Natchitoches spectator., 1868-02-27
Winter Diseases---Important Enlorma-

TION FOR TIRE PEOPLE.
Are coughs. colds and consnmptions,
with others, more specially fataR Among
the latter is pneumonia. called by some
inflammation of the lungs, and by others
lung fever. 1t is disease which at
tacks the feeble and the strong; the most
rugged are taken to the grave by it in
four or five days; others it spares to live
and suffer for years; even those who get
over it remain feeble for months.
Pneumpnia is one of the avoidable
diseases, and being of such dangerous
nature, they are wisest who, knowing
the causes, seek to avoid them habitu-
ally. "A man sat up writing till a late
hour of winters night; he noticed that
the fire had gone out! but thought he
could finish what he had in hand in a
short.t time, but it required d longer Pc
riod than he thought tor, and whcn he
had finished he found himself chilled
through and through. This was follow
ed by an attack of pneumonia, from
which he suffered for two years, running
into consumption. of which lie died. ao
y young lady remained at a party in
the country uutil 9 O'Clock one March
morning; there was dancing aud music
and mirth; the rooms were warm, and
she left them when the body was! over
rode homo in aniDpen carriage,
and found herself completely chilled:
she had an attack of lung fever, and at
the end of two years stated that she had
never seen a well day since the night of
the party. 9
A young lady was sitting in n warm
room in her fathers house, and some
friends called in q carriage; rather than
put them to the trouble of coming in, as
they merely wanted some item of infor-
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she wentto the gate to speak with them;
it was showing little, and, becoming
interested in some recital, she noticed
chilly feeling passing over her.. She
never saw well day afterward. ti.j., =
Many excellent clergymen have had
fatal attacks of pneumonia by failing to
throw Il cloak over their shoulders after
the excitement of preaching in IL cold
room, or out of doors.
Lung feverS are common with music
teachers, who, after tue excitement of
walking to the residence of their pupils,
are allowed to wait some moments in
cold parlors, or, after giving lesson in
q waam room, especially vocal music, go
ont into damp, raw wind.
Clergymen and other public speakers
have often been prematurely laid aside
by being compelled, after speaking, to
ride several miles on horseback againtt
the cold wind. t
An attack of pneumonia is often occa
stoned by getting into a public vehicle
after having been excited by walking.
and being compelled to sit in the draft
of an open window, which some selfish,
inconsderate clown had raised for his
own comfort, regardless of any conse-
QucnccS to others.
To remain at rest in any position until
a feeling of chilness is induced, is Sutfi-
cient to bring on an attack of intiama-
tion of the lungs, however vigorous and
robust the person may feel.
Sitting still with damp feet, standing
on the wet grass, keeping on damp
clothes after having been engaged in ex-
ercise, are frequent causes of lung fever.
One great pIilciple, practical in its ma
ture and easily understood, ulderiies all
these eases: it is the getting chilled.
This is the more easily brought about
III proportion TO the amount of exercise
which was previously taken Go the eX-
tent ofinducing q warm tn of body above
what is natural; the easy and universal
preventive is, cool off very slowly after
all forms of exercise in cold weather.
If Il delicate person goes to bed in a
warm room, of cold night, and the fire
goes entirely out, leaving the room
IHlIlls IOlly Of my uVSTSSS CuiucI MhSu
rising, than at the hour of retiring, a
cold is a very certain result. H.- d
DEATH INDOORS.
NIultitudes of people have a great
horror of going out of doors for fear of
taking cold. II it is little damp, or a
little windy, or little cold, they wait,
and wait, and wait; meanwhile weeks
and even months. pass away, and they
never, during that whole time, breathe
single breath of pure air. The result
is, they BECOME so enfeebled that their
constitutions have no, power of resis-
tance; the least thing i'll the world gives
them cold, even going from one room
to another; and before they know it they
have coldall the time, and thisis moth
ing more or less than consumption.
Whereas, if an opposite practice had
been followed of going ont for an hour
or two every day, regardless of the wea-
ther, SO it is not actually falling rain, a
very different result would have taken
place. The truth is, the more a person
is out of doors, the less easily does he
take cold. 1t is widely known fact
that persons who camp out every night,
OF sleep under a tree for weeks together,
seldom take cold at all. iit#
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