Bathing considered as a means of promoting health : a lecture delivered in the Bath Saloon, Victoria Street, Glossop-Road, Sheffield, on Monday evening, May 8, 1837 / by Charles F. Favell.

  • Favell, Charles F.
Date:
1837
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Credit: Bathing considered as a means of promoting health : a lecture delivered in the Bath Saloon, Victoria Street, Glossop-Road, Sheffield, on Monday evening, May 8, 1837 / by Charles F. Favell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ON THE UTILITY OF BATHING-, AS A MEANS OF PROMOTING HEALTH. It is more in compliance with the wishes of those with whom I have been associated as tiie Committee of this Establishment, than to gratify any vain desire of my own, that I appear before you this Evening. The proposal to deliver a Lecture on the Utility of Bathing did not emanate from me, and when first I was solicited to undertake it, I hesitated and asked time for consideration. After revolving the subject in my mind for some days, I had almost determined to decline, when I became im- pressed with the conviction that some good might result from drawing the attention of the public to it, and I then acceded to the request which I had received I acceded because I thought it desirable that a Lecture of the kind should be given by some one—because I thought that some one should be a Medical man, and because I had already taken a more prominent, at least a more public, part, in reference to the establishment of Baths, than any of my Medical Brethren in the town. It has long been the strong and settled conviction of my own mind, that by far too little attention has been paid to the use of Bathing as a means of promoting health. There are many persons who enjoy the luxury of a Bath, but very few who reflect on its sanative agency. Great numbers are eloquent in their praise of a Cold Bath on a hot summer’s day ; they enjoy the cooling and invigorating effects which result from it, but they do not regard it as a great and important remedial agent; or if peradventure they should be willing to admit that it may be of service, under certain modifications of temperature, B