A Healthy Skin
Published in 1848 as a short reprint from a larger health-based piece, this reprinting in the Chamber's Edinburgh Journal argues for the importance of a healthy skin in relation to prevention of common diseases. In relationship to the more state-sanctioned public health documents, the influence that quack-cures held over the population underscores the need to be seen as healthy by the state in the face of national health and social crises. Underlined here is the importance of the outward display (something we will see more of in the mourning sections) to Victorians. The skin, the organ presented to the onlooker, must be healthy for the individual body to be seen as well.