perspiration; this will infallibly make the disorder worse, in the
same manner as confining inoculated persons in warm rooms would make
their small-pox more violent.

Perhaps there would be scarcely such a thing as a bad cold, if
people, when they found it coming on, were to keep cool, and avoid
wine and strong liquors, and confine themselves for a short time to
a simple diet of vegetable food, drinking only toast and water.
Instances are by no means uncommon, where a heat of the nostrils,
difficulty of breathing, a short, tickling cough, and other
symptoms, threatening a violent cold, have gone off entirely in
consequence of this plan being pursued.

Colds would be much less frequent, were we to take more pains to
accommodate our dress to the season: if we were warmly clothed in
cold weather, our excitability would not be accumulated by the
action of the cold. If a greater proportion of females fall victims
to this disease, is it not because, losing sight, more than men, of
its primary purpose, they regulate their dress solely by fantastic
ideas of elegance? If happily, as is observed by Dr. Beddoes, our
regret should recall the age of chivalry, to break the spell of
fashion would be an atchievement worthy the most gallant of our
future knights. Common sense has always failed in the adventure; and
our ladies, alas! are still compelled, whenever the enchantress
waves her wand, to expose themselves half undressed, to the fogs and
frosts of our climate.

Besides the effects of the air, we ought by no means to be
indifferent with regard to what we take into the stomach as food and
drink; since these have even a greater influence on our health, than