Japan and the Japanese illustrated . d the adoption of ours in its lesserdetails, we may be quite sure that tlicy will reform all such national customs as haveprovoked the ridicule of foreigners. Several of the great jiuMic baths of Yeddo have added modern therapeuticinventions, such as douches of hot and cold water, to the ordinary resources of theseestablishments. The physicians of the opulent classes of society are always certain to win the goodgraces of their patients by recommending them to try a cure in one of the mountaindistricts famous for the efficacy of their waters. There are some
Japan and the Japanese illustrated . d the adoption of ours in its lesserdetails, we may be quite sure that tlicy will reform all such national customs as haveprovoked the ridicule of foreigners. Several of the great jiuMic baths of Yeddo have added modern therapeuticinventions, such as douches of hot and cold water, to the ordinary resources of theseestablishments. The physicians of the opulent classes of society are always certain to win the goodgraces of their patients by recommending them to try a cure in one of the mountaindistricts famous for the efficacy of their waters. There are some particularly celebratedin the island of Kiousiou, at the foot of the volcanoes of Aso and Wounsentake. The 272 LIFE IX JAPAX. thermal springs which aio found there are, geuerally speakiny, sulphurous andverv hot. They arc used in rheumatic affections and skin diseases. It has not yet occurred to the mind of the Japanese to enhance the charms ofthe hathiuii season hv the attraction of roulette and treiite et qnarnnfe. Games of chance. A OlEItATION. are disdained hy eveiyonc in good society. Cards are left to servants and coolies, andthese are not permitted to play for money. The small tradesman does not trouble himself to go to tlic thermal baths; when•lectors do not .seem to be doing him any good, he prefers to undertake a is not, however, without his omu notions about mrdicine. Arcoiiling to him the latent<• of all the disturbance of the human machine resides in the more or less ill- POPULAR MEDICINE. 273 regulated action of the internal vapours; apparently those of which Sganarelle speaks, the vapours formed of the exhalations of the influences which arise from the regionof the malady. The daily baths, no doubt, contribute to disengage and to dissolvethem. If, however, some unexpected indisposition arises during the hours of work orof recreation, it is good to have a little medicine case at hand, and, therefore, he wearsit hanging from his
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