Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-11-14
CHEAT Is LIFE..COLD rs DEATH"

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There is no greater fallacy than the opinion
of many, particularly the young and strong
and vigorous, that winter-especially sharp,
frosty one, with plenty of snow-is the most
healthy season of the year. Very few seem
to realize the fact that cold is the condition Of
death, and that in warm and cold climates it
is our unconscious effort to maintain our bodi-
ly heat at temperature of ninety-eight de-
grees, that wears US out. 10 thistemperature,
called "blood heat" every cubic inch of oxy.
gen that serves to vitalize our blood must be
raised by our own bodily heat, or life ceases.
Since in cold weather the maintenance of
sufficiently elevated bodily temperature very
often becomes difficulty too great for our
strength, the advent of severe winter is re-
ally more to be dreaded than visitation of a
pestilence. The saying, "Heat is life-cold
is DEATH" has striking illustration and con-
6rmation in the reports now regularly submit.
ted 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, so many more deaths,
and vice persa. In one Of his fortnightly re-
ports, DR.. Russell says: "The death rate in
the first week of the fortnight was twenty-one,
and in the second week twenty-five. The
mean temperature in the former week was 40.8
degrees Fahrenheit, in the latter 1915 degrees"
he attributes the low rate of the first week to
the high mean temperature of the preceding
fortnight, which was 4703 degrees, and adds:
"This is good illustration of law which
we frequently observe in these reports of tenn.
perature and death rates, that week of low
temperature produces rise in mortality the
week following" In our climate, it would
probably be difficult to find a more frequent
cause of serious ailments than taking cold.
Whatever weak place we have, whatever con-
stitutional disorder we be subject to, cold will
surely discover. We take cold because our
vitality is too low to ward of the effects Of
the reduced temperature around us. AS a
matter of first Importance, then, to resist cold
and the various arrangements Of the system
consequent, it is necessary by proper nutrition
to maintain our natural animal heat second,
to retain this heat by q sufficient quantity of
clothing; third, to regulate with care the tenn.
perature of the air we breathe. Contrary to
the opinion current among lovers Of cold
weather, fire in bedroom in the winter is
cheaper and better than doctors bill; for,
owing to our inactive condition during sleep,
the circulation of the vitslizing blood is both
slow and imperfect, and hence the danger of
taking cold by breathing cold air is greatly
increased. A cold is the beginning of every.
thing that is bad. If any one conscious of
having caught one, feels cold chills running
up the back, let him apply a mustard plaster
to Tho hofton, of tho orino ood lowor mart of
the back at once; and by so doing he may
avert dangerous illness before it is too late
and medical advice can be procured. 1t
should never be forgotten that "heat is life
cold is death-Scientifc american.