Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1881-01-05
Catching Cold. :"

year. Moist and chilly air is the
source of nearly 'all the maladies
that are produced by taking cold.
This moist and chilly air causes
not only the lesser ills of life, but
those more serious maladies that
end in death. Cold and dry air
does no harm that art and care may
not avert. We may control the
lesser ills arriving from catching
cold. bnt cannot always limit the
severity of many maladies they in
troduce.
An impression extensively pre-
walls that ga cold" will run its
course do what one may. We
never know at the outset Of many
maladies exactly what that course
may be. What is taking cold ?
Heat is the positive condition and
cold negative, Catching cold then
is losing heat. Exposure TO cold
temperature removes heat from the
body in which it has been made.
Our clothing is not warm; it gener-
ates no heat, bat simply retains the
heat the body generates, AS cold re-
move the heat, the arteries, veins and
capillaries shrink and are no longer
able to convey the vital fluid on its
wonted rounds. Body heat is gen.
Grated by the oxygen we inhale
and absorb combing with the waste
deposited in every section of the
body. The arteries convey the
blood to every tissue and deposit
tie heat it needs. Cold checks the
normal flowing of the blood through
the outer surface Of the body and
augments it in the inner organs,
And as the oxygen is continually
burning up the waste, the amount
IF heat in the inner tissues is con-
stantly increasing and accumulat-
ING in tie inner tissues, and ulti
Inately invites the coming Of inAam-
nation.
Exercising the body increases
tie action OF the heat and the flow.
ing of the blood. and so aids in
generating body heat, and more or
less repels the influence of cold &C
ours. the blood is suddenly lessened
lesseued its normal course through
the skin and adjacent parts, and
forced to accumulate in the inner
tissues that soon become too full
for healthy action.
The skin was intended to main
tain uniform temperature Of the
body, but as it is exposed to great
variety of temperature it needs the
aids of clothing enough to retain
the heat actually generated. The
skin is full Of minute tubes. Every
square inch contains $500 open
ings, the apertures OF glands. The
entire surface OF the body contains
100000 apertures, or nearly
tweuty-eight miles of tubing for
draining purposes. They yield two
pints OF fluid a day even when no
moisture is perceived. If bodily
exercise be excessive, the amount
0: perspiratiOn is mnch increased.
At this point if exposed to cold the
skin contracts so as to resemble
goose skin, the pores are closed and
perspiration is stopped at once.
The mucous membrane, the
moist, red lining of the mouth and
inner tubing Of the body, also has
glands that secrete mucous, that
lubricate its inner surface. Obser-
walton shows that whatever affects
the outer shin also affects the mu-
cous membrane or inner skin. The
same cause that starts preparation
also induces a secretion Of mucous
upon the mucous membrane.
The nose is divided by septum
that separates the right nostril from
the lett; these two parts are nearly
equal. The left may be very lit
tie smaller than the right. The
outer wall OF each cavity consists OF
three curved bones coated with q
mucous membrane. The surface Of
these bones makes room for the ex.
pansion of the nerves OF smell and
purifies the air that passes over the
mucous membrane, and fits il fol
coming in contact with the surfaces
of TIE bronchial tubes. The nasal
c,vities are connected with spaces
in front of The skull and behind the
cheek bones, The spaces become
disturbed after taking cold. The
brou headache shows that conoes-