The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1901-11-10
EASY TO AVOID TAKING COLD.
SIMPLE PRECAUTIONS THAT IT'S
NO MOTHER TO OBSERVE.
Cold water and Cold-Air Bathing Nest
Potent Ousets 70 be Ov~erheated
Houses which Are the chief Source Of
Colds In h Country, Doctors say.


Colds In This Country. Doctors say.
Everybody has a cold,' said . New
| York physician last week. Il am kept
busy dealing out prescriptions for influenza
and sore throat and coughs and lame backs.
l hate to give the medicine. 1t upsets the
patients stomach and I don't know but
what a cold Scylla u about as desirable
as an intestinal Charybdis As for the
stuff people buy at the drug stores, the
patent medicines, most Of them arc enough
to upset the digestion Of an ostrich.
Prevention Is the thing for colds. or
course it's the thing for all disease. but II Is
more practicable In the case Of colds than
In most instances. 1t is absurd for people
to take cold as easily a. they do. Our
steam-heated houses are responsible for a
large percentage OF the trouble. But one
house or Office out Of 600 is kept at a
sensible temperature. Especially at this
| time Of year when the first chill is settling
down, overheating plays the mischief.
We haven't had a day or night that would
really justify steam or furnace heat, yet
the furnaces are going in almost all the
apartment houses, Office buildings and pri-
vate houses. Hot water isn't quite as
obnoxious, but it is seldom regulated.
Americans complain that IL Is too cold in
such weather a. that Of the past few weeks
10 dispense with fires. That is sheer nom
sense. LOCI at the Europeans. They are
absolutely comfortable in an indoor tenn
| perature in which WI would be shivering,
and they don't take cold every time they
| step out Of doors, or feel q Whit OF fresh
cold air. We could accustom ourselves
TO their ideas OF house heating II we would
do IL. and we would be infinitely more
healthy and comfortable.
we are 50 sensitive to cold, thanks to
| artificial conditions. that we dress too
warmly, pamper our bodies. In order,
| as we think. to be comfortable out Of doors,
we pile on fannels and thick clothing and
wear IL indoors. where the rooms are so
warm that gauze pajamas would DO the
only appropriate wear. We get over
heated, perspire, make ourselves sensitive
al hot house plants, and, when we do go
out Of doors, after smothering ourselves in
| out door wraps, we suffer horribly from
cold. OF course we do. II We would get
used 10 a cold, bracing temperature In the
| house, the outdoor air would have no terror
for us. There would be no chill. no goose
flesh. no taking cold. and we wouldn't need
TO be swathed like Egyptian mummies.
Then there In the bath. There are a few
| persons who cannot stand the shock OF a
cold plunge in the morning. They don't
get the proper roactsn, and the plunge
| would harm them. This INIT true OF the
| healthy, vigorous mogtal, but / will not
| For the cold sponge bath ! do plead most
| fervently. Anv one not an invalid can get
| used to that, II he goes az II nationally
and will be benefited by IT,. Let him grad
| ually lessen the warmth of his water. use
the cold sponge spaingly. swiftly, at frst
and apply il 20 a small portion OF his body
at a time. keeping the rest Of the body
| covered. Gradually he will reach the
point where he can he lavish OF the cold
water and splash joyously; and In most
cases the cold sponge Will lead 70 the coid
plunge him
self to the cold bath knows the luxury of II
and the tonic effect of it, II should liza
taken in a comfortably warmed bath room
or bed chamber. though not the piping
no, room which most 81 my patients seem
10 think essential for bathing purposes
In fact, IL ones reaction Is fine u Is well to
get the temperature OF the room down
gradually to decided GOODNESS. A very
the bath. not the half-hearted wipe of the
ordinary bat her, but vigorous, thorough
going rubbing that will bring a fine glow
A linen bath towel il worth ten cotton
ones for the purpose yet lew persons use
linen bath towels. They are more eN-
pen.ive, Of course. but they will utwea
The cotton ones and are a luxury with a
definite excuse.
An air bath is anoih her thing the body
Ir-rds and seldom gets. save during tho
cour-a Of a water bath ! know u VIII
make Ts.opla shuddcr 10 tell them 10 gradu-
ally aocustom themselves 10 haring Their
bodies for a few minutes every morning
in a room with ia" window open. hut the
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don't mean that one must jump out Of
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