HOW TO ESCAPE COLDS.

Southland Times, Issue 1653, 25 October 1872, Page 3

HOW TO ESCAPE COLDS.

To escape colds, the occasional cause of almost every disorder, keep the feet warm and the he;id cool. Never remain in wet clothes, shob9, and stockings, when you have an opportunity of changing them. Never sit still, aud especially sleep, in wet clothes. There is little danger of cold as long aa you keep moving. A cold showerbath every morning is a wonderful protection againstcolda. Neverstand loitering at the door on a cold night, after coming out of a hot and crowded room, but walk or ride home at once. Colds are produced by the sudden lowering of the temperature of the surface of the body. I have frequently walked home after taking a hot bath of 98 ° , in the New Koad, London, a distance of two miles, on the coldest night, without ever taking the slightest cold. The parts of the body most to be protected oq a cold, web nigM, are the mouth, throat, and upper front part of the chest. Boys doat wear beards, but men ought. Nothing protects the throat and most susceptible parts of the chest, ao effectually against quinsy and bronchitis and coughs as this ornamental covering which " Nature's own cunning hand laji on." Women would not be considered improved by a beard ; but happily they have not the same need of them. The leßs prominent, and smaller windpipe, with the more abundant cellular tissue or fat in which it is imbedded, renders them much less exposed to cold in this situation. I knew a young gentleman (a Swede), who came over to study at the London University. Whilst in England he cultivated a most flourishing beard, for mere ornament. On returniug home, after finishing his studies, his father, a large timber merchant in Stockholm, insisted on his cutting off his bsard, as a condition of his being taken into partnership with him. The son complied, and the very night it was removed he caught a severe cold in the throat, accompanied with viulent cough, and the expectoration of large quantities of blood ; and though he was removed to the south of France for the winter, he became consumptive, and died about twelve months after. — From Medical Hints, by Dr liawson, in Taranaki Herald.