Cold Bathing.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 218, 3 September 1887, Page 8

Cold Bathing.

The use of cold water as a btAh for ordinary health purposes is purely/reactionary. The cold bath is only useful,, of-e von safe, when it produces a rapid refc«w>''pf fcFie blood to the surface immediately aftfetf the first impression made, whether }fy iihraersion or effusion. The surface mus&qtiiokly redden, and there must be a glaw* of heat. If these effects are not rapidly apptvenb cold bathing is bad ; and no stftfn "effects are ( likely to be produced unless ihe circulation. ■ be vigorous and both the headS" and blood vessels are healthy. Great ntrst&kes are made and serious risks are otft'eh incurred by the unintelligent use of the catS bath fay the weakly or unsound. Morccf/^r-; ib is necessary to bear in mind tbsb there is seldom too much energy to sprtte* after middle-age, and it is seldom expcrtlßnt for persons much over forty to lisk. cold I bathing, No one above that age sh'^fld 1 use ! the tub quite cold unless under medical advice. It is possible to be apparently robust, and, lor all the average purposes of life, healthy, and yet to have such disabilities arising out of ox'ganic disease or weakness as to render the recourse to heroic measures, even in the matter of cold bathing, perilous.