Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1858-12-03

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slept In room one night which had been
washed out during the day, and was not on;fe
dry. | awoke next morning with ACRE
throat, which has continued ever since" Tho
result Is, he has had to abandon his tbeolooi-
cal studies, and place himself under medical
treatment, after having lost two years time.
H. NJ wrltes-"I went to sleep on a warm
day on tho top of an ice box, and have never
been well SINCE" He shortly after died of
consumption. 'u "a
l. d. took very severe cold; conversa-
ton was lsborious but he had an appoint
ment to preach, and felt as if he must fulfil il.
lie made the attempt but the utterance was
attended with a pricking in the throat. and
then dull hurting came on in the throat.
with subsequent "hemming' and fruitless
clearing lie was permanently disabled.
modest man walked until quite fatigued.
ana PersplHng freely, entered an omnibus.
ana SAT next lady who opened window to
get some fresh air for herself He soon hn
dow to look on buffnafhg ARj&se Bao.v57a
air darted in on the uninprotected body, just
from warm bed. A twelve months illness
rooulsod in dropsy.
A strong hearty man came in on hot sum-
uers' day, Immediately took off his coat and
hat, and sat in the open window, looking out
upon beautiful garden, over which the
ocean breezes came to fan him. Before he
was aware of it, he was chilled was attacked
with Inflammation of the lungs, and died with
in a week.
delicate young lady, an invalid, a patient
Of ours, in an excursion with several Others,
was "overtaken" by nightfalI, and by young
gentleman. They were in boat and the
boat was in the mud, the tide having gone
out on visit TO the sea, and ssthere thew
were, mile from shore, aud several miles
from home; that mile was extraordinary long
and short. Only think of it Awhole mile
over Jersey fat! covered with water, mud
and bulrushes. carrying in the arms a young
lady OF eighteen, with one Of the sweetest
voices, faces and forms to be seen in or out of
Jersey. Despatched with mud, dripping
with fog and due, and slush, steaming with
preparation, and wearied with hmngar, thirst
and fatigue, delighted and excited BY the
novelty of the thing, they reached home at
midnight The next day she "didn't have
anything the matter with her at all p Why?
She had taken lessons of us. Instead of pull
ing off her bonnet and shawl and sitting in a
coll place, or instead of undressing at once,
and thus, letting the air check the perspira-
ton, she went into warm room, closed the
doors and windows at the same moment, laid
aside the garments one by one, at intervals,
and, when cooled off, in the course Of half an
hour, retired TO sound sleep and healthful
awakening.
Another man rode three miles with little
child sleeping in his lap, which, pressing
against his stomach, caused an unusual
warmth there. 1t was chill, raw, November
evening. In walking hundred yards to the
house, the child moving slowly, and wind
blowing, the whole abdomen was chilled in
a moment. The next morning he awoke with
the ominous pains OF peritoneal inflammation,
which is often fatal in three or four days.
A man had some accounts to draw off in
mid winter. It was a cold night. He was
greatly interested time went and the fire,
too. He felt little chilly, but thought he
would soon be done-that it was not worth
while to rebuild the fire. 1t was near one
o'clock before he left for home, and he reached
it most thoroughly chilled. Next morning
he had pneumonia, and never get we'll
Remaining at rest for hours in cold room
in raw, damp weather is enough to kill three
men of four, by bringing on congestion of the
lungs. Clergymen and lawyers often sacrifice
their lives by speaking in warm rooms-the
body debilitated by the effort the skin in a
state of perspiration, the lungs all healed up
and thus hungry, tired, and depressed in BODY
and mind, go out into the cold air to ride or
walk homeland to die in the very bloom of
health and manhood. And yet to know these
things there are hundreds who hesitate to give
dollar a year, when, on the knowledee Of
them, human life is daily hung and for want
of it daily lost.--RalPs Journal Of Health.