The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-08-25
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Eot weasher-Beware Of azceages.

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The delay of hot weather renders
caution all the more necessary now that
it has come. Statistics show that tile
largest number of deaths from impru-
dence happen when cold spell is sud
denly succeeded by one of intense heat
and the reason is that people. feeling tlle
change acateiy, thoughtlesly risk tkeir
health in the effort to get cool A labor
er becomes over-heated, rushes to by
drant, drinks cold water to excess, and
perishes in few hours. Another per-
son seeks reliefin juleps, cobblers, and
other mis- called ''cooling drinks,'' and
the result is increased excitement of the
brain, instead of diminished action there,
often followed by sudden death. A
third is tempted by fresh fruit, and either
eats toe much or eats that which is not
ripe, and he too pays for indiscretion
with his life. A fourth, fifth and sixth
violate the laws of health III some other
way, and are prostrated by illness, ifnot
swept into the grave. And so it goes,
to the end of the chapter.
The virtue oftempcranoe, at this period
of the season, cannot be inculcated toe
strongly. We do not mean temperance
in the use of distilled or malt liquors
only, but temperance in all things, but
especially eating, drinking, and work.
A surfeit, when the thermometer is al
ninety, is almost certain death. Even q
slight overlooking of the stomach, or the
indulgence in some indigestible article oi
food, often leads to violent cramps, il
not to cholera in its worst form. Blu
to eatto little, or to eschew either meats
or fruits altogether, as some theorists do,
is an error only less dangerous. The
safest way is TO continue the usual diet,
whatever that has been, taking care,
however, to indulge moderately, that i.
with temperance So alsowitlf drinking
Fit is madness to imbibe spirituou,
liquors in the hope of being cooled. it j,
folly to injure the digestive organs by
excessive indulgence. in soda-water OIL
ice cream. Nature invariably suffers
when attempts are made suddenly.to coo
a person who is heated. Moderation IL
all things is indispensable. To jump
into river, to quatf copiously of ice
water, or to bring anything else that is
cold into sudden contact with the body
when the latter is heated, is trifling witt
health and life.
Excesses in work are fertile source o
illness, aud sometimes of death, in sui.
try weather. No man can perform a;
much labor on hot day, or under YER
tical summer sun, as he can in winter
or Under cover.
1t is not only daylab orers who arr
in jeopardy. Any unusual draft upor
the nervous, or even muscular system, il
sure to be feltat the seat of life. A wise
man viii always economise his strength
in the summer. Whoever oyerwork
himself in any way exhausts the nervou,
power, part of which should have gone
10 assist the digestion, and the eonse
quence is, that when he comes home
iatigued and hungry, to- eat 4 hearty
meal, be is struck down by bilious chOl
ic, dysentery or cholera. To throw OF
the garments, when heated, and sit in ;
current on air, is common error, an(
The seeds ofmany consumption hav'
been planted in this way, in healthy
men. Be temperate in your labors anC
in your pleasures, in sleeping and IL
waking. ii you would escape the disease
incident TO hot weather, and which ar
/ SO often fltal.-PhH. Ledaer.