The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1871-12-22
Catching Cold.

Everybody is interested in the sub
ject of "colds." Any Information
es to their nature is gladly received.
When it is remembered thet colds
are often the precursor of fatal dis
ease, besides being disagrseabls and
troublesome, it will be seen that they
are worthy of serious consideration.
Almost numberless theories have
been set afloat regarding the nature
Of colds, and numerous preYentives
and remedies. That all these have
effective, or any of them greatly so,
it is supeTauous to deny. Modern
science has done much to relieve the
arcana of voice, lungs, throat, etc,
and much progress has been made
fusions were believed to proceed
from the brain.
An English magazine, in reviewing
two lectures recently delivered on
the subject of coIdsImakes some valu-
able observations, we think, and
| throws out hints which seem 10 be
very reasonable. It says: The pre-
vention of colds is to be accomplish
ed by keeping the skin in healthy
and vigorous state, so that 1t may at
once resume its proper and normal
condition whenever chilis have
been suddenly applied it; then the
internal cOngestiOns are avoided
simultaneously with the external
contraction and stagnation.
The habitual use Of cold bathing
| in the early morning is one very
powerful means to this end it trains
the vessels of the skin to rise vigor-
ously into renewed action after the
application OF chill. The relaxing
influence Of overheated apartments
| should be avoided, because that saps
| the power of vigorous reaction, but,
| in coli weather, the utmost care
| should be taken to have the skin eff
| GENTLY protected by warm clothing.
The powers of the system in peri
! DDS prone to the production of colds,
and mosS especially when the tenn
| perature of the external air is be-
! tween thirty-twO and forty degrees
! of Fahenheit's heat scale (for that is
the condition in which the danger is
found to be the most certainly in
| curred,) should be more carefully
maintained by the judicious use of
sustaining food, and by the avoid
ance of every kind of injurious de-
rangement or excess. When once in
| ternal congestion has been set up,
( and the cold has been "caught," the
thing to be done is Immediately to
| bring back vigorous circulation and
| exhalation in the skin"
For this purpose the Turkish-bath
! is one of the best cOptrivances, but
I where it is not convenient to make
use of this means, the VapOr- bath
and hOt-air bath can be employed
with good effect.
Another preventive and cure Of
colds the Magazine tells us, is absti-
hence from drink and liquid food OF
all kinds: "The remedial action
| through the skin does it's work by
drawing away the superabuHdance
Of the circulating fluid from the over.
charged part. Bnt this desirable re-
suit is even more certainly ensured
! if the general bulk of the circulating
fluid, or blood, is disminlshed by
| Withholding supplies of the more
! liquid, or Watery ingredient, which
may do where the digestive power
is unimpaired, without in any way
diminishing the richer, or more i'm.
| mediate nourishing portion. The in
slant the general bulk of the circulat-
ing blood is diminished, the excess
contained in the c1ngestod and over.
charged membrane is withdrawn and
the cold is relieved"
| Severe thirst, of course, frequently
ensues upon the practice of this RENE
dy; but the point IS to keep the de-
sire tor drink constant one. While
this thirst is maintained the prOba-
| bilities are all against a recurrence OF
the cold. -1fethOdist.