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The Museum Gazette 



Never bathe if you feel chilly and disinclined. If you are 

 heated never wait to cool, but get in as soon as you can. 



Many persons will allege a feeble circulation as a reason 

 for not bathing. So it is, if the bath is to be protracted. 

 Judiciously managed, however, cold bathing is a sort of 

 gymnastics for the forces of the circulation. Let the first 

 few bathes be dips only and taken on hot days, and if need 

 be, after exercise. Most persons will find that with care in 

 these respects the ability to secure good reaction afterwards 

 rapidly increases and the circulation is correspondingly 

 strengthened. 



Never bathe directly after a full meal, but there is no harm 

 in doing so if the meal has been a light one. Those who 

 are weakly will do well to take a biscuit and glass of milk as 

 a preparation for a bathe. 



After bathing, dress as quickly as possible and take exercise. 

 When quite warm a meal should follow, but never go into the 

 house to sit down until reaction is well established. 



For those whom it seems to suit there is no objection what- 

 ever to bathing every day. 



The tonic effect of sea air and bathing is to many persons 

 productive of inconvenience during the first few days. The 

 beneficial effects of the first week of the holiday are often lost 

 for want of due attention to a precaution which our grand- 

 mothers were always careful to insist upon. The dose should 

 be taken before the first bathe. 



In connection with seaside recreations, and especially with 

 boating and bathing, it is not wise wholly to forget the 

 possible occurrence of Accidents. 



In the case of a person rescued from the water in an 

 apparently drowned condition, the following measures should 

 be promptly taken. If the body be that of a child, it may 

 be held up for a few seconds (but not longer) by the legs 

 to allow the water to run out from the mouth and throat. 



