Sep 25, 2022
Another Dip In The Sea
How #seabathing changed from a medicinal treatment to a leisure pursuit and the rise and fall of the #bathingmachine #Scarborough
Taking a dip in the sea was not just prescribed for the infirm. To maintain a healthy constitution, physicians recommended that men bathe daily for five minutes before breakfast while two minutes three times a week was enough for the “weaker sex” and children. The coast also offered an attractive alternative to the tedium of everyday life, as the poet William Cowper noted in Retirement (1782);…
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