...liable to suffer from reduced atmospherical temperature. — In the second, or immersion in warm water, the heat of the system is prevented from escaping, and has rather a tendency to accumulate — so that in fact the living body is, after coming out from this kind of bath, better prepared to...

...liable to suffer from reduced atmospherical temperature.—In the second, or immersion in warm water, the heat of the system is prevented from escaping, and has rather a tendency to accumulate—so that'in fact the living body is, after coming out from this kind of bath, better prepared...

...head excepted) in hot water, —a practice by which, to quote the " American Journal of Health"* — " the heat of the system is prevented from escaping, and has rather a tendency to accumulate, so that, in fact, the living body is, after coming out from this kind of bath, better prepared to resist...

...doubly liable to suffer from reduced atmospheric temperature. In the second, on immersion in warm water, the heat of the system is prevented from escaping, and has rather a tendency to accumulate, to that in fact the living body is, after coming out from this kind of bath, better prepared to resist...

...to suffer from reduced atmospheric temperature. In the second, on immersiou in warm water, the beat of the system is prevented from escaping, and has rather a tendency to accumulate, so that in fact the living body is, after coming out from this kind of bath, better prepared to resist...

...vaporating, and generating cold on the surface of the body. In the other case, being surrounded by a medium of nearly its own temperature, the heat of...bath than perhaps in any other given situation."* It may be added that while it is easy to appreciate the total effects of heat, fluidity, and inorganic...