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THE CHINA MAIL,
ON CATCHING COLD
Fallacies About A Common Complaint
...NO DANGER WITHOUT INFECTION
[By Professor J. Arthur Thomson in "John ö' London's Weekly"
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life he seems to have been equally impetuous and extreme in all ha did. He was a farmer who neglect ad his farm. Although; a compara- tively poor man, he was a blaster of Foxhounds on a limited and primi- tiyo senio who maintained his own pack. Peol, In. fact, was an ex- tremist who neglected overything for hunting and sport, and, a descendant was not very pleased to
relate, "when he wasn't hunting he was aye drinking."
It is a sign of the times that one of our foremost physiologists should be joint-author of a book on "Common Calda” (Professor
Tall and bony, more than six foot Leonard Hill, FR.S., and: Mark Clement; Heinemann, 78. 68.). It in height, there was nothing is an instance of bringing science to bear on common handicaps to his attire. His tong, rough, hunt- elegant in his appearanco nor in
efficiency and happiness. "Colds are the cause of an immense Ing coat was of a grey homespun. amount of ill-health and economic loss, education in the laws of His hat a battered old beaver. His health is the means of combating this loss.”
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mount a sturdy pony, Dunny by name. is followers mainly neigh-| bouring farmers, and on occasion, a late Sir Wilfred Lawson, M.P. was "county" gentleman or two. (The)
he who hunted with Pool from the time he could sit in a saddle.)
Sir Wilfred in his, "Romini- scences" tolls us that he has heard
There is no close connection beЯire to up stuffed, partly perhaps tween a cold in the head and a because he can no longer seent the cold day or a cold room. Arctic | flavour of the food. Of course, explorers do not usually catch cold stuffing is never any good for any till they come home! A cold is the thing! utiswer-back that the lining of the Rasal passaged makes to intruding It is tn, the credit of modern Peel say when they had killed a malcrobes, which may be of many medicine that while it is interested fox. "Now, lada, this is the first fox different kinds. A cold is a re-in cure, it ia silli more interested we've killed this season, and it action to an infection, and the in- in provention; and the best authori-muan ba a dry "un"-the words of fection comes oftenast in air-borne ties apaure as that the frequency that kind being a prelude to an droplets" from infected neigh- of colds can be lessened "by necur adjournment ta the nearest fun bours.
ing pure air and sunlight, and dis- where the party of hunters would cipline in living a healthy life, remain annemes for days. particularly in regard to diet, exercise, rest, and clothes." ·
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How the Song Was Written It was during one of these "ad- journments" to the parlour of the inn at Caldbeck that the immortal song "D'ye Ken John Peel?" came
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1929.
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The Perils of Coddling No doubt a spell of cold weather may be followed by an epidemic of ¡"colds," but that is because It has been shown experimental: 'coddling in over-warm rooms or in-ly that animals brought up on n side too many layers of clothes, or diet deficient in Vitamin A are very sonte depression of the body, eg, subject to diseases comparable to be written.
Peel and a party of hunters, through lack of exercise, fresh air, our "colds";, and ill-feeding has a and sunlight, has weakened our similar prejudicial effect on man.which incluited his friend John' power of resistance to Intruding Crowling.
Woodcock Graves, owner of a small ventilation, of ¡bacteria. An export writes:— scanty sunlight. insufficient exer-bobbing mill in the district, were Chill in pure air has nothing else, a low standard of cleanliness celebrating a kill in their usual when Graves, whatever to-do with catching cold. and manners-these and the like convivial manner, You may get wef to the skin, sit increase the incidence of colds, who had been silent for some time, in through draughts, spend nights which, bad enough in themselves, produced paper and pencil and In an open boat, you will never get often lead the way to more serious rot impromptu the verses which common cold; bronchitis and maladies. The only use of a "cold" re now "kenned" throughout the
On London- rheumatism you may have, but a is to warn us that unless we im- English-speaking world. Rising to common catarrhal cold never, with prove our positive health we shall his feet he sang them to the old Bank, wire
1/10 soon have something worse.
"Bonnie Bank, on demand... 1/10 11/16 Annie"-one can imagine the en-Bank, 30 days' sight husiasm that greeted the song's re.Bank, 4 months' sight 1/10 - hearsal. Afterwards Graves turned Credits, 4. months'
Bight
1/11 that the song would be sung "when Documentary 4 months' we've both run to earth."
sight When the song spread from its
On Paris native Cumberland to hunting dia. On demand 4 tricts beyond, conventional people Credits, months' accustomed to the traditional sear sight let thought it impossible that a On-Berlin- Master of Hounds could have hunt-On demand
a
out direct infection.
It would be foolish indeed to speud a night in an open boat ex-
Cumberland tune
of
cept when one was in good health DYE KEN JOHN PEEL to Peel and jokingly prophesied
and spirite-able to answer-back. for instance, to an unusual loss of animal heat—but the point is that, an ordinary cold implies an infect- ing microbe.and a suitable internal soll, in the nasal chamber or the like, in which the germs may grow" and multiply.
Some Symptoms When the cold-microbes get into sultably sensitive nose, they settle down and begin to multiply.
But it takes a litle time before
TRUTH ABOUT THE FAMOUS
· CUMBERLAND HUNTSMAN
[By Joseph Simpson)
John Peel
ob grey,
D'ye ken John Peel, with his coat D'ye ken John Peel at the break of
day,
D'ye ken John.Feel when he's far,
far away,
with his hounds and his horn in
the morning?
they are numerous enough to pro voke the surrounding tissues. This so-called latent period of infection" is often about two days, but the period varies with the nature of For the sound of his horn brought the microbe and with the state of the patient. Although the infectAnd
ed person, 18 only feeling a little
out of sorts the Invaders are hard
at work, and this early chapter is said to be, the usual time for, in fecting other people,
The second chapter is marked by. abundant exudation from the lining membrane of the nasal passages, that is to say from living cells which are being provoked, pofaan ed; or disintegrated by the Intrud lag microbes. In some cases the inflammation, as it is called, is marked by a vigorous defence on. the part of our body-guard of wandering amoebold colla or phagocytes.
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In a day or two, if the body.]
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me from my bed,
Yes, 1-ken John Peel and Ruby too. ftanter and Ringwood, Bellman and
Truo,
From a find to a check, from
check to a view,
From a view to a death in the
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On Shanghai- the old traditional tune of "Bonnie day's aight (private
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For the sound of his horn, etc. down cells. The lashed or ciliated cells of the nasal passage try to pye en John Peel with his cont sweep particles towards the back so grey? of the mouth, but the task is often beyond air powers. The nasal passag may become blocked: the handkerchief is much in evidence the cold gets worse and worse; añí the infection may spread to other parts.
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Now he has gone far, far, far away, We shall ne'er hear his voice in the
morning.
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**4 +$693⁄43⁄4% h'. "en" the chorus, and tune of that tries in the garden of Villa Tor (8) Mussolini is always right. China Lights fold). rollicking hunting song, "D'ye Ken lonia, his summor home Via (3) The disobedient volunteer
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313 & Thero.are thousands who still look Scouting la International, but the upon him as a myth or as a charac Balillaa and Avanguardiati, who Duce, should be dearer to you than pay
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If the secretions fall, to baulk picted as an elegant frute, beauti- people of Italian parentage, who Miss Kitty Murphy, who gave theaders, the second chance is fully attired in the conventional have been brought here at the some Irish character sketches in heta, he phagocytes, – which are scariat hunting coat and most won Fascist Party's expense from all Belfast on July 17, is a very active
and militant white blood derfully breeched, booted, and parts of the world. Most of them member of the Ulster Literary China Sugere vita
will engulf and digest spurred. He invariably rides, the never saw their parente native land Theatre, and has for some time Malabon Sugars them. And here men may try to leakest of hunters and is followed before, though some were here fast rest made a special study of Irish Caldbeck Macgregor: Ord: haip by using local antiseptics in by other elegant ladies and gentle, summer, when the movement was history, a subject with which she Caldbeck Macgregor Pret, 330 b the pose and mouth, or by taking men, who all, look as though they Arst begun...
ahh has dealt in a previous, sons of Canton Iças **** tonics which brace the bady to have just left their tailors And The rules and vows of scouts are Lalks during the past year Be Cements (comb.)**** greater resistance! But cold then there is the singer who will well known, but Balillas and sides doing a const once established has to run it in abcut his coat se gap And Avanguardist have the ten com of work with the course until the natural resistance the Carille Pageant his own die mandments. They were given con- Miss Murphy is a popular of the body effects a cure
trist, where last, your they dressed siderable prominance in the Fascist in the Children's
The British public has a strong
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stuff a cold and starve a fever and this familiar one
pipt
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