Birds, beasts, and savages (more fortunate than civilized man) have the wide earth on which to stool when Nature calls. Their handy water-closet enables them to enjoy good health. As civilization advances, and business and social customs become more complex, water-closets get fewer and less accessible. As a consequence, man has to use his large intestine for a storehouse. He has done this so long that it seems impossible to break him of the foul habit. But he is paying the penalty. Many have abused the bladder in the same way, and had this been a large organ like its brother, the colon, we would long ago have heard the stereotyped excuse in regard to this function, “Oh, any time to urinate that I can find will do.” Those who object to the new order of bowel relief should, on the same principle, object to frequent bladder relief. I submit this proposition to the judgment of unprejudiced minds: Is it not reasonable that so harmless and efficient a remedy as the internal bath should be adopted by all intelligent persons? Inasmuch as neglect--due to social, business, and other customs, and to lack of conveniences for ready relief--has brought upon us so much fecal poisoning and local disorders and so many abnormal and pernicious systemic results, it should not be considered too great a task to take an internal bath three times a day to amend our outrage on Nature--an outrage that involves our health and general well-being, here and hereafter. We owe it, not only to our possibilities, but also to posterity, that fecal poisoning be banished. We have no right to communicate such a taint to our children. They have a right to be free from such poison. Do we ever think of their claims in this regard? Let us leave them a better legacy, by adopting the thrice-a-day use of the enema for the purification of the alimentary canal! CHAPTER X. HOW ENEMAS SHOULD BE TAKEN. METHODS OF INTESTINAL IRRIGATION. A satisfactory appliance for taking an enema should possess the following features: capacity, adaptability, convenience, cleanliness, durability, and sufficient external anal and water pressure to effect a thorough flushing or an agreeable vaginal injection while one is in a sitting position over a water-closet bowl.