Healthy skin : a popular treatise on the skin and hair, their preservation & management / by Erasmus Wilson.

  • William James Erasmus Wilson
Date:
1859
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Healthy skin : a popular treatise on the skin and hair, their preservation & management / by Erasmus Wilson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    for one hour, the charge is one penny; for two hours, two-pence ; and for using the same, together with a drying closet, iron, and mangle, for four hours, the charge is three-pence. In the report for 1852, occurs the following passage, an illustration of the moral influence of these institu- tions, and of the universal comportment of the poor when we treat them, according to Christ's command- ment, as that neighbour whom we should love as our- selves :— The conduct of so great a number of persons [upwards of a million] using the establishment has been, with few exceptions, free from irregularities or misbehaviour. Is it then too much to say that besides affording the blessings of cleanliness and health, the Baths and Wash-houses are schools for the moral training of the people. They are among the institu- tions which place the poor in their most agreeable and prepossessing light; they are the means of drawing the rich nearer to their poorer brethren; and they enable us to fulfil, with more ease to ourselves, the Divine injunction, to love one another. Recurring to the relations of the skin to health— an excellent and able author* remarks that it must not be considered merely as a common covering to defend us from the sim and the rain, but as one of the most important organs of our bod}^, without the incessant activity and agency of which there can be * Christopher William Hufeland, M.D., Public Lecturer on Medicine at Jena ; in a work entitled, *' The Art of Prolonging Life, 1797.