Remarks on sea-water; with observations on its application and effects, internally and externally ... / [Charles Taylor].

  • Taylor, Charles
Date:
1805
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Credit: Remarks on sea-water; with observations on its application and effects, internally and externally ... / [Charles Taylor]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Vapour-baths from sea-water scarcely differ in effect from those of common water, and therefore do not require to be noticed'in this treatise. Each of the baths I have mentioned have a different effect upon the human body; and it is prin¬ cipally by modifying the organs which serve for the circulation that these differ- encies arise. Sea-water, by its saline quality, excites the action of the solids more lively than those of common water of the same tem¬ perature, and increases the circulation and secretions more abundantly, particularly those of urine. It removes more efficaciously obstruc¬ tions of the glands and viscera, particu¬ larly of the glands connected with the skin, and cutaneous affections. Sea-bathing, as well as a temperate bath of pure water, is a tonic moderately astringent and refreshing; but it is more aperitive, more dissolvent, more diuretic, and more antispasmodic. Before bathing in the open sea, it will be proper to bathe two or three times in a warm sea-water bath of about 90 degrees; it
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