Good Morning, if you can call it good. This is the radio Doctor with another word of advice on how to keep yourself fit and to stay away from doctors, even national Health ones like myself. Well, here we are again in the season of mists and mellow mugginess, as the poet describes it, the maen but cannot season of coughs, sneezes, influenza, stuffy noses and similar cheerful human ailments. You know they can send people to cure the common cold.
It is a little fellow called the cold-virus that makes you catch cold and fills up the doctor's surgery with all those depressing faces with red noses and running eyes. There's not much a chap like me can do to help chaps like those get better, you know. You can write them out a prescription and have them take it to the dispensing chemist who is probably running a temperature himself talking to everyone in a hoarse whisper and would sooner be in bed.
Prevention is certainly better than cure. If you haven't got a cold away if possible from people who have. Keep your room ventilated, deep yourself warm and don't get overtired by work or over-excited by pleasure. Remember an hour's sleep before is worth two hour's sleep after midnight. Don't let yourself get depressed or over-excited. A healthy mind is a healthy body; our physical illnesses are often sym photometric of mental or emotional disturbances. I prove that point whenever the BBC makes me get out of a warn bed to come into the studio at six-thirty in the morning and when I sneeze into the microphone.
Seriously though, use some common sense and avoid the common cold. And if you can't be sensible all the time, don't sneeze over everyone else. Those little viruses enjoy nothing better than taking free rides through the are into the respiratory tracts of some unsuspecting fellow-human. Good morning and good luck.
The cold-virus is transmitted by _______________.
uncommon senses
being blown out by the carrier
free respiration
unsuspicious fellow-humans