be taken with unusual care. In
virtually every case this method will materially increase the strength
of a weak heart, though there is naturally the possibility of strain,
and the treatment should be adapted to your strength in the beginning
and very gradually increased week by week.

Temporary attacks of constipation, where severe enough to need
attention, can usually be ready for exercises 13, 7 and 8, whereupon you
may take a third cup of hot water. You may then take exercises 15, 16
and 9, followed by another cup of hot water, and then exercises 17, 6
and 10, and so on.

While this is suggested as a general plan, it is not imperative that
this order be followed strictly, for your individual requirements might
be better suited by minor variations; for instance, by two or four
exercises between the intervals of hot-water-drinking.

Temporary attacks of constipation, where severe enough to need
attention, can usually be quickly remedied by this hot-water-
drinking, nerve-stimulating method. Usually, if there is need for a
movement of the bowels an instinctive and compelling desire will appear
while taking the treatment or very shortly thereafter. If, however,
you feel there is a necessity for such a movement and it does not
appear, you can rest assured that the treatment has brought about
sufficient benefit to excite the activity of the organs involved and
that the desire will come later. In some very obstinate cases of
constipation, or in serious temporary attacks of this difficulty, where
a movement of the bowels is desired quickly, from one-quarter to
one-half a level teaspoonful of salt can be added to each cup of hot
water. This will in nearly all cases insure a speedy and satisfactory
bowel movement. This, however, is not advised unless absolutely
necessary.

It is well to point out that this treatment in its extreme form can
hardly be used with complete satisfaction by those who are below
average strength. In any case, however, the drinking of a small amount
of hot water can be attempted and the exercises illustrated can be used,
if one is careful not to make his efforts too severe. The hot-water-
drinking process as well as the exercise must, however, be
adapted to the requirements of each individual, and it may be well in
most cases to experiment two or three times before following all of
these suggestions in detail.

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