Word: air
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...their power to make the visit of the opposing nine a pleasant one. At one o'clock the game was called while the clouds which enshrouded the surrounding mountains seemed to presage a repetition of the Yale and Amherst ???. A strong wind was blowing from left field and the air was damp and chilly. The pitching was thus more uncertain than usual. Both ??? and Nichols seemed to have much difficulty in making their curves confirm to the fitful gusts of wind. The outfield was very soft, and many of the base hits would have been good for two basers...
...houses. Especially necessary is good drainage, as most cases of typhoid fever and diphtheria can be traced to defects in this. Bed-rooms and studies should be provided with open fire-places, as all other methods of heating are open to serious objection. Furnace heat raises the air far above a healthful temperature, besides robbing it of a large proportion of its oxygen...
...care of the person, bathing is a matter of the greatest importance. A sponge bath daily, either cold or tepid, may be considered as a necessity. Hot baths every day are extremely debilitating and otherwise injurious. The clothing should be adapted to the person, one in the open air much, requiring less than an individual of sedentary habits. The tendency is to wear too much clothing. We are much better off than our grandfathers in the matter of fabrics adapted to changes in weather. Gauzes and light-woolens take the place of stiff linen and cotton clothing of half...
...hours. Young people need more. All persons after severe mental or physical effort require extra sleep. Too much sleep is injurious, and must be gauged according to the individual. Ventilation is of vital importance in sleeping-rooms, as the maximum amount of carbonic dioxide that air can contain without fatal results is 1-1,000, and in one night we inhale about five cubic feet of this poisonous...
...Minot urged the necessity of regular open-air exercise, and gave peculiar emphasis to this, especially as a preventive of consumption. Symptoms of coming disease are hard to interpret, general wasting being a sign of chronic affections; fever, severe chill or vomiting are the accompaniments of many of the more acute diseases. The lecturer closed with short directions to those who are in any way exposed to the disease, pulmonary consumption. His directions here were simply to live in obedience to the laws of hygiene, being much in the open air and not subjecting the system to protracted exertion...