THE MAN WITH A COLD.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11253, 11 May 1904, Page 4

THE MAN WITH A COLD.

At this season of the year, when the influenza fiend ia making himself felt, an article in a recent number' of the" British Weekly by "Cfahdius Clear"— one of Dr. Eobertson Nirnll's many pon nnmes— w»H

be read with interest. 4 . The' man r^frifsfco a cold is . here , pictured ; as _» mppg.'m&it'PSL grievance — in . the • first place Vhe"^jsjij»os speak of his trouble, or Jf'-he.-dotf&lßpjejjjjt he ; is -refused a' hearing. - TK^Jsaffcihi knows very well that 1 colds, neuralgia^ jji'rfd most of the ills 'that afflict him arise fropi the great modern curse- of fresh' {ii£. *?Yet people with colds, even- those vrhose^ cold* have passed into pleurisy', pneu^ionid and • consumption, arc told' that, the -ciiir#''iB . fresh air,; that they should! , keej> > out,- ia the open 'air' as. much as possible-.'. TThtab- . • the man with a cold is • coinpJSlled'Jtr^ .ber "■> silent' where his .very deepest.-. conrf^o*)* . are concerned, .. He must *,' not "objisii^tp open windows', • for nowadays •'* cvevybbdy' ! ' sits with open^ windows and sleeos'-^itli' open windows^ and travels in railv.i^y^rriages and coaches'wrtji .. Qp'en wsusfts{f: • Ventilation . is universally :;: jioi>u|ar£«- . churches must be .ventilated;' Ite'la in^ijlie ventilated, * and private dwelling's imtfst'^&e ventilated. Sueh 1 is^ the 'craze .fo^ ope^-^ir. treatment that . the - writer looks . hopeftifty; • for the time when dwelling-houses! rent '* ' mankind will be abolished, for sb'^Atei are people of their health,, and *so''gr^t. ', is their dread of infection,- that fhei'mttA.- ■ with a cold may- expect, ifl-heiiiyes^'ntf enotigh, to be shut -up in '*. sbMtaryr^cellp fgr from t lie madding crowd.'.? ■ i sra«rj6-'J^ nothing ronumtic- about -a cold; its iriaiii'- - festations are most prosaic. Itisparticu-; ' larly irritating .when two people ' in*. . t^fe. sanle^liouso have, coughs, at , the same ■ ijim<» -and the inmates are treated to .a series' of •' "hoasts; encountering h'oasts:"/'^Hti^iB nothing poetical, abouj;- sneezing; oK/bl^ipr . ing the nose' at t frequent interv^lfl.^ana.. the -doctors treat mere, colds • iiW ; iJHi'\ i coat ' tempt. - A- .' nian : is *suddenl^; mad4j' i^ww& 1 of. the fact that Jhe has caught,larcold/,^TO. . at once the whole- sorry programnieiofvwe , .•' next three^or-iour weeks burstsistip^iiti^mmvThere' is no escape; he- must ''itjffi^ "$&"!, through, with the steady progressuJn^ ft^i the head to the throat, from- the "tK^bM^to '' ■the lung, with the dulling of fivetj^eii^^ „. and faculty^— that gre^t weight .VddSd^on .. to the load of life. ' Thus ventures to say' that the doctor cut. short a cold v would make .&,£dfittd!a? cpnie, -and 'eatn the ' sincere, "^ra^it^ae^of .the ' people. Meanwhile/ , ahhougli<^b^;^ mean's, a Protectionist,-' he? r 'is ''^cpnji^cml' ttat if fresh air could ]be out.^iinTOrts. / and' exports .would come 'allvJrigUt.^trMiclr f -is a new solution of'the-'fiscarissiie'.'''" 1 ?i •'-.