Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 July 1878 — Danger in the Ice-Pitcher. [ARTICLE]

Danger in the Ice-Pitcher.

About this time cautions in regard to the use of ice-water are in season. An exchange remarks, most truly, “The number of immortal beings who go hence to return no more, on account of an injudicious use of ice-water, can hardly be estimated.” No doubt drinking ice-water arrests digestion just as surely as a refrigerator would arrest perspiration. It drives the natural heat from the stomach, checks the flow of

gastric juice, and’ shocks and weakens the delicate organs witb which it comes in contact. Especially is it dangerous to drink freely of ice-water when the body is overheated and the whole system fatigued. Wait a while in such cases, even enduring some discomfort meanwhile with patience, and then take a swallow or two slowly. You will find yourself, on the whole, more surely relieved of thirst and heat in this way, and secured from many dangers which often follow the injudicious and abundant use of ice-cold drinks.— Harper's Bazar.