Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-10-11


clothing, getting him promptly INTO flannel
from neck to toe, next the skin, will prob
ably prove moro etfcctual than anything
else that could be done But don't overlook
our "from neck TO toe" recommendation.
Flannel on the body, with none at the ex-
tremities, would be very apt TO work more
harm than good. OF course Il will be IN
derstood that we are referring to winter
colds, the character of cold mentioned By
our correspondent.
! But while there are really no remedies
! for common cold, there are some very i'm
portant' preventives, ard it is to these
that we should pay particular attention. II
we properly attend to the prcventives we
| will rarely hare need of remedy.
| Many persons well understand causes
| which are liable TO give one q cold, as al
overhead and exposure 20 strong draft Of
wind, changing heavier clothing for lighter
| in cold, or even cool weather, etc. all Of
| which should be steered clear of as I pre-
ventive measure; but some OF the most
common causes of cold do not appear
to be so well understood. Most colds result
| from break in the equilibrium of temper
| allure between the body proper and its ex-
tremities. For instance, Mcpherson is warmly
clad, and he takes off the thick UNDER
clothing on his lower limbs and his thick
shoes and stockings, substituting some
thing comparatively thin, while he contin-
ues the former heavy clothing on the body.
This would invariably bring on severe
cold for any person at all liable TO colds.
Some persons are more liable to colds than
others-a few will scarcely take them at
all
Now, in this change of clothing just men
toned lies our most prolific cause of winter
colds. Many, even among our most prudent
people, often make his dangerous change
without, for want of thought, knowing
anything whatever about it. They do it
with the overcoat-we'n refer 10 men
strictly, leaving ladies to make their own
applications.
The thing is easily explained. A cool
spell of weather shows up and we have on
our overcoats and so forth. No other
change of clothing is made for the occasion.
Our feet and legs are clad precisely as they
were when the weather was warmer. The
effect is exactly the same as if we had all
along been wearing clothing over the entire
person as warm as an addition of the over
coat makes it for the body, and had sud
denly removed that additional warmth
from the feet and legs, leaving it on the
body. This gives us a cold every time if
We are at all susceptible of taking cold.
No man should ever take to an overcoat
without making corresponding increase
of warmth In clothing for the feet and legs.
In case where the entire person is clad in
warm, WOODEN underwear, the effects of the
overcoat are not so pronounced-they may
not be felt at all-but where the underwear
is thin (possibly cotton, the overcoat is
just as sure to bring on cold as the sun is
sure to ''rise' on the morning after you
hare read this article, if you are at all
liable TO i cold.
And here properly comes in an explana-
ton of why there are SO few cases of cold
in the coast country. Down there people
don't much wear overcoats, comparatively
speaking. They are trying to ape the
tropics. You will see men going about the
streets in their s'shirt sleeves when the
thermometer registers several degrees be-
low the freezing point. They appear to be
entirely comfortable, and so they are, no
doubt, but the secret of their comfort lies
in heavy, wooden underwear. When 4
young man comes out on the streets in an
overcoat down there, the people jibe him as
being TENDER" so he fortifes himself
against that sort of thing by concealing his
"overcoat " next to the skin. As result,
when an extraordinary blizzard strikes the
region, making overcoats in the fashion, he
comes out with one on, under protection of
heavy, all-round underclothing, and so
takes no cold.
There is no good reason whatever for
why colds should not be equally as prevalent
on the immediate sea coast as in North
Texas, but they are not. The reason why
they are not has been fully explained.