Remarks on baths, water, swimming, shampooing, heat, hot, cold and vapor baths / By M.L. Este.
- Este, M. L. (Michael Lambton), 1779-1864
- Date:
- 1812
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Remarks on baths, water, swimming, shampooing, heat, hot, cold and vapor baths / By M.L. Este. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![navigators have remarked that the natives of warm countries, pass from onee treme of climate to another with much less inconvenience or suffering than the natives of colder regions, a circumstance advanced in proof of their stronger and superior constitution. Cold bathing cannot be safely taken as an amuse¬ ment in the middle age, nor later in life, unless the bather has been accustomed to it from youth, and has not omitted its use. The facility of bearing cold is an affair of habit; at least, in the early periods of life it may be acquired not only without inconvenience or ])rejudice, but with advantage to the constitution. Perhaps the best mode of giving a taste for cold bathing is to do it gradually, to let it be acquired by degrees from the tepid bath; because the previous use of the tepid bath, as has been stated, gives the pow'er of enduring the cold. Whenever I have omitted to swim for u year or two, and have taken to the water again, I first resumed the tepid bath, and have then returned to the cold.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30366537_0083.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
