NO EXCUSE FOR COLDS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 1 November 1924, Page 12

NO EXCUSE FOR COLDS.

CHLORINE AS A CURE. At least 42 persons out of every 100, it ifl said, suffer from colds every .year, arid it is welcome news to learn that one of the poison gases of the war has been turned to the service of man in the constructive work of ridding us of such a prevalent affliction. . Popular Science Monthly (New York) publishes an article by Robert E. Martin, relating his experience in taking the chlorine treatment, which is being extended to 6uch diseases as acute bronchitis. laryngitis, whooping cough and influenza' _The chlorine treatment is simple. You simply remain in one small room for an hour. In the case of the Government clinics at Washington, the tediousness has ■ been relieved by provides books, magazines and newspapers. Also the development of a portable apparatus by means of which chlorine can be administered to a single patient permits a sufferer to rest comfortably in hie own home or office while undergoing treatment. Despite the fact that chlorine was used as a war weapon, there is no reason why the most nervous person should fear to take the treatment. It would require about 100 times the strength of chlorine that is used m the treatment before there danger in breathing the gas. When the patients are seated a is opened, and a small, amount is fed from a glass cylinder containing chlorine m liquid form. An ordinary electric fan hesides the inlet pipe circulates it through the room. When the treatment ends, all the chlorinehearing air is driven out by fans. The apparatus consists of a small glass cylinder, capable of holding a more , tn&n- o. quart of liquid chlorine. When a valve at the top is opened, chlorine escapes through rubber tubing to a glass cylinder 'filled 'yith a salt solution. Thence a simple siphon causes the chlorine to pass in jets into the room through glass pipA single treatment—enough, for seven persons simultaneously— costs about six cents. Mr Martin is of opinion that nowadays there is no excuse’ for a person to have a cold.