HOW DOCTORS AVOID GOLDS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 19848, 17 January 1920, Page 6

HOW DOCTORS AVOID GOLDS.

Anyone who would ask a score of doctors how they avoid colds would get a woridreful variety of answers, and at the same timo a great deal of useful advice. One doctor said to mo, “ Tho only wav is to keep up your general health. hi that way you maintain tho natural resistance of tho body to infection. “ Keep all tho windows of your house open night and day; eat enough food but never too much at any one meal; wear clothing warm enough to prevent chilling; and take ns much exercise as you can in the open air. “These are tho main rules, but you must also avoid those faults which you know very well yourself, such as smoking too much, sitting up lato and not having enough sleep.” Another doctor told m© confidently that he had escaped colds for tho past tlireo years by having himself inoculated with an anti-cold vaccine at the beginning of every winter and again in January of February. A great London physician said that ho never had a cold, although constantly in the way of infection, simply because ho kept his nose in order and blew it properly. Many noses nro twisted and in other ways malformed, he said, and they collect tho microbes. “Got your nose seen to by a surgeon and blow it every morning, at night, and two or three times a day when colds are about, in the following way: Open tho handkerchief and grasp tho bony part of the nose so as to leave tho nostrils free. Then blow. It is a good plan to compress ono nostril while blowing the other,” Another physician said that the great art of avoiding colds is to- keep out of the way of infection. “Everyone who coughs or sneezes in your presence may give you a bad cold. Reward him as you would a man flourishing a revolver, ho is really more dangerous. “ If you are travelling with an infected person you run great risks' of getting uis cold. Get into another compartment if possible, and if not, hold up a newspaper before your face. When you get out of tho carriage blow your noso.” “ Antiseptics,” said another, “have their uses. If you make too much use of them you deaden tho lining membrane of the nose, and when tho effect of the antiseptic wears off you are more liable than ever. “ The way to use antiseptics is to inhale them at night on going to bed. They are also useful when colds abound after you have been in the prcsenco of an infected person. “ The old remedies of a mustaigl footbath, a hot drink going to bed, and tho like are no use unless you stay in bed next day. The best cure for a cold, and probably tho only one, is to stay m bod until it goes. If you do this tho first day yon will cut a cold short Eat very little while in bed.” I'. F. M,, in “ Tho Daily Mail.”