Practical observations on cold and warm bathing; and descriptive notices of watering places in Britain / [James Millar].

  • James Millar
Date:
1821
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Credit: Practical observations on cold and warm bathing; and descriptive notices of watering places in Britain / [James Millar]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    zi< \ y »v B r A ft' PART I. OF COLD AND WARM BATHING. To point out the benefits to be derived from bathing, and to give such directions as seem best calculated to insure these be- nefits, it may be necessary to treat, first, of Cold Bathing, and, secondly, of Warm Ba- thing, in separate chapters. CHAP. I. OF COLD BATHING. The external application of cold water to the body, or cold bathing, were it the purpose of this treatise to enter deeply into the investigation, might be considered in two points of view ; either with regard to the detersive properties of the water, in re-