An essay on bathing : with remarks on the efficacy and employment of the mineral water, at Ashby-de-La-Zouch and Moira : in which are introduced several interesting cases, &c. / by W.R. Cubitt.

  • Cubitt, W. R.
Date:
1826
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Credit: An essay on bathing : with remarks on the efficacy and employment of the mineral water, at Ashby-de-La-Zouch and Moira : in which are introduced several interesting cases, &c. / by W.R. Cubitt. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    now this mode of calculation is certainly very well in many of the concerns of life, but it will not answer in bathing*. My at- tendance was required early in the morning' succeeding his last immersion ; and in a most distressing state I found him ; he had passed a miserable nigJit, and was then suf- fering from the injudicious application of so strong a stimulus upon so debilitated a frame. 1 was hap])y in removing his mental and bodily afflictions, and ultimately in re- storing him to perfect health. The Paralytic and Apoplectic may in some cases meet with a restorative in the employment of a stimulating bath; but as the state and seat of this diseasQ; must direct the propriety of its use, the patient should be governed by the upinioa^. of his medical adviser; let no one bathe with the^e calamities, except under the watchful eye of an experienced practitioner; the neglect of this precau- tion had very nearly proved fatal to a gentleman who bathed here last year.