Lvxrious bathing : a sketch / by Andrew W. Tuer, eight etchings by Tristram Ellis.

  • Andrew White Tuer
Date:
1880
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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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    Soap-bath, however, one is ready for the duties or pleafures of the day: duty in fact becomes a pleafure, and pleafure itfelf is intenfified. The Soap-bath obtains a rapidly increafing number of adherents, and when once the habit of taking it is formed, 5 ] it will not readily be abandoned, as it forms one of the pleafures, if not the pleafure of the day, and moreover, can be indulged in all the year round. The fair fex will find the Soap-bath vaftly fuperior to any cofmetic: it renders the Ikin as foft as an infant's, and, with increafed health, the complexion will appear more delicate
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