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CATGMEi\SG A COLD. «♦ CATCHING " AND CURING. There are hundreds of alleged cures for a cold and just two ways of preventing it; the first is to avoid chilL and the second is to destroy the germ that spreads the complaint, bccausc for who catches cold by chill there are a hundred cases in which the cold " catches " the man—by infection. THE INFECTIOUS COLD. . " Don't come near me, I've got a cold." This is a common, friendly warning and it makes one think. If you can catch a cold from another person there must be something to carry (he complaint; so there is—a germ which sows itself and grows a cold. Kill that germ and you won t catch cold. KILLING THE INFECTION. There is only one way to stop infection •nd that is to kill the infccting germ. The thin" we use to do this is called a disinfectant, in other words a germ-killer. The very best is Lifebuoy Soap. Use and test have proved the germ-kiliing power of Lifebuoy Soup in laboratory, hospital and home. t BY THE BEST MEANS. Lifebuoy Soap is the best germ-killer and the best cold preventer because of its many household uses. Drains are flushed with Lifebuoy Soap, sinks are scoured, walls and tables scrubbed, and clothes and household linen arc wished with Lifebuoy Soap. Wherever Lifebuoy Soap gets hold of a germ it kills it and a dead germ cannot "infect. heRM-TRAP. When von want to catch a rat you set the trap i n its''run." When you want to catch disease germs you set a Lifebuoy Soap Trap in the weekly Wash-tub, and all the germs, gathered in the clothing tlirongh the week go into it and there is an end of them. A GERM-CEMETERY. You will catch and kill a lot of colds in the weekly wash if you use Lifebuoy Soap. You may kill quite A lot of other equally infectious germs, for they are al! over the place, invisible and dangerous—typhoid, scarlet fever, consumption, cholera,. &c. Thev are all " catching," but they cannot face Lifebuoy Soap, it is death to germs. LEVER BROTHERS LIMITED, SYDNEXa _■

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Press, Volume LV, Issue 16478, 22 March 1919, Page 5

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Page 5 Advertisements Column 3 Press, Volume LV, Issue 16478, 22 March 1919, Page 5

Page 5 Advertisements Column 3 Press, Volume LV, Issue 16478, 22 March 1919, Page 5

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