COLD FEET.
Once or twice a day dip the feet into quite warm water until the blood Vessels of the surface fill, then plunge them into cold for 5 or 10 seconds, then return them- to stiil warmer water until the skin glows, then one plunge into the cold and dry thoroughly. Wear felt shoes in the house, and outdoors boots covered with felt rubbers. Twice a day stand on one foot on a fttool and awing tne other foot five minutes, then reverse. Then for two minutes walk on tiptoe, around the room. If the foot bath must be omitted at any time substitute flagellation and friction with a long piece of flannel .drawn back and forth rapidly across tne foot in all directions. As a constitutional aid, take one tablet of calc phoa three times a day,
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Bruce Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 143, 12 June 1903, Page 2
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139COLD FEET. Bruce Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 143, 12 June 1903, Page 2
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