Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1874-10-07
, TAXING COLDS,

vi aIi inc cTfOncOuS mOtlOns per
tanning to the preservation Of health
no one is fiaught with more Inischie
than that about taking cold Accord
ing to the popular, and, ! may also say
to some extent professional view
taking cold is the greatest disease anc
death producer in the world. Fully
eighty per cent OF those who consult
physicians premise by saying, they
have taken cold If a relapse occur
during convalescence, ten to oncthC
blame is laid on theaction ofrold. my
pain is greater, must have taken cold
/ do not feel us well this morning.
think have taken cold, but don't
see how are expressions which the
physician hears a dozen timesn day
The latter is often led 10 the reflection
that il II were not for dcath-dealine
colds he would have little to do. and
sonralcsccnce would. asl.lcsa 10 ,intor.
rupted But ifthc physician takes the
trouble to think u little mora upon thif
subject, he will be convinced that ia
his own craft is due this stereotyped
and never-ending complaint of his pa
tients about taking cold The sick
and their friends nearly always take
their cure about disease and its causes
from the trusted family doctor and he
accounts very often indeed foranaggra.
walton Of the symptoms OF those under
charge (the cause of which aggrava-
ton by the way, may be, and often is,
very difficult to dctect by tho easy
and satisfying explanation of having
taken coldawIn this way he gets over
the trouble of attempting TO make plain
to untutored minds what is of a puk-
zling problem to the most trained in
tellect, and at the same time shifts the
responsibility for the relapse ON the
accomplishing and much abused wealth
er. So il il that men and women have
been led TO regard climatic changes as
the greatest enemy 10 their health; II
IL were not for them their health would
be next to perfect from the beginning
to the end of the year. Thousands Of
consumptiyes, specially in the first and
second stages Of the disease, are firmly
of the opinion that if they could only
escape the malign influence Of one cold
after another, their recovery would be
assured. 70 this end precautions Of
the most thorough character are scru-
pulously observed, and yet cold after
cold is taken; the patient, mother or
nurse knows not how,
When the human body is at its
primc-with youth, viger, purity and
good constitution on its side-no de-
gree Of ordinary exposure to cold gives
rise to any unpleasant effects. All
the ordinary precautions against colds,
cough and rheumatic pains may be
disrcgarded and no i'll effects ensuc.--
But let the blood become impure; let
the body become deranged from any
acquired disorder; or let the vigor be-
gin to wane, and the infrmities be felt
BY occasional arrangements in some
vital parts, either from inherited or
acquired abuses, and the action of cold
win excite more or less disorder of
some kind, and the form Of this disor-
der, or the disease which win cnsuc,
will be determined by the kind OF
pre-existing blood impurity or the pre-
existing fault Of the organic processes.
If the pre-cxisting fault be in def
cient secretion of Tactic and uric acids
by the kidneys and skin the disease
developed by the cold will be rheumat-
'ic; If the lungs be at fault, either by
acquired or inherited abuses, infama-
ton will be likely to ensue; or if there
be conjoined with pulmonary fault an
impure condition of the blood from
the long continued re-breathing of
breathed air, consumption will not un-
likely show itself. In no other way
can the influence Of cold in the. devel-
opment of divers diseases be account
cd for developing this disease in one,
and that disease in another; this dis
case at one time in person, and an
other disease at another time while
at other times and seasons, great and
prolonged exposure to cold is harmless.