Dr. Hartman

A SYNOPSIS OF HIS LECTURE ON COLDS. How to Catch Them-How to Avoid Them-How to CureThem. The Sneezing: Epidemie Outdone by Pe-ru-na. NAMES IN COMMOM l si.. The various names by which the malady of "catching cold" is known are many, and subject to change with each change in theory or whim respecting its cause. Influenza, coryza, acute catarrh, distemper and catarrhal fever have each their advocates who think their particular name the best one. But the more common name of "catching cold" 'is perhaps, as expressive ot the cause of this universal complaint as any of the more scientific titles. Therefore, "a cold" is the name that will be used in this lecture to desígnate this distressing and ever present disease. CAUSES. As is hinted by the name, "a cold" is the result of an exposure to cold in some form. The exposure to produce the effect of "a cold" must be a peculiar one. An equal eposureof the whole body at one time, whether sudden or gradual, rarely results in catching cold. People who are much exposed to the weather, fair and foul, are not so liable to catch cold as those who spend most of the time in-doors. A partial exposure of the body to cold or wet - the feet, for instance - is much more likely to cause "a cold" than a like exposure of the whole body. A draft on a portion of the body will cause one to take cold more certainly than to face a gale with the whole person. Depressed states of the system, from too close confinement in warm rooms, or illyventilated rooms, bad food, overwork, chronic disease, irregular or intemperate habits, all are favorable to frequent colds. Catching cold frequently occurs without any seeming explanation. One sometimes goes to bed at night perfectly well, and wakes up in the morning with a cold. A cold sometimes comes suddenly upon a person in mid-day engaged in their usual employment, with no intimation as to its origin, Again, colds sometimes seem to sweep over a country like an epidemie, due to some miasmatic, electric or atmospheric cause unknown. SYMPTOMS. In each case slight diflfercnces appear due to the state of health and pectiliarities of the constitution of the individual. Sneezing and slight chilly feelings are followed by a. watery exudation from the nose, which soon becomes sore, and cold sores may appear about the mouth - a puffy, bloated feeling in the face and head, and sometimes severe headache, cough, sore throat, loss oí nppetite, aching in the bones of the whole body, are more or less pronounced in nearly every case. Hawking, spitting, blowing, wheezïng, sneezing, shivering, yawning, stretching, coughing, gagging and belching, combine to make the victim as miseiablc as any disease known to man. THE DAXGERS. Although "a cold" is rarely directly fatal, yet it is the most productive source of incurable diseases that is known to the medical profession. At least one-third of the deaths in the United States are easily traced to the efiects of a cold. Croup, bronchitis, asthma, catarrh, consumption, pleurisy, diphtheria, pneumonía, rheumatism, acute heart disease, Bright's disease of the kidney's, neuralgia and paralysis are, in thousands of instances, directly traceable to a cold." It is the most frequent, the most dange.ous, and the most neglected ill of Ufe. PREVENTATIVES. They may be summed up as cleanliness, all-wool clothing in all seasons, out-door exercise, ventilated sleeping-rooms, early retiring and nsing, good food, and plenty to do. Yet, in spite of every precaution, it I happens u:at a (.oíd is taken, and lhi.- brings us to the treatment. THE TREATMENT of colds ought to begin with the first symptoms. Many years observation has convinced me that hot-drops, quinine, hot slings, Dover powders, ginger drinks and a host of similar remedies, are not only unreliable, but often injurious, as they all alike have the effect of causing unnatural perspiration, which is Hable to be checked by the slightest exposure, and the cold increased thereby. Since "a cold" has the invariable effect of producing congestión of some mucous surface, the remedy for it ought to opérate there also. The compound, Pe-ru-na was devised by me with especial reference to this effect. It operates by increasing the circulation of the mucous membranes of the whole body, and, no matter where "the cold" may have settled, whetber in head, throat, lungs, kidneys or urinary organs, Pe-ru-na will immediately relieve the congested membrane and stop the discharge. When first taken, a glassful of Pe-ru-na m hot water, repeated more or less accoraing to the severity of the attack, vvill scarcely ever fail to break up "a cold." An oíd cold that has settled somewherc is better treated by the regular doses prescribed on the bcttle, which, if obeyed, can be alvvays relied upon to make a permanent cure. Should the bowek be irregular, as they are likely to be at such times, they should be kept regulated by the use of Man-a-lin. Whether the cold has settled in the head and produced catarrh or deafness, or settled in the throat and produced enlarged tonsils or hoarseness, or settled in the bronchial tubes and lungs, producing cough or asthma, or settled in the kidneys or bladder, producing Bright's disease or gravel, Pe-ru-na is the great remedy I have invariably relied upon for my treatment of these cases. Thousands of cases of colds, in all stages and phases, are treated every year under my personal directions or by my associate physicians with Pe-ru-na; innumerable others who buy it at the drug-stores are using it in similar cases, and the combined experience and testimony is, that peruna is the most speedy and permanent cure yet discovered. Peru-na is pqually valuable to prevent, to cure, and to entirely remove the effectsofacold.'' No fatnüy, especial ly at this season of the year, ought to be without tliis excellent preventative and cure for that most insidious, ever-present, disease breeding malady called "a cold."