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and women, carry with them to their bath a clean change 

 of underHnen to be put on after their scrub. A Russian 

 bath is similar to an English Turkish bath, except that 

 there is no extremely hot room, and that a much freer use 

 is made of hot water, which of course gives off a lot of 

 steam. 



Russia is a country in which, despite the inclemency 



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FIG. 37. Church at Borisoglebsk. 



[M. H. H. 



of the climate, there is very little chronic rheumatism or 

 rheumatic gout. In the Northampton village of less than 

 five hundred inhabitants where our home is, I have seen 

 during the course of a day, more cases of "rheumatics" 

 than I have met with in Russia in six months. At Crick, 

 as in many other places in England, rheumatism affecting 

 the joints is an almost constant accompaniment of old age. 



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