Good Health | AdventAI

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Aug 7, 1879

Good Health.

Keep Clean.

WHILE we are saying so much about disinfection, sewerage, the proper disposal of foul matter, ventilation, etc., we must not forget that one of the most important of all sanitary measures is personal cleanliness. Bathing, or skin disinfection, is a most important means of maintaining health. If a person carries around with him a layer of decomposing matter on the surface of his body, it is of little use for him to be so exceedingly particular about the disinfection of cesspools, drains, vaults, and other sources of putrescent animal or vegetable matter, as those sources of filth are quite inferior in importance to the one which he overlooks.

When the skin is very active, as during the months of July and August, a daily bath is indispensable to good health. It need not be a very elaborate one; indeed a simple towel bath, or rubbing the skin with a rough towel wrung out of tepid water, will answer the purpose generally, though a full bath, or better still, a Turkish or Russian bath, should be taken as often as once a week, to insure complete removal of the old skin with all effete matter adhering to it. When a person is not too greatly fatigued, a light hand or towel bath at night is a most excellent means of securing sound and refreshing sleep, besides clearing the skin from the accumulated impurities of the day.—Good Health.