Note 043
From Chapter 37 of the Decline & Fall

Some partial indulgences were granted for the hands and feet.

"Totum autem corpus nemo unguet nisi causa infirmitatis, nec lavabitur aqua nudo corpore, nisi languor perspicuus sit." (Regul. Pachom. xcii. part. i. p. 78 [tom. i. p. 31].)
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