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hygiene and prophylactic to which should be added sug-
gestions concerning a preliminary wetting of the head and
contraction of the muscles with rapid splashing of the face
and neck and thoracic and epigastric region in case of sea
or river bathing, the parts of the human anatomy most sen-
sitive to cold being the nape, stomach and thenar or sole of
foot?
The incompatibility of aquacity with the erratic original-
ity of genius.
What additional didactic counsels did he similarly re-
press?
Dietary: concerning the respective percentage of protein
and caloric energy in bacon, salt ling and butter, the ab-
sence of the former in the lastnamed and the abundance of
the latter in the firstnamed.
Which seemed to the host to be the predominant quali-
ties of his guest?
Confidence in himself, an equal and opposite power of
abandonment and recuperation.
What concomitant phenomenon took place in the vessel
of liquid by the agency of fire?
The phenomenon of ebullition. Fanned by a constant
updraught of ventilation between the kitchen and the
chimneyflue, ignition was communicated from the faggots
of precombustible fuel to polyhedral masses of bituminous
coal, containing in compressed mineral form the foliated
fossilised decidua of primeval forests which had in turn de-
rived their vegetative existence from the sun, primal source
of heat (radiant), transmitted through omnipresent lumi-