no-fire

Updated: June 3, 2025

Any one who has ever had occasion to be a witness of the effect of the water-cure process in enabling even, delicate women to resist cold and damp, may form some notion of the great improvement that was made among our sealers, by adopting and rigidly adhering to Stimson's cold water and no-fire system.

James Fenimore Cooper - The Sea Lions: The Lost Sealers