Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1886-02-10
A COMMON AFFLICTI0N.
BRIEF LECTURE ON THE CAUSES
AND CURE OF COLDS"
Some People Always Taking Coid-Not IN
Addiction Belonging to Frigid Regions
Cause of Consumption - Pneumonia,
Pieurisy, Rheumstism-Cures.

"No affiiction," said the lecturer. "was so
common TO mankind, and yet nothing so
calamitous. A man might escape politics,
matrimony, and nearly everything else,
hut he couldn't escape taking cold. Some
people were always taking cold Nearly
every disease in the catalogue had been
attributed to taking cold. The ancient
practice among physicians was to define
the nature Of a disease and what its fu-
tuse would be. The modern doctors went
further and investigated the cause Of
disease. The doctor said he proposed TO
show that taking cold did not cause ali
the diseases. and taking COX" was good
by scare and by trying to keep from TAX
ing cold than in the thing itself.
NO COLDS IN THE COLD REGIONS.
In the colder countries people did not
take cold Mt all What he meant by this
was that the fact of feeling cold did not
make a man take cold. The three factors
of taking cold are. Airy motion, mois-
ture, and reduction of temperature, but
neither OF these three factors alone would
cause it. A man would not take cold
from being in hurricane, by taking a
cold bath, or by change in climate.
The old time doctrine was that the arrest
of the secretion of the skin caused 8 cold.
This was fallacious. A man could take
cold from having his hair cut, from laying
off collar, wearing thinner stockings, or
anything of that kind.
Cold, he maintained, was caused by
evaporation and perspiration. There was
another theory that had been hand
somely demonstrated. That is, that II
was caused by the blood vessels. All
know that in a hot room the blood circu-
lates freely and the face and body become
flushed Going into extreme cold there is
an opposite effect, though the contraction
is not immediate Colds never caused
lasting disease unless the organs left af-
fected were already diseased.
A mother often says that her daughter
contracted disease coming out of thea
tire; getting her feet wet. coming from q
ball, or something of that kind. This
was entirely false. Consumption is not
caused by wet air, cold air, etc 1t was
caused by poisoned air and hot air. The
Indians never had a case Of consump-
ton.
CONSUMPTION. PLEURIsY. RHEUMATISM.
Consumption invaded localities of dense
population. People who work in shops
and factories and have not much outdoor
exercise have consumption. II is in
herited, and to certain extent can be
communicated from germ. Sailors who
are wet half the time and exposed in all
kinds of weather have not one case of con
sumption in seventy. In city where q
large class of men were engaged in un'
loading cargoes from ships and standing
in water half the time there was not a
case of consumption in 200. 1t was claimed
that pneumonia was caused by cold. This
was equally wrong.
Pleurisy and rheumatism were neither
caused by cold. People would say that
bronchitis surely was caused by cold. By
no means. Rather by floating organisms
that take lodgment. He would not deny
that cold might be the exciting cause and
arouse a disease that had been dormant
The best and healthiest place is out OF
doors. Here wind swept away the germ
of the disease in the air. These germs are
housed within four walls, where people
breathe them He would not say that
colds did not cause some diseases, for in
stance, muscular rheumatism, infantils
paralysis, and a certain order Of Bright's
disease.
How to get rid Of or escape cold would
be a question asked. II q man stood or
the street and allowed himself to gel
chilled through he would take cold. Il
he walked and kept the blood in circula
ton he would not Rubbing was goot
preventive; the massage treatment fol
instance, being a good thing. One Of the
cures for cold is hot bath, but if in
dulged in at the wrong time and in thu
wrong way it is liable to aggrsvate the
cold a person already has.-Cincinnat
Cor. Chicago Tribune