Dress, with reference to heat : being a lecture written for, and published by the Australian Health Society / by Walter Balls-Headley.
- Balls-Headley, Walter.
- Date:
- 1876
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Dress, with reference to heat : being a lecture written for, and published by the Australian Health Society / by Walter Balls-Headley. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.
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![And the children of northern countries and of the poor, of which the grown up men and women ai-e apt to be so robust, are quoted as exam{)les : but who can tell the proportion of deaths residting from this hardening ]irocess; for it is only the strong that survive. When then the child is taken out of long clothes, he should be carefully j)ieserved from the chills and changes to which he is now liable. In winter, he should wear a well-washed fine flannel shirt next the skin; then his linen, a flannel petticoat, and a dark- coloured woollen dress over all. Drawers of flannel shoidd be worn as soon as may be. His legs, being specially subject to chill, should be clothed with red or dark coloured worsted stockings, and warm, strong loose boots ; or in woollen socks and worsted gaiters. The feet should be felt to be always warm. The head, which it is never necessary to heat, is always to be well protected alike from ■cold wind, and warm sun : and thus, in winter, the hat should be of felt or some othei' material not easily penetrated by the wind ; and in colour, in our uncertainty of the sun, need not be dark. In the summer, a thin woollen material, as merino, shoiild be worn next the skin, to ])revent chill in the evaporation of perspiration, when a cold change occurs; the rest of the dress beinff lighter, hut the legs well covered for the same reason, and extra clothing used on cold days. Drawers of unglazed calico or thin flannel are always desirable when ])ossil:)le, that chill fi'oni wind may not affect the bowels. A hat of several layers of thick white calico or other cotton material, and broad in the brim is most suitable ; for the nape of the neck is thus protected froui the sun's rays, should the head fall on one side in the perambulator, or the child sleep. Excessive sun should be kept from the head by a hood to the ])erambulator, or by not going out till its violence is abated. The parts of a child specially to be protected from chill are the bowels and feet; and from heat, the head and neck. Children, that have played and become wet with perspiration at the decline of day or before prolonged i-est, should be undressed <[uickly, wiped over with a sjionge squeezed out of cold water, rubbed dry and })ut into dry clothes; a woollen material being](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2227215x_0034.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
