s, strictly speaking, such washing as concerns beautifying the skin, by cleansing it of those deformities which a distempered blood sometimes throws upon it, or rather are made by a preternatural secretion: for according to Quincy, generally those distempers of the skin, commonly accounted signs of a foul blood, are, from those salts which are natural in the best constitution, thrown off by the cutaneous glands, which ought to be washed away through the kidney; so that instead of those insignificant and ridiculous tribes of sweeteners, which in this case are frequently used, promoting the urinary discharge, or rectifying that of the skin by proper washes, frictions, or ointments, or both together, is the only way to get rid of such disorders.