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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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$Part lh the rath of December 1695. He is now at © Rome, and enjoys Health enough to de- — ~ ferve being called the youngef{ Man in it. He goes frequently on Foot, diverts him- felf more than any Body at Feafts, and has often Conforts of Mufick at his Houfe, where he entertains the Company with an air of Youth; he lives at liberry, and with-_ out conftraint. He has a robuft Comple- xion, is not fubject to» any. indifpofition, but the Gout, which may proceed from his — too much eating, having a moit devouring , Stomach. Heis fo little fenfible of his” ' great Age, that he often ‘talks of going in- to Fraace fora Year or two, and afterwards then return to Rome. = . He deny’ himfelf no Pleafure in his. Youth, and notwith{tanding is very like to” carry the fame temperament and. brisknefs- tothe Grave. | | i Mr. Martin in his defcription of the Weft-. ern Iflands.of Scotland fays, that Donald Roy, who lived in the Ifle of Sand, where they have neither Phyfick nor Phyfician,died_ Jately in the 1ooth Year of his Age, and was able to Travel and manage «his Af=- fairs till about two Years before his death. _ He makes mention of one that died a- bout 18 Years ago, aged one hundred and forty, and of another who they faid died” at one hundred and eighty. AG : : : | 428 Of Lmgevity. 7]$