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Title: Plain home talk about the human system--the habits of men and women--the cause and prevention of disease--our sexual relations and social natures
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Foote. Edward B(liss), 1829-1906. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Medicine, Popular Marriage
Publisher: New York : Murray Hill publishing company (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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all neck-dress at all times, both out as wellas in doors. The fur capes of the women, and the fur and woollentippets of the men, are a fruitful source of bronchial and throat diffi-culties. Many a disease of this kind may be cured by simply leavingoff neck dresses. When considerable care is exercised, colds arecontracted by tender throats and necks, made so by fur and woollen.When a lady or gentlemen enters the house, furs and tippets are laidaside, often when the temperature is colder in-doors with them off,than out of doors with them on. It is next to an impossibility toso manage such neck-dresses as to escape injury in consequence ofthis fact. Especially imprudent is it to put furs and woollens on thenecks of children. It is actually killing them with kindness.They are not, and cannot always be under the eye of an attendant, THE CLOTHES VTE TVEAR. 121 and their little necks, made sensitive by such warm dressing, areaffected in a moment by some unexpected exposure. They may Fig. 37.
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LOOSE-FITTING GARMENTS OP A JAPANESE FAMILY. even go out at times without their tippets, though carefully watch-ed, and then mamma has no idea how Charley or Ida contractedthose horrid colds. Would it not be well for those having the care6 122 CAUSES OF NERVOUS AND BLOOD DERANGEMENTS. of children, and who arc so careful to muffle them up when they goout, to give this matter a little serious reflection, and ask themselveswhen they have done the little folks all up so securely, whether theyhave any guaranty that they will return in the same condition. Ifnot, are you not prepared to acknowledge with me that all thismuffling is attended with injury, rather than benefit? You oftenwonder why the children of the poor do not more often die in winterfrom their exposure to the cold; but the cold seldom kills indigentchildren. Badly ventilated rooms in winter, and bad food in sum-mer, make the mortality of this class greater; but they do not sufferwith those coughs and colds, bronchial difficult

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