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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23033, 10 May 1938, Page 12

FRESH AIR "CURE"

PHYSICIAN'S CRITICISM ADVICE ABOUT COLDS [from our own correspondent] LONDON, April 14 Many of tho claims made for fresh air as a remedy for all ills are false, according to Dr. C. Hoyle, assistant physician to King's College Hospital and the Brompton Hospital for Consumption, in a recent address to the Royal Institute for Public Health. "Tho idea that fresh air, as such, has any kind of miraculous effect in sustaining health or as a recuperative factor in illness outside of movement, temperature and humidity is a pure fallacy," said Dr. Hoyle. "It is the change of scene, the relief from the daily round, tho alternation of rest and exorcise and pleasurable company that give to the 'fresh air' of our holidays an altogether undeserved Reputation." Dr. Hoyle was Riving advice on how to combat the common cold. There were still many false notions about clothing, and many people encased themselves in layers of wool tho moment tho leaves began to fall, he said. Yet women, who wore less warmly clad than men, were less prone to pneumonia. Clothing should always be light, permoable to air, allow free evaporation from the skin, absorb moisture up to a point, and not cling to the skin when wet. Tho essential cause of colds was infection with a living viruß, and there was no moans of avoiding it except by living as a recluse. "All ono can reasonably advise," aded Dr. Hoyle, "is that those who contract a cold should, as far as possible, stay at home, preferably in one room, for a day or two, taking great care not to sneeze or cough with unprotected nose and mouth."