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Death from drinking cold water…
January 23, 2010 by TimHughes
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History contains a rather interesting catalog of both health remedies and health warnings which seem quaint or down right silly in today’s world. I have read several times in early newspapers of death being caused by drinking water which was too cold, but the item below from Baltimore’s “Niles’ Register” newspaper of August 2, 1834 has a somewhat comical twist.
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Filed under: Death Reports, Pre Civil War, Unusual, Fun & Bizarre
Tagged: humor, humorous, Niles' Register
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