St. Landry democrat., 1885-05-02
BATHING.
No Appliance for Health and Bodily Conn
fort So Good as Judtcious Bathing.

No Appliance for heaICn ana oonlty CoFn@
fort So Good as JudicIous Bathing.
Among all the appliances for health
and comfort to mankind we think we
may safely say there is nothing so well
known, so useful, and withal SO COM
forting, and yet so little practiced, SO
carelessly and thoughtlessly neglected,
as iudicious bathing. The skin Of the
human body, from head to foot, is q
network of pores. One can not put a
finger on a single place without cover
ing several hundred little openings,
which ought always to be kept free and
clear of distractions. As evidence OF
the truth of this statement we need only
call to mind the great drops of sweat so
often seen gathering on ones face and
other parts of the body in warm
weather-especially during times OF
over exertion. Those pores are the
openings into minute tubes or channels,
which lead through unseen meander-
ings into the sanctum of life within.
The dust which comes in contact
with animals covered with hair is most
ly kept out, and the perspiration con-
Quoted away from the pores OF the skin
by those hairs; hence bathing is not so
essential with them as with mankind,
whose bodies are practically denuded Of
such protection. The glutinous mass
of perspiration, dust and filth, which
gathers on the surface of the body,
naturally covers and clogs the pores
and often enters them and poisons the
system. To remove that filth frequent
ablutions and occasional immersions in
water are exceedingly desirable, and
usually indispensable to health and
comfort, consequently every family
should have a convenient bath-and a
full bath too-of some kind, not only
for general neatness of person, so de-
sirable to every individual of taste and
culture, but as a means of preserving
health, and in many cases, especially
under the advice of a good physician,
as the safest, pleasantest and one of the
most powerful and efficient means of
combating diseases.
Directed by good Judgment and wise
counsel, a bath is valuable auxiliary
TO other remedies, and it can be used
when internal remedies can not. In
the long catalogue of diseases to which
flesh is heir scarcely one can be named
in the treatment of which a bath is
useless. To those blest with good
health, bath, as common sense
appliance. gives thrift and growth to
healthy functions, brightness and
delightful serenity, a clearness of mind
and buoyancy Of spirit. 1t is certainly
blessing to both mind and body. For
the mental worker, it is nerve tonic.
A thorough immersion in water Of
proper temperature will calm and give
strength and tone to his whole system.
The indoor laborer who gets but q
scanty supply of fresh air, needs bath
to obtain those invigorating elemen is
so common in open air.
The outdoor laborer- especially the
farmer-who works with heroic energy
all day long, unavoldably gathers on
the entire face of his body complete
prison-waIl of dust and thickening,
gummy perspiration; and when his
days work is done, hessneeds then more
than any other thing, not only wash,
but a good, luscious, full bath to fit him
for clean bed and refreshing sleep.
Finally, every one needs a bath al
times, and every human habitation
should contain something for complete
immersion in water, and since conye-
nient and efficient portable baths a
comparatively low figures are now
extensively advertised for sale, there il
little excuse for any one to be without
this priceless bensit. Common Sense
Practitioner, IN Western Rural.
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