186
Healthful Living
Bathing
966. Many have never experienced the beneficial effects of water,
and are afraid to use one of heaven’s greatest blessings.—
How to Live,
62
.
967. The use of water can accomplish but little if the patient does
not feel the necessity of also strictly attending to his diet.—
How to
Live, 60
.
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Frequency of the Bath
968. Persons in health should ... by all means bathe as often as
twice a week. Those who are not in health have impurities of the
blood.... The skin needs to be carefully and thoroughly cleansed,
that the pores may do their work in freeing the body from impurities;
therefore feeble persons who are diseased surely need the advantages
and blessings of bathing as often as twice a week, and frequently even
more than this is positively necessary.—
Testimonies for the Church
3:70
.
969. Frequent bathing is very beneficial, especially at night just
before retiring, or upon rising in the morning.—
Christian Temperance
and Bible Hygiene, 141
.
Manner of Giving the Bath
970. A bath, properly taken, fortifies against cold, because the
circulation is improved; ... for the blood is brought to the surface, and
a more easy and regular flow of the blood through all the blood-vessels
is obtained.—
Testimonies for the Church 3:71
.
971. Reduce the feverish state of the system by a careful and
intelligent application of water.—
How to Live, 60
.
972. If, in their fevered state, water had been given them to drink
freely, and applications had also been made externally, long days and
nights of suffering would have been saved, and many precious lives
spared.—
How to Live, 62
.
973. The fire of fever seems consuming him. He longs for pure
water to moisten the parched lips, to quench the raging thirst, and
to cool the fevered brow.... The blessed, heaven-sent water, skilfully