COLDS—HOW TO AVOID THEM.

Evening Post, Volume XLVII, Issue 94, 21 April 1894, Page 1 (Supplement)

COLDS— HOW TO AVOID THEM.

"There are two very simple ways of avoiding pains and colds " (said a well-known medico). " One of these is to shut your eyes, and the other is to shut your mouth. The man who comes out of an over-heated room, especially late at night, and breathes through his mouth, will either catch a bad cold or irritate his lungs sufficiently to cause considerable annoyance and unpleasantness. If he will just keep his mouth shut and breathe through his nose, this difficulty and danger are entirely avoided. Wine chills out of every ten are f,ho result of people talking freely while out of doors just after leaving a room full of hot air, and theatre-goers who discuss and laugh over the play on their way home are inviting sickness. It is just the same with regard to shutting the eyes. Every man who travels a long distance gets dust or something worse in his eye occasionally, and proceeds to take everyone's advice to get it out, sometimes rubbing it, and sometimes pulling one lid over the other. The next time you get a speck of dust or metal in your eye just shut it, and keepit shut forover amiuute. Nature will then come to your relief, and there will be enough tear-like moisture to get rid of the obstruction, which will be found in one of the corners when the eye is finally opened. The worst of these two prescriptions is that they are entirely too simple. Mankind love martyrdom in connection with medicine or burgery."