The Little Cold Book: Advice, Remedies & Bedside Amusements

by Justin Spring

This Book Could Cure Your Cold! (It Will At Least Cheer You Up.)
 
Within, You’ll
 
     •  Who’s to blame for your illness
     •  The best ways to make yourself comfortable
     •  Time-tested home remedies
     •  Recommended cold medicines and natural remedies
 
And dozens of ways to amuse yourself while in bed recuperating. Make yourself a cup of hot tea and settle down with The Little Cold Book by your side. With plenty of rest, liquids, and a good bedside reading lamp, you’ll feel better in no time.

128 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 2004

About the author

Justin Spring is a New York based writer specializing in twentieth-century American art and culture. He is the author of many monographs, catalogs, museum publications, and books, including the biography Fairfield Porter: A Life in Art (Yale University Press, 2000) and Paul Cadmus: The Male Nude (Universe, 2002). He has been the recipient of a number of grants, fellowships, and awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship and the International Association of Art Critics Best Show Award. He has held research fellowships from Yale University, Brown University, Radcliffe College and Amherst College. His monograph on Paul Cadmus was a finalist for the Lamda Literary Award in Art History.

Reviews

[Shelly Hammond]

This is adorable. It's a fun little book to pick up and read anytime but especially when you are feeling just a little under the weather. It has some rather good little hints and tricks, many common sense things but if you are feeling that blah cloudy head you get when you have the ultimate cold you might not be using any kind of sense what so ever let alone the common kind. That being said, it's not such a bad idea to have a little book around that gives you a refresher in quick little spurts so you don't have to think for a very long time and you can still get the advise in your silly brain. It also has some of the more herbal type remedies that might not be as well known that may help (and really, if you are super stuffed up and achy you'll try anything once, so you might find something good!).
This is a fun well written and often funny little book that could be a great gift for the sickly one in your life or just to keep on hand for yourself!

[Jen]

Adorable. Of course, I'm biased, since it was a gift from the author (and I'm currently working with him on another biography).