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![[ 75° ] |«t'- • EFFECTS OF COLD. When cold weather is extremely fevere, and a perfon is expofed to it for a long time at once, it proves mortal, in confequence of its congealing the blood in the extremities, and forcing too great a proportion of it up to the brain ; fo that the patient dies of a kind of apoplexy, which is preceded by a great fleepinefs. The traveller, in this fituation, who finds himfelf begin to grow drowfy, fhould redouble his efforts to extricate himfelf from the imminent danger he is expofed to. This fleep, which he might confider as fome alleviation of his fufferings, w'ould, if indulged, prove his lail. Such violent effedls of cold are happily not very common in this country j it frequently happens, however, that the hands or feet of travellers are fo benumbed or frozen, as to be in danger of a mor- tification, if proper means are not ufed to prevent it. The chief danger in this fituation arifes from the fudden application of heat. It is very common, when the hands or feet are pinched with cold, to hold them to the fire, yet reafon and obfervation fliew, tliat this is a mofl dangerous and imprudent conduff. Every peafant knows, if frozen meat, fruits, or roots of any kind be brought near the fire, or put into warm water, they will be deftroyed, by rottennefs, or a kind of mortification j and that the](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21721907_0794.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
