The New era. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1865-1871, 1865-09-14

Checking Persptr0tion.
FACTS WHICH EVERYBODY OUGHT TO
KNOW.
Edward Everett became overheated
in testifying in a courtroom, went to
Faneuil Hall, which was cold, sat in a
draft of air until his turn came to speak:
But my hands and feet were as ice, my
lungs on fire. In this condition I had
to 20 and spend three hours in the court
room" He died in less than week,
from thus checking the perspiration. 1t
was enough to kill any man.
Prot. Mitchell, while in state of per-
spiration in yellow fever, the certain
sign Of recovery, left his bed, went into
another room, became chilled IN a mo-
ment, and died the same night.
II. while perspiring, or while warmer
| than usual from exercise or heated room,
there is sudden exposure to still, cold
air, to raw damp atmosphere, or to
draught, whether at an open window or
door, or street corner, the inevitable re-
suit is a violent and instaneous closing of
the pores of the skin, by which waste
and impure matter, which were making
their way out of the system, are conf
PEELED to seek an exit through some
weaker part. The idea is presented by
saying that the cold had settled in that
part. To illustrate:
A lady was about getting into small
boat to cross the Delaware but wishing
| first to get an orange at a fruit-stand, she
ran up the banks of the river, and on
her return to the boat found herself
much heated, for it was summer; but
there was little wind on the water and
her clothes soon felt cold, which settled
on her lungs, and within the year she
died OF consumption.
A strong man was working IN garden
in May, feeling rather tired about noon,
he sat down in the shade of the house
and fell asleep; he woke up chilly; in
flammation ofthe lungs followed, ending,
after two years of great suffering, in con-
sumption. On opening his chest there
was such an extensive decay that the
yellow matter was sc0Oped 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
sat to rest awhile, enjoying the delicious
breeze from the sea. On attempting to
rise he found himself unable, and was
SO stiff In his joints that he had to be
carried home and put to bed, which he
did not leave until the end of tWomonths,
when he was barely able to hobble down
to the wharf on clutches.
{ A lady, having been unusually busy
all day, found herself heated and tired
towards shutdown of a summers day.
She concluded to take drive to town in
an open vehicle. The ride made her
uncomfortably cool, but she warmed
herself up by an hours shopping, when
she turned homeward it being late in
the evening she found herself more
decidedly chilly than before. At mid
night she had pneumonia inflammation
had the ordinary symptoms Of con-
sumption.
A 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 draught of air through
it. When the work was done, she, warm
and weary, went to her chamber and
laid down on the bed to rest. This act
was repeated several times. 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
prominent symptoms of confirmed con-
sumption, such as quick pulse, night
and morning, cough, night sweats, de-
bility, short breath and falling away.
A young lady rose from her bed on q
November night, and leaned her arm on
the cold window sill, to listen to a sere-
made. Next morning she had pneu-
mOnia, and suffered the horrors of asthma
for the remainder of a long life.
Multitudes of women lose health and
life every year, in one or more ways, by
busying themselves in a warm kitchen
until weary, and then throwing them
selves on a bed or sofa, without covering,
and perhaps in a room without fire; or
by removing the outer clothing, and
perhaps change the dress for a common
one, as soon as they entered the house
after q walk or q shopping. The rule
should be invariably to 60 at once into a
warm room and keep on all the clothing
for at least five or ten minutes, until the
forehead is perfectly dry. In all weathers,
if YOU have to ride and walk on any
occasion, do the riding first.-HalpsJo Jour-
nal Of Health.