The Nome daily nugget., 1937-09-04

down the proper functioning of this heating and humid flying property, then, presto, we have cold. This is how it works.
 Beneath the moist membrane lining of the nose are highly specialized thread-lke masses of blood channels. The volume of blood flowing through these is constantly changing according to the needs of the nose.
 Now when healthy person leaves the warmth of the house on a cold win ter day, this vascular network of capil- laries in the nose instantaneously con tracts to prevent too much warm blood getting too close to the skin surface. If you notice, the membrane of the nose looks pale at this moment.
 But the body needs 70 have the cold air warmed before it reaches the lungs, and obviously this can't happen if the decrease in the amount of blood near the surface continues.
 So there is an almost immediate re- action, and within a few seconds the volume of blood flowing through the capillary network increases, the tenn perature goes up for few seconds, and then quickly becomes normal again.
 This warns the incoming cold air, and while the warming is going on, the glands of the nose, or the humidifyng machinery, also get into instant action. They secrete watery mucous to molsten the air properly before 1t reaches the lungs. And for the first half hour that we are outdoors, until the nose has worked out the proper adjustment between cold air and warm blood and moisture, the glands usually secrete too much mucous That is why we have to blow our noses to get rid of the excess.
 But the point is that in the healthy person the nose does work out the adjustment. There Is at first the mo- mentary drop in temperature indicated by the blanching of the nose, then in about half minute the upturn to higher than normal, and then quick return to normal. The adjusting of the secretory glands takes longer.
 This drop Tn temperature and return to normal is not guess work. In the medical laboratory of the University of Illinois where much research has been done on colds, we have used three methods to determine these facts, and we have checked the methods against N;,c bod nj n1 microscope that showed the capillaries changing in size; second, we made eX- aminations of the blood flowing through the capillary beds of the nose in ani- mals and, third, we had a special type of thermometer that recorded both the temperature of the lining of the nose and of the skin of the face at the same time This last was the most use. full method.
 So far we do not know of any medi- cine or vaccine that will help these chronic cold sufferers. The only way they can be helped is for them to train their nose machinery together with that its reaction will be the same as in a healthy person. And the way to do this is by hardening process of hot and cold baths.
 The patient should take a good long hot bath first thing in the morning, and this should be followed by cold show. CT or a plunge in tub of cool water. The patient, however. should lead up to the cold shower gradually. He should begin by dipping his hands and face in cold water. When he reacts favorably to this, he should dip his feet in cold water, then sprinkle cold water over his chest and back. In month he will think the world isn't right, of a morning, unless he has this hot and cold therapy.
 Then after breakfast he should walk ten to twenty minutes in the open air. He should do this again at noon and at night He should be out at least an hour day no matter what the weather.
 The whole purpose Is to train the skin so that 1t can take It." We all know that if we want to make any set of muscles in our body especially use ful, we have to exercise them. And If we want our skin to react in Il healthy way to weather changes, we must give it exercise in reacting.
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