Dietetical & Medical Hydrology; A Treatise on Baths, Including Cold, Sea, Warm, Hot, Vapour, Gas, and Mud Baths Also, on the Watery Regimen, Hydropathy, and Pulmonary Inhalation with a Description of Bathing in Ancient and Modern Times (Paperback)


Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 60 SUMMARY ON THE USE OF FLANNEL. CHAPTER IV. SUMMARY ON THE USE OF A FLANNEL GARMENT ADVANTAGES OF NIGHTLY CHANGE BEDDING EXERCISE HOW PRO- CURF.D DANCING FRICTIONS OF THE SKIN SWIMMING THE BATH CLEANLINESS. In suggesting the omission of flannel for an inner garment during our summer months or in hot climates, I have supposed that the requisite substitutes were always at hand, and that the changes of these could be made when necessary, as after severe exercise or labour, causing profuse perspiration. But, if the occupation and exposure are of such a nature as to prevent the requisite changes, by substituting a dry inner jacket and drawers for others either wet with rain or saturated with sweat, and at morning and evening, and if the individual is compelled to wear the same garment both during the severe exercise and profuse perspiration, and in the period of languor and coldness afterwards; or, if he is exposed to great alternations of hot days and cool nights, at sea and in sickly regions on shore, he can have no security against violent diseases?inflammations and fevers?unless by the habitual wearing of flannel day and night, both winter and summer. Generally it will be in his power to procure that of a thinner body and finer texture for the latter season, and to allow himself a change -morning and evening in the manner explained in my preceding remarks. The refreshment obtained by sleep during the night is much more complete when a loose night dress is worn, owing, mainly, to the comparative freedom with which cutaneous exhalation goes on in bed when the day clothes are removed. Bedding.?The materials of which the bedding consists is a matter of considerable moment, both as regards a sound and-a healthy sleep, and immunity from various exhalations from re...

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 60 SUMMARY ON THE USE OF FLANNEL. CHAPTER IV. SUMMARY ON THE USE OF A FLANNEL GARMENT ADVANTAGES OF NIGHTLY CHANGE BEDDING EXERCISE HOW PRO- CURF.D DANCING FRICTIONS OF THE SKIN SWIMMING THE BATH CLEANLINESS. In suggesting the omission of flannel for an inner garment during our summer months or in hot climates, I have supposed that the requisite substitutes were always at hand, and that the changes of these could be made when necessary, as after severe exercise or labour, causing profuse perspiration. But, if the occupation and exposure are of such a nature as to prevent the requisite changes, by substituting a dry inner jacket and drawers for others either wet with rain or saturated with sweat, and at morning and evening, and if the individual is compelled to wear the same garment both during the severe exercise and profuse perspiration, and in the period of languor and coldness afterwards; or, if he is exposed to great alternations of hot days and cool nights, at sea and in sickly regions on shore, he can have no security against violent diseases?inflammations and fevers?unless by the habitual wearing of flannel day and night, both winter and summer. Generally it will be in his power to procure that of a thinner body and finer texture for the latter season, and to allow himself a change -morning and evening in the manner explained in my preceding remarks. The refreshment obtained by sleep during the night is much more complete when a loose night dress is worn, owing, mainly, to the comparative freedom with which cutaneous exhalation goes on in bed when the day clothes are removed. Bedding.?The materials of which the bedding consists is a matter of considerable moment, both as regards a sound and-a healthy sleep, and immunity from various exhalations from re...

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General Books LLC

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2012

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2012

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246 x 189 x 13mm (L x W x T)

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Paperback - Trade

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238

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978-0-217-46632-5

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9780217466325

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0-217-46632-X



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