The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1859-01-27
How to get Sick.

How to get Sick.
r. Fl. M. writes: Il slept in room
one night which had been washed du-
ring the day, and was not quite dry.
l awoke next morning with sore
throat, which has continued ever since"
The result is, he had to abandon his
theological studies, and place himself
under treatment, after having lost two
years time. ~
H. M. writes " I went to sleep on
warm day on the top of an ice box,
and have never been well SINCE" He
shortly after died of consumption.
T. H. took very severe cold, con-
versation was laborious, but he had an
appointment to preach and he felt that
he must fulfill it. He made the attempt,
but the utterance was attended with
pricking pain in the throat, and then a
dull hurting came on in the throat, with
subsequent "hemming" and fruitless
{" clearing" He was permanently
disabled.
A modest man walking until quite
fatigued, and perspiring freely, entered
an omnibus, and sat next to lady who
opened window to get some fresh air
for herself he soon became chilled
and was i'll for three weeks.
H. p. got up at night and hoisted the.
window to look at burning house;
the cold air darted in on the unpro-
tected body, just fiom warm bed. A
twelve months illness resulted in dropsy.
A strong, hearty man, came in on a
hot summers 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 attacked with inflammation
of the lungs, and died within week.
A delicate young lady, an invalid,
patient of ours, in an excursion with
several others, was "overtaken" by
nightfall, and by young gentleman.
They were in boat, and the boat was
in the mud, and the tide having gone
out on visit to the sea, and "there
they were," mile from shore, and sew
eral miles from home; that mile was
extraordinary long and short. Only
think of it? A whole mile over Jor-
sey fat-covered with water, mud and
ulrushes-carrying in his arms young
lady of eighteen, with one of the
sweetest voices, faces and forms to be
seen in or out of Jersey. Bespattered
with mud dripping with fog and dew
and slush, steaming with perspiration,
and wearied with hunger, thirst and
fatigue, delighted and excited with the
novelty of the thing, they reached
home at midnight. The next day she
didn't have any thing the matter with
her at ALL" Why9 She had taken
lessons of us. Instead of pulling off
her bonnet and shawl, and sitting in
cool place, or instead of undressing at
once, and thus letting the air check the
perspiration, she went into warm
room, closed the doors and windows at
the same moment, laid aside the gar
ments one by one at intervals, and
when cooled off, in the course Of half
an hour, retired to sound sleep and a
healthy awakening.
Another man rode three miles with
a little child sleeping in his lap, which,
pressing against his stomach, caused
unusual warmth there. 1t was chill,
raw November evening. In walking
hundred yards to the house, the child
moving slowly, and the wind blowing,
the whole abdomen was chilled in a
moment. The next morning he awoke
with the ominous pain of peritoncal
inflammation, which is so often fatal in
three or four days. .,.,
A man had some accounts to draw
off in mid-winter. 1t 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 be-
fore he left for home, and he reached
it most thoroughly chilled. Next morn
ing he had pneumonia and never got
well. faey
Remaining at rest for hours in cold
room, in raw, cold, damp weather, is
enough to kill three men out of four by
bringing on congestion of the lungs,
lung fever or inflammation of the lungs.
Clergymen and lawyers often sacrifice
their lives by speaking in warmrooms !;
the body debilitated by the effort; the
skin in state of perspiration; the
lungs all heated up; and thus hungry,
tired and depressed in body and mind,
90 out into the cool open air to ride or
walk home-and to die in the very
bloom of health and manhood.-HdlI's
Journal Of Health.
A Young lad recently ran awav