CURE FOR COLD IN THE HEAD.
ABOUT all that medicine has been able to do for a cold in the head is to give it a Greek name, "coryza," which comes from two words, signifying "the head" and "to boil." This is not very much, for in spite of the Greek name most of us call it by its common name, "a cold in the head." Dr. Weber thinks he has, however, found a way to cut it short, and it is a simple, harmless one. His treatment consists in touching the entire mucous membrane of the nose from the very beginning of the cold with a brush dipped in glycerine. The insertion of the brush and the application of the glycerine are disagreeable, but there can be no question of the fact that cold is relieved in a most rapid and effective manner. For this reason we should try to find some way of avoiding the disagreeable sensation caused by the passage of the brush. The best way would be to use absorbent cotton, made into a little roll, and gently passed into the nasal fossæ, after having been dipped in glycerine.—Jenness Miller Illustrated.