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a sheet. If you begin with tepid water, you will soon 

 be able to bear cold, as after the first shock the cold 

 disappears. The water must not reach higher than your 

 hips, rather under than over. The time for a Sitz bath 

 varies from ten to twenty minutes, not longer, during 

 which you may read or smoke ; but then you will need 

 sleeves, for it is essential that you should be covered all 

 the time. I often take a cup of coffee in this bath, it 

 saves time in breakfasting. In the illustration, the 

 blanket has been turned back to show the right position. 



THE HOT-AIR OR INDIAN BATH. 



In case of an attack of cold or influenza, or a neces- 

 sity for sweating off a few pounds, or especially after a 

 severe fall, there is no bath so effective and so simple 

 as the hot-air or Indian bath. This is made with a 

 wooden-bottomed kitchen chair, a few blankets, a tin 

 cup, and a claret-glass of spirits of wine. For want of 

 spirits of wine you might use a dozen of Price's night 

 lights. 



Take a wooden-bottomed chair, and place it in a 

 convenient part of the bedroom, where a fire should be 

 previously lighted. Put under the chair a narrow 

 metal cup or gallipot, if it will stand fire filled with 

 spirits of wine. Let the bather strip to his drawers, and 

 sit down on the chair with a fold of flannel under him, 

 for the seat will get extremely hot put on his knees a 

 slop-basin, with a sponge and a little cold water. Then 

 take four blankets or rugs, and lay them, one over his 

 back, one over his front, and one on each side, so as to 

 cover him closely in a woollen tent, and wrap his head 

 up in flannel or silk if he is cold or shivering put his 



