Daily Yellowstone journal., 1886-04-04
TO PREVENT CATCHING COLD"
Not Enough 10 Protest - You Must
Harden YOURSELF Against Cold.

Harden YOURSELF Against Cold.
OF the ordinary precautions against
catching cold l need say little. To dress
with sufficient warmth in winter, 10
avoid suddenly checkingth the perspiration
in summer, to guard against cold feet the
year around, and against accidental UNI
covering during sleep, to avoid draughts
and to keep warm in the cold-all these
precautions we know and practice more
or less carefully, and yet many persons.
in spite of them all, are among the great
est sufferers from colds.
Who are these unfortunate persons?
They are all of Compartments, habits and
ages. No age. no country, has not heard
their sneezings; and the chorus will
never cease until the sufferers learn this
lesson, which should be embroidered
upon every pocket-handkerchief in
Christendom: 1T is not enough TO pro-
tect yourself against the cold. You must
also harden yourself against the cold"
The people. then. who catch cold are
those who depend too much upon pre-
cautions and too little upon hardening,
and the more they protect themselves
without hardening, the tenderer they
become and the likelier to catch cold.
1t is like banking a river; the higher
you build the levees, the worse will be
the overflow when it comes. Those peo-
pie who defend themselves only by arti-
fee against colds are the worst sufferers
from colds.
Now what regime can be recommended
TO these sufferers? Certainly no extreme
or Spartan measures; for many Of those
who suffer the most from colds are
delicate ladies. invalids, children. or
aged persons. To such it would often be
dangerous to recommend cold plunge
baths or long walks in rain or snow.
These are good tonics for some; but they
are for the strong, and not for the weak.
But the principle IL treatment is the
same for all. These sufferers generally
have one trait in common. They have
coddled themselves so warmly as to have
an over-sensitive skin; and this is the
great source of colds. Happily, it is q
condition that can be nationally treated
and usually cured.
How does the trouble begin: Very
often, perhaps usually, in childhood. An
anxious mother wishes to be sure that
her child shall not take cold; "and if l
only keep him warm enough" she says
TO herself, arguing from the name of the
thing-~if can only keep him warm
enough, surely he will never catch cold"
So the child is burdened night and day,
summer and winter alike, with wraps
and coverings that keep him in perspira-
ton great part of the time, and this
causes such tenderness of the skin that
catching cold on the least exposure is
inevitable. 1t is quite true that a child
should be- kept warm. But the anxious
mother must bear in mind that in a
warm room or on hot day he does not
need as much clothing as when it is cold.
Overheating, in word, is the surest pre-
paration for colds: but with each new at
tack the ignorant mother can think of
nothing better than to make the house
warmer and the clothing thicker. OF
course the little sufferers skin becomes
still tenderer. and the colds more fire.
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