as when he gets free and unlimited opportunity to hold forth on a subject nobody knows anything about.
 Notice how gracefully the program Of the symposium hurdles the introductory part which should logically open any such sympo- sium. There was no disposition to define the subject of the confab. It was regular free for-all and out of all the windy language emit ted by the eminent medical ladies and gentle men at the shindy it is hopeless to attempt to gain any palpable practical knowledge
 From the title of the contribution of No doctor and all those who followed in the sym posium, it would seem that they had clue to the identity of the common cold cold. They all called the common cold 'it." That might be better name than the "cri."
 I maintain there is no such aiment as a "cold" or "the common cold" l believe nearly a score of known diseases are unnecessarily spread through the community by the conni- vance of those alleged health authorities who persist in teaching that there is such malady a propose that the vague and undefnable term ''cold" be eliminated from all professional dis course at least, and, if some generic namc must be used to indicate the common resp1ra- tory infections (which are most frequently dubbed "cold'' in their early stage), that we adopt the term "cri," pronounced kree, coined from the initial letters of the too cumbersome phrase Common Respiratory Infection" This term conveys all that the eel word "cold" can. possibly convey to any intelligent mind, and be- sides it carries a wholesome acknowledgement A.. ,arII yyrfn fnI. tory infection it may turn out to be, is prob ably infectious in character, and hence all your friends and associates may avoid catching 1t from you. if you are that species of animal that prefers to keep about during the early stage of the illness. spreading the infection indiscrim- inately.
 you health officers and health board executives. It won't hurt you any to know what we are teaching millions of people. If you find any flaw in our teachings about this. let me know. Or better, challenge me to debate the question. and so show me up and stop me before do
 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
 Weak Minded
 Tell nsc how to overcome psycIsastlicniR and ncurasthcnia. Tine doctors say that 1t what
 Answer-Psych chasthenia means weakness of mind. Polite way of calling you haif-witted or moron. Neurasthenia means weakness of nerve. old medical dodee--soothes the dumb
 Proeresslsc SC Vltuss Dance
 Young man aged 2i seems well. Ills mother died in an Insane hospital, having had st vitue's danec foe years. HIS grandmother had thc Aame trouble. and me Of hls sisters ts develop. ing it co the aye 0f 15 years. If hc marFics wOHId his children Inherit itY (D. 0.l
 AHswer--ProbabIy yes. That is not N vtugs dance, but Huntingt0n's ehorea, q different con. eh0Fen, tha common Bt Tjtus'e dance of chIi. lren, NOr has il any boafibs on or relation Co he mental inteffiiy, Iuntineton's ehorea. progressive ehf0nic nh0ren. usually develops at 6 mailfe ags and often termintsS in demens tla. tt is hereditary.