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shun damp ones, and by all means not to continue long inrooms that have been lately washed.

SUDDEN TRANSITIONS FEOM HEAT TO COLD.

But nothing so frequently obstructs the perspiration assudden transitions from heat to cold. Colds are seldomcaught unless when people have been too much heated.Heat rarities the blood, quickens the circulation, and increasesthe perspiration ; but when these are suddenly checked, theconsequences must be bad. It is indeed impossible forlaborers not to be too hot upon some occasions ; but it isgenerally in their power to put on their clothes when theyleave off work, to make choice of a dry place to rest them-selves in, and to avoid sleeping in the open fields. Theseeasy rules, if observed, would save many useful lives.

Nothing is more common than for people when hot todrink freely of cold small liquors. This conduct is extremelydangerous. Thirst indeed is hard to bear, and the inclina-tion to gratify that appetite frequently gets the better of rea-son, and makes us do what our judgment disapproves.Every peasant knows, if his horse be permitted to drink hisbelly full of cold water after violent exercise, and be imme-diately put into the stable, or suffered, to remain at rest, that itwill kill him. This they take the utmost care to prevent.It were well if they were equally attentive to their ownsafety.

Thirst may be quenched many ways without swallowinglarge quantities of cold liquor. The fields afford variety ofacid fruits and plants, the very chewing of which wouldabate thirst. Water kept in the mouth for some time, andspit out again, if frequently repeated, will have the sameeffect. If a bit of bread be eaten along with a few mouthfulsof water, it will both quench thirst more effectually, and makethe danger less. When a person is extremely hot, a mouth-ful of brandy, or other spirits, ought to be preferred to anything else, if it can be obtained. But if any one has been sofoolish, when hot, as to drink freely of cold liquor, he oughtto continue his exercise, at least, till what he drank bethoroughly warmed upon his stomach.

It would be tedious to enumerate all the bad effects whichflow from drinking cold thin liquors when the body is hot.Sometimes this has occasioned immediate death. Hoarseness,