Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1863-11-27
SCatChinQ Cold -

large number of fatal diseases result from
taking cold, apparently too from such slight
causes as to appear inc. edible to MANY But
although the causes are various. the result il
the same, and arises frcm the violation of q
single principle, to-wit; cooling off toe soon
after exercise. Perhaps this may be more
practically instructive il individuals instances
are named, which, in the opinion Of those
subsequently seeking advice in the various
stages OF consumption, were the causes of the
great misfortune, promising that when cold
Is once taken, marvelously slight causes serve
to increase it for ths first few days-causes
which. under ordinary circumstances, even a
moderately healthful system would have
warded Of
Rachel, the tragedienne, increased the cold
which ended he life, by insufficient clothing
in the cars, in travelling from New York to
Boston; such was her own statement.
The immediate cause of the last illness OF
Abbot Lawrence, the financier and the phi
lanthropist, was an injudicious change Of
clothing.
An eminent clergyman got into his bed in
mid-w'nter, within fifteen minutes after
pl reaching an earnest discourse; he was in.
stantly chilled, and died within forty-eight
hours.
A promising young teacher walked two
miles for exercise, and on returning to his
room, it being considered too late to light a
fire, sat for half an hour reading a book, and
before he knew it chill passed over him.
The next day he had splitting of blood, which
caused an early death.
mother sat sewing for her children to a
late hour at night, and noticing that the fire
had gone out she concluded to retire at once;
but thinking that she could finish" in few
minutes, she forgot the passing moments a.
they fled unperceived away. until an hour
more passed, and she found herself "thor.
oughly chilled" and menth's illness fol-
lowed, to pay for that one hour.
A little cold taken after public speech in
Chicago, so little that no attention was paid
to it for several days, eliminated in the last
illness Of Senator Douglas. 1t was a slight
cold-taken in misunderstanding in
congestion of the lungs, that hurried Elizabeth
Barrett Browning to the grave within week.
Avigorous young man laid down on an ice.
chest on warm summers day. fell asleep,
walked up in chill, which ended in confirmed
consumption, of which he died three years
later. man of our acquaintance, in robust
health, invariably stood in his bare feet upon
zinc floor, while performing his morning
additions, the consequence of which was, his
health failed and his constitution was entire
ly undermined.
Many cold cough and consumption is ex-
cited into action by pulling off the hat or over
coat as to men, and the bonnet and shawl as
to women, immediately on entering the
house in winter, after taking walk. An in
terval Of five or ten minutes should be al
lowed: for however warm or close" the
apartment may appear on first entering, it
will seem much less so at the end offlve min.
utes, if the outer garments remain as they
were before entering. Any one who judici-
ously uses this observation, will find suff-
Gent reward in the course of life time,