Health Primers: Baths and Bathing (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Health Primers: Baths and Bathing Since the influence of baths is exerted primarily upon the skin, and through the medium of the skin, upon the deeper-lying tissues and organs of the body, it is an absolute necessity for the reader at the outset to be made aware of the structure of the skin and its functions, as well as the relations which it bears to deeper-lying organs. If the skin, say of the thumb, be looked at with a lens of moderate power, its surface is seen to be arranged in ridges and furrows, like a ploughed field, and at frequent intervals along the ridges are little depressions, which are known as the pores of the skin. These pores are the openings of the sweat ducts, and it is through these pores that the perspiration exudes. They are exceedingly numerous, and it has been calculated that there are as many as 2, 800 to every square inch of surface, of about seven millions of them altogether. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.