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tion may not bo interfered with, at least one hour, and better still two or 

 three, should elapse between a hearty meal and bathing. It is easily seen 

 that eleven in the forenoon, four in the afternoon, and just before retiring 

 at night are the best times for bathing. 



Some like a cold dash on rising in the morning. Very few, comparatively, 

 can stand such a shock to their nervous system. Let those who enjoy it, 

 and exjDerienco a glow during the operation, continue the practice ; but let 

 them be careful how they urge its adoption upon those whose nerves possess 

 a less degree of resistance. 



Any one desiring to acquire the habit of a cold bath every morning 

 should begin the custom in the warm weather, continuing it during the 

 winter, and not commence it in the latter season. 



If you are perspiring from walking, rowing or other exercise, as you 

 reach the place of bathing do not (as some advise) sit down on the bank to 

 cool off before entering the water. Doff your clothes and dash in as soon as 

 possible, only being careful to keep up the exercise Avithout intermission 

 after you are in the water. In this way you continue the glow which you 

 experienced from the previous exercise. 



Ten, or at longestfifteen, minutes in the water should suffice for the strong- 

 est aqueously inclined urchin. Strive alwaj^s to leave the water before you 

 feel chilly, or certainly at the first approach of any such sensation, and con- 

 tinue or rekindle the glow by a vigorous rubbing with a coarse towel. 



Turkish superstition says wet your head thoroughly upon entering the 

 bath ; we say do it to prevent rush of blood to the brain, which event may 

 cause death. 



Einally, as bathing, apparently a simple process, is not without its dan- 

 gers, we would warn all boys not to begin the practice too early in the 

 season, or to repeat it too often daily. Many have found an early grave by 

 over indulgence, while others have endured long years of suffering from the 

 obscure effects of excessive bathing. No ph^^sician should consider it below 

 his calling to give specific directions to all seeking his advice as to when and 

 how long they should bathe. 



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It is quite worth while to mention the two or three preventives of 

 great heat, especially at night, which in tropical climates Europeans have 

 been taught by long and varied experience to adopt, and which only seem 

 absurd to Englishmen at home from ignorance of the whole subject. The 

 first and foremost of these is to keep quietly at home out of the sun and its 

 temporarily injurious light. Englishmen in the West or East Indies, or in 

 China, would be considered simply crazy if they walked about with the 

 thermometer marking 100° in the sun, with their necks unprotected, as 

 Londoners have been doing all this week. Experienced residents would 

 tell them that no change of dress, no attention to diet, no carefulness about 



