The prevalent nasty, ill-bred habit of hawking and spitting in public, or in company, even by genteel persons, can be cured best by early training in correct habits. This habit, as well as the evidences of throat troubles, is usually to be ascribed to inattention to the nose. When catarrhal conditions are avoided or properly treated the throat will not be so affected as to necessitate this reprehensible practice. Trouble is invited for the tonsils and soft palate by our constant hawking; certainly the tender sensibility of the throat is destroyed thereby. Inasmuch as the tobacco habit is so general, and spitting is a necessary accompaniment of that habit, stringent laws against hawking and spitting would be unpopular among the masculine half of the race. But should public opinion ever become educated up to the point in which disease becomes a crime, opposition would cease. This consummation is devoutly to be wished, for then we will have adopted and followed Ingersoll’s injunction to “make health catching, not disease.” CHAPTER XVIII. HOT WATER IN THE TREATMENT OF PROCTITIS AND COLITIS. In treating chronic ulcerative inflammation of the anus, rectum, sigmoid flexure, etc., it is well to take advantage of every really practical device to which one may have access, so that valuable time may be saved in obtaining relief and effecting a cure. The capillaries, veins, arteries, and arterioles in an inflamed organ become distended and the tissues swollen, indurated, and tense by the excess of blood and the inflammatory serum deposited in the tissues. The vasomotor nerves in the diseased part have lost their contractile power, which fact increases the stasis, or congestion, of the blood. Circulation in diseased tissue depends very much on the general tone of the system, and if the circulation is below the normal the ravage of the malady is increased proportionally.