Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1886-11-20
The Cold Air Cure.

DR.. Oswald in the Herald of Health
The benefits OF cool air are not universally
appreciated. \ good many people are afraid
OF 1t, especially at night. shutting themselves
in close bedrooms, where their systems are
poisoned and their constitutions gradually I'M
dermined by breathing the bad air. And even
hot, or warm air that is pure-ar in a room
that has ventilation as we'll as heat-is debili-
tating where breaLhed all night
The evidence that pulmonary complaints are
inevitably and eXclusi lively caused by foul in
door air, and cured by pure, especially by
cod-Pure. outdoor air. can grow convinc.
thropist. who must often feel like a traveller
seeing his companions cropping in the gloom
OK subterranean labyrinth and refus-
ing to follow the clew that has led him
back to the sunshine of the upper world
The remedial influence of fresh air is so much
Increased by II low temperature that "colds"
are, IN TACT far more durable in midwinter than
In midsummer. was shot through the lungs
IN Mexico, and have ever since been suscepti-
friend of mine calls the unventilated school
rooms and meeting-hOuses OF our country
towns. In warm weather 1 avoid such man.
trap as would the pit of q gas well. but in
winter risk their Injection in the assurance
that its influence can be counteracted by an
extra dose OF ice air On returning from a
crowded lecture hall, sitting sick room a
stufty omnibus, ETC., remove my bed to the
draft side OF the house and open a window to
to go to sleep facing the draft. l have often
awakened in the morning with my hair grizzed
with hoar frost, but without the slightest yes
tiSe OF the catarrh which had announced it's ap-
prOach the night before.
Cold is an antiseptic and a powerful digestive
stlmnlanl; and here record the prediction that
Tue hospitals OF the future will be ice-hOuseS
dyspepsia. catarrh and fevers Of all kinds can
be frozen out OF the system. Not by letting the
patient shlver in a snow-bank, but by giving
MIN an extra allowance OF warm bed-clOthing
With the additional luxury oil breathing ice-cold
air, which, under such circumstances becomes
as preferable to not miasma as cold spring water
% | hot
the best brain work can be done i'm a cola room.
ana that stove heat has tendency to stuitlfy
fires toerably dispensable.
with regard to diet, where it is limited to
natural food there Is no danger OF eating TOO
much. Where stimuiants ana highly seasoned
foods are eaten. it is different matter \ man
with natural appetite may eat his plain
wholesome 1OOd without fear of Oyerstenpinr
the proper limits. But the man with an un-
natural appetite-the one who stimulates and
ilves nights always overstepping them, and
- child instnctively turns with disgust from
the cory carcasses OF a slaughter-house: but
who ever heard OF a yOun.ster shuddering
at sight of a honey-comb. or q nest
fun OF eggs: i can rarely eat meal
OF any kind without paying the penalty i'm n
feeling of gastric distress, followed by a more or
less ulstlnct nausea and troubled dreams. But
The closest observation has never enabled me
to notice such symptoms as an ai,cr-eitect OF an
Omelette or Il piece of bread and butter.
Inc sweitering noon is not a favorable time for
repetlon, nor Is the early morning, when the
energies of the system should not be I'M
duly mOnOpoiiZed by the work OF digestion
n heavy breakfast handicaps a worker Tor the
rest OF the forenoon. Or all the wretched
slaves OF conventional abuses, the most to be
pitied are those who have To bolt their dinner
IN a minimum of time, and hasten back to
their drudsery, and often 10 Il temperature that
must tempt them to barter Il week of their
lives for one hour oc undisiurbed sleep A light
breakfast and late dinner surprisingly ease
me burden OF the hottest working day. never
take Il nOon-day lunch; and in special eNiee:.-
c1eS IL sort OF instinct has often prom pied me
10 dispense with my regular breakfast too and
go 10 work after chewing mp Il fraction OF u hard
crust, or a couple OF dried pruncs.
Early rising, carried to extremes, impairs the
vitality. would as soon rob a child of its
1000 or It's clothing, as to deprive it OF sleep in
ana dreams become sweet. For orpiians-as [
Know from experience-dreainland excursions
are often tor years the best refuge from the
ties OF Christian civilization.