MEDICAL.

Te Aroha News, Volume XII, Issue 1772, 21 September 1895, Page 2

MEDICAL.

CORRECT BREATHING. Breathing properly and systematically and rhythmically and you may overcome insomnia, weak lungs, indi gestion, and even seasickness/ This at least is a theory, as w&l as the successful practice, of the farnbus Dr Certel, of Munich, who has elaborated a system of breathing that' lie has set forth in a large work on the subject. The breathing is done by count, or rather by steps--so many deep breaths to a step ; the number being regulated by the nature of the place where the walk is taken, whether it be level or an ascent or descent. The speed is regulated by the ailment and condition of the patient. 1

A NEW CUES FOE HAY FEVEE. Fubei-, or Hamburg, who suffered a great deal from hay fever during last summer, noticed that in winter a coryza was accompanied with hot ears, •which regained their normal temperature when the discharge from the nose was established. He tried a reverse order of things on the hay fever and rubbed his ears until they became red and hot. It is now the third summer he has led an endurable existence. As soon as / there is the least amount, of fulness in the nose, the ears are noticeably pale. A thorough rubbing of the ears has always succeeded in freeing the nasal mucous membrane from con gestion. Th e rubbing must be thorough and repeated. i..... /

THE COLD BATH IN THE MOKNING. Cold baths in the morning are un-doubtedly-benefical, but only to those persons who have sufficient vital energy and nervous for to ensure good reacting, with no subsequent langour or lassitude. Many persons who are greatly refreshed by their morning bath feel tired or languid two or three hours after it. When this occurs it is conclusive evidence that the practice is harmful. Persons who have an abundance of blood and flesh, who are lyrapathic or sluggish in temperament, and whose nervous force is hot depleted, can take a cold morning bath to advantage. Others, who are inclined to be thin, whose hands and feet become cold and clammy on slight provocation, who digest food slowly and assimilate it with difficulty, who are nevous, and who have much on their minds, should avoid early morning cold bathing. For such the bath before retiring at night is recommended, as if should be followed by rest of brain and body till equable conditions of circulation are re-established. Some persons who are weak in nervous power have such excitable nerves that they get at once a perfect reaction from cold bathing, but lose in after effects more than the value of the bath. This class of individual should not bathe too often, and should always use tepid water,, choosing the time preferably beforo retiring.