Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1862-11-19
Talks About Health-By Dlo Lewis,
M D.-A Word About Dress.

One OF the graYest mistake es in our dres.
is the very thin covering of our arms and
legs. No physiologist can doubt that the
extremities require as much covering as
the body. A fruitful source of disease
of congestion in the head, chest. and alb
domen, is found in the nakedness of the
arms and legs, which prevents fair dis
tribution of the blood.
4 young lady has just asked me what
she can do for her very thin arms. She
says she is ashamed of them. | felt of
them through the thin lace covering. and
found them freezing cold. / asked her
what she supposed would make muscles
grow! Exercise, she replied. Certainly.
/ but exercise makes them grow only Ly
giving them more blood. Six months of
vigorous exercise would do less to give
those naked, cold arms circulation, than
would single month were they warmly
clad.
The value of exercise depends upon the
temperature of the muscles. 4 cold
gymnasium is improbable. Its temper
ature should be betweensixty and seventy.
or the limbs should be warmly clothed
/ know that our servant girls and black
smiths, by constant and vigorous exercise,
acquire large, fine arms, in spite of their
nakedness. And if young ladies will Ia
hor as hard from morning till night as do
these useful classes, they may have as fine
arms, but even then it is doubtful if they
would get rid of their congestions in head. |
lungs, and stomach without more dress
upon the arms and legs
Perfect health depends upon perfect |
circulation. Every living thing that has
the latter, has the former. Put YOUR hand !
under you dress upon yeVF body. Now /
put your hand upon your arm. Ifyou 4
find the body is warmer than the arm.
you have lost the equilibrium of circuIa-
tion. The head has too much blood, pro-
dueing headache or sense of fullness or
the chest has too much blood, PRODUCING
cough. rapid breathing, pain in the side,
or palpation of the heart; or the stomach
has too much blood, producing indiges-
ton; or the liver has too much blood pro
ducing some disturbance; or the bowels
have too much blood, producing eonsti-
patton or diarrhea. Any or a.. of these
difficulties are temporarily relieved by i'm
mersion cf the feet or hands in hot water, .
and they are permanently relieved by
such dress and exercise of the extremitics ,
rs viii make the derivation permanent.
Again ! say, the extremities require as
much clothing as the body. Women :
should dress their arms < legs with one or
.wo thicknesses of knit wooden garments
which fit them. The absurdity of loose !
lowing sleeves and wide spread skirts, !
will not discuss
Do you ask why the arIns and legs may !
lot become accustomed TO exposure like
he face? | answer, God has provided the :
ace with aa Immense circulation. because =
t must be exposed. !;
A distinguished physician of Paris de- 4
Jared, just before his death, Il believe :
hat during the twenty-six years have
racticed my profession in that city, twen- .
Y thousand children have been borne to =
he cemeteries sacrifice to the absurd =
ustom of naked arms" When in Har- =
ard, many years ago, heard the distin- !,
uished DIR. j. G. Warren say, Boston =
acrifced five hundred babies every year !" .,
y not clothing their arms Those lit =
e arms should have thick, knit, wooden, - =
arm sleeves, extending from the shOul- - -
er to the hand. -