Show let our motto be GOOD HEALTH BY DR LLOYD lloydarnold ARNOLD aro 1 0 0 I 1 lac alo 1 ind nd 1111 medicine d i 1 i U gy of illinois n a I 1 S co collece ilese of medicine SEVERAL commonsense COMMON SENSE RULES OF HEALTH what can we do to give people common sense rules of health so BO that they can help themselves to keep well that la Is a question public health officials are asking themselves all the time in the research laborati laboratory ory r of the university of illinois we are seeking constantly to ond the simplest means for arrom this end for instance we have been carrying on a study of the s skin kin for quite a number of years we find that clean healthy skin dis infects itself rapidly dirty skin does not do this and hence dirty hands are dangerous hands germs can rest on top of the dirt on soiled i skin just as easily as they can on ci dirty cloth or on sticky doorknobs telephone hond mouthpieces mouth es and receivers we also find that washing the hands with good soap and warm water removes most of the germs along with the dirt and then the clean skin can kill most of the remaining remain log germs within the space of ten tea minutes and all of them within the space of thirty minutes if the skin sidn Is broken or otherwise I 1 injured ho however wever it will not disinfect itself at the broken or injured place hence a broken skin surface will carry alive any germs put on it we have also made a study of the lips and we have found that where here the moistened membrane of the mouth and the skin meet bacteria do not die so quickly as they c on other parts of the skin but will live from two to three hours this discovery Is of special signi significance fleance in the spread of lung and throat germs when a person with tuberculosis coughs the germs live ddn m the lips for atlease at least two hours afterward means that when a tuberculosis person puts his fingers or a cup to the lips any time during it a two or three hour period after a coughing spell the fingers or the cup will get a dose of germs we can thus see that thai dis infecting and burning the sputum are not the only preventives necessary against the spreading of tuberculosis germs in our study of common colds we have hae found that persons susceptible to colds those who catch colds easily are different kroin from the persons who seldom have head colds the difference can be stated briefly as follows by using a special apparatus we have been able to measure the temperature of the nose throat forehead cheek and arm ablat all at the same time now when a normally head bead cold resistant person dips his foot into cold water or puts a cold towel on his back or his chest the skin sidn temperature on the face and arm lowers immediately and abild the temperature pera ture of the lining membrane of the nose lowers likewise to the same degree but within ten seconds the nose temperature starts rising and it keeps on rising until it Is higher than normal temperature or Is at fever heat as we say the skin temperature Is much more sluggish but gradually it starts to rise too and it Is not until it Is back to normal that the nose temperature comes down to normal to repeat the normal reaction of a person who does not catch cold easily Is skin and nose temperatures drop at tile the same time for the first ten seconds then nose temperature quickly rises to above normil normal temperature and stays biays that way until skin temperature has come back to normal when both become equal again now when the same experiment Is performed on a person very susceptible to colds or on one who has a history of four or five colds a year we find that while the nose temperature makes the same sudden drop as the skin temperature does it does not quickly rise to above normal as it does in the healthy person on the contrary it stays down as long as the skin temperature or even longer and an sometimes it goes lower than the skin ikin temperature and itlay stay that way for half an hour or longer in other words the cold susceptible people have a different heat regulatory system for the nose and throat than tho the cold re sostant people have and when tile the temperature ot of the nose stays down then the nose becomes congested there Is sneezing and running of the nose and the membrane of the nose swells dt dr irwin Sp lesman and other workers on our ou r staff have found that the only way to t omage make people with frequent head colds less susceptible to colds Is by first training their skin temperature regulatory system to react na an it does in cold resist resistant ant people this Is done by taking hot baths in the morning and by byn walking alkin g in the open air atlease at least one b hour our a day then the diet should be watched to see that it obtains sont ont ains alenty of fresh fruits and green ales and ad leap lean meat sweets ands and pastry should bi oe avoided and corn bread used in preference to wheat bread doctor hns has learned also that cold susceptible persons are inclined to ti worry them did w irrl ng n nhoun out a thing ever cier hel heista its i a question qu th hit nit makes one think i wt rm ew power villon union |