Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1855-07-26
Number 35

Hor WEArHER-BEwARE OF ExcRs-
sEs.-The delay of hot weather renders
caution all the more necessary now that
1t has come. Statistics show that the
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
the change acutely, tho1ghtlessly risk
their health in the effort 70 get cool. A
laborer becomes over-heated, rushes to
the hydrant, drinks cold water to ex-
cess, and perishes in a few hours. An
other person seeks relief in juleps, cob
blers, and other miscalled cooling
drinks" and the result is increased ex-
element Of the brain, instead of dimin-
ished action there, often followed by
sudden death. A third is tempted by
fresh fruit, and either eats too much or
that which is not ripe, and he too pays
for his indiscretion with his life. A
fourth, fifth, and sixth violate the laws
of health in some other way, and are
Frustrated by illness, if not swept into
the grave. And so it goes, to the end
of the chapter. s' '
The virtue of temperance, at this pc
riod of the season, cannot be inculcated
too strongly. We do not mean tenn
perance in the use of distilled or malt
liquors only, but temperance in all
things, but especially eating, drinking,
and work. A surfeit, when the ther-
mometer is at ninety, is almost certain
death. Even slight overlooking Of
the stomach, or the indulgence in some
indigestible article of food, often leads
to violent cramps, if not to cholera in
its worst form. But to eat too little, or
TO eschew meats or fruits altogether, as
some theorists do, is an error only less
dangerous. The safest way is to con-
tinue the usual diet, whatever that has
been, taking care, however, to indulge
moderately, that is with temperance
So also with drinking. tits madness to
imbibe spirituous liquor in the hope of
being cooled; it is folly to injure the di-
gestiye organs by excessive indulgence
in soda water or ice cream. Nature in
suffers when attempts are made
to cool a person who is heat
ed. Moderation in all things is indis-
pensable. To jump into river, to
quaff copiouslY of ice water, or to bring
anything else that is cold into sudden
contact with the body, when the latter
is heated, is trifing with health and
life.
ExcesSes in work are fertile source
Of illness and sometimes of death in
sultry weather. No man can perform
as much labor on hot day or under a
vertical summer sun as he can in win
.er or under cover. 1t is not only day
aborers who are in jeopardy. Any un-
usual draft upon the nervous or even
system is sure to be felt at the
seat of life. A wise man will always
econOmise his strength in the summer.
Whoever overworks himself in any way
sxhausts the nervous power, part of
which should have gone to assist the
digestion; and the consequence is that
when he comes home, fatigued and hun
yry, to eat hearty meal, he is struck
iown by bilious collie. dysentery, or
'holera. To throw off the garments
when heated, and sit in current of air,
s a common error, and the seeds of
many consumption have been planted
n this way in healthy men. Be tenn
'erate in your labors and in your plea
ures, in sleeping and in waking, if you
would escape the diseases incident to
lot weather, and which are so often
atal.-Philadelphia Ledger.