Jasper Banner, Volume 1, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 January 1855 — How to Prevent a Cold. [ARTICLE]

How to Prevent a Cold.

Immunity from coughs, bronchitis ‘ and influenza, is to be obtained in a certain way, and in only one way. i As long as the heat of the surface is i sufficient to neutralize the cold of the ; surrounding embracing atmosphere, j so long is it impossible for the person to have a cold. The vigor, resistance positive character of the cutis, must alwayes be gater than the air in which we move. Air loaded with vapor, is a good conductor of caloric.— Such an atmosphere rapidly robs all heated bodies of their warmth; and all animat bodies that are unable to furnish heat as fast and a little faster than the air can carry it,off, will take cold. This loss o€haaton the skin, leaves the blood-vessels of the surface feeble ; —unable to circulate the blood, as a consequence the blood accumulates in the warm internal organs, and those internal organs, whose vesels are weakest, will yeald to the sudden fullness, the afflux will increase until active congestion or inflamation ensues.

Moderate clothing, much exposure to the air, cold water baths, much dry friction, and a calm, tranquil, ericumspect mind, will as certainly prevent colds;‘caughs, bronchitis, etc., in any climate that God ever made, as warm nights will prevent frosts. The sur face must be superior to the conducting power of the air. And this cons'itutes the immunity that all require. The reason why so many in this country dislike the climate, and vvliy so many have coughs, is that the class of people who have feeble surfaces, are not more constantly immersed in the free air; not calm in mind; are not fond of bathing and do not enjoy it. The people must have the air that God has made, they must labor, play and sleep in it as the birds must do. They must not shut it from them, but jvelcome it, and the simple habit will compel the surface to elaborate an amount of heat that Will always be superior to wind, however cold and searching.