Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1855-10-17


! a.c-.. 80 changes and
vicissitudes, and particularly The former
Volney was so struck by the fact, that he says
in the United States there is no spring. To
persons of feeble constitutions, the transition
from winter to summer, and again from summer
to winter, especially when fuctuating, and
marked by no steady and regular progress, is
extremely trying and the greatest caution, there.
fore should be observed at these periods. l
know many persons of the highes: intelligence
who postpone putting on their flannel to the
longest possible period, believing that it is just
80 much gained, and accordingly the winter is
far advanced before it is done. Instead of mis-
chief being prevented bya timely resort to it,
the most serious consequences are often pro-
duced by this unwise postponement. 1t is
against the first impressions Of cold upon the
skin that we are specially to guard; when the
winter has fairly set in, and the skin has become
habituatcd to it, there is less danger Ill had to
fix period in our latitude for putting on ilan-
nell would say in September, and for taking it
off about the middle Of May. Of course these
periods are liable 10 be effected by circumstances.
[ proceed now to give more particularly the
proofs of experience rs exhibited in the recorded
testimony of eminent men, who have enjoyed
the best opportunities for forming correct opin-
ions on the subject. There is such a host of
witnesses from the ranks of physicians and
Others. that it would seem almost invidious to
make q selection. l will, however, mention two
or three, assuring the reader that the utility of
wearing flannel next the skin, is now almost uni
yersalIy conceded BY those who know most about
the matter, and that it is insisted upon in the
British army and navy. That the health of the
soldier is protected by it, alike in warm as well
as in cold climates, is abundantly proved by Sir
lanes McGregor, Captain Murray, Sir John
Prinrle. Sir George Balingalc, Rush and others.
The testimony Of Captain Murray, as given by
Combe, is very striking. Upon his return from
n two wears service among the icebergs of the
coast of Labrador, he was ordered to sail imme:
diotev for the West Indies. Having had great
exnerience of the advantages Of flannel, he or
dered the purser to draw two extra shirts md
drawers for each man., and instituted a regular
doiv inspection to see that they were worn.
He carried with him a crew Of one hundred and
6ftv men, visited; almost every island in the
Gulf of Mexico; and notwithstanding the sndden
transition from extreme climates, returned to
England without the loss Of, man. or having
onv sick on board dt The time of:his arrival.
Rush, in ssnote to!his edition ofPringlei says
that the utility of flannel worn next,the skin was
observed in several tinstances-int Revolutions
nv nrmy Of tho United. Statesn No one of the
officers who was thus clad was indisposed at the
sieoe of Savannah, md no one escaped sickness
who was not provided with this internal cover.
inc. He remarks further, that the troops from
Wyoming, Pennsylvania, who wore flannel shirts
next their >skin,.swefe rarely seen in military
hospitals To this testimony / will only add
that the,most useful class among u.s.. the Irish
laborer. who bitches and drains cur lands, and
lsnprforms 10 much Of the hard work upon our
railroads, is clothed throughout the. year with O
red flannel shirt aud that when his habits are
not very bad, he enioysla remarkable exemption
from disense. - = -
wonId here cautionthe reader against seek
ing warn,th in clothing alone or by any plan Of
airIi6cial,heat and rannotimpress too forcibly
the grteat value and paramount Importance o.
exercise in the open air, whenever, The state, o.
the weather and other circumstances will allow
It. It is whenthe body is in n state ofinacGor
that it is ostssusceptible of the Impressions o
cold. The effect ofaactive exercise is to give
tone to .'e nerves, to quicken the circulation, tt
drive tn. ylood tho ren1otest parts Of the sys
tenn: in n word, ,tostimulate. all the vital opera
tions. and elerute the animal temperature. From
what, was said when had underconside
the subject of exercise, the reader must be salts
! fed that there can be no substitute for it.
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