The Portland gazette. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1818-1824, 1823-04-22
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6. On leaving the bath, the skin should be wiped
dry with coarse towel-and
Z. Exercise, in a small degree, should always
coed.
2. ShO,0cr Bath. This is an eligible mode Of ie-
ceving bath, and may be used freely and is the most
easily modified and adapted to the circumstances Of
those who employ it. Il may be made marin Or cold
as is most agreeable. May be taken in the morning,
IisiAG from bed. recolecting that light food
should ist be received into the stomach. The body
must be rubbed shortly after using it.
Q. SePid Bath This should be prepared at about
go OF Sc deg and may be INDUCED in oiener and lon
ger than any other.
A. 10. Bqtt. This is generally prepared from 90
to SO deg which is about the temperature Of the blood
SO deg. win, perhaps, be most agreeable. When
thermometer cannot be readily procured, the water
entering the BATH shoald be made Of such tempera-
ture feel agreeable the arm or part the body
usually covered, and Il may afterwards BE raised at
pleasure. That temperature is the best which occa-
sions the most pleasuable sensations. The proper
time 9E using this bath is hour two before din
" Il may Sometimes be allowable to take
bath before breakfast-and sometimes in the evening,
particularly after travelling in hot weather and dusty
roads; but occasions the forenoon after the
morning meal is dgested is the best part of the day for
bathing, whether cold or warm" We may battle once'
twice, or three times week. an remain in the bath
from quarter Of an hour to hour Exercise, ia
cold bathing should prscede and follow the bath
At this season Of the year the warm bath will bs
found the greatest LUXURY. In ATTITUDES it Is
poyed in preference to any Their throughout the
4 -.t.-
Of vertical and almost ex hausted By lis iufu-
ence, know Of nothn refreshing and delighF
full and we have enjoyed it to our hearts content.
We happy to find the opportunity for warm
bathing in this town is SO good and we trust the es
tabIishment will be generally patronized. we
ly hope that some individual the ensuing Will
undertake the charge Of portable bathing he
erected the town, for the purpose OF cold
ter bathing. Such establishment is much needed,
aud would. no doubt, with encouragement Those
in Boston, and other cities, have uniformly been
source Of profit TO the owners
We shall say nothing Of bathing as it relates to the
relief and Of disease as those who employ or
this purpose should do nnder the direction of some
Skull physician. Neither should speak q i ia
reference to personal cleanliness as those who are ia
different this subject hardly entitled to re
gard. The connection, too. between physical and
Al purity, is obvious and generally admitted that
one Of the English poets has said,
Even from the body, purity, the mind receives in
secret, sympathetic aid" Go. then, would say to
the man Of health, 50, and enjoy the luxury Of Bath
To the young, receive health Of body vigor Of mind.
To the old, receive glarng consciousness of new
existence, as if you just beginning to live; and
to the valetudinaria n, disspate ennu and disease
renoyate health and pcasurerid yourself Of anxiety
and dstress-and feel that single hour in tbs
Bath, is worth ''world Of happy days" NJ. p.
Note For more ample information upon this SAL
ject, would refer to Dr. Co6in's Diseourses
Bathing to which we feel indebted for Of the
remarks in the present paper, and which we recon-
mend all who in the habit Of using the Bath
especially females. 1t may be procured at Mr. John'
son . Booksts%e, yNiddIeStrse