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These scales should not be either soaked off or brushed off in a wholesale way; the oil in the skin is a protection against weather-changes, and is also a necessity to its functional integrity, and therefore should not be dissolved and washed off by soaps that are strongly alkaline. The body itself is very sensitive to contact with water below the natural temperature of the skin.
M. Quetelet, the head of the Observatory at Brussels, has paid great attention to the periodicity of weather-changes in Europe. The result of his investigations is as follows: I. That there is always a "cold snap" between the 7th and 11th of January, during which ordinarily occurs the coldest day of the year.
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