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cases), or until the intolerable fetid odor of ordinary faeces is abated (this I have 

 found true), and the smell aproximates the smell of healthy infants sucking 

 healthy breasts, and this shows that the ordinary nuisance of fetid (bad smell- 

 ing) fteces is due to a want of working out and cleansing the alimentary canal 

 from its fermenting contents. The urine is clear as champaign, free from 

 deposit and odor, or coloring, 1.015 to 1.020 speciiic gravity, like infants urine. 

 The sweat starts freely after drinking, giving a true bath from center to 

 surface. The skin becomes healthy in feeling and looks. The digestion 

 is correspondingly improved, and with this improvement comes a better 

 working of the machine." [Human system as a whole.] "All thirst and dry 

 mucus membranes disappear in a few days, and a moist condition of the mucus 

 membrane, and the skin, takes place. Ice water in hot weather is not craved for 

 and those who have drank ice water freely are cured of the propensity. 

 Inebriety has a strong foe in the use of hot water." 



Remarks.— The. author finds, by personal use of hot water, nearly all the 

 foregoing statements of the Brief to be facts, and I especially hope the last 

 statement shall so prove that "inebriety has a strong foe in the use of hot 

 water," and I feel almost sorry I cannot attest to tliis from a personal know- 

 ledge, so anxious am I to do good to my fellow-creatures, knowing, as I do, 

 how much confidence the statement of a fact with which the author has positive 

 knowledge helps one to have faith enough in any certain thing to give it a trial. 

 Let none needing it for that purpose, or any other given here and in other parts 

 of this book, for all purposes indicated here or there, fail to try it. The 

 author, however, can give no greater assurance of liis own confidence in the 

 use of hot water than to say that I now arise to go and heat water to take 

 myself, half an hour before my supper, for it does me good, stops all craving 

 for cold drinks and allaj-s all feverishness of stomach, bowels, etc., etc., of this 

 hot day, the thermometer reaching 90'' Fahrenheit in my office at 3 P. M. 



MEASLES. — This is a contagious or "catching" eruption, and would 

 be a disease of less severity were it not sometimes followed by serious results. 

 It is a disease peculiar to childhood, although persons well along in years some- 

 times have them. As children have them easier than adults, it is advisable to 

 take no special precaution to prevent them. They usually appear in from 7 

 to 14 days after exposure. 



Symptoms. -r-'Thc first symptoms of measles are shivering, succeeded by 

 heat, thirst and languor; then follows running at the nose, sneezing, cough; 

 the eyes water and become intolerant of light; the pulse quickens, and the face 

 swells; there are successive heats and chills, and all the usual signs of catarrhal 

 fever. Sometimes the symptoms are so mild as to be scarcely noticeable, and 

 sometimes greatly aggravated; but in any case, at the end of the third day, or a 

 little later, an eruption of a dusky red color appears, first on the forehead and 

 face, and then gradually all over the whole body. In the early stage of this 

 eruption there is little to characterize it, but after a few hours it assumes the 

 peculiar appearance, which once seen can never be mistaken. The little red 

 spots become grouped, as it were, into crescent-shaped patches, which are slightly 



