Warm-water Swimming.
The effects of swimming^ in warm water are so remarkably beneficial, as compared to swimming in cold water, that tRe thought has occurr-ed to a layman (Science Sittings records) that it might be of great practical utility to suggest swimming in warm water under medical advice as a" regular system ,> of treatment. The man's occupation is ' extremely sedentary. Henoe his limbs, muscles, and internal organs get very set. He finds that taking a few strokes in hot water ha? an entirely different effect to cold. Merely bathing in liot water in the ordinary way has nothing tike the effect _o£ the action of swimming in the warm fluid 1 . The dry air of the Turkish bath ,does not have the same effect, and the Russian, vapour bath has certain drawbacks, and in neither of those does one get the beneficial physical exercise ensured by warm swimming.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2813, 12 February 1908, Page 76
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148Warm-water Swimming. Otago Witness, Issue 2813, 12 February 1908, Page 76
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