The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-04-18
ONLY A COLD.
Take Care Of Little MAladiss anA Great
Ones VIII Need No Care.

Take Care Of Little Maladiss anA Great
Ones VIII Need No Care.
Take care of the pence and the
pounds will take care of themselves.
Take care of the minutes and the hours
will take care Of themselves. These
aphorisms are very familiar to us all.
Hundreds of men get rich by simply
taking care of the pennies. Elihu Bur-
rift learned fifty languages by simply
taking care of the minutes. Hundreds
of people die every year from what was
at first ''only little cold.''
Worcester definee a cold as IAN in
fiammatory disease occasioned by cold. "
A few scores or hundreds of the two
million ''tubules" through which the
insensible perspiration of the body is
carried off are closed up by cold,
and the effete matters that should es-
cape from the body are retained within
it and cause inflammation.
Nothing is more common than -
cold in the head" which is a very sim
pie malady if it is cured there and goes
no further. But the membrane which
lines the air passages of the head is con-
tinuous with that which lines the throat
and lungs, so the inflammation in the
mead, if 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 suffer from colds first in the head,
some in the lungs; in some . cold
affects the joints, causing rheumatism,
in others the bowels, in others the kid
neys, and SO on. When the cold has
settled in the weakest part Of the body,
or in any part of it, all the lurking i'm
purities in the system seem to concen-
trate there; that is the lowest point as
to health, and all the streams of degen-
eracy flow into it.
More people die of pneumonia and
kindred diseases in the spring than
during any other season of the year,
and the reason of this we need not 60
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 flannels, has become inactive; the
lungs, from breathing impure air, have
become enfeebled; and the whole body,
imperfectly and scantily supplied with
well oxygenated blood, has lost its elias
ITCHY and soundness. A little cold
taken when one is in such condition
is not easily thrown off; it is like little
hroo Il IN ho 1xvlya hut Eaov. ont 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 can not collect in the
body. The lungs must have pure air OF
they can not perform their Office per
fectly. The pores of the skin must be
kept upon by exercise, by bathing and
friction, or they can not perform their
Office. The kidneys must be supplied
with material for the easy performance
of their duties. Medical writers say
that Americans do not take liquid
enough. We have no national bever-
age as the Germans have we are moi
wine-d drinkers as the French are, or tea.
drinkers as the English, and ice water
of which large quantities are consumed
by us, is not the best thing for US
Soups are recommended as meeting 8
want of our people. Water, hot and
cold, chocolate and its cousins, cocoa
and "shells, are wholesome beverages
and it is better for such as find tea and
coffee Ito agree with them to drink
that than not to take fluid enough
Constipated bowels mean cold feet and
a hot head. Exercise and diet will cure
these if taken seasonably.
Boerhave's rules for health were these
three: keep the feet warm, the head
cool, and the bowels OPEN" These
rules can be well observed by due atten.
ton to the sewers of the body as above
particularized, for if there is free
movement through these there will be
corresponding demand for fresh
functions of the body will be SO vigor
ously carried on that disease will FIND
nothing to lay hold of.
The first thing to do when one finds
one has a cold is to open the pores that
are closed, to start into action the func-
tions that are suspended. There are
various simple ways of doing this known
to everybody, and we are inclined to
believe that the simplest ways are the
best. Some can work off" a cold
some can starve it off; sage tea in large
quantities, drunk while one keeps in Q
uniform warm atmosphere, will cure
some; a ''wet pack" is efficient with
many; bountiful fruit diet is a good
cure; a Turkish bath is agreeable tc
some constitutions. But no one can
afford to neglect even a little cold,'
since it may draw after it such larg
consequences.-M Y Tribune.