Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-01-10
CATCHING COLD"
People VINO Wrap UP Most the Great
est Suffers.

and walked around IN snow and SIOp
until socks and shoes were saturated,
and. in that condition, sat an hour,
going to bed withodt warming his feet.
In midwinter, and on the approach of
cold weather, he has left off his fan
mel underclothes and his overcoa5. He
he's slept with a current of cir blow
ing directly on his head and shoulders.
GA very cold, damp night IN the fall
he has, at bedtime, sat naked ) min
utes III draft After wearing a fan
mel nightgown, and sleeping under
heavy bedclothes one night, he has
put on a cotton nightgown and slept
under light covers the next. On a cold
rainy morning be has, after raising,
sat naked for an hour and then put
on his shirt and trousers. almost satu-
rated with water from hanging near
the window. He his repeatedly tried
these and similar experiments, but
has never caught cold He has be-
come cold and then warm again That
is all
TWO KINDS OF EXPERIENCE.
On the other hand, he has kept his
feet dry and warm, paid the greatest
attention to wraps. " looked carefully
out for drafts, and taking the usual
precautions against taking cold. But
he never succeeded in being free at
any length OF time. Sooner or later
he has Caught" the cold which
almost everybody is sure to catch, "
even when be is trying most to avoid
it. His own experience and Observa-
ton, he says, justify him in declar
ing that the people who wrap up the
most and take the most care are the
greatest sufferers from colds" and
the less clothing one wears and the
more he is exposed to cold, ''the
nearer he is carried to the poles"
where ''surfeit fever" is known. For
the past two winters he has worn no
under hannels, and does not catch
cold. Exposure to the bleak weather,
as ia cases Of sbipWreck, he declares
never produce a cold. Too long ex-
posture may induce exhaustion and
death, but fit does not, the hunger and
cod Of such an experience never dc.
and in that feverish state of the body
which is called q 'c0ld;" not because
it is cold, but because the fever made
IS eXhaushng the vitality and causing
4 chill ON The outside. The difference
ia his two kinds Of experience was
brought about by his diet. While
skipping about in the rain and slush,
sitting naked in the cold and wearing
wet clothes without undergarments,
he subsisted chiefly on fruit, veget-
ables and bread, which he ate twice
day only. On the first symptoms of
a cold skipping a meal or two WILL in
his case, drive it off. If he continues
to eat heartily the symptoms head
ache, feverishness, languOr, sore
throat-would make their appear
ance, and render two or three days
fasting necessary.
CURED BY FASTING.
He reports several cases-a man 70
years old, cured of consumption by a
fortythree days fast; case of malar-
ial fever, cured by a twelve days fast;
a patient cured of rheumatism by
thirteen days fast; forty-seven cases
of acute rheumatism in Bishops Col
lege, Montreal, cured by fasting from
four to eight days. The professor of
chemistry there regards rheumatism
as a ''phase of indigestion"
In his own case, he has always Sue
ceeded in bringing on colds by return
ing to what is called a generous"
diet-fsh, flesh, fowl, pastry, pud-
dings, sauces, coffee, ETC. In brief,
according to this doctor, if any one
wants to avoid catching cold" he
must give up eating pretty nearly
everything that civilized man has &C
CURED IN the culinary art, together
with the luxury of warm clothing and
warm houses, for a condition of life
partially, at least, allied to savagery.
This opens, too, the old discussion of
vegetable" as compared with a
meat diet There does not seem to be
much progress made IN bringing
about simplicity of living. On the
contrary, cooking IS becoming more
and more an art and science; and it
is not likely that even to avoid catch
ing cold, people are going backward
instead of forward in this matter
REASONABLE DIET RECOMMENDED.
1t can hardly be excused, that peo-
pie shut up in steam-hcated houses
who eat too much, arein that and 9th
er ways exposed to colds" Many of
them are like Stras bourge geese, who
are kept IN a hot room, stuffed with
food until their livers are diseased,
which are then made into pies. But
by a reasonable diet, air or water
baths, and plenty of exercise in the
open air, without exec ssive clothing,
people can generally keep well and
not go to the extremes advocated by
the vegetarian school" At any rate,
there is little reason to suppose that
in cold climate many will abandon
the habits of diet and clothing which
that climate would seem to have made
necessary.
Daft's Electric Railway.
Saratoga Journal.
From the events which transnired