The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-12-17

origin Of his troubles proved to be u long
ride on cold night ina wet saddle.
/, Anumber OF years since, afterone OF our
Ohio river floods, which inundated the
lower stories Of all the houses on the low
grounds, / attended two men, one o drug
gist and the ether amechanic, who, otter
working several days TO clean up Their
damp. wet houses, were attacked with
sudden illness. The druggist had neural.
gia Of the lower limbs, lnmbago, inilam.
nation Of the lower part Of the spine and
spinal cord, extending to the brain and
producing death. The meclhanie was at
tackled with paralysis, affecting the head,
brain, and whole body. He continued IN
q helpless condition for several months
and finally died without improvement
Both thesecases of disease were occasloned
by the parties working in and about the
cold, wet houses after the flood. The cold
and damp affected the feet, limbs, surface
and finally the spinal cord and BRAIN.
/ visited, some years since, q prominent
citizen OF Ohio, some forty miles Som
Wheeling, who had been long i'll with
rheumatism, pleuro-pneumonia, and alb
sCess OF one lung. This is his history:
When returning home from q business ab.
sence, he respected to meet at a railroad
station, q servant with q horse. Being
disappointed, he started for home, some
eight or ten miles distant, on foot; but
after al rapid walk ONE OF miles, he
met his man with the horse. When warm
and in q perspiration, he mounted his
horse, withoutan overcoat, and rode home
in the cool mir OF the evening, becoming
cold and chilled by the ride. The next
day he was attacked by disease which, af-
ter long suffering, proved fatal.
A distinguished lawyer OF Wheeling
spent part of a warm Sunday walking over
the city to make calls on hisnhillren. In
the evening, after supper, no sat down
on the stone steps in front OF his house, in
the cool breeze, where he remained till hc
became cool and chilly. He retired with
light bed coverings TO wake up in the after
part OF the night with violent pain and
cramps, vomiting and purging. He soon
sank into q state OF collapse and died in u
few hours.
One OF our most successful merchants,
on q Sunday evening, when his hired
man was away, attended to the
chores about the stable and became
warm and in 4 perspiration by the exer-
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his coat and sat down by ii open window
to cool off in the evening breeze. After
supper he was cheerful, and retired as
usual. About midnight no awoke, chilled
and in great pain, with vomiting and purg-
ing, and in "a hours he was dead.
A gentleman from the country drove
into town, on a cool evening, with his
family, to attend some public entertain
ment. On reaching Wheeling Hill, to
favor a pet horse, he stepped out Of his
carriage and walked up the long hill. When
OF the top, warm and in n Precipitation, he
got in with his family and rode to the city,
attended the entertainment and returned
to the country that evening. Heawoke in
the night with violent pain and cramps,
and there followed n long attack Of sick
ness from the cold thus thoughtlessly
taken, inlwhich for weeks his life was de-
SPARED Of.
On 3OtA and S1st of July, 1874, I visited
Mr.. NJ. Of Cambridge, Ohio. l learned
from NJ. that her husband had been con
planning OF some dyspeptic and abdominal
troubles for several months, but was able
to attend regularly to his business. Sic
said that about ten days before he was
taken sick, the weather being very warm,
lie removed his warm fanhttandercloth-
ing. On the Saturday before his death
there was q rain storm, and in the even
ing it was damp and cool with a very
pleasant breeze, which Mr.. NJ. enjoyed by
sitting on the porch in front of the house
till he became cool and finally chilly. Dur
ing the night he was restless, and on the
nextday he went to church. While in
church he was taken with severe pain in
his abdomen, which increased, and by the
next day became q sevcre attack OF con-
gestive inflammation OF the bowls. With
out any change for the better, he died the
next Friday. 1 visited him and remained
with him over night, but could do nothing
to benefit him. The circulation was turn
ed by the action OF the coldon the surface
inward and made a deadly assault upon a
weak and impossible part Of the body.
Treatment gave no relief, and the diesase
held an unyielding grasp upon him for
five days, when death ended the conflict.
This is another example.of the effects OF
cold upon q sensitive and over-heated sur
face. l might enumerate many cases ola
similar character and history, but these
are sufficient for illustration.