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172 NOKTH CAROLINA BOAKD OF HEALTH. haps this fact in a great measure accounts for the prevalence of tuberculosis or consumption in temperate, moist climates, which prevalency also may be accounted for by the now well established communicability of consumption through the medium of the bacillus tuberculosis, the name by which we know the germ of this disease, and about which I endeavored to make you acquainted some months ago in Salisbury, to the end that we might lessen the frequency of this disease by exercising the proper precautions in our daily life and association with one another. So then we have noted the fact that this affection, common cold, usually begins in the nostrils. The discharge is usually at first watery, becoming afterwards more abundant and glairy, and frequently of a yellow color. There is usually more or less irritation of the surfaces affected, and probably no one of the little miseries of life is more prostrating and discouraging than a bad cold in the head. Experiments intending to prove the contagiousness of common cold have resulted negatively, though we do have epidemic influenza, the results of which, in the form of tuberculosis, nervous prostration and almost numberless complications are very much in evidence to-day, though we are now enjoying a lull in this distressing and dangerous affection. There is no danger of mistaking the diagnosis of this affection, and it can only be doubtful when the attack is the forerunner of some acute specific disease as measles or the early stages of hay fever. Mentioning hay fever reminds me that perhai)s it may not convey to your mind Just wliat 1 mean, and I don't know that anybody ever conveyed to my mind, satisfactorily, just what hay fever is, but it is a sort of autumnal catarrh very Ike an ordinary cold. It is supposed to be caused by i)ollen from some of our fall wild flowering plants, more especially the rag-Aveed, but goldenrod and a number of other plants come in for their share of responsibility. Even the rose, which l)y any other name would smell as sweet, is a rank poison to some of these hay fever sufferers; so common in fact in some i)arts of the country, to give the name of rose cold to the trouble. Ladies and gentlemen, don't neglect your colds, your own or your children's. Simply because colds get well, or have the tendency to do so in the healthy, does not relieve us of the responsi-l)ility of preventing such attacks or doing everything in our power to shorten and prevent the complications which sooner or later will manifest themselves if Ave take not warning. Let us briefly take up the homely methods of treating a cold before Ave discuss preventive measures, though 1 maybeju-stly
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Fixed Title * | NCHH-01: Biennial Report of the North Carolina Board of Health [1879-1908] |
Document Title | Biennial Report of the North Carolina Board of Heath [1879-1908] |
Subject Name | North Carolina. State Board of Health -- Statistics -- Periodicals. |
Subject Topical | Public health -- North Carolina -- Statistics -- Periodicals. |
Subject Topical Other | Public Health -- North Carolina. |
Creator | North Carolina. State Board of Health. |
Publisher | Raleigh : News & Observer, 1881-1909. |
Repository | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Health Sciences Library. |
Host | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Date | 1895-1896 |
Identifier | NCHH-01-006 |
Form General | Periodicals |
Language | English |
Rights | This item is part of the North Carolina History of Health Digital Collection. Some materials in the Collection are protected by U.S. copyright law. This item is presented by the Health Sciences Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for research and educational purposes. It may not be republished or distributed without permission of the Health Sciences Library. |
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Document Title | Biennial Report of the North Carolina Board of Heath [1879-1908] |
Subject Name | North Carolina. State Board of Health -- Statistics -- Periodicals. |
Subject Topical | Public health -- North Carolina -- Statistics -- Periodicals. |
Subject Topical Other | Public Health -- North Carolina. |
Creator | North Carolina. State Board of Health. |
Publisher | Raleigh : News & Observer, 1881-1909. |
Repository | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Health Sciences Library. |
Host | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Date | 1895-1896 |
Identifier | NCHH-01-006-0178 |
Form General | Periodicals |
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Language | English |
Rights | This item is part of the North Carolina History of Health Digital Collection. Some materials in the Collection are protected by U.S. copyright law. This item is presented by the Health Sciences Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for research and educational purposes. It may not be republished or distributed without permission of the Health Sciences Library. |
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Sponsor | The North Carolina History of Health Digital Collection is an open access publishing initiative of the Health Sciences Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Financial support for the initiative was provided in part by a multi-year NC ECHO (Exploring Cultural Heritage Online) digitization grant, awarded by the State Library of North Carolina, and funded through the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA). |
Volume Number | 6 |
Page Number | 172 |
Health Discipline | Public Health |
Full Text | 172 NOKTH CAROLINA BOAKD OF HEALTH. haps this fact in a great measure accounts for the prevalence of tuberculosis or consumption in temperate, moist climates, which prevalency also may be accounted for by the now well established communicability of consumption through the medium of the bacillus tuberculosis, the name by which we know the germ of this disease, and about which I endeavored to make you acquainted some months ago in Salisbury, to the end that we might lessen the frequency of this disease by exercising the proper precautions in our daily life and association with one another. So then we have noted the fact that this affection, common cold, usually begins in the nostrils. The discharge is usually at first watery, becoming afterwards more abundant and glairy, and frequently of a yellow color. There is usually more or less irritation of the surfaces affected, and probably no one of the little miseries of life is more prostrating and discouraging than a bad cold in the head. Experiments intending to prove the contagiousness of common cold have resulted negatively, though we do have epidemic influenza, the results of which, in the form of tuberculosis, nervous prostration and almost numberless complications are very much in evidence to-day, though we are now enjoying a lull in this distressing and dangerous affection. There is no danger of mistaking the diagnosis of this affection, and it can only be doubtful when the attack is the forerunner of some acute specific disease as measles or the early stages of hay fever. Mentioning hay fever reminds me that perhai)s it may not convey to your mind Just wliat 1 mean, and I don't know that anybody ever conveyed to my mind, satisfactorily, just what hay fever is, but it is a sort of autumnal catarrh very Ike an ordinary cold. It is supposed to be caused by i)ollen from some of our fall wild flowering plants, more especially the rag-Aveed, but goldenrod and a number of other plants come in for their share of responsibility. Even the rose, which l)y any other name would smell as sweet, is a rank poison to some of these hay fever sufferers; so common in fact in some i)arts of the country, to give the name of rose cold to the trouble. Ladies and gentlemen, don't neglect your colds, your own or your children's. Simply because colds get well, or have the tendency to do so in the healthy, does not relieve us of the responsi-l)ility of preventing such attacks or doing everything in our power to shorten and prevent the complications which sooner or later will manifest themselves if Ave take not warning. Let us briefly take up the homely methods of treating a cold before Ave discuss preventive measures, though 1 maybeju-stly |
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Article Title | How We Catch Cold and the Best Means of Preventing It |
Article Author | Battle, S. Westray |
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