The young lady's private counselor : the care of mind and body...; a book designed for young ladies, to aid them in acquiring a life of purity, intellectual culture, bodily strength and freedom from many of the ills and annoyances of life that custom has placed on the sex; also, studies for young ladies on subjects concerning themselves, by many mothers / prepared and compiled by Melville C. Keith.

  • Keith, Melville C.
Date:
1890
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Credit: The young lady's private counselor : the care of mind and body...; a book designed for young ladies, to aid them in acquiring a life of purity, intellectual culture, bodily strength and freedom from many of the ills and annoyances of life that custom has placed on the sex; also, studies for young ladies on subjects concerning themselves, by many mothers / prepared and compiled by Melville C. Keith. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    culation of the blood and some of these scales of the outside laj-er are thrown off. Then the layers supply this loss and new skin is formed. You know very well that when you wash the body you have what is called an increased circulation. The skin be- comes red. The blood flows into the capillaries of the skin and fresh blood seems to fill the skin. Consider still farther. When you wash the skin there is a new supply of scales formed for the outer layer, a new sup- ply carried up from the layer beneath; a new supply all the way round. And the blood that surrounds or enters into the papillae carries a new suppty for all the layers in their turn. Is not this a wonderful provision of nature ? The more one uses the skin, the fresher and the newer that skin becomes. We begin to understand now how it is that when one washes the body frequently, that a new skin and a fresh look is on all of the bod}r that we can see. And we can see how it is that the people who do not wash every day have that peculiar tough appearance which we can not help but despise. This not washing also explains wlty it is that many people, whom we may think all right in other respects, have that dreadful smell about them so hateful to others as well as to themselves. The sebaceous follicles are filled with the ani- mals that are like mites in a cheese. Their armpits, their toes, in fact their breath and their entire body, have a smell which is execrable. You begin to understand how important it is to have the body washed every day. We can see that if our body is not washed ever}' day that it stands a chance to grow up a tough. Yes, indeed, our body is going to be washed every day. We do not want any toughs in our family. If we have any desire to see any toughs we can go on the street and see a thousand. These toughs have a greasy look which comes because the sebaceous glands are not cleaned out daily. And the little fat and dirt-loving skin bugs are held D