A dissertation on sea-water : with the regimen proper to be observed in the use of it. Together with some practical hints on drinking the spaws, or any other medicinal waters. In a letter from a physician in the country to his friend in the town.

Date:
[1755?]
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Credit: A dissertation on sea-water : with the regimen proper to be observed in the use of it. Together with some practical hints on drinking the spaws, or any other medicinal waters. In a letter from a physician in the country to his friend in the town. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    : [ 81] as I fhall prove in the following Remarks. To fuppofe that Bathing in the Sea, and Drinking the Sea-Water at one and the fame Time be necef- fary towards removing all Di(tem¬ pers of the Body, is quite as abfurd as to exped by Purging and Sweat¬ ing (two dired Oppofites) to force Nature to a Compliance; or, to think that we are to encounter a Difeafe Vi & Armis. But the Times proper to be u(ed and the different Effects they have on the Body (feparately) will be made to appear from the following Re- fledions. Every one the leaft acquainted with Natural Philofophy or the Ani¬ mal Oeconomy knows that through Immerfion in cold Water the Solids of our Bodies are fo fuddenly con- traded by the joint Jmpulfe of the two Fluids, Air and Water, which