"My dear Susan, As you say you want my hydropathical diary, I will give it to you - though tomorrow it is to change to a certain extent. - 1/4 before 7, get up, & am scrubbed with rough towel in cold water for 2 or 3 minutes, which after the first few days, made & makes me very like a lobster - I have a washerman, a very nice person, & he scrubs behind, whilst I scrub in front." Charles Darwin,letter to sister Susan Darwin, 19 March 1849
I was going to go through the Origin then another book but I realized that i would miss some letters and, consequently, some insights into Darwin's thinking. So back to some letters.
Darwin was ill. Perhaps from Chagas disease - though not diagnosed. And Darwin was a man of his time and took the "water cure." Though not treating the disease it did make him feel better at least temporarily.
"My dear Susan, As you say you want my hydropathical diary, I will give it to you - though tomorrow it is to change to a certain extent. - 1/4 before 7, get up, & am scrubbed with rough towel in cold water for 2 or 3 minutes, which after the first few days, made & makes me very like a lobster - I have a washerman, a very nice person, & he scrubs behind, whilst I scrub in front." Charles Darwin,letter to sister Susan Darwin, 19 March 1849
I was going to go through the Origin then another book but I realized that i would miss some letters and, consequently, some insights into Darwin's thinking. So back to some letters.
Darwin was ill. Perhaps from Chagas disease - though not diagnosed. And Darwin was a man of his time and took the "water cure." Though not treating the disease it did make him feel better at least temporarily.
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