Downstream

on bathing, plunging, diving,
floating, scientific swimming,
training, drowning and
rescuing. Bathing has several
subheadings including
‘Necessity of Cleansing the
Skin, Pores, Perspiration,
Virtue of cleanliness, Gouty
persons’. The English, it
seems, weren’t known for
their cleanliness in
Steedman’s day: ‘without
exaggeration it may be safely
asserted that the bodies of