Taking Colds

■YIiiIe it is well known that most of onr accurate diseases result from cokls - or closcd porcs - it is important to so care for ourselves as to avoid thcm. It is not too niucli to say that many, iL not most of our colds, are contraeted in cousequenoe of iindue efforts to avoid thein, or from falso ideas in refereoue to the proper mean3 to be employed. A larger per ceutof those are contracted from exposure to heat thau from cold, as the moro remote cause, sinoo these result from a losa of the poise of tho system, or from a disturbance of the usual circulation of the fluids. An unusually warm room - we endure a higlior temperatura in oursitting-rounis iu the winter than would. le tolerated iu the heated tena- o debüitates the whole system tliat it is umble to resist the eftects of unusual coldness, unable to rally when exposed, while the skin is so relaxed and weakenod tliat when the pores are closed by a sudden cliill, they remain so, froin tho absence of au ability to react. Indeed, those most exposed to the extremes of our cliinate, who are most iu the open air, really have the fewest oolds. Profuso perspiration is not as much the cause of the colds as the attending debility, wheu it is caused by violent or weakening eöbrt or teil. It may be remarked, also, that colds, so called, are contrae tod by the side of a hot stove, appareutly, either froin an unexpected curreut ot' cold air, or still more likely, from the synipathy of the throat and stomach, the soreness of the throat, etc., boing the oaly evideuce of 6uch a cold. Tliis is explainable on the suppositiou tliat the equilibrinm is not secured by suflicieut exercise, and that the surplus heat produced by tlie cxcessive uso of heaters- flret inflaming tho stomuch - is reflected on tlie throat, nasal passages, etc. - not uulike some of the resul ts of an ordinary cold. It follows tliat too much artilicial heat, with iudolence, are ainong the most prominunt cauces of culds.