The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1878-12-21
KEEP WARM--COLD AS AN ACTI We
PROMOTER or MORTALITY
[Sclen.ihc Americana

There il. 20 CREATE fallacy ...au lie
opinion of many, particularly the young
and strong and vigorous, the Winter
especially sharp, frosty one, with plenty
of snow-is the most healthy season o!
the year. Very few persons seem to
realize the fact that cold is the condition
Of death, and that in both warm and
cold climates it is our own unconscious
effort to maintain our bodily heat at a
temperature at ninety-eight degrees that
wears US out. This temperature, called
blood heat" every cubic inch of oxy-
gen that serves to vitalizs our blood
must be raised By our own bodily heat
or life ceases. Since in cold geat her the
maintenance OF sufficiently elevated.
bodily temperature becomes very often
difficulty too great for our strength,
the advent of q severe Winter is really
more to be dreaded than o visitation of
pestilence. The saying, " Heat is life,
cold is death, has striking illustration
and confirmation In the reports now
regularly submitted by DR.. Russell to the
Glasgow Sanitary Committee. The death
rate rises and falls with the regularity of
the thermometer. So many degrees less
heat, 80 many more deaths, and vice
versa. In one of his fortniehtly reports
DR.. Russell says: "The death rate in
first week OF the fortnight was twenty
one, in the second twenty-five. The
mean temperature in the former week
was 48 degrees Fahrenheit, in the latter
80 5 degrees" He attributed the low
rate of the first week to the high mean
temperature of the preceding fortnight,
which was 47.03 degrees and adds
"This is good illustration of law
which We frequently observe in these
reports Of temperature and death rates
shat week of low temperature produces
a rise in mortality the week following" E"
In our climate il would probably be
difficult to find more frequent cause OF
serious ailments than taking cold. What
ever weak place we have, whatever con-
s.itntional disorder va be subject to,
GOLD will surely discover. We take cold
because our vitality is too low to ward
of the effects Of the reduced temperature
around US.
As matter of first Importance, then,
to resist the cold and various derange-
ments of the system consequent, it is
necessary by proper nutrition to main
tain our animal heat; second to retain,
this heat by sufficient quantity of cloth.
ing; third, to regulate with care the tenn.
perature of the air we breathe. Contrary
to the opinion current among lovers OF
cold weather, a fire in bedroom in the
Winter is cheaper and better than q
Doctors bill; for owing to our inactive
condition dnring sleep, the circulation
of the vitalizing blood is both slow and
imperfect, aud hence the danger of tax.
ing cold by breathing cold air is greatly
increased cold is the beginning Of
everything that is bad. If any one con.
soious of having caught one feels cold
chills creeping over the back, let him
apply mustard plaster to the bottom Of
the spine and lower part of the back a,
once, and by so doing he may avert 9
dangerous illness before it is too late
and medical aid can be procured. L
should never be forgotten that Heat is
life-cold is death"