The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-08-16
POPlll AR FALLAClES.

Bread translated by DR.. Holbrook.
POPULAR FALLAC!Es.
Night air and damp weather are
held in great horror by multitudes OF
persons who are sickly or of weak
| constitutions: consequently, by
avoiding the night air, and damp
weather, and changeable weather,
and weather that is considered too hot
or too cold, they are kept within doors
the much largest portion OF the Tune,
and as q matter OF course continue
inyalids, more and more ripenlng Tor
the grave every hour; the reason IS,
they are breathing an impure atmos-
Dhere nineteen-twentiethS OF their
whole existence.
AS nothing can wash us clean but
pure water, so nothing can cleanse
the blood, nothing can make health
giving blood, but the agency OF pure
air. So great is the tendency OF the
blood to become impure in consequ-
ence of waste and useless matters mix
ing with it as it passes through the
bodv. that it requires q hogshead OF
air every hour of our lives to unload
it of these impurities; but in proper
/ tion as this air is vitiated, In such
pronortion does it infallably fail to
relieve the blood of these impurities,
and impure blood is the foundation OF
all disease. The great fact that those
who are out of doors most, summer
and winter, day and night, rain or
shine. have the best health the world
over. does of itself falsify the general
impression that night air or any other
, outdoor air is unhealthy as compared
with indoor air at the same time.
Air is the great necessity OF life; so
much so, that if deprived OF 1t Tor a
moment, we perish; and SO constant IS
, the necessity of the blood for contact
with the atmosphere, that every drop
, in the body is exposed to the air
through the medium of the lungs
, every two minutes and q half Of our
r existence.
Whatever may be the impurity OF
, the outdoor air Of any locality, the
r indoor air Of that locality is still more
! imnure. because of the dust, and
8 decaving and odoriferous matters
which are found in all dwellings.
f Besides. how can indoor air be more
$ healthy than the outdoor air, other
: things being equal, when the dwelling
e is supplied with air from without
r To this very general law there Is
o one exception, which it is OF the
n highest importanc to note. When
O the DAYS are hot, and the nights cool
n there are periods of time within each
twenty-four hours, when it is safest
: to he indoors. with doors and win
O dows closed; that is to say, for the
q hour or two including sunrise anf
d sunset, because about sunset the all
e cools, and the vapors which the heats
q of the day have caused to ascend 1a
Il above us, condense and settle near thu
|. surface of the earth, so as to b.
d breathed by the inhabitants; as thu
,e night grows colder, these vapors slnl
d lower. and are within a foot or two o
# the earth, so they are not breathed
q AS the sun rises, these same vapor
n are warmed, and begin to ascend, t.
10 be breathed again, but as the al
" becomes warmer, they are carried 81
,e far above our heads as to be innocuous
!. Thus it is that the old citizens o
h Charleston, S. c., remember, tina
t. while it was considered important t.
+. | live in the country during the sum
70 mer. the common observation OF tn
ct people originated the custom OF ridln!
IN into town. not in the cool OF TIL
ID evening or of the morning. but in tn
middle of the day. They bid no
to understand the philosophy, but the
of observed the fact that those who cam
T. to the city at midday remained well
ir while those who did so early or lat
r. suffered from it.
IL All strangers at Rome are cautione
In not to cross the Pontnie marshes afte
v. the heat of the day is over. Slxtee
h. Of ships crew. touching at one Q
a the West India islands, slept on shor
al several nights and thirteen OF Their
he died Of yellow fever in few days
as while of two hundred and eighty, VII
SO were freely ashore during the day
d not a single case Of illness occurred
nd The marshes above named are crosse
r. in six or eight hours, and man
e. travellers who do it in the night al
- attacked with mortal fevers. Thl
does, at first sight, seem to lndlcat
n that night air is unwhOlesome, at leas
Is. in the locality of virulent malaria:
an but there is no direct proof that tn
no air about sunrise and sunset is nc
1t; that which is productive Of the mi
IL chief.
al For the sake of eliciting the obse
of walton of intelligent men, we preseI
,ir our theory on this subject.
hel A person might cross these marsht
er with impunity, who would set out
tn his journey an hour or two after SUI
VS. down, and finish it an hour or tW
by before sun-up, especially If he bega
Ia that journey On ahearty meal, becaui
SO in this way, he would De traVcHnB
Nv the cool of the night, which coolne'