Unfortunately, he continued, the Hygeian school more or less died out in the West.
"Life Blood"
Thomas Hoover
Mr. Walker, the Hygeian humorist, declared that he had such a healthy skin it was impossible for any impurity to stick to it, and maintained that it was an absurdity to wash a face which was of necessity always clean.
"The Complete PG Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr."
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (The Physician and Poet not the Jurist)
Morison and Moat, of the Hygeian establishment at King's Cross, London, reply.
"Miscellaneous-Papers"
Dickens, Charles