An Objectionable Process


GENERAL D---- was more distinguished for gallantry in the field than for

the care he lavished upon his person. Complaining, on a certain

occasion, to the late Chief-Justice Bushe, of Ireland, of the sufferings

he endured from rheumatism, that learned and humorous judge undertook to

prescribe a remedy. You must desire your servant, he said to the

general, to place every morning by your bedside a tub three-parts

filled with warm water. You will then get into the tub, and having

previously provided yourself with a pound of yellow soap, you must rub

your whole body with it, immersing yourself occasionally in the water,

and at the end of a quarter of an hour, the process concludes by wiping

yourself dry with towels, and scrubbing your person with a

flesh-brush.--Why, said the general, after reflecting for a minute or

two, this seems to be neither more nor less than washing one's

self.--Well, I must confess, rejoined the judge, it is open to that

objection.



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