CLOTHING AND GOLDS

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3766, 13 March 1928, Page 1

CLOTHING AND GOLDS

A letter in the “Lancet” from a British authority says: “The fact that iny own. immunity from colds has been so remarkably consistent has led me to speculate why normal healthy people are so prone 'to catch them, In my opinion it is often because their clothes are 'grossly in excess of their actual needs. The writer continues that while it is necessary to clothe infants warmly, this is no reason for continuing the wrapping-up process when the organism has become acclimatised to its surroundings, so that a sudden change of temperature .may suffiiee to cause cold in pepplle whose heat-re-gulating mechanism has been vitiated by unphysiological nursnig. “As a matter of routine, therefore, the whole body should be exposed to the light daily, summer and winter, for a certain time, and no underclothing need he worn by normal healthy individuals,” he says. “The adoption of this somewhat Spartan regime will raise the general tone of the organism and vivify every bodily function. This is a rule I have strictly observed for the past fifteen years, during which time my immunity from colds has been well-nigh Olympian. I have done my utmost to cgtcli cold by visiting the most virulent cases, but so far all my wilful attempts to infect myself have dismally failed. I still continue to discard underclothing throughout the year, and I never feel the need for it in any weather.”