Physicians’ treatment for Colds.—­Preventive.  Avoid the known causes of the trouble.  A daily cold bath, if well borne, is held to be an effectual prevention against taking cold.  Have the adenoids removed if your physician so recommends it.  If seen early it can frequently be aborted.  Bathe the feet in hot mustard water, a small handful of mustard to a pail half full of hot water.  At the same time, drink hot teas, like hoarhound, ginger, lemonade, etc.  Then put the patient to bed and place hot water fruit jars around him.  This treatment will produce a good sweat.  After the sweating has continued for some time and the patient feels uncomfortable because of the sweat, bathe him with a towel dipped in warm water, and dry the parts as you go along.  Of course, all of this is done under cover.  After you have bathed and dried the patient, put on a clean and well-aired night shirt and clean sheets, also well aired.  This simple treatment will abort most colds.  The patient should keep in bed for at least twelve hours after such a sweating.  Plenty of cold water and lemonade can be given, especially after the patient has become cooler.  Plenty of water is good for any cold; hot outside and cool for the inside.  The bowels should be opened with salts.  A Dover’s powder (ten grains) will produce sweating, but why use it when sweating can be produced by the means first mentioned.

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1.  Camphor and Vaseline Mixed, or Camphor and Cream, rubbed in the nose is good to stop the cold and soreness.

2.  A few drops (two or three) of camphor taken internally every three hours will abort some colds, especially if the nose is all the time pouring out drops of water.

3.  Aconite in small doses, one-tenth of a drop, every two hours is a splendid remedy at the beginning.  My experience has shown me that aconite does better work in these small doses.  Put one drop in ten teaspoonfuls of water and give one teaspoonful at a dose.

4.  The following is good for a thick discharge:  in oil spray.

Menthol 6 grains
Chloroform 5 drops
Camphor 5 grains
Liquid Alboline 2 ounces

Mix and make into a solution.  Use in an atomizer, every two hours.

To cleanse the nostrils wash out each nostril gently with a solution made of one teaspoonful of listerine, or glyco-thymoline, or borolyptol, or one-quarter teaspoonful of common salt in a half glass of warm water.  You can use a vaporizer and this solution: 

Menthol 5 grains
Camphor 5 grains
Compound tincture benzoin 1 dram
Liquid Alboline 1 ounce

Mix and make solution and use frequently in a nebulizer.

Never snuff a solution into the nose, and do not blow the nose hard after using.  Some of the solution or nasal discharge may be forced into the eustachian tube.