[A Handbook of Health by Woods Hutchinson]@TWC D-Link bookA Handbook of Health CHAPTER XVI 9/24
A healthy skin is the best undergarment ever invented. Right and Wrong Bathing.
The best form of bath is either the tub or the shower bath; and the cooler the water, provided that you warm up to it quickly and pleasantly, the greater the tonic effect, the more exhilaration and pleasure you will get out of it, and the more it will harden your skin against cold.
But it should never under any circumstances be any cooler than you can _readily_ and pleasantly react, or warm up to, during the bath and afterward.
The habit of plunging into a great tub of ice-cold water all winter long, except for people of vigorous constitutions and active habits, may often do quite as much harm as good.
Have your bath water just cool enough to give you a slight, pleasant shock, as you plunge into it, or turn it on, so that you will enjoy the glow and sense of exhilaration that follows; and you will get all the good there is out of the cold bath, and none of the harm.
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