Lvxrious bathing : a sketch / by Andrew W. Tuer, eight etchings by Tristram Ellis.
- Andrew White Tuer
- Date:
- 1880
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Lvxrious bathing : a sketch / by Andrew W. Tuer, eight etchings by Tristram Ellis. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.
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![Lvxv^pvs cBd<7iiisx^. the whole body, followed immediately by a cold plunge, or a fponge bath. A bath is at once a neceffity and a luxury, and in order to obtain the greateft number of benefits, including increafed health, appetite, vigour, and [ 4 ] good fpirits, the Soap-bath is the molt effectual, and more- over the pleafanteft and leaft trying to the weakly or over fenfitive conftitution. It is a fimple and invigorating luxury as compared with the felf-infli&ed half-painful ordeal the cold bath is to many, which latter is too often taken, not for its own fake, but for the good fuppofed to follow its ufe. After a Soap-bath](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21000591_0016.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
