WHAT CAUSES COUGHS.

Te Aroha News, Volume XI, Issue 1748, 6 July 1895, Page 2

WHAT CAUSES COUGHS.

Colls and coughs are prevalent Throughout the country, but throat affections are by far more common among business men. Every unfortunate one mutters something about the abominable weather and curs%H^.. ; . piercing wind. Much of the trouble, ho we ver, is caused by overheated rooms and a little more attention to proper ventilation would remove the cause of : suffering. Doctor J. Ewing Mears, who is thus afflicted, said to an enquirer: “ The huskiness and loss of power of articulation so common arrnpg us r are largely due to tfif.use of" Steam for heating. The steam cannot be properly regulated, and The tdtaperature becomes too high. A person living in this atmospere has all the cells of the lungs opßn, and when he passes into the open air he i sun duly exposed. The affliction is qnite .common among the men who occupy offices in the new b uildings, wji’.ck up with all modern improvements. The substitution of electric - light for gas has wrought a change to which people have not yet adapted themselves. The heat arising from amumber of gas jets will quickly raise the temperature of a room, and unconsciously people relied upon that means of heating to some extent. Yery Jittle warmth, however, is produced by the electric light, and when a man reads by an. incandescent light he at times finds himself becoming chilly, and wonders why it is. Too hot during the day and too cold at night are conditions which should be avoided.”