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I I Kr K 11 r Cu J I I n- n A.- A. rl IA J JI I A 2 r ir y i iII or S am I aaa A 01 H United States Public II Health eaith Service Embarks Upon U on H j Three Year Research to Find Means to Combat the Universal the Disease Common Cold a w Y J fi S f 2741 I J J d r rII S Y Pf YF C ip Z S J F N II A J 1 st 1 r in FAY 4 y yf v. v f 4 78 The man or woman or child with a cold who Y t f fr r r sneezes openly in in a public place sets free enough x r r t germs to infect a whole community A handkerchief handkerchief rr will minimize A chief held over the mouth at least f i the danger of contaminating ting others x gf q a t r t j r iN t. t i df iii Yi i y i Cold germs breed with inconceivable rapidity in the 4 r mucous membranes and the one which usually is is the w cause of colds in in the head is is known as bacillus x It is is shown in the etching in in the circle and above is isy rd the tract which it attacks f. f t 4 y tk 2 r W f t r a wr r. r ev L r rV V i iAn An n old idea that has been hard to eradicate is that fresh air will cause c se colds The contrary is warmly true true and children wrapped In ln woolens now study and acid d play and sleep in the open find health and air where they strength universal the called T has been HAT v-HAT ofa of ofa the subject disease is to be made study by the United three years' years a Public Health He-alth Service in the hope States of finding means whereby its spread be discouraged may known as the bad It is commonly vast deal for a cold and is responsible and loss of time of suffering disability and money All of us fall faU victims to it from time timeto timeto timeto to time It has a way of running of a through families if one member household is attacked the others aro are likely soon to catch it An epidemic of it once fairly started is liable ble to affect a whole community Colds arc especially preva prevalent ent in the winter time because at that season people people people peo peo- are arc shut up in houses which are usually kept too warm and often are are inadequately ventilated iI 1 I IThe tY c E d ai Y ty y YM s 's y nS J The United States Public Health Servi Service e is making a study of c colds in the hope of finding a cure The germs of which there are two too cc Iv t a distinct varieties have been in gelatin and toxins for or 1 propagated in in T i. i ti tt them have been found found For that is exactly what a cold isan isan is isan is is- an infection caused by bacterial germs which having once started to breed in inthe inthe inthe the mucous membrane that lines the nose ana throat multiply at a fabulous rate feeding upon the delicate tissues and excreting an irritant poison There are several species of germs engaged in this mischievous business One of them usually the trouble-maker trouble in cases of cold in the head is tho the bacillus Another is the micro- micro is meaning little round microbe of catarrh and other ther species have been een THESE artificially propagated in gelatin in glass tubes test with wads of cotton But for breeding purposes ses they find ideal conditions in the human nasal passages and throat Your face is a mask Behind it is a large hollow which is divided into two compartments or stories The lower story is your your mouth mouth and its ceiling is floor of the upper story which is IS the cavity behind your yours nose One continuous sheet of membrane lines both stories or compartments and extends downward int into your throat T THIS HIS membrane when attacked by y invading in- in vadin germs throws out quantities of mucus to allay the irritation caused by bythe bythe bythe the poison which the microbes excrete Thus a person suffering from cold in the head in order to keep his breathing passages open is obliged oblige constantly to blow his nose and the stuffiness due to accumulation of mucus renders him un un- comfortable Nearly all deaf persons owe their affliction affliction affliction af af- to cold germs which find their way from the nasal pass passages int into th tha i i Q P X Hil 1 i t l. l One of f the the best ways of transmitting transmit transmit- i iti ti ting g colds t is by ki kissing kasing sing and the caress should be banned banne when hen either person is suffering from the almost pres ever ent malady When a sneezing husband husband hus hus- band comes home he should say to waiting wife For or yours your own good don dont don't t kiss me c d 0 tubes that 5 connect the latter with the inner ears t Colds Colds' are easily casily caught because they the he most infectious of a are e among maladies Little Johnny has hasa a bad cold but not severe enough gh to keep him at home In In school he sneezes As a Ii result result result re re- sult the whole air of the schoolroom is soon filled with invisible vaporous particles particles particles par par- every everyone one of them carrying germs of the the cold from which Johnny is suffer suffer- r- r ing A A Afew few days later there is an epidemic epidemic epidemic epi epi- demic of colds among his schoolmates At home little Johnny sneezes and coughs Presently his baby sister develops develops develops de de- de- de a a bad cold and before long the theother theother theother other members of the family catch it No wonder many physicians urge that thata suffering from a severe cold a person ought to be ce isolated to prevent spread of what is really a a- dangerous infection The Tho Public Health Service says i T T.-r T. r CompanY UN Never ever allow anybody to cough jn in in your face Hit him rather B But t th the infection infection infection tion of a bad cold may be communicated in mere conversation I Scientific experiments experiments ments have proved that a person talking loudly may discharge germs genns to a distance distance distance dis dis- dis- dis tance of five feet Although colds cold are so 59 common commo there is IS scarcely any subject concerning which ignorance is more widespread The best preventive of colds is plenty of fresh air yet oddly enough most people are afraid of it They imagine that drafts are dangerous dangerous-a a notion which undoubtedly undoubtedly undoubtedly un un- has much to do with the prevalence prevalence prevalence alence of the indoor plague Tho The Public Health Service says that the best way to avoid colds is to keep the house or apartment flooded with fresh air Ignore drafts unless unless- one is ov overheated Keep the temperature down downto to 70 degrees in winter Take lake frequent frequent frequent fre fre- fre- fre quent shower baths as cold as may be prudent for the individual which individual which means that an rin agreeable glow sho should ld follow the rub Public gatherings of of any kind are great distributors of cold infections Patrons Patrona suffering from colds sneeze and cough scattering the germs freely about not accustomed to realize how We Weare are dangerous a thing a sneeze may be Only recently has it been discovered that measles owes its contagion and rapid spread to the sneezing of sufferers cold A A PERSON suffering from a ought as as' as a matter of decent precaution precaution precaution pre pre- caution h hold B a handkerchief over his nose and mouth when He ne sneezes zes Yet too commonly this is not done A violent violent violent vio vio- lent sneeze will win discharge germs with such force as to send them them cleat clear across a room N 5 Many cures of hay bay fever r are said to have been made by hypodermic injections injections injections in in- of a fluid extract extrac of ragweed d given a few v weeks before the annual attack is due dac and thus rendering the patient at least temporarily immune Similarly for ordinary ordnary colds in the head and throat colds are ara hypodermically injected They are made by breeding the germs genns such bacillus as in beef broth and then killing them by raising the broth to a boiling several different different different differ differ- point But Hut inasmuch as ent bacterial sp species cies are accountable for colds these put up in little glass vials by pharmaceutical concerns for us use uso by doctors are necessarily shotgun prescriptions A person who is in rate first-rate vigorous vigor vigor- ous health is almost immune to colds It is when one cne is feeling a bit below par that there is danger For the germs are always about us in multitudes waiting waiting wait wait- it- it ing for or a chance chalice to attack J I 1 |