Connecticut western news. [volume] (Salisbury, Litchfield Co., Conn.) 1871-1970, 1885-04-08
ONLY A SIMPLE COLD.
But this II the Season of the Year WheI
Cold Is Dangerous.

Nuls II the season OF the car Nhel
n Cold Is Dangerous.
Nothing is more common than 81
cold in the head" which is q very
simple malsdy if it is cured there and
goes no further. But the membrane
which lines the air passages Of the head
is continuous with that which lines the
throat and lungs, 30 the Inflammation in
the head, il not arrested, spreads to the
throat and lungs, causing cough and
finally consumption and death.
When the pores of the body are
closed, the i'll effects are likely to be felt
in the weakest parts of the body first
Some guffer from colds first in the head,
some in the lungs; in some B cold affects
the joints, causing rheumatism, in others
the bowels, in others the kidneys, and
so on. When the cold has settled in the
weakest part of the body, or in any part
Of it, all the lurking impurities in the
system seem to concentrate there; that
is the lowest point as to health, and all
the streams of degeneracy how into it.
More people die of pneumonia and
kindred diseases in the spring than dur
ing any other season of the year, and
the reason of this we need not go far to
discover. Shut up in close and heated
rooms, the impurities of the body have
accumulated within it. The skin, from
lack OF frequent bathing and from being
kept from the air by close-fitting fan
nels has become inactive; the lungs,
from breathing impure air, have become
enfeebled; and the whole body, imper-
fectly and scantily supplied with well
oxygenated blood, has lost its elasticity
and soundness. A little cold taken when
one is in such a condition is not easily
thrown off: it is like a little break in
the dykes that keep out the sea; unless
stopped promptly it may open wider and
wider till the river Of death flows
through it.
The lungs, the skin, the kidneys, the
bowels, are the great sewers through
which the impurities of the body flow
from it. So long as these are kept wide
open impurities cannot collect in the
body. The lungs must have pure air
or they cannot perform their Office per
fectly. The pores of the skin must be
kept open by exercise, by bathing and
friction, or they cannot perform then
office. The kidneys must be sup
piled with material for the easy per.
Torrance OF their duties. Medica
writers say that Americans do not TAXI
liquid enough. We have no national bev
erage as the Germans have; we are no
wine drinkers as the French are, or tes
drinkers as the English, and ice water
of which large quantities are consumed
by us, is not the best thing for MS
Soups are recommended as meeting
want OF our people. Water, hot ant
cold, chocolate and its cousins, coco,
and "shells," are wholesome beverages
and it is better for such as find tea an
coffee "to agree" with them to drink tina
than not to take fluid enough. Con
stipated bowels mean cold feet and no
head. Exercise and diet will cure these
if taken seasonably.
Boerhave's rules for health were these
three: "Keep the feet warm, the heat
cool, and the bowels open" These
rules can be we'll observed by due atten
ton to the sewers of the body as above
particularized, for if there is a fire.
movement through these there will be
corresponding demand for fresh sup
plies aud nutrition, aud the functions O
the body will be so vigorously carried OF
that disease will fnd nothing to lay hold
of.
The first thing to do when one find
one has cold is to open the pores tina
are closed, to start into action the func
tons that are suspended. There are
various simple ways OF doing this known
to everybody, and we are inclined to be.
lieve that the simplest ways are the best
Some can 'work off" a cold; some cal
starve it off; sage tea in large quantities
drunk while one keeps in uniform warn
atmosphere, will cure some; a 1--WE
pack is efficient with many; bountifu
fruit diet is good cure; Turkish bath
is agreeable to some constitutions. Blu
no one can afford to neglect. even
little cold," since it may draw after /
such large consequences.