CHILBLAINS AND "CODDLING."

Clutha Leader, Volume XLI, Issue 1, 10 July 1914, Page 2

CHILBLAINS AND "CODDLING."

Remember that coddling and overheated rooms, sitting over big fires and excluding every breath of air from living and sleeping rooms go a long way towards encouraging the verv trouble we wish to cure. Cold baths'for those who can take them, or a cold sponge followed by a brisk rub with dry. rough towels, will help tljp circulation.' it will toughen and harden the body and improve the physique, and so brace up the general health. It will enable you to resist cold and to overcome that painful sensitiveness to every draught whiclii makes so many people unable to enjoy the keen, sharp air of winter. People who have suffered badly from chilblains in their childhood have in many cases grown out of them in later life by paying careful attention to hygiene and: robust habits of living, and'although it is generally considered that a tendencv to chilblains is constitutional it does not necessarily follow that they are incurable.—Marie Blanche, in 'Good Health.'