I have often noticed that persons who suffer most frequently and severely from colds usually insist that they exercise the greatest care to avoid exposure.
The best preventive of recurrent colds is the judicious use of the sponge or cold shower bath.
The plant has long been esteemed for its efficacy in colds and pulmonary consumption.
An infusion of the leaves is stimulating, sudorific, tonic, and beneficial in colds and chills.
They are esteemed beneficial in colds and pulmonary disorders.
This should not be lost sight of by any who are attacked with colds or bronchial troubles, or even in the incipient stages of lung difficulties; as thereby they may lessen the inflammation, and defer the progress of the disease.
Avoid the taking of colds in every way possible; and to do this, watchfulness and care is needed.
It is ascertained that a full head of hair, beard and whiskers, are a prevention against colds and consumptions.
When I was a boy, and the sheep did that, we thought that they had colds in their heads, and used to rub tar on their noses.
She had de colds and chills, and entered into de bed to keep warm.
Its most valuable field is in the coldsand bronchitis of children.
Their Ministers had worse colds than any of the other Ministers, and their Press had a great deal to say about civilization and such like topics.
He thought the representatives with colds would be amused if he repeated it.
Some took to their beds, others went for a change of air; but one and all had such colds as would certainly prevent them from accepting royal invitations or being present at State functions.
She might discover some unanswerable reason for coaxing a holiday out of "papa"; she might have one of the convenient colds which were not much of a penance; the skies might fall!
For Jerry, unable to run or even to walk fast, was apt to catch bad colds in chilly weather.
A lot of the girls have been sick a little with colds and small and unserious diseases in the past year.
When one is getting over a cold it is a good time to resolve to avoid catching colds altogether, which for the average person can be substantially accomplished by following the above suggestions.
All who suffer from recurrent colds should take this precaution before winter sets in.
The infections of common colds are always to be found in the nasal passages and become active when the individual is subject to fatigue or indigestion or both.
The popular idea that colds are derived from drafts is greatly exaggerated.
Sidenote: Nasal Obstruction] In many, the susceptibility to colds is due to abnormalities in the nose or throat.
In fact, except where actual nasal defects exist, the frequency of colds is usually a fair indication of how hygienically a person is living.
Abnormal conditions of the intestines are largely responsible for the common headache malady, and for a generally lowered resistance, resulting in colds and even more serious ailments.
The authors of this book know of persons who have scarcely lost a day's work from colds or other ailments for decades at a time simply by using a little self-control and common sense at critical times.
Sidenote: Coldsand La Grippe Germs] Infections enter the body through the skin or mucous lining.
We may avoid exposure to infection from grippe and common colds by keeping away from congested public places when there is an epidemic of grippe or colds, or when we are ourselves fatigued or for any reason likely to catch cold.
They are contagious, and spread rapidly from one person to another by the transfer of the bacteria concerned, so that small epidemics of colds are continually occurring in homes and communities.
There is no scientific evidence that common colds can be prevented by the use of vaccines, despite the glowing recommendations of vaccine makers and the patter of the detail man.
No evidence is submitted for this recommendation except that in “colds and bronchitis and the other common infections of the upper respiratory passages .
As regards the use of this complex biologic preparation: First, the cause of common colds is, at the present time, quite unknown.
Colds characterized by catarrhal inflammation of the mucous membranes of the nose and throat are caused by various organisms, including a number of the commoner cocci and the bacillus of Pfeiffer.
Where completely controlled experiments have been made with large numbers of persons, colds have occurred among the inoculated in as large proportion as among the uninoculated.
But if colds and great strain upon the parts in question develop such diseases, why are they not seen among the inferior animals?
The popular way of accounting for many of these ills is that they come from colds or from straining lifts.
Hence, we may lay down the following rule, which, if strictly observed, would prevent the frequent colds we meet with in winter.
Colds would be much less frequent, were we to take more pains to accommodate our dress to the season: if we were warmly clothed in cold weather, our excitability would not be accumulated by the action of the cold.
The most prominent and efficacious measures are to be found in intelligent precautions for preventing colds and inuring the system to changes of temperature by appropriate outdoor exercise.
Learn to sit in a gentle draft, and you'll avoid two-thirds of yourcolds and three-fourths of your headaches.
Most colds are infectious, like the fevers, and like them run their course, after which the cough will subside along with the rest of the symptoms.
One is that colds are vastly more frequent in winter, and the other that when you sit in a draft until you feel chilly, you inevitably have a cold afterward.
If these symptoms of the summer fevers and fluxes are indicative of nature's attempts to cure, those of the winter's coughs and colds are no less clearly so.
Leonard Williams, puts it, "a constant succession of colds implies a mode of life in which all aërial microbes are afforded abundant opportunities.
The colds were caused by the northeast wind of unsavory reputation!
In short, the vast majority of common colds are unmistakably infections, and spread from one victim to another, and this is the type of "cold" which causes the majority of rheumatic attacks.
He put up a big sign at the entrance of White Haven Sanatorium, "No persons suffering from colds allowed to enter," and traced the only epidemic of colds in the sanatorium to the visit of a butcher with the grip.
Colds do not "run into" consumption or pneumonia, but they bear much the same relation to them that good intentions are said to do to the infernal regions.
Usually the child is supposed to be suffering with a slight cold, hence the prevailing impression that colds run into whooping-cough, if neglected.
Complaint appears to be bad colds and fevers, with a violent pain in the head, and back, something I believe of the influenza.
The study was empty, and the only occupants of the dormitories were the three boys who had been stricken down with colds on the occasion of Mr MacGinnis's last visit.
The Saturnalia which had followed Mr MacGinnis' nocturnal visit to the school had had the effect of giving violent colds to three lords, a baronet, and the younger son of an honourable.
Well, I'm sure one gets more bad colds with pottering about in the rain than one would with skating.
The Principal's chief object was to get them to bed, and to ward off any risk ofcolds or rheumatism that might follow their many hours of exposure in wet clothes.
Miss Drummond was inexorable where health was concerned, and would not allow colds to be trifled with.
But these Taiti colds are very severe and, to children, often fatal; so they were not the thing for me.
Save for minor ailments and accident, my battalion is practically immune from sickness; colds come and go as a matter of course, sprains and cuts claim momentary attention, but otherwise the health of the battalion is perfect.
Them colds are dangerous," Wankin remarked in a contemplative voice, tinged with compassion.
But I feel sure that if he would only take remedies for his colds in time, they would not be so bad as they usually are, Joseph.
Failing that, we are to catch colds and fevers and agues from the night encampments.
The Squire's colds were no joke: once he caught one, he would be downright ill; laid up for days.
We may talk about slight coldsand severe colds, but not about bad colds.
Inasmuch as coldsare never good, why say a bad cold?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "colds" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
