In The Woman's Voice Clinic: ...This Is the End of the Common Cold

In The Woman's Voice Clinic

The year 1949 recorded a decisive step toward the comfort of the human race, when an article appeared in one of the medical journals announcing the cure of the "common cold" by a very simple method.

The fact is that this remedy which has been discovered is within every man's reach; its use is safe from all danger; its purchase is permitted without a doctor's prescription; and its price is exceedingly modest!

Four years ago, the cold, or catarrh, was still being treated within the realm of the unknown — a vague treatment which the doctor would prescribe... "Go to bed, stay there three days, and drink all the hot liquids you can!"

Dr. Elizabeth Elam was the first to prove that the cold, like the hay fever known as "hay fever," is a particular sensitivity — an "allergy" — which afflicts persons predisposed to it.

A number of doctors carried out special chemical experiments on 100 sailors suffering from colds, giving them "Benadryl" pills; the result was that 95% of the sailors were cured completely, or their colds came on very lightly compared with before.

But the doctors found that "Benadryl," for all its success in curing, caused the sailors severe drowsiness and dizziness in the head! So they carried out a second set of experiments on the drug known scientifically as "P.B.Z.," which is more potent than "Benadryl"; and the experiments showed that "P.B.Z." yielded brilliant results as a cure for the cold... but it was proved, unfortunately, that the persons who were treated and cured suffered such severe dizziness that it became necessary to allow the purchase of this drug only by a doctor's order.

And where is the man who hurries off to the doctor when he gives the first sneeze announcing that a cold may be on its way?? Another remedy had to be sought...

In the autumn of 1948, new experiments began in one of the American prisons, supervised by Dr. Armino, who chose 311 prisoners at the beginning of the cold season and divided them into three groups. He gave the first group neohetramine pills; he gave the second group white pills of no effect; and he gave the third group the traditional treatment of aspirin, nose drops, and so on...

And the result made history...

The second and third groups — that is, the one treated with the ineffective white pills and the one treated with aspirin and nose drops — came down with the symptoms of the cold in all its three degrees, lasting five or six days.

As for the fortunate group whose lot it was to take the neohetramine pills, their result was far better: the pills cured the cold while it was in its first degree, and greatly lightened its severity in its second degree; as for those with colds of the third degree, the pills had no effect upon them.

What deserves notice is that the group that used these pills suffered no drowsiness or dizziness — and this was the most important thing of all.

Dr. Armino then thought of the maxim: "A dirham of prevention is better than a qintar of cure," and on this basis he began his latest experiments, conducted this time on 600 nuns living in a single convent... A large quantity of "Neohetramine" pills of five milligrams each was procured: 100 nuns were given one pill a day, 100 nuns were given two pills a day, and 100 nuns three pills a day, while the remaining 300 nuns were given white pills of no effect. This experiment continued for six whole months. And the results were truly astonishing.

1 — Of the 300 who took the ineffective pills, 241 came down with severe colds once or twice, and some of them five or six times. These cases were most often accompanied by fever and severe coughing.

2 — Of the 200 who took the "Neohetramine" pills two or three times a day, not a single case occurred throughout the six months.

3 — Of the 100 who took one pill a day, some caught a light cold, lasting no more than a single day, and it always came without cough, without headache, without fever...

4 — Throughout the whole six months, no one felt any dizziness or drowsiness...

And it was established that "Neohetramine" has no harmful effect, and its sale on the market was therefore permitted to whoever wishes.

5 — This great remedy will be known in the markets under the name "Anahist"; adults and children alike may use it without the least danger...