Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 July 1875 — Sun-Baths. [ARTICLE]

Sun-Baths.

Considering how much pains people take, first, in excluding sunlight from their dwelling, and, second, in protecting by clothing their pale bodies from its in" ttuence. it can readily be seenliow want of sunlight on the person may be a great cause of ill-health. “ Remove the cause and the eftect will cease," is the hygienic precept; and hence in all cases * where want of sunlight has been the cause of disease sun-bathing must be a valuable hygienic curative agency. In cases of debility, unaccompanied with fever, it is nearly always Whenever the skin is pale and bloodless —whenever a cold and clammy condition of it is found —suu-baths are indicated. Restlessness, excitability and irritability often succumb to this agency when they will to no other. Sun-baths supply the place in some sense and are worth a thousand-fold more than all the iron, opium, alcohol, etc., in Christendom. They are not, as a rule, to be Used, in feverish conditions of the system, but wherever there iS torpidity, inanity, lifelessness or the like.— Science'of Health. —Talk about eoing to a summer water-ing-place ! As if even' place wasn’t watering this season.