How To Avoid Taking Cold

Prom the Sanitarian. A cold is simply a developer of a diseasod condition whioh may have been latent or requiring only soma íavoring condition o buret out into tbe flaiiie of disease. That this is usually the correct view of a cold as a disease producing agent under all ordinary circumstanees inay be made plain by reilection upon personal experience, even to the most ordinary uuderstanding. When the huinan body is at lts prime - with youth, vigor, purity and a good constitution on its side - no degree of ordinary exposure to cold gives rise to any unpleasant effects. All the ordinary precautions against colds, coughs and rheumatic pains may be disregarded and no ill-effects ensue. But let the blood become impure, let the body become deranged trom any acquired disorder, or lot the vigor begin to wane, and the infirtnaties of age be feit by occasional deraugements in some vital part, either from inherited or actual abuses, and the action of cold will excite more or lesa disorder of some kind, and the foim of this disorder, or the disease that will ensne, will be determined by the kind of pre-existiner blood-impurity, or the pre-existiug fault of the organic processes. It iullows froin these facts and congiderations that the secret of avoiding the unpleaeant coiisequences thought to spring wholly from the aotion of oold upon the body has very little dependente upon exposuie, but a great deal pon an impure and weakcondition of all the vital processes. In other worda, with an average or superior constitntion and an intelligent observance oí all the laws of health, men and wouien could not take cold if tbey wanted to ; they raight be exposed to the action of cold to a degree equal to the beast i f the fiold, and with like impunity. But in case of persons with fpeble constitutiuns, and who disregard knowingly or otberwise the conditions of healthy existence, no degree of care will prevent the t&king of cold, as it is termed. They may live in houses regulated with all the precisión of ahot-house, they may cover themsel ves with the most highly protective clothing the market provides, and yet they wiil take cold. I don't think the consumptive person lives, or ever will live, even if kept in a temperature absolutely uniform, and clothed in a whoüy faultless inanner, ia wbom the well known signs of one cold af ter another will not be apparent. But, on the other hand, there are those who, like the late Sir Henry Holland, of good constitutions and living in accordance with the laws of health, may travel as he did from the trnpios to the árctica again and again, ciad only in an ordinarydresscoat, and yet scarcely know what it is to have a cold or sickness of any kind. The truth is, avoid taking cold from ordinary or even extraordinary exposure the vital processes must be made strong enough to rise above the untoward influence of oxternal conditions.