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and its under surface covered with zinc, or tin, which 

 will prevent it from being burned, and will also 

 radiate the heat. He should have no clothes on, but 

 should have several rugs and blankets wrapped round 

 the chair and himself, and brought tight under it, so that 

 the heated air may not escape. A waterproof sheet 

 considerably assists this operation. A little practice is 

 required to teach one how to get the rugs and blankets 

 fixed. If the hot air be properly kept in, the person 

 taking this bath will, in about ten minutes, break out into 

 a profuse perspiration. He may continue in this state 

 for an hour, which will be as long as most men can bear. 

 A portable Turkish bath may be used. 



A lamp bath will take little more than half the weight 

 off that a regular sweat will do, for its action is confined 

 to the pores of the skin alone, while in the other, there 

 is a general waste of the body, the lungs aiding very 

 largely in carrying off the debris. When walking, waste 

 of tissue rapidly takes place by reason of the blood- 

 vessels of the lungs taking up an increased supply of 

 oxygen, which is then carried through the system and is 

 utilised for removing the carbon of the broken-up 

 material in the form of carbonic acid, which is exhaled 

 from the lungs into the atmosphere. By this process 



