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" The principal meal of the day was taken at
about 10 a.m.; this was a mistake; for after the
meal the author had to go to his work at Court ;
but it did nor do any great harm because there was
little work to be got through at Court except occa-
sionally ; when this happened/ the author sometimes
varied the plan, postponing the meal till after his
return from Court. The meal generally comprised
rice and conservatively cooked vegetables mixed
and eaten as one course : sauces, pickles and butter-
milk were/ lor many years, given up entirely; the
vegetables too were taken almost plain/ that is,- with
only a little salt. The morning coffee was renounced;
but in its place a cup of raw milk was taken without
sugar; this too was given up on reading Dr. Dewey's
book on the No-Breakfast-Plan. Once a six days' fast
was gone through; but afterwards there was no
fasting except during actual illness or prostration.
" Kuhne's baths were at first iaken more or less
regularly; there were two baths a day; Kuhne's size-
bath was found to be unpleasant, because both
hands had to be in the cold water all the time, and
the cirulation of the blood was too weak for a quick
recovery. In course of time the author devised the
Spinal Bath/ the Piece-meal Cold Bath and other
new methods. The use of enemas was also adopted
and boldly experimented with, these experiments
led to the discovery of the non-violent, the tonic and
the combined enemas, Once in treating a patient/
the wet cloth cooling application was discovered.
Another time an onset of cough at bedtime led to
the invention of the throat-cooling device which is
the surest method of temporarily relieving cough/
however violent. Experiments in hot baths were
fearlessly raade; there was, in those days a great
craving for warm baths/ and this craving was res-
pected, notwithstanding grav^ warnings culled from