The sitz-bath may be resorted to two or three times a day, and also rubbing-sheet, if the case proves obstinate. _Pain in Bowels and Diarrhœa._--Ordered sitz-bath fifteen minutes, walk gently about the room five minutes, then repeat the sitz-bath fifteen minutes, and again walk for five minutes, and after third time take sitz-bath. Put on a large bandage well wrung out, and change it every quarter of an hour. If not cured in three or four hours, repeat the above treatment. If obstinate use cold injections. _Relaxed Bowels._--Three rubbing-sheets and a sitz-bath on rising from bed, for ten minutes in the morning; one rubbing sheet, and sitz-bath twenty minutes at noon; the same repeated in the afternoon. If not better, a clyster of cold water on going to bed; bandage, and drink water as usual. A young lady, troubled with relaxed bowels for some days-- Morning, three rubbing-sheets, and immediately after, tepid bath for fifteen minutes; large bandage; at two o'clock two rubbing sheets. These simple means effected a cure; if they had not, the sitz-bath was to have been resorted to again. _English Cholera._--A Russian General attacked with English Cholera, was suffering extreme torture when Priessnitz came. He ordered three rubbing-sheets, five minutes interim between each; patient then to be put to bed for half-an-hour, and well covered up to promote heat; this was followed by a cold sitz-bath of 30 or 40 minutes; drank plentifully of water and wore a large heating bandage. This one application effected a complete cure; had it not, the General was to have repeated the treatment in the afternoon. XLII.--CONSUMPTION. Mr. Priessnitz thinks that in the great majority of cases consumption is curable until the age of fourteen or fifteen, when the complaint generally assumes a more serious aspect. Young people are often considered consumptive when they really are not so. A young lady of my acquaintance, having all the symptoms, was ordered to Italy, where, notwithstanding the climate, the malady seemed to increase. She went to Gräfenberg, when Mr. Priessnitz at once declared it was not consumption, that it was a contraction of the chest. Two months' treatment caused the chest to expand and restored the patient to robust health. Dr. Johnson says, "One thing of which I am convinced is, that the true principle of treating consumption is to support the patient's strength to the utmost;" and it must be remembered that the great aim and principal effect of the Water-cure is to _strengthen the system_, thereby giving the inherent curative power the fairest opportunity of doing its own work. It must however be observed, that when consumption has fairly set in, neither water or drugs will arrest its progress. A friend of mine writes me most sensibly on this subject: "I fully believe," says he, "if all girls were to _wash thoroughly every_ day, more than three-fourths who now go into consumption would be saved." XLIII.--CRAMPS.