Telegram-herald., 1891-01-25


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cold" Ysu say Il got my feet vet
yesterday and II gave ne . cold" IL
Is . mistake. You got that cold per-
haps . year ESQ when you we're eating
fried ham and ssusags ana rich.
greasy foods which disordsTed your
liver. Ordinary szposures 70 the cold,
getting the feet vet. drsfts. ETC.. do not
do . healthy person any great harm.
The dog or the horse go with wet feet
without damage because their manner
Of life is more healthfui than mans.
A few yeass ago visited school
kept by some Catholic sisters among
the Yuma Indians. The Indian chill
dren in their native state run out Of
door with no other protection than
that which nature had gwen them and
ell the clothing that the adults wear are
aprons made OF bark. The weather IN
the winter season is not altogether mild
but these Indian children run out OF
doors. brush tho dew from the bushes,
ford streams or encounter storms and
yet maintain perfect health. The sis
ters confessed TO me however.
IS soon ~ they Arc brought
into the schools where they put
on civilized clothing and eat
civilized food, they begin TO have
catarrhs, colds, and get sickly. ] asked
the teachers what they thought was the
cause of this, and they said it seemed
to be in the matter of diet. The Yuma
indiana live very simply on vegetarian
diet composed largely OF unleavened
corn cakes, roasted seeds and roasted
salt pork, combined with bread less
wholesome than that TO which they
were accustomed, aud. as result, they
became dyspeptic; the first step in the
"taking cold" process. They catch
their colds at the dinner table.
A friend OF mine, young man OF
fine physique and great personal at
Effectiveness, WAS stricken suddenly
with cold the day after Thanksgiv-
ing, and soon died. There is no doubt
mince pies and other rich dishes of
which he partook SO freely, were what
gave him his cold. 1t was not the SIM
pie exposure to slight draft after
ward TO which it was accredited, but
the indigestion through which nature
had lost her power of self-defense. Ma
ture gives the ability to react under
such circumstances, unless we cripple
her, ~ was done IN this case, and is so
often done. Thus these little expos
ures, to which we attribute such grave
consequences, are not the real causes.
The real causes are the bad habits OF
life which diminish our power of re-
sistence through lowered nerve tone.
The best way to cure q cold is to stop
sinning-stop doing the things which
producedit. The old adage. "Stuff cold
and starve fever" is as pernicious a.
regards the treatment of . cold ~ it
could well be- You should stop eating
because your sexcretory organs are
clogged-the skin Is overworked, the
liver inactive and the whole system
overloaded with waste material, which
must be gotten rid If before . cure can
be effected. If you attempt TO eat at
all, you will take twice as much as you
should. A hot water diet for break
fast, dinner and between meals is the
safest and most effectual. You awaken
in the morning stitfened with cold,
your joints and muscles move with dit
ficuity and the whole body is in like
condition, internally and externally.
These impurities which have caused
the cold must be washed away. A
fever Is simply cold intensified.
Some people are able to cure cold
by going out of doors and working
hard In zero weather. This Is q splen-
did cure for those strong enough to
take it for the reason that the lungs
take in unusual quantities of oxygen
which excites the circulation and helps
to burn up the waste matter with
which the system is clogged. The blood
is thus purified and the body put into
better condition. Constitutional treat
ment is then more necessary thar local
treatment.
If you want to cure cold in hurry
you must make business of 1t with
hot baths, profusc hot water drinking
and abstinence from food. The skin
may be made active by sweating if you
will keep your bed 80 as to avoid risk of
more cold. When you are able to go
out again, extra precautions must be
taken to guard against taking cold
and besides, the skin should be well
toned up after the sweating process by