The use of sea voyages in medicine / By Ebenezer Gilchrist.

  • Ebenezer Gilchrist
Date:
1757
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Credit: The use of sea voyages in medicine / By Ebenezer Gilchrist. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    imprefled on the body, from the manner of its application, in repeated (hocks, fometimes on one part, fometimes on another, as if from an alternate bending and unbending of the air : fo that while one part of the body fuftains a ftrong preffure, another fuffers only an ordinary preffure, or Jeffs ; and fometimes the body is fqueezed betwixt contrary preff fares. We form fome notion of this from the addon of a fulling-mill. Sailing feerns to correfpond with mod o- ther exercifes, in their manner or effeds. It refemhles walking, in the gentle, con- ftant adion of muffles with which that exer- cife is accompanied. The benefit derived from riding depends on the continued fuccuf- fion one fuffers, and being carried with con- fiderable quicknefs in the air. Now there is a greater fuccuffion in failing from the vo¬ miting; and, driven by winds, one is carried with greater quicknefs than in any ordinary exercife. At fea, again, there is, from the fhip’s motion, a very various adion of muffles, and the body is put into all thole conftrained attitudes which are observed in bowling, and the like exercifes, and in common labour. Exercife in a fwins:, or in a coach, which fometimes
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