The weekly echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1868-1876, 1876-03-09
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Hose Theg are Taken and me Proper lreat-
ment II Them.

rarely catch cold. The reason. is OBJ
vious. Their blood is continually cleans
ed from impurities, and BY habitual ex-
posurs to all skies they are made hardy
and vigorous. Such persons have health
full and keen appetites for nutritious and
wholesome food, for meat and bread, and
the substantial articles Of diet, rather
than for condiments and knick-knacks.
Indigestion rarely troubles them, cold
feet and hands give them little annoy
ance, and the weather makes slight diff
ference TO them. The sufferers from
colds, ON the other hand, pass most Of their
time within doors, are careless of venti-
lation, hug the Preside, stimulate their
appetites with spices and delicacies,
keep their feet warm over the register
or on the stove-hearth rather than by
vigorous exercise, neglect bathing in
cold water, and thus by their omissions
and commissions load the blood with i'm
purities under which the whole system
grows weak and unable to endure any
unusual change. Wet feet, damp gar
ments, draught Of cold air, will give
such people a cold that may result
fatally. But if the predisposing causes
had been avoided temporary exposure to
wet and cold might have been endured
with impunity. When the habits Of
life are temperate and pure and the
blood is healthy, people can endure cold
and wet long time before they take
cold. On the plains, in 1856, company
of one hundred men, women, and chill
dren slept on the ground, without tents,
exposed to hail, rain, wind, and snow.
They endured midday heat and the cold
nights of the mountains They fOrded
ice-cOld streams and walked all day with
wet garments were exposed to all the
usually exciting causes of colds, inten-
sifed and long continued, yet from Fort
LeavenwOrth to Salt Lake no one had
cold.
A cold is an Inflammation of the lin
ing or mucous membrane of the nose,
throat, lungs, or bowels, by which more
blood than usual is brought to the part
affected the excess of blood increases
the amount of lubricating fluid which
nature prepares for all the internal pOr-
tions of the body to keep the machinery
in easy working order. The "coId"
may be in the head, throat, lungs, or
wherever there is a mucous lining.
Generally it will affect most seriously
the weakest part of the body. All colds
are preceded by mere or less chilliness, al
though it may be so slight as to escape
notice then comes the reaction of lever,
then loss of appetite, and if the cold
affects the lungs, dry cough in two or
three days; after awhile it lOOsens and
the cold wears away. When one has
habitually breathed foul air or slept in
unaired beds, or worn unclean clothing,
the body has become loaded with inn
purities, and the cold will take some
typhoid form, for be it always remem-
bered that typhoid is only another adj
iective in place Of foul, offensive, efete,
applied to matter which the body has
tried vainly to throw of, or having
thrown of, has received again by breath
ing or absorption. Typhoid poison is
filth in one form or another and nothing
else. AS soon as a cold has been taken
the patient should endeavor to diminish
the quantity Of blood by going without
food, unless it be a dish of stewed
prunes or fruit having like effect, keep
in room ofuniform temperature, about
ZOE Fahrenheit, drink largely of hot
teas until Precipitation is freely induced;
then cool off gradually and stay in the
house until the cold is cured. Only
fruit and coarse diet should be used
until the trouble is over. A catarrhal
cold, DR., Hamilton says, can be cured in
about ten hours by using the following
recipe: Take ten drops of carboliC acid,
seven and a half drops Of iodine, and the
same of chloroiorm. A few drops of this
mixture are 70 be heated over spirit
lamp in a test tube, and as soon as the
liquid vapOFizes, the mouth Of 1t is to be
applied 70 the nostrils The operation
ia to be repeated after an interval of two
minutes, when the patieut win deliver
a number Of vigorous sneezes, and then
bis troublesome symptoms viii quickly
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