Daily Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1882-1893, 1886-02-06
IA CObMDN AFFLlCTION.
GRIEF LECTURE ON The CAUSES
AND CURE OF COLDS"
Same People Always Taking tuld-N"t AR
iriiction Belonging tn i'rIsiJ Regions
Cause of Consumpti nl Pneumonia,
Eirurisy, Rheumati.H t,ro,.

NO affection" said the lecturer, was 80
common TO mankind aud y'i nothing So
oaiamitnus. a man might escape politics
mltrinony, aud nearly everything else
hut he couldn't escape taking cold. some
| people were always taking COLI Nearly
every disease in The catalogue had been
attributed a. ta'.,u, cold The ancient
practice among p.' 'lriaiIs was la define
the MIXTURE Of "A disease aud what its flu
ture would lac. TIE modern doctors went
| further and inv iguted the cause Of
disease. The lpF + said he proposed to
show that u iu. cold dii not cause all
/ the disease. and taking culdN was good
deal of 4 hlghrur More harm was caused
hy scare ana ~ rr}ing To keep from tax
ing cold lhaa in tlg thing itself
No COLDS" IN THE CoLp REGIONS.
In the colder countries people did not
take cnld nj all What he meant by this
was that the fact Of feeling cold did not
| make man take cold. The three factors
/ Of taking cold are. Airy motion, mois-
turp. and reduction of temperature, but
neither Of these three factors alone would
cause it. 4 man would not take cold
from being in a hurricane. by taking a
| Tie old time doctrine was that the arrest
Of the secretion Of the skin caused n cold.
This was fallacious. A nan could take
cold from having his hair cut. from laying
of collar, wearing thinm stockings, or
anything of that kind.
Cold, he maintained, WAS caused by
evaporation and perspirltion. There WAS
another theory THAI had been hand
somely demonstrated. That is, that il
was caused by the bic a vessels. Az
know that IN hot room the bioUd 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.
| 4 mother often says that her daughter
contracted disease coming out of a thea
tire: getting her feet wet. coming from O
ball. ar something of that kind. This
was entirely false Consumption is not
caused Icy wet air, cold air. etc. II was
caused hy poisoned air and hot air The
lntliaIs never had case Of consump-
tom
orNsr MPTIuN. PLEUEIsY. RHEUMATIsM.
Consumption invaded localities Of dense
population. People who work IN shops
aud factories and have not much outdoor
exercise have consumption. II is in
herited, and to certain extent can he
communicated from a 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 a
large class Of men were engaged in I'M
Ian. lin mn 81 Al ind
In water half the time there was not
case Of consumption in 100. II 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 Judgment. lie would not deny
that cold might he the exciting canse and
arouse 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. lie would not say that
colds did not cause some diseases, for in
stance, muscular rheumatism, inf~".'le
paralysis, and a certain order Of Brlgnt's
disease.
How To get rid Of or escape cold would
he a question asked. If IA man stood on
the street and allowed himself to get
chilled through he would take cold. IL
he walked and kept the blood in circula-
lion he would not. Rubbing was good
preventive; the massage treatment for
Instance, being good thing. One Of Tho
lures for cold isa hot bath. hut If in
Obliged in at the wrong time and in the
wrung way 1t is liable to- aggrayate the
cold Il person already has.-Ciucinnaii
Cor. Chicago Tribune.