AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



525 



Our Doctors Himts. 



By F. L. PEIRO. M. D. 



McVicker's Building, Chicago, III. 



Only a Cold ! 



How often we hear the term used, and 

 with a degree of so perfect indifference 

 that fairly appalls more thoughtful persons. 

 The physician only too well recognizes the 

 folly of so slight an estimate of what is 

 usually called " a cold." Not that the 

 primary effect of a disagreeable cold is, in 

 itself, dangerous, but the results that may 

 follow it is the end to be greatly feared. So 

 long as a cold remains within certain 

 bounds, it is only a matter of inconven- 

 ience and perhaps trifling suffering for a 

 few days, at worst. But if neglected, or 

 carelessly increased, may become the fore- 

 runner of most painful and fatal disease. 



" Only a cold " is the usual beginning of 

 a severe pleurisy or dangerous lung fever. 

 " Only a cold " is often the first and certain 

 step to that horrible torment— inflamma- 

 tory rheumatism! Can any suffering be 

 worse ? And is a patient ever again free 

 from tendency of recurrence after the first 

 attack ? 



" Only a cold " has been responsible for 

 various forms of kidney-trouble, of which 

 Bright's disease is one, and incurable, so 

 far as yet known. 



Inflammation of bowels and stomach is 

 another frequent result of a common cold, 

 to say nothing of neuralgias, diarrheas, 

 dysentery, sore throats, catarrhs, and 

 many other difficulties, the results of colds. 

 My object in stating facts so plainly is the 

 hope of warning my readers, and thus, 

 mayhap, be instrumental in warding off 

 great suffering. 



Now, when / have a cold I endeavor to 

 take the best possible care of myself. I am 

 free to acknowledge I may be a little cow- 

 ardly about the matter, but after thirty 

 years' pretty close observation of others' 

 sufferings, largely through their want of 

 knowledge or willfulness, I conclude best to 

 use the judgment I have acquired, and 

 take smallest chances to encourage pain or 

 shorten my years. To this end I take the 

 proper remedy in time— No. 1 — contained 

 in the Bee Journal Family Medicine Case. 

 Keep comparatively quiet, in a warm room ; 

 eat very lightly, drink all the hot water or 



hot milk I wish, cover up well in bed, and 

 in 24 hours I come out all right, whereas, 

 neglected a few days, I might be laid up for 

 as many days suffering agonies ! 



The public have a general idea that doc- 

 tors use some secret remedy to keep off 

 disease and avoid contagion. Nothing of 

 the kind. They simply use their knowl- 

 edge of possible results, and are careful to 

 avoid unnecessary exposure — advantages 

 that any one may profit by, if equally 

 painstaking. 



CONDUCTED BY 



MRS. JENNIE ATCHLEY. 



Beeville, Texas. 



PROFITABLE BEE-KEEPING. 



liesson No. 12. 



(Continued from page 461.) 



DIFFERENT KACES OF BEES AND THEIR 

 HABITS. 



I think it is about time I was telling 

 about the different races, strains, etc., 

 of bees kept in America. 



BLACK OR NATIVE BEES. 



I will take up the black or native bees 

 first. These bees have been here since 

 civilization began, as far as I know, and 

 we could have made out with them if we 

 had never gotten anything better. These 

 bees will store honey almost as well as 

 Italian bees during good seasons, and 

 enter the supers readily, too, and some- 

 times it seems that they are too hasty 

 to enter the supers and leave the brood- 

 nest almost without honey, and have 

 been known to starve and suffer just 

 after the supers were removed, as they 

 had all their honey above, and the supers 

 came off at the close of the harvest, and 

 the bees had no more chance to gather 

 honey, and so perished. 



These bees usually turn out whiter 

 section honey than Italians, as they do 



