You'd think by the 1930's they would've known that nutrients get taken in through your stomach, not your skin.
Although even up to the 60s, there were enough stupid people to spread the rumor that the actress that was covered in gold paint for Goldfinger died of asphyxiation. I guess no one ever wondered why people don't die from swimming...
LOL! "people don't die from swimming". Ever hear of drowning??
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No Crime Dog...and the "Murphy Drip" didn't work either! LOL!
shareYou seem a little confused about how people drown. They don't drown by having their skin immersed in water, which was the OP's point.
shareIt wasn't really 'nutrients' they were looking for in a milk bath. In the 60s or early 70s it was still a 'thing', or more likely AGAIN in style. The milk was thought to soften skin the same way the stuff we put in our bathwater today does. Do you really think all the stuff women pay so much money for makes them look younger? It was a beauty craze.
As for the woman in Goldfinger, you do know that Buddy Ebsen was originally cast as the Tinman in Wizard of Oz, but had to be replaced because of an allergy to the silver colouring in the make-up, right?
As for your point about milk bath as beauty treatments, I take it you did not actually watch the movie being discussed.
And the way you phrased the point about an allergy made it seem as if you considered that a rebuttal, but that has nothing to do with the topic of asphyxiation through skin being discussed.
I saw Goldfinger when it was released and never heard/read anything to the effect that the actress (unlike her character) had died, however, I do recall reading that some area of her body was left unpainted as a precaution. Regardless, I'm going to guess that being completely covered in paint (and metallic paint, to boot) probably isn't very healthful.
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Here's the part that flummoxed me. The Stanwyck character knows that a milk bath is a stupid solution for a girl who's dying of malnutrition. She repeatedly rejects this idea as stupid. But suddenly she acquiesces, and then spends considerable time and energy focusing on the milk bath. Surely as a nurse she could implement basic steps to deal with severe malnutrition more effectively?
It was a plot device to get her bootlegger beau more involved. Also, we were led to believe that she really didn't know what could be done to save the child, so she went along with the milk bath just to do something.
shareIf they knew the girls were dying of malnutrition why didn't they just feed them?
shareBecause by this point, the child was so sick, she was immediately vomiting anything she ate. It was clearly stated in the dialogue.
shareSome nutrition can be given intravenously or in forms that won't be vomited. In the beginning of the film the kids were alert and could certainly fed properly by Stanwyck's character.
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