the Turkish bath not only an immunity from disease in general,
but also an escape from the horrors of a premature death from
hydrophobia, the poison of snake bite, or the slower action of
infectious disease.

"The mass of testimony that has been accumulating for over
thirty years past is more than sufficient to convince any
reasonable mind that is willing to examine the facts.

"The medical profession has searched the world over and under
for the means of controlling disease, while within the human
body itself lies the vital power which needs only to be
cultivated and exalted to its true function to banish the mass
of disease from the land."

Dr. Shepard states in another article that Turkish baths are now used in
London and Paris for the cure of hydrophobia.

Dr. J. H. Kellogg says:--

"A great number of remedies have acquired the reputation of
being cures for snake bites. The partisans of each one of these
have been able to produce a large number of cases, which
apparently supported their claims; the uniform testimony of all
scientific authorities upon this subject, however, is that all
these so-called antidotes are worthless. Prof. W. Watson Cheyne,
M. B., F. R. C. S., surgeon of Kings College Hospital, London,
England, states, in the _International Encyclopedia of Surgery_,
that 'there is no known antidote by which the venom can be
neutralized, nor any prophylactic.' This eminent authority also
remarks further: 'Hence medication with this view is to be
avoided altogether, and the aim of treatment should be to
prevent the poison from gaining access to the general
circulation, and to avoid its prostrating effects if its
entrance has already taken place.' The same writer asserts that
the only aim of the constitutional treatment should be 'to
sustain the strength until the poison shall have been
eliminated.' The idea that the saturation of the body with
whisky to the point of intoxication, if possible, is beneficial
in these cases, is in the highest degree erroneous. Whisky
intoxication, according to Dr. Cheyne, actually 'favors the
injurious effect of the poison. What is required is to keep the
patient alive until the poison has been eliminated.' Whisky will
not do this, but actually aids the poison in its fatal work by
lessening the resistance of the patient, and he