Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-11-19
AGAINST COLD

Extract from a Lecture by DIR. j. III. KeI.
1ogg. of the Battle Creek Sanitarium.
Some years ago DIR. Brown-Sequard
proposed and advocated novel plan for
protecting ones self against taking
cold. He says that the most common
way by which man takes cold is from
exposing the back of his neck to a cur
rent of cold air, because that portion of
the body is usually protected by hair.
After patronizing the barber a man is
almost sure to take cold if he steps out
without a hat. A woman habitually
exposes the back of her neck, and her
head-gear is such mere apology for a
covering that she seldom takes cold
from a draught on the back of the neck
or head. But women take cold more
often than any other way by wearing
thln-soled shoes or getting the feet
damp or cold in some other way. DIR.
Brown-Sequard says that the way to
render yourself insusceptible to the ef-
feet of cold air upon the back of your
neck is to get some one to blow
on the back of your neck with
pair of bellows at stated in
tervals-the first time, one min
ute; the next two minutes, and so
y
a current of cold air on the back of
your neck will not infiict you with a
cold. To harden the feet to exposures
to wet and cold, he advises dipping the
feet in cold water, first for one minute,
drying and rubbing them vigorously;
the next day keep them in the cold wa
ter for two minutes, and SO on until
half hour can be borne without incon-
venience. No danger then from taking
cold from cold or wet feet.
1t is true that in building Golfer
dams and bridges men work in cold
water up to their knees with out taking
cold. Lumbermen in driving logs
down the river have their feet wet all
the time, and yet these men ordinarily
do not take cold. They will tell you
that they did at first, but afterward
they got used to it. By proper training
it is possible to cure ourselves of ex-
treme susceptibility to cold. A rapid
hand bath, short shower bath or
plunge in cold water which should
not be continued longer than to pro-
duce slight appearance of goose-tiesh,
are excellent as means of preparation
for going out into the cold. All that is
required is to get up a healthy reaction
and this should be assisted by a brisk
rubbing with a fiesh-brush or a coarse
towel In this way the blood-vessels of
the skin are given coarse of vigorous
gymnastics and the skin will be in such
good condition that it can resist atmos-
pheric changes with impunity.
A person usually takes cold by chill
of the surface of the body, which checks
the normal activity of the skin. This
being done, there is more work thrown
upon the internal organs, and the con-
sequence is that there is an accumula-
ton of waste matter which furnishes
fuel for the fires of the body to feed up
on. One always has slight rise of
temperature with a cold. If a person
in perfect health takes cold, it does
not last him but a little while,
for there is nothing In his system to
perpetuate it, but slight cold to one
with fever fuel in his body is apt to be
quite serious. Bad stomachs and dis
ordered livers and a general weakness
of the eliminative organs means an ac-
emulation of effete matter in the body,
which is the real preparation of the
system for taking hard cold. Over
eating. gormandizing in general. origi
nally lays the foundation for mos,
colds.-Reported by Helen l.. Manning.