Abstract
Explores Whitman's descriptions of nude sun-bathing in Specimen Days and shows how the poet was influenced by "a variant of the therapeutic air cures and camp cures prescribed by his distinguished physician Dr. S. Weir Mitchell and by other doctors in the 1870s and 1880s."
Keywords: Note, Specimen Days, Bathing, Health, Hygiene, Hygienic Practices, Hydropathy, Hydropathist, Water Therapy, Water Cure, Air Bath, Sunbathing, Massage, Paralysis, Physicians, Russell Trall, S. Weir Mitchell, Life Illustrated, Fowler and Wells
How to Cite:
Aspiz, H., (1983) “Specimen Days: The Therapeutics of Sun-Bathing”, Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 1(3), 48-50. doi: https://doi.org/10.13008/2153-3695.1033
Rights: Copyright © 1984 Harold Aspiz
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