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Sunshine and open air : their influence on health, with special reference to the Alpine climate / by Leonard Hill.
- Hill, Leonard, Sir, 1866-
- Date:
- 1925
Licence: In copyright
Credit: Sunshine and open air : their influence on health, with special reference to the Alpine climate / by Leonard Hill. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![by way of its face and lungs? No wonder it was restless at nights. People in all classes are great offenders in over- clothing and confining children in hot rooms. A great safeguard to the health of the children of the poor is playing in the street. Babies are not delicate, but able to stand exposure just as well as a naked little piggling stands it in a stye, nestling among its fellows and against its mother, but exposed in part, and in its turn in large part, to the cool air. Babies well fed and brought up from the start with open-air baths and sun baths each possible day, with long sleeps out of doors, with light clothing and plenty of kicking and crawling exercise, grow up virile, with firm muscle and strong bones, quite different to the flabby fat babies which erncrae? appear in the advertisements of patent foods. The tubercular patient in the Alps has the best opportu- nities of exposing his skin to sun and air baths, and he or she must learn to do this and give up overclothing and overheating in sun-boxes and stuffy warm rooms indoors at night which are permitted at many foreign sanatoria. He can gain a lesson from the following letter sent to the writer from Australia—a lesson taught by the success of the exposure treatment applied to children. “1 had read your article on Dr. Rollier’s sun cure, and had. experienced the delight of surf bathing, the pleasure of which, I have observed, lies quite as much in the exposure of the skin to the sun and wind, as to the water. About two months and a half ago it occurred to me that I was in a capital position to get all the pleasure and benefit that might be obtained by sun-bathing (I work by myself on a banana plantation on the side of a mountain), so I started, first working naked to the waist; then, about a week later, I discarded pants and boots and worked abso- lutely naked for about a week; then, being afraid that some one might come on me unawares, and also there being times when I might possibly be seen from an adjacent house, I took an old pair of trousers, cut the legs off at](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b32806668_0152.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)