Connecticut western news., 1877-07-06
Hints About Health.

"He took 8 little cold" has been heard multitudes of times in answer to the question "what was the matter with himq" in reference to some one who had just died. In all such cases the person would not have died then, might have lived good while longer had the cold not have been taken, just as the floor of a room in the house may be covered with powder and no harm ever result until a spark is applied. AL most every one can remember having often, during his previous life, taken '1ittle cold," resulting in great dis comfort. lasting for many days some times, if not ending in serious illness. It is not that 8 ''little cold" is of itself serious thing, for if the person had been in vigorous health it would have passed off in a short time without leav- ing any special ill result, but very few persons are in vigorous health, hence almost every one is personally and vii tally concerned in understanding all about the nature, cause and cure of a ''little cold"
 The blood-vessels are large near the heart, spread out, as the trunk of 8 tree divides into branches, getting smaller and smaller, until when they reach the outer surface of the body, the skin, they are too small to be seen by the naked eye, yet they are all hollow. and the warm blood from the heart is con stantly coming into them, imparting that warmth to the skin, and then re- turning, thus going and returning all life long. But if the skin gets cold these little blood-vessels won't work; they contract; the warm blood does not reach the skin; it was cold on the out side before, but now it gets cold, as it were, deeper on the inside, where there are more nerves to feel it, and the re- suit is, we feel cold, and 8 chill or shiver runs all over us. That instant a cold has been taken.
 The blood does not get to the surface of the body by 8 greater and greater distance; it tends to accumulate about the heart and lungs. filling them so full that air enough cannot get iD, and we have the sensation of being "stuffed up," of being "short of breath," of being oppressed" In ordinary taking cold, when the heart gets to certain point of fullness it makes an "instinc- tive effort to relieve itself from i'm pending suffocation; just as man would strive in desperation to remove a pillow from his face, when forcibly pressed upon it by others attem mptine to smother him. In this condition oi things the heart begins to work faster
 in order to pump the excess of blood
 out of it; not only faster but more viz
 orously. Feel the pulse, and instead of beating about seventy times in g
 minute, as in health, it works "like
 lightning" ninety or hundred times or more, in minute; this is ''reaction;'
 we call it fever. Every one can re member how chilly he was when he
 first took the cold, how he failed to gel
 warm before the hottest fire; chilli f would run over him in front or rear but, when the reaction comes the feve1 sets in, and the man is "sick."
 As before described, in cold th' blood is driven to the interior of thu body, flooding it, as it were, The hear , is always strong and able to protect it
 self; it throws the blood back. Not s'
 with the lungs and stomach, an' bowels and kidneys, and other parts and whichever of them is weaker thai
 is natural has to bear the brunt of tn battle.
 If the bowels are weak, the persol has "looseness" called diarrhpa, ant the cold "works itself off, in that way They are relieved and the man get
 vol. Some person are impatient an I take dose of castor oil. Another ma
 has weak eyes. The cold settles there l. and the "eyes water." Others agai
 have weak lungs, and the result is !" t bad cold" or pneumonia-that is in l fammation of the lungs, etc. Thus 0 is that cold effects different person 0 differently.
 Prof. M. W. Harrington, of tn Il Michigan University, who is now il 1 Europe, has been offered by the Chimes u Government College, of Pekin, tn U chair of Astronomy in that institution l. at salary of $4 ,0OO per year with per lur1ic3foo fo H1 n00 v,,oro