A NEW FRIEND.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 48, Issue 83, 18 January 1928, Page 6

A NEW FRIEND.

"NEVER MIND A DRAUGHT." Never mind a draught. Welcome it like a friend: This was the essence of Dr. Leonard Hill's presidential address to the Sanitary Inspectors' Conference at Plymouth; England, when ho combated the Victorian idea that, wrapping up was the way to prevent Raids. A medical officer told me the other day, said Dr. Hill, "that he had never seen in his sanatorium any dl result arise from exposure to cold. Cases get their feet wet in the garden, do not change all day, and suffer no dl effect. When the man who has been cured by openair treatment at a sanatorium goes out for a walk, h© rejoices in the wind and loves to feel it sweep through his clothing and incite him to take vigorous exercise. He sleeps by a window wide open. He regards cold as his friend and the energiser of bodily health, vigour, and appetite. Russians who, alter a steam bath, roll in the snow, are not subject to catarrh- or rheumatism through exposure to cold. The view has been commonly held that pneumonia results from exposure to cold, and the low«necked blouses of women were once called pneumonia blouses. There is little or no evidence m favour of this view."