The Value of Cold Bathing.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 20 January 1911, Page 4

The Value of Cold Bathing.

Respecting the value of cold baltOiing as a bracing stimulant, (there can be no question, and the difference in this particular between its influence and tlhe depressing effect of frequently repeating warm bathing is obviously a point in its favour. The sharp and transient shock oT cold is doubly beneficial. It clearly acts not only as a stimulus of the circulation, constricting for the moment the surface blood vessels, and thus provoking their after dilatation, but it is also by the same process an acclimatize! , . The risk of chill from dlia.nges of wind and weather is manifestly lessened in the case ;>f Itihose whose system has been trail ea to adapt itself to such movements by the discipline mentioivedl ab-re It i« true that constitu'tiu.i, state oF realth for the time l di.ig, and a<re cannot be left out of porisi'ierstio-n, bat we shall ndti err -n sv Ing- tv.t, given a fair degree of tone, imimpaired by any serious weakness oi the heart muscles, a frequent cold bath rapidly gone through is a tonL as natural as it is beneficial. In beginning the practice it is wises* to choose the summer season, and it may then be continued daily or on alternate, days throughout the winter. " .'.