American union. [volume] (Morgantown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1855-1859, 1859-03-18
From Halls Journal Of Health.
HoW TO GEE SICK.

4 r. II. M. writes slept in room
one right which had been washed du-
ring the day, and was not quite dry.
l awokc in the morning with sore
throat, which has continued ever since. -
! The result is he had to abandon his
theological studies, and placed himself
under treatment, after having lost two
years time. htat
/ IL. NJ. writes: "I went to sleep on
warm day on the top of an ice box,
and have never been we'll since." lie
shortly afterward died of consumption.
II. ii. took q severe cold, conversa-
tion was laborious, but he had an ap.
pointmont to preach, and felt that he
must fulfil it. lie made the attempt,
but the utterance was attended by q
pricking pain in the throat, and then
a dull hurting came on in the throat,
with subsequent hcmming and fruit,
less clearing. IIc was permanently
disabled.
A modest man walked until quite
Ifatigued, entered an omnibus, and sat
next to a lady who opened window
to get some fresh air herself. lie
soon became chilled and was ill for
three weeks.
II, r. Got up at night and hoisted
the window to look at a burning house;
the cold air darted in on the unprotect-
(. ed body just from a warm bed. A
twelve months illness resulted in drop-
sy. ID. ...... ...... ..
a strong, hearty man came in a
hot SUMMER day, Immediately took of
his coat and hat, and sat in the open
! window, looking out upon beautiful
garden over which the ocean breez c
came to fan him. Before he was aware
OF it he was attacked with inflammation
of the lungs, and died within a week.
A delicate young lady, an invalid ;
a patient of ours, was "over-takcn''
by nightfall and by ayoung gentleman.
They were in boat and the boat was
in the mud, and tide laying gone
out on visit to the sea, and several
miles from home; that mile was extra
ordinarily long and short. Think of it !!
a whole mile over a Jersey nat-coy-
cred with water, mud and bulrushes-
carrying in the arms lady, with one
OF the sweetest voices, faces and forms
to be seen in and out of Jersey. Be-
spatered with mud, and dripping with
fog, dew and slush, steaming with per-
spiration, and wearied with hunger,
thirst and fatigue, delighted and excl.
ted, with the novelty of the thing, thew
got home at midnight. The next day
''shc didn't have anything the matter
with her at ALL. Why She had ta-
ken lessons of US. Instead of pulling
oil her bonnet and shawl, and sitting
In cool place, or instead of undress-
ing at once, and thus let 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 ono at intervals, and
when cooled off in the course of half
an hour, retired to sound sleep and n
healthy awakening.
Another man rode three miles with
little child sleeping in his lap, which
pressing against his stomach, caused
unusual warmth there. 1t was chill.
raw November evening. In walking
a hundred yards to the house,, the
child moved slowly, and the wind blow
ing, the whole abdomen was chilled in
moment. The next morning he a
woke with ominous pain of peritoneal
inflammation, which is so often fatal in
three or four days.
A man had some accounts to draw
OFT in mid winter. 1t was a cold night;
ne was greatly interested time went
and the fire too. He felt little chill
", but thought he would soon be done;
that it was not worth while to rebuild
the fire. 1t was near one clock when
he started for home, and he reached it
almost thoroughly chilled. Next morn
ing he had pneumonia, and never got
well.
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 warm rooms;
the body dcbilitatcd by the effort; the
lungs all bcatedup, and thus hungry,
tired and depressed, in body and mind,
60 out into the cool open air, to ride
or walk homeland to die in the very
bloom and health Of manhood.
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