Show Taking Vaccine for Colds By DR OR JAMES W. W BARTON t Bell Den Syndicate Service pHERE HERE has been much THERE T JL written the last few years about colds because colds not only cause many ab ab- absences absences ab- ab absences from school or from work but are the starting point for more serious condi condi- conditions conditions conditions such as bronchitis asthma pneumonia broncho-pneumonia and pneumonia That colds arc due to the entrance into the body of a n tiny organism and its products is the belief of many physicians but b u t there are arc many head hend colds that can be traced to foods pollen of plants lack of vita- vita f. f m Ins 1 n s tiredness 3 moisture in the at at- atmosphere atmosphere atmosphere and infections Infections infections teeth and ton ton- tonsils tonsils 1 sils which so drain Dr Barton the patients patient's vitality that a cold has no difficulty in starting up in the nose and throat That the use of a vaccine vaccine cold cold vaccine vaccine has has been helpful in pre pre- preventing preventing preventing venting or lessening the number of or colds cannot be denied but the re- re results results vary from 10 per cent prevention prevention tion ion with some physicians to 40 to 50 per er cent with others Also most of these cases have been treated by injecting the cold vaccine under the skin kin It is interesting therefore to learn earn of results of taking these cold vaccines by mouth instead of by hypodermic injection I Cold Vaccine by Mouth 1 1 Dr George E. E Rockwell and Herman Her Her- Herman Herman man C. C Van Kirk M. M Sc Se Cincin Cincin- Cincinnati Cincinnati Cincinnati nati in the Journal of Laboratory and Clinical Medicine tells teUs of their studies of patients afflicted with colds treated by cold vaccine taken by mouth The patients came from various walks of life life boys boys in an nn institution office workers medical students factory workers and school children In each of these groups half the persons took the vaccine and the same number acted as controls did didI not take the vaccine The patients using the vaccine took one capsule I with a half glass of water at least one hour before breakfast every morning for seven mornings after which h one capsule per week was taken throughout the season One Onehundred Onehundred Onehundred hundred persons took vaccine and did not controls All had suf suf- suffered suffered suffered with about the same number of colds each year in the past Results During the experimental tal year the controls ones who didn't use the vaccine had colds whereas the ones who took the vaccine had a total of or 94 9 colds colds- a n decrease of about 75 per cent There was also a very marked de de- decrease decrease de- de decrease crease in days of illness from all aU causes among the vaccinated group as compared with the controls For those who suffer with fre fre- frequent frequent fre- fre frequent quent colds the cause of which can can- cannot cannot cannot not be found the cold vaccine by mouth treatment should be worth trying S e e Dementia Praecox When it is realized that practically practically practically cally two of every three cases of dementia praecox praecox schizophrenia or Dr persistent dream state as it is usually described have their begin begin- beginning beginning beginning ning before the boy boyar or girl has emerged into manhood or woman woman- womanhood womanhood womanhood hood it certainly gives us all aU food for tor or thought That an apparently average everyday normal boy and girl can develop into day dream dream- dreamers ers is hard to understand Some Some- Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes times however as parents or friends think back a little they will remember that the individual was just a little odd had peculiar no no- Lions about some things seemed al al- always always al- al always ways satisfied in his or her mind that the way they did things In school or in the home was the right way even if it was different from the way it was usually done by oth oth- ers Thus today we find parents teachers and physicians watching more closely for any of these signs In their children pupils or young patients Just how the youngster or some some- sometimes sometimes sometimes times the adult got started along this line of conduct can often be traced to certain circumstances of early life even life even before the school age whereby age whereby the youngster by withdrawing Into himself Instead of mixing perhaps fighting with or studying with others could satisfy himself or be contented in his own mind instead of going out among others and being not the hero he pictures himself in his dream state slate but just one of the crowd and per per- perhaps perhaps perhaps haps not even up to the average in mental or physical ability Dr Benjamin Pollack in the Psychiatric Psychiatric Psychiatric Quarterly says that the main point is that to this patient his dream world Is the real world not the world others live Jive in In his own world the dream world success or gratification is easy to attain and so he is satisfied and he doesn't want this idea disturbed |