PHYSIOLOGICAL STIMULANT AND TONIC
cannot be overrated. I deem it superior in this respect to any other known agent. This effect manifests itself immediately by a feeling of exhilaration and unwonted vigor, remotely by an improvement—where there is a margin for such—in the performance of some or all of the physiological functions, as well as by a gradual but nevertheless marked increase in weight.
Most striking among the tonic influences of the baths, are those that occur within the sphere of the digestive and sexual apparatuses. I will first consider the effects on