Excerpt from Health at Home, or Hall's Family Doctor: Showing How to Invigorate and Preserve Health, Prolong Life, Cure Diseases, Understand the Physical Conditions of Maternity, and the Proper Management of Infants, and Discussing the Entire Physical Well-Being of ManIII. Baths and bathing: the philosophy of their action, their proper em ployment, and their extensive efficiency.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.