The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-02-26
COLDS,
IoT They are Taken and The Proper treat
aenf Of Them.

Heuf Of lNeni.
1t is a well-known fact that persons
accustomed TO brave all weathcrs, and to
pass much of their time in the open air,
rarely catch cold. The reason is OBJ
vious. Their blood is continually cleans
ed from impurities, and by habitual ex-
posurc to Ill 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
ference TO them. The sufferers from
colds, ON the other hand, pass most of their
time within doors, are careless of vcnti-
lation, hug the freside, 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
purities under which the whole system
grows weak and unable to endure any
unusual change. Wet feet, damp gar
mcnts, a draught of cold air, will give
such people 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 a 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-
sified and long continued, yet from Fort
Leavenworth to Salt Lake no one had a
cold.
u
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-
tons of the body to keep the machinery
i'll easy working order. The "cold"
may be in the head, throat, lungs, or
wherever there is mucous lining.
Generally it will affect most seriously
the weakest part of the body. All colds
are preceded by more or less chilliness, al
though it may be so slight as to escape
notice; then comes the reaction of fever,
then loss of appetite, and if the cold
affects the lungs, 4 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 i'm
purities, and the cold will take some
typhoid form, for be it always remem-
bered that typhoid is only another adj
jective in place of foul, offensive, effete,
applied to matter which the body has
tried vainly to throw of, or having
thrown off, 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
700 Fahrenheit, drink largely of hot
teas until perspiration 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, DIR. Hamilton says, can be cured in
about ten hours by using the following
recipe: Take ten drops of carbolic acid,
seven and half drops of iodine, and the
same of chloroform. A few drops of this
mixture are to be heated over a spirit |
lamp in test tube, and as soon as the !
liquid vaporizes, the mouth of it is to be !
applied to the nostrils. The operation |
is to be repeated after an interval of two |
minutes, when the patieut will deliver
a number of vigorous sneezes, and then
his troublesome symptoms will quickly
disappear. Great relief may be ex-
perienced in catarrhal colds by drawing
up into the nostrils warm salt water,
also by snuff made of pulvcrized white
sugar and borax in equal parts, also by
ammonia. These remedies are
simple and easy of access. As to coughs,
The London Lancet, which ought to be
good authority, says: Anodynes, mar
,Otics, cough mixtures and lozenges, are
of no good, and but too often
Increase the debility and hasten the fatal
md. The best method of easing cough
5 to resist it with all the force of will
possible, until the accumulation of
,hlegm becomes greater, and it comes
Up very much easier, and with halt the
oughing. When Il person is SO much
ngaged that he does not think about
lis cough, he will escape much hem
ming and coughing, which is purely
ervous, or from the force ef habit"
hose who would avoid colds should
ress the whole body evenly and not too
'armly, battle daily, use plain food,
ever eat between meals, sun and air
ach day every garment, and the bed
lothes worn or used at night, omit hot !
Kinks, live much in the open air, drop {
ne windows from the top, aud open ]
lem at the bottom, cultivate the {
of fresh air and sunshine, and /
aus living, they will be safe from colds,
itarrhs, and inhuenzas. f
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