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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    There are perfons who habitually bathe in tepid water, and remain fplafhing about for a confiderable time, but much greater benefit is to be derived, and the body becomes infinitely more refrefhed and invigorated by a (horter immerfion in water of a lower temperature. [ r * ] The head rnuft remain uncovered and receive the full benefit of the cold water. This may be a ferious confider- ation for ladies, but there is no choice: the penalty for keeping the head dry will ufually be a violent headache with the probable complaint that baths don't fuit me, but whether, in the abfence of wetting the head, headache follows or not, the health muft fufTer. The
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