1 VOL. I, NO. IS
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ply slept with his chamber window slishtly

 raised, and used the cold bath in winter as in summer, on rising from bed, and he rarely sui. lered during term of eighty years, from colds.

 MT. Jefferson followed a similar plan, bathing

 hls feet at all seasons, in cold water as he rose from bed, and he tells us in one of his letters that throughout life of eighty odd years he dld not suffer from cold or cough oftener than once in every eight or ten years of that period. other names might bo mentioned to prove be. yond question the practicabilitv of ayoiding coughs and colds, and their dangerous conse. qu7nces, but 'tis already clear that it has been done' and that it may bo done again. But our object was to call the attention of those to whom the nurture of children is assigned, to the lmproprlcty of exposing their nccks with. out sufficient protection to the severity of the weather, the adsurdity of which conduct is more apparent when it is considered that stout and hearty men take good care to use cravats. or stocks, during the mldest weater Dr. Eb. erie has taken up the subject, however, and we copy from one of the northern journals his no. tons on the case:

 Warm Clothing, vs. Croup.-Eborle in his excellent work on the diseases of children. says the mode of clothing infants with their necks and upper part of the breast bare, cannot fall to render them more subject to the inf1u. cnce ot cold, and its dangerous consequences. In this country, especially among the Germans who are in the habit of clothing their children Tn such manner as to leave no part of the breast and lower portion of the neck exposed. Group IS an exceeding raro disease. Whereas, Tn cltles' or among people who adopt the mode of dress common in cities, this fightful disease ls' Tn proportion to the population, vastly more frotucnt. During practice of six years among the Pennsy lvania Dutch," he met with but 2 single case of this affection; and this case oc. cured in family, who had adopted the present mode suffering the neck and upper part Of the breast to remain uncovered.