Excerpt from the book...Catching cold"--Sitting on the floor--Kicking the bedclothes off--Inadequate head covering--Subjecting baby to different temperatures suddenly--Wearing rubbers--Direct infection--Acute nasal catarrh--Acute coryza--Acute rhinitis--"Cold in the head"--"Snuffles"--Treatment of acute nasal catarrh, or rhinitis, or coryza, or "cold in the head," or "snuffles"--Chronic nasal catarrh--Chronic rhinitis--Chronic discharge from the nose--Nervous or persistent cough--Adenoids as a cause of persistent cough--Croup--Acute catarrhal laryngitis--Spasmodic croup--False croup--Tonsilitis--Angina--Sore throat--Symptoms of tonsilitis--Treatment of tonsilitis--Bronchitis in infants--Bronchitis in older children--"Don'ts" in bronchitis--Diet in bronchitis--Inhalations in bronchitis-- External applications in bronchitis--Drugs in bronchitis-- Chronic or recurrent bronchitis--Pneumonia--Acute broncho-pneumonia--Symptoms of broncho-pneumonia--How to tell when a child has broncho-pneumonia--Treatment of broncho-pneumonia--The after treatment of broncho-pneumonia--Adenoids--How to tell when a child has adenoids--Treatment of adenoids--Nasal hemorrhage-- "Nose-bleeds"--Treatment of nose-bleeds--Quinsy--Hiccough-- Sore-mouth--Stomatitis--Treatment of ulcers of the mouth-- Sprue--Thrush