The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1861-07-18
VOLUME !.
How People Take Cold.

The time for taking cold = after your exercise :
the place il your own house. or Office, OF count
ing-rOOm.
IL j. not the act II exercise which gives the
cold. but II j. the getting cool too quick after eX-
ercIsiug. For example. You walk very last %
% To- the railroad station. pr % the ferry. OF 10
catch an omnibus, oT u keep uu appointment ,
your mind being ahead of you, the body makes
AN Oyer-cfort % keep up with II; and when you
get 10 the desired SPOT YOU raise your hat aud ind
yourself in a perSTirIripn. You take . seat. and
feeling quite comfortable a. % the temperature.
You begin u talk 10 . friend, Or tu rad q news
paper and, before You are ayyar- Of IL, you ex-
p@Tience q sensation 81 chilliuess, and the thing
- done.
You look around % >-- where the cold comes
from, and ind a window open near YOU. or 4
door, OF that You have taken q SCAT AZ the forward
part Of the car. and. a. ~ J. moving against the
wind. = strong draft j. made through the creyices.
Or. ~ may BE-. you meet a friend az "a street cor
ner, who wanted a loan, and was quite cUmuli-
mentary, almost loving. you dD not like u be-
rude IN the delivery Of a two letteTed mon1svlla-
bic. and while You were trying 10 be truthful.
polite and safe, all At the same time. on comes
the chilly feeling from u raw wind at the street
corner, or the slush Of mud, and water III which.
for the first time, you noticed yourself standing.
After any kind Of exercise. do not stand Il mo
ment at a street corner for anybody or ANYTHING
nor IT an open door OF window. When you have
been exercising in any way whatever, winter OF
summer, 70 home ut once or to some sheltered
place and, however warm the room NAV seem 70
be, do not at once pull off your hat and cloak,
but wait some five minutes OF more. and Law aside
one At Il time thus acting, Il cold Is impossible.
Notice a moment when you return from i brisk
walk and enter a warm room, raise your hat, and
the forehead will be moist let the hat remain a
few moments and feel the forehead AGAIN. and it
will be dry, showing that the rooG is actually
cooler than your body, and that, with your out
door clothing on, you have cooled off full soon.
Among the severest colds | have known men to
take, were those resulting from sitting down 10 Il
meal in u cold room after Il walk or being en-
gagged in writing, and having let the fire go out,
their first admOnition of II was that creeping
chilliness which Is the forerunner of Il severe cold.
Persons have often lost their lives by writing or
remaining in a room where there was no fire. al
though the weather outside was rather comfort
able. Sleeping in rooms long unused, has de-
strOyed the life of many Il visitor and friend
our splendid parlors, and our spare rooms"
help to enrich many a doctor. The cold sepul-
chral parlOrs of New York, from May till NOvem-
Der, bring diseases, not only u visitors but to the
visited: for, coming from domestic occupations.
or from the hurry Of dressing, the heat of the
body Is higher than natural, and having no cloak
or hat on in going to meet Il visitor. and having
IN addition but little vitality, in consequence of
the very sedentary nature Of the town life. there
is very little capability of resistance, and "A chill
cold is the result.-HGH Journal IF HeGfh.