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Title: Plain home talk about the human system--the habits of men and women--the cause and prevention of disease--our sexual relations and social natures
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Foote. Edward B(liss), 1829-1906. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Medicine, Popular Marriage
Publisher: New York : Murray Hill publishing company (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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ion.Hence it will be perceived that popular habits are entirely wrong inthe management of cold feet. By this time, some fair reader is mentally inquiring, What am Ito do, doctor? I must not put my feet to the fire, nor into warmwater, and I cannot go to sleep with cold feet. Now, you will laughwhen I tell you; but if you will try it, you will in less than ten days,bless me for the suggestion. It is simply this: Have some kind KEEP THE FEET WARM. 267 friend, for about twenty minutes, or half an hour, every evening, holdyour feet in his or her hands as represented in the annexed cut. The shoes must remain on, and morocco, or other leather, is betterthan prunella or cloth. Place the feet in the lap of your friend, andhave him or her place the hands over them, so that the palms willrest upon the toes and instep, while the thumbs and fingers graspthe soles of the shoes with sufficient firmness to exclude the air frombetween the hands and the parts of the shoes covered by the hands. Fig. T5
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WARMING THE FEET MAGNETICALLY, AND STIMULATING ARTERIAL AND CAPILLAKTACTIVITY. In this way preserve the grasp immovably, with a gentle, but notpinching pressure, until the feet become warm, which will not re-quire many minutes. This method is invaluable because it impartsmagnetic warmth, which acts as a tonic to the arteries and capilla-ries ; it diverts the nervous circulation to the extremities by that in-evitable interchange of animal magnetism which always takes placebetween two persons when they are in contact; it gives to the feetmore permanent warmth than artificial heat, each warming improv-ing the condition of the patient instead of making it worse; and itoften vitalizes one who is deficient in nervous vitality, and thereby 268 PKEVENTTON OP DISEASE. improves the general health. The foregoing reasons will suffice, yetstill more could be given. When some other person is available, the husband should notemploy the wife, nor the wife the husband, to do this feet-warming,because

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