A HOT BATH IS BETTER THAN A WARM ONE.

Woodville Examiner, Volume XXVII, Issue 4514, 11 April 1913, Page 4 (Supplement)

A HOT BATH IS BETTER THAN A WARM ONE.

YOU aro very likely to take cola after a warm bath unless extremely careful about exposure, but there is no danger whatever of taking cold aftej a hot bath, according to E. S. Gcodhuo, A.M., M.D., of the Doctorage, Hawaii. In Iho ordinary bath wo do not have the water much over 90 degress, Fahrenheit, many Jess times it is less than that. In the hob bath, which should bo for medical purposes only and not as a cleansing bath, the water should bo at least 110 degrees above to begin with . 8-omo people cannot stand it more than 108 degrees at first, but with little practice they will find they cannot only stand it, but enjoy it. and ju time such people will see that the water for their hob bath is at least 115 degrees above in temperature. Nearly everyone remembers being told that they must not go out after taking a bath as they could “catch cold.” “After a really hot bath in water at a temperature of 115 degrees,” says Dr. Goodhue, “a man could step nudo out of doors into a temperature of 10 degrees below zero and not feel the cold for several minutes, and he could dross properly and go out of doors after such a bath with no danger of taking cold. The difference between the warm hath (and the hot bath, as far as the increased benefits of the latter are concerned, is in the health-giving shock tho hot bath invariably produces. This shock is felt in tho arterioles, which are tho minute blood vessels in tho skin.

When one gets into a hot bath the sudden heat or shock contracts all tho blood vos-oVi in the skin and this forces tho blood out of them. But this contraction is only for a moment, then they expand again, and as they a.ro instantly dilated a.s they were first contracted, twice tho normal quantity of blood rushes back into them. It is this glow that brings health and th'a£ wards off the danger of taking <_old. T 1 (' warm bath ’will .not do this bccau&o there is net sufficient shock to bring tho needed amount of blood, out into tho skin.

“Tho Japanese have taken hot baths for thousands of years. The water they use would parboil us, but constant practice has made them used to it,” declared Dr. Goodhue, “and it is to be noted that the Japanese who take these hot baths , sometimes having the water gradually heated after they have entered it as hot ns they could stand, aro wonderfully free from colds and catarrhal troubles.

“Hot baths are beneficial in congestive headaches and headaches caused by neuralgia, abo to lumbago, internal irritations and inflammatory conditions present in typhoid fever. The best results are to bo had by taking a bath and increasing the temperature to from 115 degrees to 129 degrees above, then going to bod. “The action of hot water on the body in tho simplest and most effective curative agent we have. Pain duo to non ritia, sciatica, rheumatism or injury are relieved and the first stages cf a cold are so greatly relieved that the cold will not progress further. Such a bath is in no way similar to tho Turkish bath. A cold bath need not be taken after a hot bath and people living in tho temperate regions will 'bo greatly benefited by a really hot bath every other day.”

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