Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 53, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 September 1889 — Bathing in Cold Water. [ARTICLE]

Bathing in Cold Water.

T„W. Rewxnan, M. D., lu sx. Louis bUgvdae. Concerning- bathing of thb body, I .think our sanitarians are very extravagant, and they have done a great public mischief by setting the great towns to plunder the rivers of their supplies from the head streams. Even the prophet Mohammed, a great fanatic of cleanliness, regarded friction with sand as compensatory for washing. If any one supposes that the limbs and trunk of the body cannot be kept as perfectly olean by rubbing ashy any amount Of washing, I say he has something to learn. All the hardy barbarians of the north have, at all times, been reproached by Bouthem people for their neglect in washing. The old Romans did not—as a nation—betake themselves to baths till an era of effeminacy set in. The Scythians of Herodotus were reported not to wash; but in cold weather, at distant intervals, to cover their bodies with a hot spicy paste. It dried on them, and dropped off when cold, leaving the flesh clean. Northern races know that cold water takes strength out of them, and they do not volunteer to touch it. Their practice has more weight with new than recent theories.

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