When, however, he presented himself before Colonel Belford, it was to meet with a welcome so frigid and an address so reserved that a douche of cold water could not have quenched his verbosity more entirely.

For a douche-bath 1 fr.

25 cents to 2 frs., and douche-bath the same, while the others range from 1 fr.

The fine Bathing Establishment contains 30 separate bath-rooms, besides 3 douche-rooms, a spray-room, foot bath-room, &c.

His head lolled upon his shoulder, but a douche of cold water sent a shiver through him, and he started and looked round him.

The nasal douche, so often advised as a home remedy for nasal catarrh, should be used only with great caution, and always in accordance with detailed directions from a physician.

Water N. water; serum, serosity^; lymph; rheum; diluent; agua [Sp.], aqua, pani^. dilution, maceration, lotion; washing &c v.; immersion^, humectation^, infiltration, spargefaction^, affusion^, irrigation, douche, balneation^, bath.

And even then how the blistered, delicate surface yearns for a soothing douche of warm water,perhaps not to be enjoyed for hours!

This done, the animal is chloroformed, and an antiseptic douche played over the foot.

In the first and second methods of operating, directly the actual operation is over, the surface of the wound and both surfaces of the skin-flaps should first be thoroughly douched with a 1 in 1,000 solution of perchloride of mercury.

The operation finished, the foot is again douched in an antiseptic solution, the wound mopped dry with carbolized tow, dressed with either of the dressings described on page 358, and finally bandaged.

We all had our pleasant morning dreams, he said, but they usually disappeared after we had had our cold bath; and the country, which was no longer rich, but poor, must take its douche.

My inspirations carried me into a sphere where she could not follow, and then the exuberance of my heated enthusiasm was met by a cold douche.

V. MISCELLANEOUS.Herbet's Tepid Douche.

* HERBET'S TEPID DOUCHE.

[Illustration: TEPID WATER DOUCHE] To our knowledge, the only apparatus in this line that has been devised was exhibited last year at the exhibition of hygiene in the Loban barracks.

" "He probably doesn't," was Madelene's douche-like reply.

" He had recovered himself, as under a douche of water, at the sharpness of the monk's tone just now.

This cold air simply dropped straight down, after the manner of a douche, on candles and heads below.

In addition to a generous diet, fresh air, and other matters, of which we shall speak more in detail as we proceed, a nasal douche before retiring, of tepid water, with salt enough added to make a weak brine, as half a teaspoonful to a tumbler, will be in most instances of some benefit.

Sousing the stomach at meal-time with a cold douche is only harmful.

I felt on reading this as if I had had a douche bath; then, as a lawyer might have felt who had carried a case for a corporation through the lower court, and when expecting it up before the supreme bench, had learned that all his clients were coming in to address the court on the merits of the case.

And then he felt as if a cold douche had been flung in his face, for after a moment's pause, the other returned, "That's awfully good of you," in a voice so distant and formal that the Virginian could have kicked himself.

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

The cold douche of the auction mart may brace the mind, but is apt to lower the price of commodities of this kind.