Salt Lake Telegram | 1934-01-12 | Page 18 | U. S. Employes with Colds Get Medicine, Not Sympathy

V. V S. S With Colds Get Medicine N Not Qt Sympathy Treatment Devised by Health Service I Is S So Drastic Workers Worker sAre Are Afraid to Be Sick WASHINGTON Jan 12 UP UP President President Roosevelt's h helpers who have to work hard every day and loUt lots of nights seldom get colds any more They're afraid to If a hapless clerk does show up at any of ot the new alphabetical agencies with the sniffles a sympathetic nu nurse doesn't send him home to w rest Instead she pushes the sufferer ferer Into a chair and 1 Gives him a gulp of or hot water In in n which Is 13 dissolved one rin tablet l 2 Swabs Swab his throat with throat with a n mixture of one part Iodine and five parts gly gly- erin cerino 3 Sprays his nostrils with a 1 per percent percent cent solution of s sulphate or or r with a d diluted solution of f atropine alro alro- pine Ine sulphate If his cold Is extra bad ad 4 Gives him a Jolt of castor oIL olL If f he kicks and squirms and threatens to La o flee the country she relents with witha a citrate of ot magnesia cocktail 5 Administers to him a saturated solution of baling soda three times a day If the sufferer survives all this his cold is likely to disappear Another government cold formula for helpers t too o busy to take the full treatment con consists consists of Two aspirin tablets a teaspoon of baking soda soda-a a dash of aromatic spirits spirits spir spiro its of ammonia and a jigger of spirits of camphor dissolved and shaken I well in a wine glass of hot water The patient down downs th this with his cy eyes es shut shudders and goes back to the the business busi ness of returning prosperity The public health service says at least 50 per cent of the sickness suffered suffered suf sue by Americans consists of respiratory respiratory atory troubles