NOTHING LIKE STOPPING IN BED
In Great Britain arc some 40 million drug experts, each Avith »his own or somebody else's infallible remedy for the common cold, which nobody escapes. But as the result of centuries of experience there is notiling like stopping in bed and waiting for the cold to go. As Dr. lheodore ("lump wrote: "Nature cures the disease, while the remedy amuses the patient. If it had not been so man would have coughed himself off the face of the earth." Nevertheless Ave shall never put nil our trust in Nature, but continue to experiment with remedies, like the country people Avho tell us that a horse chestnut is the best cure for rheumatism. Let us, however, not despise some of the remedies that Nature had offered us and avc have found, such as the sinchona root supplying quinine, cod liver oil, and the poppy, not to mention the elderberry leaf, recommended to us for the euro, of rnidgobites!
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 5, Issue 29, 16 March 1942, Page 2
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162NOTHING LIKE STOPPING IN BED Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 5, Issue 29, 16 March 1942, Page 2
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