Practical observations concerning sea bathing : to which are added, remarks on the use of the warm bath / by A.P. Buchan.

  • Buchan, A. P. (Alexander Peter), 1764-1824.
Date:
1804
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Credit: Practical observations concerning sea bathing : to which are added, remarks on the use of the warm bath / by A.P. Buchan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    with a degree of acceleration proportioned to the coldnefs of the fluid with which the body was furrounded. The convulfive anhelation that takes place on immerfion in a cold bath, has been ufually attributed to the augmented preffure on the external furface of the body, by which the free dilatation of the chefl was fuppofed to be pre- vented. That this effect is not conne&ed with the weight of the water, as being a denfer fluid than air, is proved, by obferving that no fuch confequence occurs on entering a bath of the fame temperature of the human body, or of a higher, as in that at Bath, for inftance; while, on the contrary, it is caufed in equal degree by pouring cold water over the head, or by Handing under a fhower bath, as by plunging into the fea. We are commonly in the habit of breathing the air of the atmofphere of the fame tempera- ture to which the body is expofed. The veffels of the fkin, and thofe diffufed over the internal furface of the lungs, are therefore conftantly liable
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