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An Injurious Practice

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Parent Issue
Day
11
Month
February
Year
1881
Copyright
Public Domain
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'l'ln' practice of enting snow aod ioo, so i-'iiiiiniiii Hiiiun ilic Bchool-obildrcD of the northern slatos, is, paya the Rural New Yorker, a fruit f ui cause of eatarrh. It is cimniKiii Id see boys aml p,hs devour a snow-ball astbough it wcre u tpple, or an iciele as tlioimh it wcre a bit ol'eandy. Tlic hard palate whicli forma ilic roof of the nioüth Uk Ibrins the H'Mjr ol'the nostrils. and r no tliirkcr (han pastebüard. The cliilliiig effect ol'icc and snow brougtrt l'reely in contact with thil thin pariition, the np ler covering of which is i icnativa seoretng ujemlirano, made ii' almost entircly ui' fine bloodvesjscls and norvts, prodnoea i congestiüii, oiben followcd by chronic in llanjinatinn. As a eOMMMM, thce ice KnoweatiiiR boya und kí's 'Iways have " cold.s io the hcad " and running noses. This is the foundation and origin of one of' the mo.st disagroeablc, persistent and incurable affeetions to whicli the psople of the north are subject - nasal catarrh. ('atarrh is said to Iead to consumption. Whether tliis is mi or nut, tbe ohilliog of the nasal ineuibrane", a part of whose f'unction it is to warm the air on its passage to the lungs, cannotbut injure those organs, partioulaily in persona ota delicate oonctitutioo.

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Ann Arbor Courier
Old News