THE DAILY BATH
We should not bathe every clay, we are told by Professor Strassburger in a Berlin paper. Daily bathing, he asserts, is not necessarily healthy. It was once considered essential to hygiene, but, notes the professor, this was a long time ago. He says:—" The daily bath, has no special effect upon the health. Quite the contrary. Even for the sake of cleanliness it need not be taken daily. There is a further liability to weakness which will work out in the end to a tendency to catch cold. Nervous people and convalescents might conceivably benefit from a daily bath if it were not maintained as a habit longer than a few weeks. How about the Japanese with their daily baths? That is another sort of bath, and lasta for the most part barely > two minutes. How about cold baths? These should really be swims, and even as regards these there are reservations to be made. These considerations are urged against the daily baths, not against baths in the warm weather, and as far as possible in the open air. Only robust bathing fanatics would want to take their ' swim' all the year through, every day."
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/ODT19330629.2.120
Bibliographic details
Otago Daily Times, Issue 21992, 29 June 1933, Page 11
Word Count
198THE DAILY BATH Otago Daily Times, Issue 21992, 29 June 1933, Page 11
Using This Item
Allied Press Ltd is the copyright owner for the Otago Daily Times. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons New Zealand BY-NC-SA licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Allied Press Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.