How to Avoid Catching a Cold.

Otago Witness, Issue 2558, 25 March 1903, Page 64

How to Avoid Catching a Cold.

Why do so many persons "take a bad cold" on the slightest provocation — while so many others who expose themselves heedlessly, to draughts, wot feet, and other accepted causes are free from that popular ailment? The answer ot the doctors is disquieting. They agree that a cold ia a certain indication that the victims are in a bad state through aud through — clogged livers, weak kidneys, capricious digestion, irritated nerves ; that they arc anaemic, with ragged throats, tonsils rotted from the effects of so many congestions, and the mucus membrane of the wholo body full of granulation tissue and "degenerated lymph follicles." When the tonsils are chronically congested they are tha breeding place of a bacillus called "stre-ptococcus." It is this robust and lively-germ which, pursuing the course of the alimentary canal, retards digestion, keeps up a eatarrhal condition, and impedes the action of liver and kidneys. People who arc in this condition are more, or less incapable of resisting diseases of any kind. Draughts set them to sneezing and wet. feet to coughing. They have to be renovated inside and out. This is boiv it is done: — First, the skin must be made alive, vigorous, filled with warm aiterial blood. Groom it with a flesh ruch every morning, and again at night; following with a cool sponge bath in the morning and a warm scap bath at night. Change the underclothing at least every other day. Drink a pint of puro, coft water before breakfast, and again at bedtime. Gradually double the amount. fake a brisk walk every day, rain or shine, inhaling deeply from time to time.— New Yolk Jcurnal.