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
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