Word: tepid
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...first of December. The water works in the gymnasium are again out of order. We have been told by the goody - that is to say, the cleanly, - that when they come in hot and exhausted from a foot-ball game and wish to bathe their bruised limbs in tepid steam and ease their wounds, nothing but the coldest of water can be had to solace them water so cold that it parches the skin and cracks the muscles and sends a man tottering out to the bleak entry prematurely aged like an Arctic explorer. Not so with the rugged stoic...
With regard to the care of the person, bathing is a matter of the greatest importance. A sponge bath daily, either cold or tepid, may be considered as a necessity. Hot baths every day are extremely debilitating and otherwise injurious. The clothing should be adapted to the person, one in the open air much, requiring less than an individual of sedentary habits. The tendency is to wear too much clothing. We are much better off than our grandfathers in the matter of fabrics adapted to changes in weather. Gauzes and light-woolens take the place of stiff linen and cotton...
...tepid bath is the best to take after exercise. While a warm bath would probably do one no harm, the absurdity of such a course was well shown. Exercise tends to circulate the blood rapidly and bring it to the surface; a warm bath simply causes such a state of things to continue. A cold bath immediately after exercise is very injurious. If a man were strong and vigorous it might not do him any harm, but for most men it is almost an attempt at suicide, as it drives the blood back upon the heart and lungs...
...Sargent has prescribed tepid baths for the majority of the students, and in most cases they are undoubtedly the best; but such prescription is of little value when the only bath one can get is about equivalent to being rubbed down with ice. To many persons excessively cold baths are not only very disagreeable, but positively injurious. In fact I believe the shock given by very cold water to a person heated by exercise, is not good...
...days in the week. As this was found impracticable, to compensate for the loss of the afternoon, there seems to be no sufficient reason why the hour of opening on Saturday should not be earlier than it now is. Saturday is the day on which many take their prescribed tepid bath, and it not infrequently happens that, on account of the rush and the short time the Gymnasium is open, the warm water gives out. Moreover, as the days grow longer, men will want to begin their exercise earlier, before the heat of noon induces disinclination to work...