In Mrs Beeton's Book of Home Management, a best-seller for decades after it was first published in 1861, there is a chapter on first aid and home remedies - including a hot toddy cold treatment.

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Each LNG In A Box unit is fully equipped with a gas pre-treatment system, cold box assembly and boil off gas compressor as well as a GE's turboexpander compressor, high-speed reciprocating compressor, electric motor, driver and control system.

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Like many of the day spas in the area, the men- and women-only treatment rooms offer inexpensive scrubs, steams, saunas, cold and hot pools.

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Those who can handle abrupt temperature changes can try the four room Nun Path, a variation of hot to cold with variations of humidity, a revival of a Roman regeneration treatment. (although only the most stalwart should attempt the Frigidarium.) And treatments span the globe, from hammam rituals to Thai and Ayurvedic.

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So, according to drug treatment experts, kids think, well my parents give me pills for a cold, so it must be safe.

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Part of the explanation for Hollywood's especially negative and negligent treatment of the English in the last few years might lie in the end of the cold war.

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He said the treatment of people with genuine emergencies was being affected by those with little more than the common cold coming to emergency units.

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The cold weather is thought to have been responsible for an increase in the number of chest infections requiring hospital treatment and there have also been several outbreaks of the winter vomiting bug norovirus.

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