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Show SAYS COLDS COST BILLION A YEAR Doctor Declares America Has 100,000,000 of Them. Atlantic City, N. J. Dr. Beamnn Douglass of New Tork, in an address before the annual convention of the J.nryngological, Rhinologlenl and Oto-logical Oto-logical society, in the Ambassador hotel ho-tel here, said there were 100,000,000 colds a year in the United States, causing caus-ing a loss in time from work of 51,-000.000,000, 51,-000.000,000, at an average of three days each at S5 a day. "If we men," he declared, "were to appear on the street in midwinter wearing dancing slippers, silk hose, trousers rolled to our knees and our shirts turned down to the apes of our breastbone, we should most certainly die of pneumonia, but the ladles of today to-day dress that way and yet suffer less from colds than men. This is because the women are out more and become hardened." Doctor Douglass stated that dry air In homes during the winter is largely responsible for the number of colds. ""When a person goes from the open air, with its natural moistness, Into his home," he said, "the dry air there makes the membranes of the nose crack and cold bacteria find lodgment, causing a head cold." |