Show f j KEEP KEEPING NG BODY IN CO CONDITION F f Hardening P Process a Good Preventive Prevent ive lye of Colds Modern research seems to have established established es es- t f the fact that after all the old fashioned ideas with regard to colds are not far wrong It is of course course true says the Literary Digest that a a cold Is a a malady due to germs but there seems to be no doubt that the chilling of the body lessens its Us resistance and so so renders it an easy prey In the Arctic r region gion where the influenza in in- germ cannot live and where colds are are said to be unknown It may be safe to sit In a draught or to get ones one's feet teet wet b but t in the temperate tone Lone these Indulgences will wUl continue to be risky for the average man Reviewing experiments and observations made In this field the Medical Record says A A p point of ot practical Importance Is the fact that It was found that repeated repeat- repeat td ed exposure to slight aUght degrees of ot cold coid brought about an Increase of antibodies anti anti- bodies and this th's observation therefore affords a theoretical Justification of ot ote T the e a practically approved methods of r hardening the th body b by and other methods of ot training Such Buch procedures should not only serve to protect against cold and allied conditions con con- but also should render the body od better able to with cope bacteria bac- bac t tirla teria ria of all aU kinds s |