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VOLUME Xxx
Catching Cold.

Catching Cold.
A large number of fatal diseases
result from taking cold, aud
often from such slight causes, ap-
parently, as to appear incredible.
But, although the causes are vari..
Gus, the result is the same, and
arises from the violation, of a single
principle, to wit, cooling off too
soon after exercise. Perhaps this
may be more practically instructive
if individual instances are named,
which, in the opinion of those sub
sequently seeking advice in the
various stages of consumption,
were the causes of the great mis-
fortune, promising that when tho
cold is once taken, maryelousl9
slight causes serve to increase it
for the first few days-causesWh
under ordinary circumstances, even
a moderately healthful system
would have warded off.
Rachael the tragedienne, increas-
ed the cold which ended her life,
by insutficien clothing in the cars,
travelling from New York to Bos-
ton; this was her own statement.
The immediate cause Of the last
illness Of Abbott Lawrence, the
financier and the philanthropist,
was an injudicious change Of cloth
ing. ...
An eminent clergyman got into
a cold bed in mid-winter, fifteen
minutes after preaching an earnest
discourse he was instantly chilled
and died within forty,eight hours.
A promising young teacher walk
ed two miles for exercise, and on
returning to his room, it being con-
sidered too late plight fire, sat
for half an hour reading a book,
and before he knew it a chill pass
ed over him. The next day he had
splitting of blood, which was the
beginning of the end +
A mother sat sewing for her
children to a late hour in the night,
and noticing that the fire had gone
out, she concluded to retire at once;
but thinking she could ''Gnish' in
a few minutes, she forgot the pas
sing time, until an hour or more
had passed, and she found herself
"thoroughly chilled anda months
illness followed to pay for that one
hour. ~
A'little cold taken after public
speech in Chicago, so ''little, :
that no attention was paid
to it. for several days, culmi.
mated in the fatalillness of Stephen
A. Douglas. It was a slight cold
taken in midsummer, resulting in
congestion Of the lungs, that hur.
ried Elizabeth Barret Browning to
the grave within a week A Wig.
orous young man laid down on al
ice chest On a warm summers day
fell asleep, walked up in a chill
which ended in confirmed con
sumptiop. of which he died in three
years. A man ia robust health
and in the prime of life began the
practice of a cold bath every morn
ing on getting out of bed and stand
| ing with his bare feet on a link
floor during the whole operation
his health soon declined, and ulti'
mate1y his constitution was entire
ly undermined.
Many cold, cough, and con
sumption are melted into action by
pulling off the hat or overcoat as
do men, and the bonnet and shaw
as do women, Immediately on en-
tering the house in winter after {
walk. An interval of at least i've
or ten minutes should be allowed
| for however warm or ''close" the
apartment may appear on first en-
tering, it will seem much less sc
at the end of five minutes, if the
outer garments remain as the were
before entering Any one VINO
judiciously uses this observation
will find multifold reward in tht
course of a lifetime.