Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1856-01-25

A Chapter on Healtls.

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/ stitution. No one can be well whose feet,
are habitually cold When the blood is
equally distributed to every part of the bodys
there Is general good health. # there Be
/ less blood at any one point thar IS natuaal,
there il coldness; and net enly 50, there
must be more than is natural at some other
part Of the system, and there IS fever, that
Is, unnatural heat CT oppression In the.
case Of cold feet, the amount Of blood want-a
ing there, collects at some other part Of the
body which happens to be the weakest, %
be the least able to throw up a barrieade
against the inrrIshing-enemy. Hence, when
the lungs are weakest the extra blood gath
ers there in the shape Of common cold, or
splitting blood. Clergymen, other public
speakers, and singers, hy imprudent expos
ures often render the throat the weakest
part; to such, cold feet gives hoarseness or
raw burning feeling, most felt at the little,
hollow at the bottom Of the neck To 9TH
ers again, whose bowels are weak through
over-eating and drinking spirituos liquors,
cold feet give various degrees of derange-
ment, from a common looseness up to diar-
rh9a or dysentery; and so we might GO
| through the whole body, but for the present.
this IS sufficient for illustration.
! If goa are OeA, let yourseIf Glone This
is our favorite MOTTO But to those whose
feet are inclined to be cold we suggest.
As soon as you get up in the morning
put both feet at once into basin Of water,
so as to come half way up the ankles; keep
them in half minute in winter, and
minute or two in summer, rubbing them
both vigorously, wipe them dry, and hold
them 10 the fire, if convenient, in cold wealth.
er, until every part of your feet feels as dry
as your hands, then put on your socks or
stockings.
On going to bed at night draw off your
stockings and hold the feet by the fire for
ten or fifteen minutes until perfectly dry,
and get night into bed. This IS a most
pleasant operation, and fully repays for the
trouble Of it. No one can sleep refreshingly
with cold feet All Indians and hunters
sleep with their feetto the fire.
Never step from your bed with the ma
ked feet on an uncarpeted floor. / have
known it to be the exciting cause Of months
of illness. 1
Wear wooden, cotton or silk stockings,
which ever keep the feet the most comfort
able; done let the experience Of another
be your guide; for different persons require
different articles; what is good for person
whose feet are naturally damp, cannot be
good for one whose feet are always dry. Tho
donkey which had his bag of salt lightened
by swimming a river, advised his eompan-
ion that was loaded down with sack Of
wool to do the same, and having no more.
sense than man or a woman, he plunged
in. and in a moment the wool absorbed the
water, increased the burden many fold, and
bore him to the bottom.
VENTILATIoN.-Don't let the reader be
astounded out of his propriety and declare
US insane, because we tell him it Is more inn
portant to sleep with window up in mid
winter than in the summer time. How few
people have the gift of thinking how many
have the gift of CAB, in the inverse ratio -
The less man thinks, the more he can talk
that is the very reason why our household
diyinities discourse indefinitely, ad infnitum,
and on the other side of it. Who ever heard
of man taking cold who slept IN all osE
doors? Well, if sleeping in all out doors,
does not give a man cold, how can sleep
ling in a part of all out doors give man .
cold? Is not that conclusive? Surely none
of the unthinking multitude could ask for
a more convincing argument than this
But as only the thinking few take journal
like this, we will give mere hint of an ar
gument, with the carrying out of which they
may amuse themselves in leisure hour
Pure carbonic acid gas is deadly, it kills in
five minutes In sleeping we breathe out
this gas, and close room confines it,
warmth makes it rise to the ceiling, cold
condenses and keeps it near the floor. Verb
sab
WINTER SHoEs.-Like the gnaried oak
that has withstood the storms and thunder
bolts of centuries man himself dies at the
extremities. Keep the feet dry and warm,
and we may snap our fingers in joyous tri-
umph at disease and the doctors.
Put on two pairs of wooden stockings, but
keep this to yourself, 60 to some honest son
of ST. Crispin and have your measure taken
fora stout pair of boots or shoes; shoes are
better for every day use, as they allow the
escape of toe-odors, while they strengthen
the ankles by accustoming them to depend
on themselves. A very slight accident IS
sufficient to cause a sprained ancle to ha-
bitual boot wearer. Besides shoe COM
presses less, and hence admits of moro vig-
; orous circulation Of the blood. But wear
boots when YOU ride or travel Give direc-
ltions also to have no cork or India rubber
about the shoes, but to place between the
llayers Of the soles, from out to out piece
of stout hemp or tow linen which has been
dipped in melted pitch. This IS absolutely
limpervious TO water-does not absorb par
Iticie-while we know that cork does, and
after while become Soggy' and damp for
weeks. When you put them on for the first
time, with your ordinary socks, they viii feel
as easy as an old shoe and you may stand
on damp places for hours with impunity.
WEAR1Se FLANNEL-Put it on at once
Winter or summer, nothing better can DO
worn next to the skin than loose, red,
. wooden flannel shirt; loose, for 1t has room
to move on the skin, thus causing titila-
ton which draws the blood to the surface
and keeps il there; and when that IS the
cnse no one can take cold; red, for white
fills M. mats together. and becomes tight,