Show KEEPING BODY IN N CONDITION hardening process a good preventive of colds modern research seems to have established tho fact that after all the old fashioned ideas with regard to colds are not far wrong it Is of course true says the literary digest that a cold Is a malady due to germs but there seems to he be no doubt that the chilling of tho the body lessens its resistance and so renders it an easy prey in the arctic region v where here t the he influenza germ cannot live and where colds are said to be un unknown knon it may be safe to sit in a draught or to get got ones feet wot but in tho the temperate tone gone these indulgences will continue to be risky for the average man reviewing experiments and observations made in this field the medical record says A point of practical importance Is the fact that it was found that repeat ed exposure to blight slight degrees of cold brought about an increase of antibodies and lind this observation therefore a it theoretical justification of the a practically approved methods of hardening the body by hydro thera and other methods of training such procedures should not only serve to protect against cold and allied conditions dit ions but also should render the body better able to copo cope with bacteria of all kinds |