Abstract
The newspapers at the present time are discussing<sup>1</sup>the utterances of an aberrant eclectic whose new gospel of dirt was noticed inThe Journalon a former occasion. He has apparently still further emphasized his former opinions, and states the unfortunate results of bathing, illustrating it by the case of a poor Eskimo who came to this country and took a bath, dying almost immediately of pneumonia. The gentleman evidently does not know that Eskimos do bathe, and that while their methods of cleansing themselves are not very attractive, they are eminently effective, and the fact is that the Eskimo is as proof against pneumonia due to bathing as any white man who indulges in it habitually. It should be said in this connection that this gospel of dirt is being credited as having been given out before the Chicago Medical Society, a body which would certainly have repudiated
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