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Rh drinks is evacuated by perspiration; and if the skin is not kept clean the pores are stopped, and perspiration consequently prevented, to the great injury of health.

Q. What rules are to be observed with respect to bathing?

A.1. That you be careful to bathe in places where you are not exposed to danger.

2. That you feel yourself thoroughly well and in good health, and that you be not over-heated at the time of going into the bath, which should not be immediately after a meal.

3. That you go not into the bath slowly, and by degrees, but plunge in all at once.

4. That after bathing you do not sit or lie down, but walk about leisurely.

Q. Is it not necessary after meals to clean or wash the mouth?

A. Yes; immediately after each repast the mouth ought to be cleansed with cold water: the gums and teeth are thus preserved sound and good, and the tooth-ach prevented.

Q. What ought you particularly to do when you wash yourself?

A. We ought always to immerse our faces in the water, and keep them so for a little time.

Q. Is it sufficient that man keep his body clean?

A. No; he must also keep his clothes clean, and all that is about him; his apartments, beds, and furniture: and they ought also to be kept in order.

Q. What kind of food doth man generally partake of?

A. Bread, vegetables, fruit, milk, fish, and meat.

Q. Which of these yields the greatest nourishment?

A. Meat, or animal food, which is more nourishing than vegetables.

Q. Of what ought our meals to consist?

A. Chiefly of vegetables.