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The Dangers of Bathing

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  • Title: The Dangers of Bathing
  • Date: 20 July 1859
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
  • Whitman Archive ID: per.01060
  • Source: Brooklyn Daily Times, 20 July 1859: 2. Our transcription is based on a digital image of a microfilm scan of the original issue. Microfilm of original issue held at Pennsylvania State University Libraries. For a description of the editorial rationale behind our treatment of the journalism, see our statement of editorial policy.
  • Editorial note: This piece is unsigned, as was the case for most of Whitman's journalism. However, this editorial is part of a series of texts that deal with a coherent theme that has been identified by the Whitman Archive journalism team as likely authored by Whitman. This decision is based on a combination of historical and (auto)biographical accounts, similarity to contemporary Whitman writings, a history of scholarly attribution, extant clippings retained by Whitman, computational stylometric analysis, and, in some cases, manuscript evidence in Whitman’s hand.
  • Contributors to digital file: Kaylen Michaelis Cassandra Jannel Simms Stefan Schöberlein Karie Cobb
  • Cite this page: Whitman, Walt. "The Dangers of Bathing." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 17 July 2024. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
  • Source File: per.01060.xml (TEI)
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THE DANGERS OF BATHING.—

It is just as injurious to a person's health to bathe too much as it is to bathe not enough. It is considered particularlu injurious to go in the water after eating a hearty meal, especially in very warm weather. Yesterday a boy named Robert Taylor, residing at No. 2 Raymond street, was taken to the station house in the 2d precinct, by carriage No. 48, in an insensible condition from the effects of this practice. Dr. Young was sent for to attend him, and he was afterwards sent to his home.

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