A soulless, skyless, catarrhal day, as if that bustling dowager, old mother Earthwhat with match-making in spring, and fetes champetres in summer, and dinner-giving in autumnwas fairly worn out, and put to bed with the influenza, under wet blankets and the cold-water cure.

Baths - 117 The Cold-water Plunge Bath - 118 Sea Bathing - 120 The Shower Bath - 123 Ablution, or Sponging - 125 The Warm Bath - 188 Chap.

Bath, the cold-water, plunge-bath, 118. , the shower, 123. , the warm, 128. , rules for the use of the warm bath, 131. Bathing, sea, 120. , and cleanliness, during infancy, 72. , during childhood, 75. Bleeding, from leech-bites, how controlled, 113. , from the navel string, 201. , navel, 203.

Reflecting on it, having it thrust in one's face at every book-counter, railway-stand, Sunday-school library, and parlor centre-table, it is hard not to wish for some supernatural authority to come sweeping through the wards, and prescribe sharp cold-water treatment all around to half drown all such writers and quite drown all their books!

Febrile ailment and cold-water applications.

" "I think," said the cooper, trying to look sober, "you will find the cold-water treatment efficacious in removing the plague spots, as you call them.

"However, what you need just now is not a discourse, but a bath and court-plaster and witch-hazel and cold-water bandages," Mr. Bronson said; "so to bed with you.

I then resumed the cold-water treatment, and he got gradually better, and was sent to light duty on February 18, 1882.

I put him under the cold-water treatment for a short time, and about the middle of March again applied a strong blister over the coronet up to the fetlock.

He was not a bit the worse except a slight difficulty in his vision, a singing in his ears, and a sprained thumb, which he kept in a cold-water bandage, while he drank lots of tea, and listened to the babel of voices talking and speculating of nothing but the fight, and how Williams would have given in after another fall (which he didn't in the least believe), and how on earth the doctor could have gotten to know of itsuch bad luck!

He wrote, however, an essay "On the External Use of Water," in which he seems to have partly anticipated the method of the cold-water cure.

4. "The cold-water ordeal:" this need not be explained, since it is looked on as supreme when a witch is in question.

" Fifteen minutes before the appointed time Louis Mitchell was fidgeting nervously outside the Filbert Street cold-water "walk-up" known as Geraldine Manor, wondering if Miss Dunlap would notice his clothes.

Habitual brandy-drinkers give out sooner than cold-water men, and we have seen fainting red noses by the score succumb to the weather, when boys addicted to water would crow like chanticleer through a long storm of sleet and snow on the freezing Alps.

Besides the epoch of the cold-water bath, the hard bed slightly covered, and other follies unconditionally recommended, had begun, in consequence of some misunderstood suggestions of Rousseau, under the idea of bringing us nearer to nature and delivering us from the corruption of morals.

A Cold-Water Battery.

A Cold-Water Battery.

I used to throw things at his door, and once I tried a cold-water douche from the pitcher, when he was very hard to waken; but that was rather brutal, and after a while I used to let him roar himself awake; he would always do it, if I trusted to nature; and before our junior year was out

Then with a quick series of movements, reaching forward as soon as the kettle boiled, she filled the teapot, emptied the rest of the boiling water into the flashing nickel basin of the washstand, set down the kettle, turned and shut a cold-water tap, and invited the children to wash before supping.