ON CATCHING COLD. 



Too MUCH ATTEXTIOX cannot be pair] to the proper ventilation of sleep- 

 ing-rooms. In too many cases this important subject is entirely neglected. 

 The sleeper retires to rest in an apartment from which every effort has 

 been made to exclude the outer air until it seems almost hermeticall}- 

 ed and rises with a dull headache, and a feverish, unrefreshed sensa- 

 tion to go about the duties of the day. 



ON CATCHING COLD. 



It is a very common, but a very great, mistake to attach little import- 

 ance to catching cold. How frequently we hear the remark in reference to 

 some one being indisposed, "Oh, it's nothing; only a severe cold." Con- 

 sidering that in adults severe cold is the cause of one-half " the ills that 

 flesh is heir to," it will readily be understood that colds with children are 

 <>f the greatest consequence, for, in the language of one whose name is the 

 synonym for nursing, " It is as easy to put out a sick baby's life as it is to 

 put out the flame of a candle." 



The most common kind of a cold is that in the head, professionally 

 ribed as catarrh, which consists of inflammation of the mucous mem- 

 brane of the air passages, and is ordinarily caused by the child having 

 been exposed to a draught, having got its clothes wet and not been able 

 to have them changed, or by not being sufficiently warmly clad when the 

 b.dy is getting cool after being heated. The latter is the most to be 

 feared, as in this condition the body is incapable, from exhaustion, of 



i ion, and the exposure intensifies the depression. 



\\'KT CLOTHING does not frequently produce " a cold " if the child is 



walking or running about, and is able to get the things changed when the 



ve exercise ceases, and avoids all exposure for some little time ; but 



when- '-x. -it ion has been indulged in, and the body is in a state of perspir- 



Q, then, if the child receives a chill from wet feet or any other cause, 



and -loos not continue its play or its exc /A i> alnio-t 



italilf. 



\Vhen it Ls remembered that a sted cold sometimes pj bron- 



chitis, pneumonia, [uin>y, rheumatism, erysipelas, toothache, neuralgia, 



inflammatory tV 'iinption, etc., it is sraircly possible to imp: 



upon mothers too strongly the great necessity I in this 



and as prevention should 1..- much more easy when the cause of 

 nij.laint is understood, I prop<e to try and explain in ;is simple lan- 

 ! tin- why and \vln-ivt' 



