* Writing, for example, that “school-girls are often very negligent” in “the necessity of attending promptly to the demands of nature for relief of the bowels and bladder” and that “ladies who desire a sweet breath—and what lady does not—should remember that retained feces are one of the most frequent causes of foul breath. The foul odors which ought to pass out through the bowels find their way into the blood and escape at the lungs.” He then quotes a Scottish physician: “Keep in the fear of the Lord, and your bowels open.”