Durango semi-weekly herald. (Durango, Colo.) 1899-1907, 1905-06-05

be- that 1t was tremendously inter
esting, and that he was going to tel
Metchnikoff. I even gave him q ref
erence to IT In the Jesuit Relations
from their Canada Indian missions
He would tell Metchnikon. because
Metchnikoff is one of toe Parisian,
who takes mis- box" every morpins
for two weeks then tntermits, or slows
down, and begins again; and Metchn
ikoff is one Of the men who In ali
the world knows best why he does
| it.
| He is the great man Of the Pasteur
institute who says that man ougb,
70 die willingly, full OF days" a.
| round about his one hundred and
fortieth year and that not TO live to
| be 100 years old is a kind OF assass-
nation by the perverslty Of modern
conditions, He eats scarcely any
meat. living principally on vell-cook-
| ed vegetables. never touching uncook.
ed fruit OF the microbeinfested
ground. Deploring the possession of
great institute. he is nevertheless
wise enough to compromise with 1t by
furnishing ii with plenty of mater
ial 10 keep 1t active.
The great thing. says Metchnlkoff.
is 10 allow oneself 10 be as little pois-
oned as possible by the l2s,0OO, 900. :
100000 microbes with the researches
Of Strassburger show to swarm in
he Greai intestine daily However
hsgi anically we live. some Of tneir
soluble products will pass into the
lymph and blood; and these are the
slow poisons which bring about q
hundred ills, not to speak of the
sclerosis which Is MetchnikoTs
pathological age" That kills men on
At 80 and 10 years
This is why Metchnikon drinks
sour milk Tor buttermilk), because
the Tactic microbe is a destroyer OF
the microbe of putrefactIop. This is
Why Metchnikon goes in for sweat
ing 10 help his pnagocytes police his
cell commonwealth--tha is 10 say,
his body--so as not to let them grow
weakened by an unequal struggle
against waste matter. the microbe
products already mentioned, and the
natural poisons, ptomaines we de-
velop daily.
/ know Parisions WAC take the
sweat box as a remedy against high
nigh drinking, others for nerve tire
OF neurasthenia, others TO get thin.
others to get plump. others for dys-
pepsia, others for rheumatism, and
others for just keeping in condition.
These are the majority, perhaps. and.
really, when you have once tasted
the lightness and physical gayety re-
sulring from the sweat box followed
by douche, you will have no din,
Guilty in understanding why they do
it.
Turkish bath habitues preserve the
same cult, because they feel the same
lightness and wen-being. The sweat
box and shower are the same thing
That is to say, 1t Is tine simplest
thing in the world. 1t is the Indian
tepee.
| have seen some very fua sweat
boxes in the past six months. run
ming up in cost to 1900 francs 0240)
apiece, set up in working order on
your premises, but a first class one
can be had for. say, 800 francs $500.
These Paris electric bath concerns
have inside, around the four walls.
marrow shelves, in which are fixed
rows OF common electric light bulbs
% 1k
box may have as many as fifty such
bulbs though With thirty you get
sweat 80 strong that it rolls from
you in rivulets
In fact, one gets soon TO have a
perfect horror of clogged-up pores.
And with That comes the habit OF
sweating easily, until you nnd that
you are in profuse perspiration
within three minutes Of sitting down
in the box. Ten or fifteen minutes OF
COOL, solid, rivulet sweating Is
enough; even FIVE minutes Ia good.
third lamp on each shelf shall be so
wired that, FIRST. one-tnird OF them
can be lighted simultaneously by
turning button Then the second
series, then the third.
Thus the heating Of the box Is
graduated. How many degrees of
heat do you need? No thermometer
is necessary. Witt little expert
ence you will find your own body a
sufficient thermometer. You get In
and turn on a third of the lights.
Probably you will turn on second.
third almost Immediately. Then you
will see II you want the balance.
Probably you will speak OF . box
If thirty lamps OF sixteen candle pow
er each, Probably you will md It
good TO stimulate the perspiration by
turning on and on this last third
like giving a cut of the whip.
Some practitioners and patients, to
get heat quickly, have tried heat
without-light radiators. Others have
put in the big glass cylinders Of cleo
tric heating apparatus. In the end
l all have gone hack to the ordinary