ABOUT HEALTH.

Bruce Herald, Volume XVII, Issue 1751, 21 May 1886, Page 6

ABOUT HEALTH.

There is nothing more invigorating, mors tonic, and refreshing than a cold ablution. Moreover, it makes one feel clean, and sweet, and wholesome, and|improves our physical constitution, aud likewise our moral character. A dirty man has often a dirty mind. A man who has once thoroughly washed himself immediately afterwards resents the presence of what is stale and sour. He will not endure a stuffy ' room or offensive drain with the forbearance with which he tolerated it in ■

his unwashed state, when he carried about with him a cognate atmosphere. The habit of cleanliness will tell all round — in his house, his family, and daily surroundings. Skin cleanliness has a great effect on the assimilation of food. It has been proved that pigs that are washed put on a fifth more flesh than pigs that are unwashed. Indeed in{ well-ordered, first-class stables, horses are washed, from head to foot daily, and the work is considered to be remunerative. Skin cleanliness is certainly a great preservative against passing epidemics and against visitations of the most infectious and contagious diseases. Experienced trained nurses, regularly attending scarlatina patients, give themselves regularly from head to foot ablutions twice a day, and a change of clothes once a day. Soap and water should be used at least twice in the twentyfour hours to the face and hands, and the whole body should be sponged once daily.