Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-10-15

clothiuS, SeIllHS ulH prUuptly luto uHuHel
from neck to toe, next the skin, will prob
| ably prove more effectual 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
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, and it is to these
that we should pay particular attention. II
we properly attend to the preventives we
will rarely have need of remedy.
Many persons well understand causes
which are liable to give one a cold, as an
overhead and exposure TO a 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 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, the person 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 contfn-
ues the former heavy clothing on the body.
This would invariably bring on a 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'Q refer to men
strictly, leaving ladies to make their own
applications.
The thing is easily explained. \ cool
spell Of weather shows up and we have on
our overcoats and go forth. No other
change of clothing is made for the occasion.
Our feet and legs are clad precisely as they
effect is exactly the same as if we had all
along been wearing clothing over the entire
person is 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 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 III 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 pronouuced-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 ali
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 a
young man comes out on the streets in an
overcoat down there, the people iibe him as
being ''tender," so he fortiies himself
against that sort of thing by concealing his
s.overcoat . next to the skin. AS a 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 undertaking, 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.