The young lady's private counselor : the care of mind and body...; a book designed for young ladies, to aid them in acquiring a life of purity, intellectual culture, bodily strength and freedom from many of the ills and annoyances of life that custom has placed on the sex; also, studies for young ladies on subjects concerning themselves, by many mothers / prepared and compiled by Melville C. Keith.

  • Keith, Melville C.
Date:
1890
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Credit: The young lady's private counselor : the care of mind and body...; a book designed for young ladies, to aid them in acquiring a life of purity, intellectual culture, bodily strength and freedom from many of the ills and annoyances of life that custom has placed on the sex; also, studies for young ladies on subjects concerning themselves, by many mothers / prepared and compiled by Melville C. Keith. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    in such love with these toughs thiit they will uot wash them out of the skin. Ma}r we now call your attention to another point which will be of great service to you one of these days. The skin is washed. By washing the skin you have rubbed off some of the horny la}rer, or la}Ter of scales. Now the stratum lucidum has to come up and replace the horn}7, scaly la}rer. Then the other layers have to come and supply the layers above them. And then—then the arteries around and in the papillae have to supply fresh blood corpus- cles to form the layer of malpighii. You have a new supply of blood. Where from? Can you think ? That fresh supply of blood is directly from the heart. Do }'Ou get the idea ? You have not only washed the skin. You have called the blood from the heart to supply the demand made upon the outside layer of the skin. You have actuall}- made a fresh circulation or a better cir- culation than there was before you washed the skin. Yes. And that circulation is not alone to the skin, but you have made the circulation of the whole body better and fresher than it was before, because you have washed off the older layers of the skin and brought up a new supply from the blood of the heart and allowed the old, worn-out, effete materials to pass through the pores of the skin. Do you see something else ? Do you see that if the blood has been brought, up from the heart, that it must be fresh, arterial blood that comes from the heart ? You have washed out the sebaceous glands and so you have given them a chance to secrete more material. This material comes from the blood. It is said that the old and worn-out and effete material is passed off from the blood and goes out through the sebaceous glands and the sudoriparous glands. Your washing has had this effect on the blood. It has had