Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 July 1880 — About Colds. [ARTICLE]

About Colds.

The late Charlee Sumner was a member of a consumptive family; all of his brothers and sisters but one were attacked by it as they reached manhood and womanhood. The disease hogan to develop itself in Mr. Sumner early in his public career. He was advised by his physician in Boston to dress warmly, protect his feet and body, and live in the open air, sawing wood and engaging, as far as possible, in manual labor, leading, in short, the life a laboring man would out of doors, and supplementing this regimen by sanitary precautions in temperature, diet and personal habits in the open air. In conclusion, we will add for the benefit of that class of the community who, as it would seem, delight in remedies and despise precautions, the {S? i P e , for a °°^ d given by General George Washington to an old lady in Newport whenayeiyyounggiriinl7Bl. Hewas lodged in her father’s house—the old Vernon mansion—and ss she was sent early to bed with a bad cold, he remarked to Mrs. Vernon: “My own remedy, my dear madame, is always to eat, just before I step into bed, a not roasted onion, if I have a cold.*