A SPECIFIC AGAINST COLDS.
IT always rains at Manchester, they say ; but history will now add, ex- cept when Queen Victoria is there. An interesting question was dis- cussed by the speculative—will the destiny of Victoria prevail, or that of Manchester? That question is now settled.
Liverpool was less fortunate ; so was Worsley : spectators were gathered to see the Queen arrive, but the rain fell in torrents. The occurrence suggests a very useful physiological inquiry. The English epidemic, cold, seems to be brought on by a depressed state of the sys- tem, the effect of exhaustion in resisting the tendency of cold to arrest the vital action. The reaction causes irritation, probably with electrical derangement. The safeguard seems to be rapid circulation—whence the use of alcoholics "to keep out the cold." A better kind of stimulus is high spirits ; but to what extent can they be relied upon ? Do people ever take cold while a state of pleased excitement lasts ? Statistics of the colds caught on Thursday would be the first contribution towards an answer to that inquiry.
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