Show colds and their causes the really important question is in what does predisposition consist we talk of a man catching a cold but it would be more correct and equally graphic to say that the cold has caught the man for it does catch him unawares and often when he ile least anticipates it but no cold ever caught any man unless he had first prepared the ground for it by a careful process of fertilization no amount of mere exposure to a low tem I 1 grature alone will cail bauw ap cold in a a perfectly healthy man in whom the product of wear and tear teat qi nerve and muscle with adequate ex excretion of waste products on the one side is evenly balanced ty by food supply and exercise on the other where the equilibrium does not exist 1 such exposure then operates as a chill now who are the people who are liable to catch colda not those dietary Is so carefully adjusted to the work they have to do that there la is no opportunity tor for the accumulation of unused urill sed foodstuffs in their tissues leal but those who in the betterbed better fed ranks of society eat and drink more than they need to meet the dally requirements quire ments of 0 their bodily activity i and are thus continually storing up ul la in their ti thes q Ps and excreting ar org ar ma aerial which if would form valuable ammunition foj fol the deveto development pm nt of energy either oi ol body or mind milid but which when beyond a tt certain point has to be blon vii off in a cold or a billion attack or in pronounced fit ot of gout |