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never wanted an excellent appetite to my supper. My 

 sleep was undisturbed and refreshing, and every thing 

 indicated the return of perfect health. 



All these favourable appearances having continued 

 for some time, and finding my strength to increase 

 daily, I became more venturous, and frequently went 

 out after it was dark, when the evening was cold and 

 raw, and walked alone more than half an hour on the 

 bleak, dreary common which lies before the house 

 where I lodged (the Ganby Inn), to see if my consti- 

 tution was really so much changed as to enable me to 

 support that trial without taking cold. 



I even returned on foot from the play-house, across 

 the common, several times in the evening, lightly 

 dressed, when a cold wind blew over the common, and 

 after I had suffered much from heat in the theatre; 

 but in none of these severe trials did I receive the 

 smallest injury. I never took cold, nor did I experi- 

 ence any feverish heats or restlessness on going to 

 bed after them. I call them severe trials, and as such 

 they will doubtless be considered, when it is recollected 

 that, when I arrived at Harrowgate, I was far from 

 being in a good state of health (having never re- 

 covered from the dangerous illness I had brought on 

 myself six or seven years before in Bavaria, by ex- 

 cessive application to public business), and when it is 

 remembered that at the time when I was exposing 

 myself in this manner to the danger of taking cold 

 I was using the warm bath every day. 



But I am firmly persuaded that it was to the warm 

 bath that I was indebted for my escape ; and it is that 

 persuasion w^hich has induced me to publish this 

 account of my experiment. 



