The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-03-03

The HyRienlc Use of Clothlng-Why
end How Cold Ia Kept Out and
Heat ina Final Word.

'Still harping on his daughter" Like
the upright Jew in Shakespeare Mer-
chant of Venice, who kept harping on his
ducats and his daughter, our champion
of cotton and linen underwear in all
temperatures, continues to harp about
his treasured fad. This question of
dress in our climate is important be-
cause it is of vital interest to the public,
who demand those who are competent
and qualified to give advice, that they
may properly and safely be protected in
their winter and summer environments.
1t is a problem that confronts the
medical profession, and to be decided
by the members thereof, who are the
true teachers of medical and sanitary
morals; who occupy the high ground that
the health and sanitary safety of the
public demands that it's medical SER
wants shall be educated men and wo-
men, proven to possess scientific knowl-
edge of the human body, in health and
disease.
In my former communications, have
presented the physiology and.physiologi-
cal chemistry of the subject as under
stand them, and find that these sciences
and those offered by our champion of
linen and cotton are incompatible, and
have no affinity.
would suggest to the members of
the profession in our county that, as we
have been taught during student life
respecting individual hygiene, it is nee
essary for US all to regard its three diyi-
sions, viz dress, ablution, ventilation.
The hygienic use of clothes is not 80
much to keep cold out, as to keep heat
in. In robust persons it is not at all
necessary to put on extra clothing when
preparing for outdoor exercise; but
care should be taken to retain sufficient
clothing after exercise; and, when at
rest, to prevent the heat passing out of
the body. We should forbid "brassy
inpudence" to play fantastic tricks"
upon what it is our own duty to guard,
resenting and opposing any and all en-
croachments upon either one of these
divisions of individual hygiene.
The human race, during itspilgrimage
on earth and wanderings over it, has
many difficult tasks to perform. One OF
the most difficult is involved in the me-
cessity that all our internal organs, and
the blood, whether at the Equator or
the North pole should retain an equa-
BILE temperature, 371 Centigrade, SO F.
Deviations of but one degree are signs
of serious illness. The blood of negro
and that OF the Esquimau is of the
same temperature, while the one lives in
a temperature of 40 degrees above,
and the other 40 degrees below zero,
(centigrade.) A difference of 80 degrees
has then to be equalized. Our organism
doubtless possesses a special apparatus
for the performance of this colossal
task. Self-acting sluices, so to speak, by
means of which more or less of the heat
generated in the body passes off these
consist mainly in the increase or dimin-
ution of the peripheric circulation, and
the action of the pores of the skin. But
we soon come to an end of our natural
regulating apparatus, and have to re-
sort to artificial means. Against cold
we have excellent methods in clothing
dwellings, and fires, the same it is super.
fluous to repeat, (which wish to re-
mark"
1t is to be acknowledged that empiri'
cal results have sometimes furnished the
profession of medicine and surgery with
valuable additions land from the science
of chemistry it has received beautiful
presents. The professionals sometimes
profted by the authors of other SYSTEMS
of practice as Hahneman, Priesnitz,
Thompson, and others. 1t was by the
furious invectives of malignant quacl
that philosophy was brought into medi
cine. This drunken vagabond rejoiceC
in the resoundingname of Aurelius Phil
lipus Won Hohenheim Theophrastus
Bombastus Paracelsus. Like many o
the wandering philosophers OF those
times, he travelled through central Asia
and was sent by the Tartar Emperor OF
an embassy to Constantinople, in which
city he was taught the art of making
gold by an Arab. In these peregrina
tions he learned the medicinal value o
two of the leading articles of the materi;