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and effective manner, both by actively relieving the con- 
gested blood, and sending it coursing through the veins; 
thus diffusing and thinning the poison, while at the same 
time the pores of the skin are fully opened and are aiding 
in giving prompt relief. While considering this subject, 
it would be well to remember that 
A General Application of Hot Water 
would save many a limb, many a life, and many a doctor’s 
bill. People, as a rule, even highly-educated persons, 
have not sufficient confidence in themselves, and but too 
frequently send for the doctor, who, perhaps, knows less 
about. their own peculiar ailment than they should do 
themselves. 
Many a well-meaning practitioner has brought a limb 
from bad to worse, by using his “stock ” remedies, or by 
advising cold water applications, until in the end the poor 
limb is taken off. And yet it might have been saved, and 
made as good as ever, in many cases, by rnere rest, and 
no applications whatever ; while in-.most instances the 
cure would have been rapid and effectual had Nature’s 
own remedy been applied from the first. 
Moist Warmth Alone 
generated life, maintains the function of life, and that alone 
when rationally applied effectually restores deranged 
members. In sprains, it relieves the painful part, by 
thinning the congested blood, and again setting it in 
motion, bringing into its place the new and life-giving 
fluid, which immediately sets to work in renewing the 
bruised tissues,.and carrying off the worn and wasted 
cells. Congestion — inactivity — is death ; movement — 
circulation—is life; and circulation of the blood is only 
secured by moist heat. 
