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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    the effect of cleaning the blood that was surrounding the pa- pillae as well as cleaning the skin. So that the blood that was washed out is going back to the heart reall}- better than it came away from the heart. That is, some of the materials which were effete were passed off in the washing and the blood was better when it went back to the heart than it was when it came out of the heart, in some of its constituents or waste material being passed off. Consider this a moment. You have cleansed the skin oy your washing. Made a better circulation. Washed out a portion of the blood. Cleansed the body. Anything else ? As the pure blood goes back to the different parts of the bod}T and carries the cleansed blood, it must be true that the inside of these organs, the liver, the kidne}rs, the heart, the spleen and the lungs, have all received a suppl}T of blood which has been purified b}T this washing of the skin. In other words, although we can not take out the organs we have named, yet we can wash the blood that passes through them, and so we ma}T say that we are able to wash all of those organs b}' washing the blood that passes through them. Do 3Tou think that what we have been talking about is all true ? Do you ask how often one should wash the body all over ? Are }tou really interested in the care of your body ? Let us ask the question. How often do you have a passage of the bowels ? Once in twent3T-four hours ? If you do not, }Tou should have. And this answers your question as to how often one snould wash the body. Once in twenty-four hours. Consider that the glands of the skin secrete and throw off, eveiy twent}'-four hours, the amount of twenty to forty ounces of insensible perspiration. If you do not have these