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Show Whiskey Bath Listed as Old Cold Remedy SCHENECTADY. N. 'Y. Fantastic Fantas-tic remedies suggested for the common com-mon cold 60 years ago were described de-scribed by Dr. Louis C. Jones of State College for Teachers. Albany, in an address here. "The Albany Times in 18S6 suggested sug-gested that, in the realm of preventive preven-tive medicine, best thing to ward off a cold was to take a bath in hot whiskey and rock salt twice a year,'' Jones said. Referring to less expensive remedies, reme-dies, the speaker pointed out that "it was 'discovered' in Calcoon. N. Y., that if you take the skin of the leaf lard from left side of a pig, j put it on your chest and keep it j there, you'll be over your cold in no i time." ! Another remedy mentioned in old legends is to crawl through a double-rooted briar, moving from west I to east. |
