The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1868-03-13

/ "CATCIING COLD. IA large number
/ Of fatal diseases result from taking cold.
I and often from such slight causes appa-
I rentlY ~ % appear incredible % many.
/ But although the causes are various the
result is the same and arises from the
| violation of asingle principle TO wit;
cooling OIL too soon after exercise. Per-
/ hap- This may be more practically in
s-rIctive If individual instances are
named, which in the opinion Of those
/ subsequently seeking advice I'm the vati-
I Gus stages of consumption, where the
/ causes OF the great misfortune. pTOmis-
/ ing that when q cold Is once taken, mar
velOusly slight causes serve to increase it
| for the first few day7-causes which,
under ordinary circumstances, even a
moderate healthy system would have
/ easily warded OH.
Rachel. the tragedienue, increased the
! cold which ended her life, by insufficient
clothing in the cars, i'm travelling from
/ New York to Boston; such was her own
statement.
The immediate cause ofthe last illness
Of Abbott Lawrence the financier and
| philanthropist, was an injudicious
| change of clothing.
An eminent clergyman got into "a cold
| bed in midwinter, within fifteen min
utes after preaching an earnest dis
| course; he was instantly chilled, and
died within forty-eight hours.
A promising young teacher walked
| two miles for exercise and on returning
70 his room, it being considered too late
| to lighta fire, sat for half an hour read
ing book, and before he knew it q chill
passed over him. The next day he had
/ splitting of blood, which was the begin
/ inc Ofthe end
A mother sat sowing for her children
at a late hour i'm the night, and noticing
| that the fire had gone out, she cOnciud-
| ed to retire to bed at once but thinking
| she could Z" finish" in a few minutes she
/ forgot the passing time, until an hour
more had passed and she found herself
" thoroughly chilled and a months
illness followed to pay for that one hour.
\ little cold taken aftera public speech
| in Chicago. so " little that no attention
was paid to it for several days, culminat-
/ ed in tho fatal Illness of stephen a.
| Douglas 1t was a slight cold taken in
midsummer, resulting in congestion of
| the lungs, that hurried Elizabeth Bar
rett Browning 20 the grave within
week. 4 vigorous young man laid down
| on an ice-chestOn warm summers day,
| fell asleep, walked up in a chill, which
! ended in confirmed consumption Of
which he died three years later, 4 man
in robust health and in the prime Of life,
began the practice Of cold bath every
morning, getting out OF bed and stand
| ing with bare feet on "a zinc floor during
the whole operation; his health soon
declined, andultimately his constitution
/ was undermined
Many a cold, cough and consumption
are excited to action by pulling off the
| hat or overcOat as to men, and bonnet
and shawl as to woman Immediately on
entering the house in winter, after y
walk. An interval ofat least five OF ten
minutes should be allowed, for however
warm or close the apartment may APP
| pear on entering IL VIII seem much less
so at the end OF five minutes, if the out
er garments remain as they were before
entering. Any one who iudiciOusly
uses this observation, viii lind multi
fold reward in the course of a lifetime.
-HaHs Journal Of heath.