Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1884-02-14

New TorI Graphic.
Most people on getting a cold
manage 10 keep it from ten days to
fortnight. The common remark
"L,t il 90 ns it same" So said Il
father Of his country on gettin! Il
cold which terminated In his deaf
1t was very bad advise both for himsC
and others.
There's mystery about cold
colds generally which have not be,
entirely explained, if explained
all. Tho cold is usually attributed
the sudden checking Of the perspiI
tion by draught Of air. Be 1t
But why does the same exposure to
draft give ono person > cold whi
another under tho sauio conditio
escapes? Why are there seasons wh'
colds rage, as an epidemic, and ever
body gets cold" whether expos
to draughts or not?
However, the cold generally com
when the perspiratiOn is sudden
checked The result is that sever
hundred thousand "pores' or atom
mouths OF the skin close up. They st
working and rre temporarily pa
lyzed.
Thesemouths GRE each at atomic iu
not only sending out dead matter tr
the sN:tem but absorbing oleme
from the atmosphere. Indeed,
whole body seems sort OF a IlvC
sponge in continual action, taking
matter, taking out Of it what 1t MT
and sQuecz NJ the remainder t
again through the skin. And .
auuon Of tbes" living spOnges duny
sleep u,ust he most important, !,
mu,t mean something far more TIM
state of bodily inactivity. 1t NJ
mean n condition of extreme acti !
in some part of the body, for 81
fresh principle of life is taken in du :
sleep and there is something NOR
! us in the morning than there wa )
night. A bar of iron is neither s'u
r ger nor weaker for lying quiet
hours. But q human sponge il
= -ery different condition under e
circumstances, and this il n prof,
D thing to think of for q few momcj
When it's nothing but colt
action Of the human sponge is ch'
both in sending out dead and I,
in live matter.
II ducs scep that Of all that is
Il into the body either % lO1d or dr.
g air. there is relatively but II
4 portion left in the shape OF that
- ,lerful principle fluid agent,
o we hardly knew what, called A
4 1t is very like the coal shovelcd u
, furnace a great hcNl Of coNl
,r ont again as ash of GinAef, and +
). ing'y u very little relatively is e =
- ed in the shape of heat or powcr,ir
.c il the escape and smoke pipes
Il human furnace aro in any degre'
Il p3d uuwe may seH there will he tat
q The Spauiarus call cold q "f
:. pation." and the term seems
81 nearer the mark. L
II Though it4 nothing but a [
r still the pores of furnace mont
< atonic sponge ducts being clogeeu
e the constantly accmulallng dgad ma
n. IN the body carnot be expelled,
4, force within us makes desperate eff
h. to cxpcl it. The blood thereby
1. sent racing up and down with gre'
7. 'ncrepsed velocjty. This friction
. crates more hgat. Ana this is te'
r More or less Of the dead matter zoe
Iy the lungs. 1t seeks outlet through
Ir nose, the month, even the eyes, and
pr this makes YOU "bunged up" 1
rs the power of tho stomach to con-
is fond into blood, bone, muscle, c'
iy lage, nerve and brain il lessened
n this bad condition OF affairs.
., body grows weak. The brain LOO
nj its veor also, though it's mott
IN but cold. y ,.
y oif u man could look into him
EN- during the course of cold he m
d. be shocked and alarmed at the in
II ma! copditlon of affairs.