looks upon running, leaping, climbing, rowing,
cricket, as a French cook might look upon
raw beef. He has his own system of fricasseed
exercise; or, not to abate anything of the
honour due to his superior profession, he
measures it out into mixtures. Recipe:— six
revolutions of the little finger, two cracks of
the great toe, one swing forward of the right
leg, and six kneads or pinches in the back,
for a dose, to be taken night and morning. We
know very well what Mr. Burchell would
have said to that, and he would have said
well; for, it certainly is Fudge.

But, like the cold water cure, it is on the
whole, a very wholesome whim. It is an ill
whim that blows nobody good, and such a
whim as this, blows good to more than its
projectors. Stagnant water stinks. The
running stream gathers no filth. The rolling
stone gathers no moss; that is to say, none
of the vegetable rust which shows that it is
rotting at the surface.

We applaud, therefore, the movement cure
as an idea; and, for the support of some ideas
yet more serviceable to society, let us
applaud also Dr. Roth, its propagator in Great
Britain.

We are not quite sure whether the London
College of Physicians would not denounce
this one of their brethren as a quack. We do
not. We define a quack to be a man who
trades upon the false pretence that he can
benefit the health of the community. Such a
man may be justified by all the colleges on
earth in ordering us every day of our lives,
the blister repeated, a draught every four
hours, and the pills to be taken at bed-time.
For his blister, his draughts, and his pills; if
they sap the foundations of life— as in the
hands of many a practitioner they do— we
denounce him as a quack. Dr. Roth
has some wholesome notions, and he makes
it the whole business of his life to urge
them indefatigably. He writes about exercise
to the presidents of the Poor Law
Board, and of the Board of Health. He
says, A number of adult disabled persons
are kept, year after year, in workhouses or
charitable institutions, and very little or
nothing is done to improve or cure their
chronic ailments. A number of constitutionally
weak infants and children are in the
workhouses, who could be cured or
considerably improved. That is most true.
Nearly one-half— at any rate, two in five— of
the inmates of workhouses, are now looked
upon as permanently unfit for active duty in
the world. That costs life, and it costs
money to ratepayers. Why in the world, do
you sit down content with such a state of
things ? Dr. Roth asks us. We tell, in his
own words, quoted from a tract four pages
long, the very sensible suggestion to which
such considerations lead him;

"All constitutionally weak children of several
parishes should be brought into an Union Sanatorium,
where all the available hygienic and medical means,
according to the present state of science, should be
used, and the education of the children continued as
far as their weakly state permits; when healthy, these
children might be sent to the union or charity school.

"The curable adult disabled paupers suffering from
chronic affections should be also visited, for the sake
of cure or improvement.

"The expenses for the cure of such paupers would
not be much more than the expenses in the
workhouse, where such paupers are frequently kept for
years in consequence of their having been neglected
at a time when their health could have been restored.

"In order to prevent the increase of the number
of disabled paupers, it is most important that the
health of the healthy inmates should be kept up to
the highest standard, for which purpose the masters
and matrons of workhouses, as well as all
schoolmasters and schoolmistresses, should have an
elementary, popular, and practical knowledge of the injurious
and beneficial influences affecting health. This sanitary
knowledge should be imparted to the children,
whose bodily faculties should be developed
simultaneously with their mental faculties.

"This sanitary knowledge should form a part of
the instruction in the training-schools of schoolmasters
and schoolmistresses, of whom we cannot expect that
they should bestow more care on the preservation of
the health of their pupils so long as they are entirely
ignorant on the subject; the preservation of individual
health depends upon the parents and schoolmasters,
but not on the medical man who enters on his duties,
in the great majority of cases, only after those of the
educator have been neglected.

"The importance of a large garden or play-ground,
as an indispensable part of a workhouse, has been
sufficiently advocated and proved by the condition of
those schools and workhouses which are not sufficiently
provided in this respect.

"The kitchen fire in workhouses and charitable
institutions can, by the aid of hot water or steam,
provide the necessary warmth in the various
apartments, and sufficient warm water or steam for baths,
which are most important in preserving health, in
cutting short many diseases at the beginning, or in curing
them when developed.

"It is most important not only to diminish the
amount of ill-health at present existing among our
poor population, but we must prevent, as far as it
depends upon ourselves, all the causes artificially
producing disease and deteriorating the general health;
the number of inmates of our workhouses would thus
considerably decrease, and a diminution of poor's-rate
would go hand-in-hand with the improved health of
the paupers."

Dr. Roth is great also on baths, and has
contrived a most ingenious " Russian bath"
for the more perfect purification of the
public. Ablution and exercise are his two
main ideas. Wash and work would suit him
for a motto. It should be the motto of all
healthy folks who take health by the fore-
lock, and retain their grip upon that fugitive.
We often see the lady to whom " No Irish
need apply," advertising for a servant who,
among sundry other good qualities, is to be
thoroughly clean and active. Thoroughly
clean and active! What more can she be?
There is no virtue on earth that man or maid
does not possess who is in every respect—