A practical essay on the good and bad effects of sea-water and sea-bathing / by John Anderson.

  • John Anderson
Date:
1795
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Credit: A practical essay on the good and bad effects of sea-water and sea-bathing / by John Anderson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    thrown into a diarrhoea, or loofenefs, and cured. And Barnard mentions an afcites, or dropfy of the belly, cured by drinking fea-water and bathing in the fea. I have enquired particularly if there have been any inftances here to confirm this, but I cannot learn of any having come to bathe for it. In an incipient dropfy, or fcorhutic cedematous legs, it may, and has been of fervice, but in a confirmed dropfy I have no idea of its be¬ ing of any ufe. It is rather preventive than cura¬ tive of dropfy. I rather refer it to the warm fea- water bath, as it fweats the bather after it very profufely, and fweating is moft wanted in dropfy. In cedematous and anafarcous fwellings the blood moves flowed: in the fkin, and when the circula-* tion is flow the fkin is pale and cold. Sea-bathing, by its contractile force and Simulating power, im¬ pels the fluids of the body from the periphera to the center and forces them into their channel, fuch as the urinary, until the prefTure of the water is taken off, and moderate exercife and friction af¬ ter the bath takes place, when the circulation quickens, and the heat reverberates, and is re¬ newed with force on the fkin, and mufcles, which aCting kindly on the papillae nervofoe, communi¬ cates by fympathy fenfation to loft feeling, and thereby renews loft aCtion in the nervous fyftem; the momentum and velocity of the flow languid blood
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