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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    SCROFULA. Sayer and the other bathing guides fay, many hundreds of youth affiidled with this complaint come to Margate every year, who, by bathing in the fea and drinking the water, receive great re¬ lief after two or three months; but this and all other inherent complaints require a work of time and repetitions of the courfe, year after year, to eradicate than out of the habit, and to give ftrength, as they grow up, to man or womanhood to relift its force.” The many children left here in the winter for the benefit of fea-bathing is in proof of its efficacy in that complaint (fcrofula). Its fummer courfe is only preparatory to a winter one. * • ><’ ‘ . Wifhing to know whether the fea-bath is radi¬ cal or not in fcrofula, many creditable perfons in Margate vouch for it being fo, and one of their proof inftances is very ftrong : it is of a farmer in the neighbourhood, who was miferably affiidfed with it in his younger days, and, by perfevering in bathing, year after year, until he grew up into his teens, got to be perfectly well. He mar¬ ia ried.