Show let our motto be GOOD HEALTH BY DR LLOYD ARNOLD professor r of Bs bucter 0 lognand nd preventive me mcd d cine U un vers r of fill III noil college of medicine AGAIN THE COMMON ON C chiy 00 there isn t any other diser disease als the cause of so much suffering sul so many days loss of work so many deaths as the com mon cold that Is why I 1 speak of it again if we 0 could prevent the common cold we should all be much happier notice that I 1 said prevent for all that thousands and thousands of doctors have been trying to find a cure for or colds no one so far has succeeded so when people talk of a cure for a cold they are talking about something that doesn doean t exist if we begin drastic treatment of a head cold very early we can sometimes shorten the course of the ailment aliment but the treatment must be started early and we must stay home and take care of ourselves for if the cold develops to the stage where there Is an exudation or outflow of blood serum into the tissues in the wall of the nose then we know of no way to abort or stop it if you keep up a reasonable amount of exercise e and have plenty of fresh fruits and vegetables in your diet you can do much towards preventing colds people who have many head cold colds are apt to conduct their dally daily way of life much as follows they sleep with all windows down tightly to keep out as much of the fresh air as they can th they ey get up late in the morning hur friedly dress eat cat some prepared dried indigestible so called breakfast food drink a cup of coffee and jump into the car and drive to work they cat eat inside the building at noon or drive driver home and drive back they try to restrict the noon meal to a sandwich coffee and a candy bar they drive home after work eat a heavy meal of meat gravy potatoes bread coffee with cake and a big dish of ice tee cream for dessert then they play cards until they go to bed again in their closed poorly ventilated rooms no human machine can stand such punishment very long the nasal mucous membrane may adjust itself in spite of this type of abnormal existence but something will break soon usually the head bead cold colds are forerunners of more serious all ments the more we learn about medicine and health the more we respect the practices of folk lore if you are begin ning a head cold then I 1 know of no better treatment than tint thit which was prevalent in southern illinois in my grandmother grandmothers s time As soon as grand mother noticed that we were chilly and beginning to sneeze she told us to un dress then we were wrapped in a blanket and laid across the bed with our feet in a wash tub of hot water grandmother knelt by with one hand la in the water and the other holding a tea kettle of hot water from which she poured a slow but constant stream into the tub grandmother decided when the water was too hot our protests availed nothing next we were given a glass of hot sweetened vinegar water or hot lemon ade it if lemons were procurable after we had started sweating good and plenty we vie were put into bed given an other glass of the same drink wrapped up well a and nd allowed to sweat for one or two hours then dry covers were put on and a long sound restful sleep was sure to follow grandmother called this breaking up a cold and she rare ly failed modern medical science says this Is good treatment the temperature sense of the skin Is all upset at the begin ning of a cold the sneezing denotes that the membrane lining of the nose Is extremely sensitive ordinary air irritates it and you sneeze to expel a harmful substance the purpose of the membrane lining Is to prevent anything getting through the nasal air passages hat that will harm or damage the lower air tracts leading to the lung all the body surfaces such as the skin the lining of the nose nos and throat and the air passages have till abnormal circulation at the beginning of a cold the millions of tiny threadlike thread like capil clarles just beneath the surface are each acting as they please they are like a large symphony orchestra with each instrument playing a different tune when they should be in unison the increase of heat within A rj bodies induced by the hot toot foot barnt while wrapped up in blankets helps to stabilize the controlling mechanism and to bring some order out of the chaos the hot a acidified gidi fled drink warms us up inside and supplies an acid to the dach which Is weak in its secretory powers at this time and helps it come lack back to normal vaccines as a cold preventive have proved of value to a few people but not many the ultraviolet ultra violet lamp or artificial sunshine Is undoubtedly help tul in preventing colds but it cannot replace hygienic living conditions out door exercise balanced diet an I 1 mental as well as physical rest have liae to be combined with it grandmother grandmothers s treatment Is i p to date the best we vie know but I 1 login egill it early after a head cold has been heen in progress for to tn 0 days it is I 1 s 1115 ill i 1 11 s its course of seven to nine na ao 10 9 at least ak 0 western newspaper vitot |