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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1938.
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TISHOO, atishoo!" The gentleman in the corner of the bus sneezes vigorously and mutters, half apologetically, "I think I must have caught
a cold."
Twelve hours Inter his stream-
ing eyes and nose leave him in
By Professor
A. M. Low
no doubt, and three days later, hour, and others again who
will prove of immense value. The literatura on the search during the last few years is staggering.
Mice, ferrets, and oven the hedgehog havo beon recruited.. Thousands of people have been Hun- examined for statistics. dreds have volunteered for inoculation.
But one must come down to
There seems little doubt that the hard fact that no one can "This is the
mon cold."
colda
half the people. who had been swear by sweating the cold out a degree of immunity or resist- say for certain, sitting within ten feet of him by violent exercise or drowning ance can be built up, but how to thing responsible for the com-
build it up certainly remains a If you are going home on leave, have no doubt aither that it was it in whisky.
indeed a cold that he had.
They may truthfully have mystery,
There is no need to be pessi-- this must interest you.
mistic. The announcement may They begin to sneeze and been cured, but since the cures
como to-morrow. Other germs: cough themselves, and travelling work with only a fraction of one Kissing Is Dangerous to work in crowded trains and per cent, of the sufferers they Recently a doctor working in have proved equally baffling and buses Hooit pass on the infection, convince me rather of the power Cologne reported that engaged been brought to book, or rather.
I have acen a statement that of faith than that they represent couples are not liable to catch the microscope, at last. the descendants of a single pair cures in the accepted sense. colds to the same extent as other Probably if one tenth of the
sum now lost through Your doctor cannot do more people. of rats may number 35,000 in twelve months and that the cost for you if you catch a cold thun His explanation is that the were given for research we to the nation of feeding each rat advise you to go to bed, take excitement builds up the realat- should have the answer within is ten shillings a week.
aspirin, keep warm and drink ance of the boily to the attack a short time.
As it is, research has been Colds multiply in the
plenty of liquid.
of the germis. It seems a rea- way, probably faster, and the
He will be happy if the cold sonable deduction from premises carried out largely with funde Sir cost to the nation in lost work- simply runs its normal course which may, or may not, be true. provided by individuals.
Henry Royce, the great motor ing time, inefficiency and subse- without any of the many possible Unfortunately, remaining en- quen les orgs per cold, complications setting in. He has gaged all one's life is a joy given engineer, who had had personal more than ten shillings nothing out of a bottle that he to few, and the immunity must, experience of the devastating We have a National Rat Week, can give to make you fit again therefore, be short-lived. Why not a National Cold Week? in eight or even 24 hours.
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common cold. The Rockefeller
effect of colds upon workers in might be pointed out that kiss his factories, left one tenth of If, for just one week, every
ing is an obvious danger, and his fortune for medical research person suffering from a cold was
that even among engaged people largely directed towards the isolated, and had no opportunity
to THESE are the facts should be strictly confined Institute has spent many thou- of spreading the infection to
about the curing of themselves! fellow travellers and fellow colds. What about prevention?
Theoretically, the healthiest sands of pounds. workers, there might be a tre- Most diseases have been "mas people should be the most im- mendous reduction in the num- tered" by prevention rather mune from colds, but if we quent six months.
Hongkong Telegraph.ber of colds during the subse- than cure,
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1938.
similarity is in dimensions of
causes. Moscow was not set
B
000,000.
science.
cold after another.
munisation
many
attempt to discover the causo of
The "Peak" Period But these are necessarily accept the ordinary definition of Large tracts of tropical land healthiness this is not true. small sums compared with what Scionco Is Baffled have been made habitable for Athletes are just as susceptible Wo spend, for instance, in pre- paring to blow other people to the white man, not because our to colds as other people. I shall probably be told that treatment of malaria is much Various diets are said to build pieces. The cost of conquering THE FIERY DEATH
the common cold might prove to such a week would cost a vast improved, but because we know up resistance to colds, and it is be no greater than that of build- OF CANTON
sum of money in lost working how to prevent catching it. If certain, from experiments con- ing a single battleship, which hours. Few people realise that you don't let a female mosquito ducted not long ago, that addi- will be obsolete in ten years, Canton, proud capital of the every year colds cost us a sum bite you, you can't catch malaria, tional doses of vitamins do give while colds will still be with us.
Smallpox, Cantonese for centuries, is burn-variously estimated at figures
diphtheria, and a certain resistance, but there is It seems to me that the collec- ing itself to ashes, presenting between £20,000,000, and £50,- other diseases have been con- nothing so definite as the im- tion of statistics is inclined to
quered by immunisation.
doctors can confer content some people rather than disaster the
poignant most
And this is only the direct Why cannot we apply the
against diphtherin. China has suffered since the
cost. One eminent medical man game principles to colds? The When all the figures are ana- colds which might lead to a cure. outbreak of the Sino-Japanese has stated that half the disabling answer is, first, that colds are lysed, it seems to boil down to
Nevertheless, somo of the hostilities. The fiery holocaust diseases have their origins in probably caused not by a single the statement, "It works with facts that have been discovered which has been rapidly devour-colds, and if this is the case type of germ, but by a mixture
are of great interest. For in- every of many, so that immunisation some people.”
stance, in Britain colds break AND IN USE IT IS A BIG PIANO;ing the city for the past three then the ultimate cost
days has been likened to the year is at least double the figures is bound to be difficult, and,
Tracking Down The
out most frequently after the secondly, that in any case the burning of Moscow in 1812, quoted.
Germ
end of the holiday season. The "RESONANT IN TONE”
The common cold, which Sir immunisation is short-lived. which presaged Nupoleon's re-
If you have had measles you But the Kingsley Wood when Minister of trent from Russia.
THE cause of the com- general interpretation is that the Health called "Public Enemy will seldom get it again-you
mon cold remains a changeableness of the weather "RESPONSIVE IN TOUCH"
Number One," is a disease that are immunised for life. But, as mystery, and the solution of in September is responsible.
It may be that our holiday, in the blaze, rather than in its has 80 far baffled medical we all know, you can catch one this mystery should show the fresh air has actually reduced
way both to practicable preven- alight deliberately. It was, ac- Diphtheria, smallpox and a Vaccines are made which are tion and to certain and quick the little natural resistance we acquire through continued mild cording to historians, the result acore of other deadly diseases intended to give immunity, cure.
infection. A tremendous amount of of sheer carelessness on the part have been conquered, but if They may be injected, or in cer-
There is another "peak" of its own inhabitants. It was doctors are frank they must tain cases taken by the mouth, research has been directed in
success they achieve recent years towards catching period after Christmas, perhaps to lessened resistance nelther a defiant gesture by the admit that they do not know but the
the little germ, so small that it due
The cowed Roztopchin, nor a wilful what causes a cold, how to cure seems to vary very widely.
I have known a few people passes the finest filter, that is through over-indulgence.
"peak perioda" in other coun- act of incendiarism by Napo- cold or how to prevent you
who have completely shaken responsible. from catching cold.
same leon. The Canton fire has been
There has been a great deal of themselves free of the danger of Actually it seems probable tries with roughly the created by deep-rooted causes
colds by injections. There are that
germs, working climate are different. In the and motivated by a frustrated
others who do not get the desired singly and in combination are U.S.A. they are roughly a month responsible. They may be bitterness, which makes all the
immunity.
Attempts have been made Lo Two years ago the Rockefeller related to influenza, or they may Who precisely is to blame (if thun against the cold, and if the Foundation carried out experi- simply pave the way for the explain peaks in terms of sudden direction of the prevailing wind, the word can be used in its cause of cancer remains elusive ments during which some 400 influenza bacillus to do its work drops in temperature, of the at least surgeons can now hold people of all kinds were inocu- in favourable circumstances.
When I say it is all guess- of the prevalence of thunder and Much of fullest sense) for Canton's rag-out real hopes of a cure in many lated with the inactivated virus
of colds or influenza.
work, I am not suggesting that even of wireless. ing inferno, it is impossible at cases.
Theories
The results varied enormously, a vast amount of valuable work this is very interesting but, one this moment to say.
must admit, guesswork. Not no with the common cold.
one has not been done.
We are groping in the dark there are in abundance, but for There is an apocryphal but illu- but the report contained
Bontence: "What On the contrary, the research the present the only facts known minating story of a millionaire significant are that the many conflagra-who caught a cold and consulted can be said with certainty is of such men as Dr. C. H. Stuart and there is a tendency to think did not Harris, Dr. David Thomson, Dr. that every object we touch is the eminent physician. "I've that the vaccination tions, which have sprung up in jan a dozen different parts of the got to get well quickly," he said. give protection in all cases, even A. R. Dochez and Sir Patrick missing key.
"What treatment can you give when it had a good chance." city, have as their origin a
The physician described me?" wilful and deliberate intention. The Great Fire of Canton, as "How long will it take me to GRIN AND BEAR IT history will learn to recall it, get free of the cold?" asked the will also be cited as the greatest millionaire. "Fourteen days."
"And if I just let the cold run blaze ever dellberately attempt-) ed.
Huge areas are being laid its course, when can I expect to wasto as this is written, and be well?" "In a fortnight."
There have been various treat- millions of dollars worth of pro-ments by drugging, inhalation perty is being destroyed, not an and so on which have been suc- insignificant portion of it being cessful with a proportion of owned by foreign concerns. sufferers, but broadly speaking History cannot point to any-the treatment of a cold to-day is
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years ago. parallel, although it is interest- There are people who claim to ing to recall that the four have cured themselves by star- GUARANTEED greatest fires the world has ving for 24 hours, others who known-London, Chicago, Mos- have achieved the same end by cow, and now Canton, all oc-drinking a pint of water every ourred during the sutumn
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NO INNER BOHING WHATSOEVER months of either September of Great Fire of Canton-a story
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October. In fact, for those who which has yet to be written in are eager to seek coincidences, full. Though there are sicken- It is worth reminding that, two ing features about the catas days before the outbreak of the trophe, yet these are not as Canton fire, it was the 67th an- fearful as they could have been. niversary of the devastating fire There seems to have been little of Chicago, an event which or no loss of life as a direct re- formed the theme for the film ault of the conflagrations. And "In Old Chicago" shown recont-behind one's reactions to it all ly in Hongkong.
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cidences, interesting though to allow the Japanese to enjoy they are, can find but a second- the whole fruits of easy con- ary position in the story of the quest.
Laidlaw, to mention only a few,
Inter,
Reducing The Risk
AND
ND so we are thrown.
back on the question
By Lichty of what we can do to minimise
(You don't know how well off you are being a doctor's wife, can't complain of a thing,
the effects of this national menace which a medical officer not long ago said "is more dan- gerous than smallpox and chicken pox."
About the one certain thing- we know is that the germs are passed from one person to an- * other, probably in minute parti, icles of moisture that can remain suspended in the air for long perioda.
If we reduce the number of thoso particles and their distri bution, we can go a long way to preventing colds from passing from one person to another.
Experiments have shown that air conditioning greatly reduces the chances of infection... In: other words, in Ideal conditions of ventilation there is less risk of Infection,
It is usual to blame cinemas and theatres for spreading in- fection, but perhaps If our crowded trains and buses could bo as well ventilated as our air- conditioned cinemas there would! be a useful reduction in the numbe ber of colda.
| Air conditioning, - remains
luxury, although ventilation possible for all.. What wo
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