The Palatka news and advertiser., 1916-12-01

him up" in his winter garments next
to the skin, and he won't be "unsew-
ed" until the grass shows green IN
the park next sprng. However nee
essary such winter garb may or may
not be, in the North, the semi-annual
change has no place in Florida. The
doctors say we here in Florida should
wear the same weight of undercloth-
ing the year through, and When heav-
ier garments are needed fer protec-
ton against lower temperatures, they
should be thicker outer coats and
wraps. These are conveniently put
on and off to meet the more or less
sudden changes of temperature and
need not be worn when coming into
q warm room from the chilly out-of-
doors, which naturally is impossible If
the increased thickness of clothing is
next the skin.
There is also a danger from wear
ing heavier underclothing in a south
ern climate from the fact that such
garments next the skin cause excess
sive activity of the skin and sweat
glands, stimulating them undully.
Then when the individual stops the
eXertion or in any way becomes chill
ed, the blood which has been drawn
to the body surface, is driven abnor-
mally to the internal organs. This
has tendency to reduce to a marked
degree the vitality and resistance of
the individual and the body is then
less able to resist the attack of the
many omnipresent disease germs. In
other words, such conditions favor dis
ease and the "catching" of bodily
sickness.
Now, if heavy underclothing has no
place in a Florida wardrobe, how
about furs? Certainly, fur as a neck
wrap, from a health viewpoint is OBJ
iectionable in Florida, and quite as
certainly it contributes nothing but
risk to the woman who wears 1t in
this climate, however much it may
add to her satisfied feeling that with
them she is stricly in accord with the
fashions. Isn't it pitiful, when the
"stvles" in the North decree furs to
be derigeur, for woman's street cos
tune, to see the Florida woman on a
bright October day sailing down town
with her fur "piece" drawn up to her
ears, while the thermometer registers
up among the high SOS? We've all
seen it many a time, have seen it and
smiled
The neck is particularly susceptible
to changes of temperature, and care
should be taken to protect it from
these changes. In fact, some of the
doctors urge that tn chest way to pro
tect it is not to protect it at all, that
the neck should not be wrapped, eX-
cepting under unusual conditions, as
in riding and at times when the en-
: tire body is clothed more heavily.
! But as no amount of reasoning is
likely to prevail against the styles,
even if they call for furs, and the
consequent risking of health, it is well
to call attention to recent discover
les of vaccines, which properly admin
istered prohibit the catching of colds,
influenza, the grip and like throat
and lung diseases. They work on the
same principle as vaccination against
typoid, by which injection of dead cul-
( lures of the disease germs prevents
: the existence of that disease in the
t protected individual, in fact, renders
4 him immune.
| There is no guess work about it
S no more than about the efficiency OF
e smallpox vaccination, or of the anti,
= typhoid vaccine. These diseases car
: be, have been, and are being prevent,
+ ed every day by the employment Of
t these vaccnes, and there is no more
. necessity Of colds than of these dis.
4 eases. They are preventable.
4 But after all, sensible way to pre-
. vent colds is to dress sensibly. And
: remember there is much more danger
y in dressing too heavily, too warmly
I than in not dressing warmly enough
even in a Florida winter.-State
Board of Health Bulletin.
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