Morning journal and courier., 1886-11-29
The Cold Air Cure.


 The benefits of cool air are not universally appreciated. good many people are afraid of it, especially at night, shutting them selves in close bedrooms, where their sys- tems are poisoned and their constitutions gradually undermined by breathing the bad air And even hot or warm air that is pure air in room that has ventilation as we'll as heat-is facilitating where breathed all night. The tonic effects of cold air, to all
 but invalids, are we'll described by Dr. Felix L. Oswald in the "Herald of Health'' for October. He says:
 The evidence that pulmonary complaints are inevitably and exclusively caused by
 foul indoor air and cured by pure, especially by cold, pure outdoor air, can grow convin- cing to a degree almost afflctive to philan- thropist, who must often feel like traveller seeing his companions groping in the gloom of subterran can labyrinth, and refusing 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 low temperature that "eolds" are in fact far more curab!e in midwinter than in mid summer. was shot through the lungs in Mexico and have ever since been susceptible to the contagion of "catarrh factory" as 8 friend of mine calls the unventilated school rooms and meeting houses of our country towns. In warm weather avoid such man. traps as would the pit of gas we'll, but in winter risk their infection in the assurance that it's influence can be counteracted by an extra dose of ice air. On returning from crowded lecture hall, a stihing sick room, a stuffy omnibus, etc., remove my bed to the draft side of the house and open a window to the full capacity of it's mechanism, taking care to go to sleep facing the draft. I have often awakened in the morning with my hair erizzled with hoar frost, but without the slightest vestige of the catarrh which had announced it's approach the night before.
 Cold is an antiseptic and @ powerful diges tive stimulant; and here record the predic- tion that the hospitals of the future will be ice houses. Dyspepsia, catarrh and levers of all kinds can be frozen out of the system Not by letting the patient shiver in a snow bank, but by giving him an extra allowance of warm bad clothing, with the additional luxury of breathing ice cold air, which un- der such circumstances becomes as prefera- ble to hot nlasma cold spring water to warm ditch water have also found that the best brain work can be done in cold room. and that stove heat has tendency to stultify like narcotic beverage. Warm wraps make fires tolerably dispensable.
 With regard to diet this writer thinks where it is limited to natural food there is ne danger of eating too much. Where stimulants and highly seasoned foods are eaten it is different matter. A man with . natural appetite may eat his plain, whole some food without fear of overstepping the proper limits. But the man with an unnat- ural appetite-the one who stimulates and lives high-is always overstepping them and is never satisfied.
 "A child instinctively turns with disgust from the gory carcasses of a slaughter house; but who ever heard of a youngster shuddsr- ing at sight of honeycomb or nest full of eggsa I can hardly eat meat of any kind without paying the penalty in 8 feeling of gastric distress, followed by 8 more or less distinct nausea and troubled dreams. But the closest observation has never enabled me to notice such symptoms as an after effect of an omelette or 6 piece of bread and butter. The sweltering noon is not favorable time for repletion, nor is the early morning, when the ener- gies of the system should not be unduiy monopolized by the work of digestion. A heavy breakfast handicaps G worker for the rest of the forenoon. Of all the wretched slaves of conventional abuses, the most to be pitied are those who have to bolt their din ner in a minimum of time and hasten back to their drudgery, and often to 8 temperature that must tempt them to barter week of their lives for one hour of undisturbed sleep. A light breakfast and late dinner surprisingly ease the burden of the hottest working day. I never take a monday lunch; and in special exigencies 8 sort of instinct has often prom pted me to dispense with my regular breakfast too, and go to work after chewing up fraction of 8 hard crust or 6 couple of dried prunes''
 On the subject of early rising the writer says:
 Early rising carried to extremes impsirs