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180 that time was continuous and rapid, aided, as it was, by the influence of hope.

Exercise No. 4 will benefit sufferers from kidney complaints and digestive obstructions. Also an effective remedy for obstructions of the respiratory organs. Its incidental tendency to strengthen the spine should recommend its addition to the list of callisthenics and health movements to be repeated before breakfast every morning in the year. Exercise No. 5 is a constipation cure, more permanently effective than any drug, and not followed by troublesome reactions. Combined with cold sponge-baths it will relieve the torpor of the bowels before the evening of the second day. Continue for a quarter of an hour, the first and second morning; for about five minutes every following day. Lengthen or shorten that time according to the varying evidences of efficacy.

Exercise No. 6 is a cure (as well as preventive) for disorders of the kidneys.

Exercise No. 7 is of advantage in stimulating the actions of the lungs in cases where patients are unable to leave their bed. Exercise No. 8 is a constipation cure for invalids, as well as those desiring to counteract the