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foot before ascending the Passes. Too much cannot be said 

 in praise of the flannel cummerbund. I have seen obstinate 

 bowel-complaints cured by its adoption alone, and it is no less 

 essential to females. 



Cold feet is a very general complaint among new comers, 

 particularly ladies ; the remedy is simple : the adoption of 

 lamb's wool stockings, which ought to form part of the stock 

 of every visitor, whether in good or indifferent health. 



A stock of stout shoes and boots, should not be forgotten. 

 In the wettest weather, a person watching his opportunity, 

 and armed with thick-soled shoes, may always contrive to 

 get a dry walk in the intervals between the showers, not 

 forgetting, however, the precaution of changing both shoes 

 and stockings on his return home.* 



For some time after arriving on the hills, invalids should 

 avoid exposure to the night air, and should indeed never be 

 out after sun-set. The reduction of temperature, which fol- 



At page 118 of the fifth edition of his valuable work, Dr. Gully 

 expresses himself in the following energetic terms, as to the power of 

 Hydropathy in the cure of dyspepsia. 



" However strong, however general the prejudice, and however true 

 it may be, that in diseases of organs, distant from the stomach, medi- 

 cation may be curative ; I cannot but repeat the strong conviction I 

 have, that medication never did, never will, never can, cure a case of 

 chronic dyspepsia, and that, short of organic change, the hygienic water 

 treatment seldom, if ever, fails to cure it. — Ed. 



* It is not a httle remarkable that most people who adopt this, or 

 similar precautions, are but Httle affected by the wet on the hills, though 

 unable to bear it in the low country. When lately in Europe, for the 

 recovery of my health, I never had my feet wet for however short a 

 time, without an attack of diarrhoea. On the hiUs, it often happens that 

 I am unavoidably wet through, twice or thrice a day, during the mon- 

 soons ; but, taking the precaution of shifting my clothes as speedily as 

 practicable, I have never suffered the slightest inconvenience. 



