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Psykhroloysia: or, the history of cold bathing: both ancient and modern. In two parts. The first ... / by Sir J.F. ... The second, treating of the genuine use of hot and cold baths ... By Dr. E. Baynard.

John Floyer

Date:: 1706

Credit: Psykhroloysia: or, the history of cold bathing: both ancient and modern. In two parts. The first ... / by Sir J.F. ... The second, treating of the genuine use of hot and cold baths ... By Dr. E. Baynard. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$(226 Seneca, Socrates, Plato, Epictetus, &e. and S allthe wife Philofophers have fo expos’d and _ rail'd at : for the Pride of Life 1s really thei torment and trouble of it. But whilft the i Devil, that Spiritual Taylor, Prince of the Air, can fo eafily ftep to France, and Month- — ly fetch us new Fafhions, ’tis never likely to be otherwife: What a fhame is it, in the Church, the Houfe of God, where Peo- ple ought to -affemble in Sack-cloth and Afhes to lament and mourn for their Sins, to come with Top-Knots, long dangling - rump Perry-wiggs, to fee who likes who, - and make the Church a Spiritual Fitde-Park, to play with Fans and tols Perry-wiggs, oe. really this is a great Abomination,and Offence. even to the little Religion of a Tip-fta ora Turodseyy Cre) arose pom =. There is at the Bath an Old Fellow in the» Summer time, who is an affiftant tothe Play-_ houfe. I have obfrvid: this Old. Fellow once in a Week, or. fometimes aftner, to” go to a Milk-Houfe @vhere I ufed often to drink Milk) to fill a. great Pitcher Cwlhich held at leaft.6 or 7 Quarts) of mew Butter-_ milk, but always kept ieuntilic was fowr,, and then drank of that and nothing elfe all” the Summer Months, (id eft) from April or -- May, until October ; the remaining, part of the Year he drank either Water ‘or {mall vey — oS ~ Beery] Pe$