Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1877-08-27
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MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST 27.
Will Ice Make Il Person Cool or Not |:

There Is a very universal demand during hot
| weather or at times when the body is much
heated-say at dance-for the temporary re.
| lief which ice or iced drinks can give. The
penny ice stall in the streets, where small boys
are seen taking in unWhoIesome looking icea
without the Intervention of any spoon, and the
iced drinks freely advertised in the windows
and on the walls Of public houses, may beiaksa
to represent the lower grades Of popular dc
maud. From this We asccn by various ''cups,"
ices, ice puddiDgs, ice water, tea or coffee. to
iced wines and champagne ilappc. At the re
freshmcDl stall Of railways or places OF amusc
mcnt, or bazaars, in the dining room or the
ball room, at the concert or the play, ices and
iced things arc to be found; and their consump
ton is gradually increasing.
Grateful as the GOODNESS Of ice may be, the
qualification Of its use is one which cannot DO
obtained without the ncurrlng of considerable
risk; and an article IL the Lancet shows that
medical men are alive to the dangers which at,
tion Of ices which goes on at this season 10 81
MANY social meetings of different kinds.
1t is recorded in The daily papers that a
short time ago man, cook at :: restaurant.
who had become greatly heated, swallowed a
quantity Of jces Soon after he complained
of being i'll, and the mex! day he was dead OF
inflammation Of the lungs 1t is not asserted
that the inflammation was entirely the result OF
eating the icss, but it is asserted that the attack
was helped forward by their consumption.
Medical men tell us that the sudden apnllca.
ton Of severe cod 10 any Of tho internal organs,
ss when leo is swallowed, must he as injurious to
these and to adjoining ones AS is that OF intense
cold to the skin. Heat may thus DO abstracted,
not only from the stomach but from tho heart
and from the lungs, and the nervous ehocl Of
the cold may be carried through tho whole sys-
terl. Severe pain In the forehead often follows
the eating OF IN leo sitcr dinner. Every one
knows and tries TO avoid tho evil effects oi swai.
lowing large quantities Of cold water when the
body is heated and it ought 50 bo remembered
that whatever mischief WaLor can thus effect, icc
can do still moro because the cold is moro Goa.
contratcd.
Nor is this hu7tful cooling Of tho system the
only evil effect Of taking ice. When co is sWsl-
lowed it produces congestion CT tho nIIGlerous
small vessels which abound in tho inner cost OF
the stomach, and entirely ssops tho secretion OF
the acid gastric juice which plnst mix with the
food in order that it may b. digos!ed. So that
tho perils Of indigestion s-o added TO tho'e OF
which we havo already spoken. Moreover.
doctors tell us thst this s!sto OF things is tre-
quently brought about. tendency to chronic
OF The digestive organs may tske
place.
A worry Simple experiment will make claar the
effects OF tho application OF ico t. any part of
the body. IF 8 piece of ice be put, on tho back
Of the hand, and koep there for short tlmo tho
skin becomes first pa!o, and thea is rapidly
reddened and remains so for long time. This
is the result Of congestion of the sma?
vessels of the skin, end any ono who observes it
will have fair idea Of how the stomach is al
I'D 1Uhan Ipn is oU0llOwPI MOr1DV0r.
congestion leads to increased thirst. and 80 the
relsf of taking ico is but h:iof, and taking All
things into consideration, il ono that is dearly
paid for AS hardly 2 summer passes without
the occurrence of E grave or fatal !l!ne5s t!l'
lowing and partially resulting from tho Indls-
crimnate use of ice - relieve thirst, tho matter
is one Of much importance - tho waoin COM
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