Bridgeton pioneer., 1885-12-03
CHECKING PERSPIRATION.

overheated in testifying in a Court
room on a Monday morning, went to
Faneuil Hail. which was cold, sat in a
draft of air until his turn came to speak:
but my hands and feet were ice, my
lungs on fire. In this condition | had
to go and spend three hours in the
Courtroom" He died in less than a
week from this checking of the per
spiration. 1t was enough to kill anv
man.
Professor Mitchell the gallant sol
dier,and the most eloquent astronom-
ical lecturer that has ever lived, while
in state of perspiration in yellowsf fe-
yer, the certain sign of recovery, left
his bed, went into another room. be
came chilled in moment. and died the
same night
If while perspiring, or something
warmer than usual, from exercise or
a heated room, there is sudden eX-
posure to still, cold air, or to a raw,
damp atmosphere, or to a draft,
whether at an open window or door or
street corner, an invariable result is
violent and Instantaneous closing of
the pores of the skim by which waste
and impure matters. which were max
| ing their way out of the system, are
compelled to seek an exit through
some other channel and break through
| l-o pt lNa or
and hard to that Part is the result
The idea is presented by saying that
the cold has settled in that part. To
illustrates:
a lady was about getting into small
boat to cross the Delaware: but wish
ing first to get an orange at fruit
stand, she ran up. the bank of the
river, and on her return to the boat
found herself much heated, for it was
summer, but there was little wind on
the water, and the clothing soon felt
cold to her The next morning she
had a severe cold, which settled on
her lungs, and within the year she died
of consumption.
y stout, strong man was working in
garden one May; feeling little tired
| about noon he sat down in the shade
of the house and fell asleep; he woke
up chilly; inflammation of the lungs fol-
lowed, ending, after two years of great
suffering, in consumption. On open
ing his chest there was such an extern
sive decay that the yellow matter was
scooped out by the cupful.
n Boston ship owner, while on the
deck of one of his vessels, thought he
would lend hand in some emer-
gency; and pulling off his coat worked
with will until he perspired freely,
! when he sat down to rest awhile. en-
Joylng the delicious breeze from the
sea. On attempting to rise, he found
himself unable, and was so stiff in his
joints that he had to be carried home
and put to bed, which he did not leave
until the end of two years, when he
was barely able to hobble down to the
wharf on crutches.
A lady after being unusually busy all
day, found herself heated and tired
toward sundown of a summers dav.
She concluded she would rest herself
by taking drive to town in an open
vehicle. The ride made her uncom-
fortably cool, but she warmed herself
by an uncomon hours shopping, when
she turned homeward; it being late in
the evening, she found herself more
decidedly chilly than before. At mid
night she had pneumonia inflammation
of the lungs,) and in three months had
the ordinary symptoms of confirmed
consumption.
a lady of great energy of character
lost her cook, and had to take her
place for four days; the kitchen was
warm and there was draft of air
through it. When the work was done,
warm and weary, she went to her
chamber, and laid down on the bed to
rest herself. This operation was re-
peated several times a day. On the
fifth day she had an attack of lung
fever; at the end of six months she was
barely able to leave her chamber, only
to find herself suffering with all the
more prominent symptoms of con
iirmed consumption; such as quick
pulse, night and morning cough, night
sweats, debility, short breath, and fall
ing away.
a young lady arose from her bed on
November night, and leaned her arm
on the cold window sill to listen to a
serenade. Next morning she had the
pneumonia, and suffered the horrors
of asthma for the remainder of a long
life.
Multitudes of women lose health and
life every year, in one of two wavs:
By busying themselves in warm
kitchen until weary, and then throw
ing themselves on bed or sofa, with
out covering, and perhaps in room
without fire; or by removing the Onter