mind , germaphobes : this educational film from the 1950s will make you never want to leave the family again . Part of a series called “ Health and Safety for You , ” the 1955 short flick “ Sniffles and Sneezes ” warns of the ease with which germs can be spread at school and at domicile . Sneezy Jane touches a doorknob soon before Bob , who pick up her germs and transfers them to a Word of God he ’s sharing with Sue , who lick her finger to turn pages and passes them along on a pencil to Ann , who spreads them on the cutlery while dress the crime syndicate dinner table . Yum .
The picture show serves up some practical advice for staying healthy that will fathom familiar . Eat balanced meals , exercise , get a good Nox ’s quietus , and dampen your hand . The cinema ’s advice for treatment after catching a coldness is cautious : stay on in layer — really , do not leave the confines of your bed — heed to some nothingness on the radio , and read a book . utilise disposable tissues rather of hankie , which in 1955 were still a socially take way of clean up your snot . Do n’t chew on pencils , which is kind of gross irrespective of your infection status .
Other advice borders on paranoia . “ Never take bites of other masses ’s intellectual nourishment , ” the narrator commands . " Never tope out of someone else ’s glass . " Never !
Breathing germs on each other . Image Credit : Screenshot viaPublic Domain Review
These days , research worker can be a little more lackadaisical about insensate - spreading germs . concord to theCommon Cold Centreat the University of Cardiff in the UK , " Despite the fact that very few of us scarper from at least a dyad of common moth-eaten infection each yr , common cold viruses are not very contagious . "
" Under laboratory conditions , " the Common Cold Centre says , " when healthy Volunteer are maintain with others who are suffering from common inhuman infections it has proven remarkably difficult to spread transmission from one person to another . " While washing your hands seems to aid stop the gap of the infection , there ’s only one real agency to avert colds altogether : “ Become a hermit . ”
[ h / t : Public Domain Review ]
