The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1885-09-05
Checking Perspiration.
HaUs Journal of Health.

Hats journal of Health.
Edward Everett, the finished scholar,
the accomplished diplomatist, the orator;
the statesman, the patriot, becaitie over.
heated in testifyihg in court room re-
Gently, went to Faneuil Hall, which was
cold, and sat In draft of air until his turn
came to speak; "but my hands and feet
were ice, my lungs on fire. In this condi-
ton | had to go and spend three hours in
the court ROOM" He died in less than
week from this checking of the perspira-
ton. 1t was enough to kill any man.
Prof Mitchell, the gallant soldier, and
the most eloquent astronomical lecturer
that has ever lived, while in a state of
perspiration in yellow fever, the certain
sign Of recovery, left his bed, went into
another room, became chilled in a moment,
and died the same night.
If while perspiring, or while something
warmer than usual, from exercise or
heated room, there is sudden exposure in
stiffness to a still, cold air, or to a raw,
damp atmosphere, or to draft, whether
at an open window or door or street corner,
an inevitable result is violent and instan-
taneous closing of the pores of the skin, by
which waste and impure matters, which
were making their way out of the system,
are compelled to seek an exit through some
other channel and break through some
weaker part, not the natural one, and hurt
to that part is the result The idea is pre-
sented by saying that the cold has settled
in that mart To illustrate.
A lady was about getting into a small
boat to cross the Delaware; but wishing first
to get an orange at a 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 a 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.
A stout, strong man was working in a
garden in 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 followed, ending,
after two years of great suffering, in con-
sumption. On opening his chest there was
such an extensive decay that the yellow
matter was scooped out by the cupful,
A Boston ship-owner, while on the deck
of one of his vessels, thought he would
'lend hand' in some emergency; and
pulling off his coat, worked with viii
until he perspired freely, when he sat down
to rest awhile, enjoying 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 summers day. She con-
cluded she would rest herself by taking a
drive to town in an open vehicle. Tie
ride made her uncomfortably cool, but she
warmed herself up by an hours shopping,
when she turned homeward; it being late
in the evening, she found herself more
decidedly chilly than before. Atmidnight
she had pneumonia inflammation of the
lungs), and in three months had the ordi-
nary 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 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 confirmed consumption, such
as quick pulse, night and morning cough,
night-sweats, debility, short breath and
falling away.
A young lady rose from her bed on
November night, and leaned her arm on.
the cold window-sill to listen to a serenade.
Next morning she had pneumonia, and
suffered the horrors of asthma for the re-
mainder of a long life.
Multitudes of women lose health and
life every year in one of two ways: By
busying themselves in warm kitchen until
weary, and then throwing themselves on
bed or sofa, without covering, and perhaps
in room without fire, or by removing the
outer clothing and perhaps changing the
dress for a more common one as soon as
they enter the house after walk or a
shopping. The rule should be invariably
to 90 at once to warm room and keep on
all the clothing at least for five or ten
minutes, until the forehead is perfectly dry,
In all weathers, if you have to walk and
ride on any occasion, do the riding first,