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Show Health and Beauty By j j DR. SOPHIA BRUNSON ,of water and fruit juices. This treatment usually resulted in restoring re-storing him to duty in two or three days. Do not neglect a cold. If you begin to develop one, go to bed at once and follow the treatment outlined out-lined above. Nothing yet has been discovered that is so effective in preventing and curing a cold as quinine. We have abundance of proof for this among men of science who have given us - the benefit of their observations and experiences. It is foolish, almost criminal, to neglect a cold, for by doing so you may spread it throughout the community. This may result in much suffering, expense, and even death. Children receive the same treatment. treat-ment. It is just as effective with them as it is with adults. Of course, the amount of quinine that is to be given them is in proportion propor-tion to their ages. which we can place absolute re-, liance in the cure of colds, we should endeavor to build up resistance re-sistance by proper diet, plenty of sleep, and when feasible, avoidance of people who have them. Experience has taught us many valuable lessons in the treatment of colds. For example, a prominent physician told the writer that during dur-ing an epidemic of colds a year ago, every member of his household, house-hold, including the servants, took severe colds, with the exception of two of his daughters, both of whom were convalescing from malaria ma-laria and were still taking quinine. qui-nine. One of the girls was unusually unusual-ly susceptible to colds, but in this particular epidemic, was protected by quinine. Dr. Fishbein, whom you all know as a medical authority, says: "Quinine "Qui-nine sulphate has been used for years as an abortive treatment for colds." In the first World War, when a soldier began to develop a cold, he was immediately ordered to bed. He was given two grains of quinine, qui-nine, together with an intestinal antiseptic, every three hours. A laxative was administered to rid the bowels of poisons, and the kid-neys kid-neys flushed by drinking plenty Colds seem to be almost ubiqui-tious ubiqui-tious at this season of the year. They are most prevalent in winter and spring. A neglected cold often leads to serious complications which result in tuberculosis, pneumonia, kidney disease, heart trouble, inflamed tonsils, infected sinuses, and other ailments, any one of which might end fatally. To most people the common cold is only a minor disorder dis-order that is often regarded lightly light-ly and left to cure itself. Yet it is one of the most dangerous and baffling problems that confront scientific medicine today. We know that colds are contagious, and that they often grow to epidemic epi-demic proportions. Children are particularly susceptible sus-ceptible to them, as they lack the resistance of older people. The running ears, mastoid complications, complica-tions, and other serious chronic diseases which afflict children frequently fre-quently have their inception in colds. Taking cold is an evidence of lowered vitality. The tired person per-son whose diet is not right, who goes on sufficient sleep, is irregular irregu-lar in-his habits, worries, and remains re-mains indoors most of the time where the ventilation is poor, usually us-ually suffers from colds which he finds it difficult to throw off. Since we have no vaccine upon |