RULES FOR HEALTH | AdventAI

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 13, 1879

RULES FOR HEALTH.

We should not leave our souls to the ministers nor our health to the doctors. So the following simple rules for the preservation of health, especially through the changeable seasons of autumn, winter, and spring, should not be left entirely to health journals. We are right in the midst of the time when they apply—

Never lean with the back against anything that is cold.

Never begin a journey until breakfast has been eaten.

Never take warm drinks, and then immediately go out into the cold air.

Keep the back—especially between the shoulder blades—well covered; also the chest well protected.

In sleeping in a cold room, establish the habit of breathing through the nose, and never with the mouth wide open.

Never go to bed with cold or damp feet; always toast them by the fire ten or fifteen minutes before going to bed.

Never omit regular bathing; for unless the skin is in an active condition the cold will close the pores, and favor congestion and other diseases.

After exercise of any kind, never ride in an open carriage nor near the window of a car for a moment. It is dangerous to health and even to life.

When hoarse speak as little as possible until the hoarseness is recovered from, else the voice may be permanently lost, or difficulties of the throat be produced.

Merely warm the back by a fire, and never continue keeping the back exposed to the heat after it has become comfortably warm. To do so is debilitating.

When going from a warm atmosphere into a colder one, keep the mouth closed, so that the air may be warmed by its passage through the nose ere it reaches the lungs.

Never stand still in cold weather, especially after having taken a slight degree of exercise; and always avoid standing upon ice or snow, or where the person is exposed to a cold wind.—Albany Argus.