NEW CURE FOR COLDS

Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 191, 7 June 1939, Page 4

NEW CURE FOR COLDS

AEROPLANE FLIGHTS " FRENCHMAN'S DISCOVERY “There is a new cure for colds, influenza and all kindred ailments, and j± is available to everyone who ha§. the price of an aeroplane flight,” says , a Reynolds News correspondent. “Dr. Rene Vuillemin, the French Air Force doctor, during the last war discovered it. As a result, to-day hundreds of men are pursuing their normal vocations, when but for him they would be coughing their lungs out in tuberculosis sanatoria in Arosa and other Swiss mountain resorts. “Just because this obscure French general practitioner, as he was in 1914, found that the rarefied air of the skies cured! incipient tuberculosis in wounded aviators, to-day children suffering from such diseases as; whooping . cough are being cured by. taking aeroplane trips. sufferers to be cured are Audrey (seven) and Malcolm (four) Brooke, of Mjcanwood, Leeds. An hour’s flilit) from Yeaclon Airport and their whopping cough vanished. \ Chance Discovery. “I take ho credit for what has been done,” Dr. Vuillmin told me at Croydlon airport, before he left to fly to his native city, Marseilles. “We doctors owe discoveries like this to sheer chance. Mine came when I was tending Gunyeiher, the famous French air ace, during the war. He

was a dying man. when the German: invaded France in 1914. .Suffering

from an acute form of consumption he was much too ill-, to fight. .'

“‘He took up flying, . and the man who ought to have diedl- ,in three months lived three " and aE-half years, suffered numerous wounds, and died gloriously dii . action, after being a warded the highest decorations 4'oi valour.

“‘Gunyemer’s case was not an isolated one, and I am happy .to think that myi discovery contributed to the saving of little children from pain.’ llncontaminated. Air

“Dr. Vuiliemin’s views are backed np by the pilots who fly the giant liners on the leading lEluropean air-lines. “Imperial Airways say : ‘Our pilots, never catch cold. We believe this is due to being in tlio uncontaminated upper air.’

“A high official of K.L.M., the Royal Dutch Airline, told me: ‘if you were flying over the sea every day from Croydon to Amsterdam you would find the fresh air kept you in perfect health, nor colds, no influenza, and no days off because of minor ills.’

“M 1 . Beaudry, head of the Air France organisation at Croydon, said : ‘Our pilots .never, suffer from the common cold.- : liven in- influenza epidemics they keep fit. They attribute this to the fact they are flying at heights up to a mile above sea level every day. ip all weathers. ' They are protected from ■ the elements by their enclosed calbin machines, but they get the benefit of the pure air.’ Air Experience.

“A doctor, who has had much to do with the health of men of the Royal Air Force said ■ T have found, the flying personnel of the R.A.F. singularly free from the common cold and such, ailments. 1 put this down do the fact-, ‘that the relatively low pressure V>f- the flyer’s atmosphere makes him use. the whole of his lung capacity.

- “ ‘As a result, even though the germs do find a. looting, they are neutralised and expelled before they have a chance to do any harm.’ “Captain Frio Noddings, Chiel Pilot to Air Dispatch, told me: “‘Friends of mine, both civil and military)-pilots, have not had a cold for years.’ “Captain; Olley, the first man to fly 1,000,000 miles and head of Oiicy Air Services, said: ‘Get up into' the sky and all your ailments will vanish.”