Practical hydropathy, including plans of baths and remarks on diet, clothing and habits of life.. (1864) (14593187958)

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Title: Practical hydropathy, including plans of baths and remarks on diet, clothing and habits of life..

Year: 1864 (1860s)

Authors: Smedley, John

Subjects: Hydrotherapy Baths Hot water

Publisher: London : J. Caudwell

Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library

Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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in Miss W.; and,looking at it in a moral point of view,,just think of the harm it must do us tobe sent to bed every night in a badhumour. Mr. P.: I cannot help it! By thistime all the other lights are out, andCharles, the night watchman, is justcoming to extinguish yours also. So, at last, you are forced to yield,night after night. True, you cancome down again after Mr. P. hasleft, and enjoy a delightful chat bythe fire in the gentlemens room,which, according to theory, is all thesweeter for being a forbidden plea-sure ; but, to our mind, the sort ofculprit feeling which makes you hearboots in the step of a mouse is any-thing but agreeable ; besides, it wouldcost Charles his place were it knownthat he did not report you, thereforeit is best to remain in the higherregions ; and, if you cannot sleep, youmay lie awake and listen to the creak-ing of the steam-pipes by which thehouse is warmed, and all the othersingular noises with which night isprolific. B. B., of Birmingham, England. 289

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RAILWAY BRIDGE, MATLOCK BAXK IX THE DISTANCE. DIVISION VI. EXTRACTS AND CUTS FROM THE BEST AND MOST MODERNWORKS ON PHYSIOLOGY. DISEASE. Morbus. Any deviation from the natural and healthyactions ofthe whole system or any particular organ. Diseases may be:—Local. Affectingsome particular part. — Constitutional. Affecting the whole system.—Specific.Marked by some disordered vital action, not common to diseases in general, butpeculiar to the individual disease. — Idiopathic. Primary, and not dependent onany other disease. — Symptomatic; or Sympathetic. Dependent on and accom-panying some other disease.—Periodical. Recurring at fixed periods.—Acute.Severe and of short continuance. — Chronic. Of long continuance.—Sporadic.Arising from adventitious causes affecting _ the individual. — Epidemic. Gene-rally diffused among a population, and arising either from contagion, or someatmospheric or other cause, the influence of which is extensively felt.—Endemic.Peculiar to, or

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