p. 23 | Keep the Skin Clean

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Jan 11, 1877

Keep the Skin Clean.

Some animals breathe more through the skin than they do through the lungs; and in some animals the whole process of creation of the blood is performed through the skin. In the human being the skin is, to a large extent, the breathing organ. Fatal diseases of the lungs are often caused by an obstructed skin. In one of the ceremonial processions of Rome, attendant on the installation of a new Pope, a child having the whole surface of the body gilt, was paraded. The consequence was the death of the child. This melancholy fact may serve better than any long lecture, to convince people of the importance of “keeping the pores open,” of which there are more than three thousand on every square inch of surface.