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 2. By keeping up a brisk circulation in the blood-vessels of the feet, which will be the best preserved by avoiding tight boots or shoes, by moving the feet constantly. Or when this is impracticable, from a confined situation, and two or more persons are exposed together

3. By placing their feet, without shoes, against each other's breasts.

If, notwithstanding these precautions, a person should be rendercdrendered [sic] sleepy or insensible by cold, he must exert himself; and move about quickly; for if he should sleep in the cold he will inevitably perish.

The person thus affected should be kept from the fire; for acrid applications of every kind are very injurious.

Keep if possible in motion, and take care if possible not to go near a fire or into any warm place, so as to occasion a sudden heat, till some time after you have been able to procure dry clothes.

A child should never be left alone in any situation where he may be exposed to the