In the days of our grandparents there was a general idea that sore throats were due to climatic conditions.
Nowadays we realise that sore throat. is an infectious ailment which has very little to do with the weather. Sudden changes of temperature may be one of the causes of sore throat, but only because they make us susceptible to the microbes of sore throst—that is all.
These microbes or germs are the true active causes of sore throat, as they are of those dread infect tious diseases—diphtheria, consumption of the lungs, measles and scarlet fever.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.