Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 November 1886 — Bathing. [ARTICLE]

Bathing.

Bathing is good for robust people; but thin, lean, cold people should be cautious and chary in the use of the cold bath. It is •weakening, as every one knows, from the sensations experienced. Boys ofjjen injure themselves by frequenting bathing. It is only good wWn felt to be bracing and strengthening. It sometimes occasions a deafness, when the water gets into the ear, and cannot easily be expellbd. Physicians are very indiscriminate in their bath prescriptions and very unwise. We have known many cases in which their advice has proven most injurious. The Chinese never bathe. We.know a wealthy old man, who died of an accident at 84, who strongly protested against bathing; he had learned in early life its weakening effects, and early discontinued it. Still there are exceptional cases. Let every man use his own judgment, and not blindlyvfollow a rule. Kemember that this is the era of private judgment, and every man is called upon to exercise it. Some, are strengthened by bathing; and washing or rubbing with a wet towelis sometimes conductive to health, when bathing is not. The Woman’s Relief Corps, of Massachusetts, has 4,745 members.