Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1864-08-31
Checking Perspiration.

If while perspiring, or while something
warmer than usual, from exercise or a
heated room, there is a sudden exposure
in stiffness to a still, cold air, or to raw,
damp atmosphere, or to a draught
whether at an open window or door or
street-corner, an inevitable result is vio-
lent and instantaneous closing Of the
pores of the skin, by which waste and
impure matters, which were making
their way out of the system, are COM
PEELED to seek an exit through some 9TH
FER channel, and break through some
weaker part, not the natural one, and
harm to that parts the result. The
idea Is presented by saying that the
cold has settled in that part. To illus
trate: lady was about getting into a
small boat to cross the Deleware; but
wishing first to get an orange from a
fruit stand, she ran up the bank of the
river, and on her return to the boat
found herself much heated, and is was
summer, but there was a little wind on
the water, and the clothing soon felt
cold to her; the next morning she had =
severe cold, which settled on.her. lungs,
and within the year she died of con-
sumption. A stout, strong man was
working in a garden in May; feeling a
little tired about noon, he sat down in
the shade of the house and fell asleep;
he walked up chilly; inflammation of the
lungs followed, ending, after two years
of great suffering, in consumption. On
opening his chest, there was such an ex-
tensive decay that the matter was scoop
ed out by the cupful. ~
A Boston ship-owner, while on the
deck of one of his vessels, thought he
would "lend hand" in some emergency
and pulling off his coat, worked with a
will, until he perspired freely, when he
sst down to rest awhile, enjoying the de-
licious breeze from the sea. On attempt
ing to rise, he found himself unable, and
was 50 stiff in his joints, that he had to
be carried home and put to bed, which
he did not leave until the end of tive
years, when he was barely able to hobble
down to the wharf on his crutches.
A lady, after being unusually busy all
day, found herself heated and tired
towards the sundown of summers day.
She concluded she would rest herself by
taking drive to town in an open vehi.
Gle. The.ride made her Internationally
cool, but she warmed herself up by an
hours shopping. when she turned home
ward; it being late in the evening, she
found herself more decidedly chilly than
before. At midnight she had pneumo-
mia Inflammation of the lungs,) snd in
three months had the ordinary symp-
toms of confirmed consumption.
4 lady Of great energy of character lost
her cook, and had to take her place for
four days; the kitchen was warm, and
there was draft of air through it,
When the work was done, warm and
weary, she went to her chamber, and
laid down on the bed to rest herself
This operation was repeated several
times day. On the fifth day she had an
attack of lung fever; at the end of six
months she was barely able to leave her
chamber, only to find herself suffering
with all the more prominent symptoms
of confirmed consumption; such as quick
pulse, night and morning cough, night
swests, debility, shorth breath, and fal
ling away.
A young lady rose from her bed on q
November night and leaned her arm on
the cold window-sill to listen to sere-
made. Next morning sheshad pneumon.
ia, and suffered all the horrors of asthma
for the remainder of long life. Multi
tudes of women lose health and life every
year, in one of two ways; by busyinG
themselves in q warm room until weary,
and then throwing themselves on bed
or sofa, without covering, and perhaps IN
a room without fire; or by removing the
outer clothing, and perhaps chan glng
the dress for a more common one, a
soon as they enter the house after
walk or shopping. The rule should oe
invariably to 60 at once to warm room
and keep on all the clothing at least fol
Eve OF ten minutes, until the forehead is
perfectly dry. In all wsathers, if you
have to walk and ride on any occasion,
do the riding frst.-HalPs Journal .,
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