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...remedy for the late stages of infantile paralysis (anterior poliomyelitis) was tried out at the Northwestern University Medical School and used by the Visiting Nurses' Assocciation of Chicago. Graded exercises for the children's paralyzed limbs are performed in a large circular tank partly filled with shallow, tepid water. The children sit on a circular bench in the tank with their legs immersed for several hours at a time. The device was suggested by a woman whose little daughter, crippled by the disease, was taken to Florida and allowed to spend much time in the warm water...
...abstraction of personal freedom would hardly have been sufficient provocation. It was probably a bread-riot as much as a revolt against tyranny. Side-long glances may be expected from the management of our own Freshman Dining Halls. The Yale precedent is not reassuring. A plate of tepid soup, like a more famous dish of tea, contains the germs of revolution...
...first of December. The water works in the gymnasium are again out of order. We have been told by the goody - that is to say, the cleanly, - that when they come in hot and exhausted from a foot-ball game and wish to bathe their bruised limbs in tepid steam and ease their wounds, nothing but the coldest of water can be had to solace them water so cold that it parches the skin and cracks the muscles and sends a man tottering out to the bleak entry prematurely aged like an Arctic explorer. Not so with the rugged stoic...
With regard to the care of the person, bathing is a matter of the greatest importance. A sponge bath daily, either cold or tepid, may be considered as a necessity. Hot baths every day are extremely debilitating and otherwise injurious. The clothing should be adapted to the person, one in the open air much, requiring less than an individual of sedentary habits. The tendency is to wear too much clothing. We are much better off than our grandfathers in the matter of fabrics adapted to changes in weather. Gauzes and light-woolens take the place of stiff linen and cotton...
...tepid bath is the best to take after exercise. While a warm bath would probably do one no harm, the absurdity of such a course was well shown. Exercise tends to circulate the blood rapidly and bring it to the surface; a warm bath simply causes such a state of things to continue. A cold bath immediately after exercise is very injurious. If a man were strong and vigorous it might not do him any harm, but for most men it is almost an attempt at suicide, as it drives the blood back upon the heart and lungs...