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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    » Sea-water and fea-bathing having thus very extenftve powers* good and ill, it is for me, and for every man who profefles himfelf a guar¬ dian of health, to be cautious and correct on whom we recommend to it, left we become guilty, un¬ intentionally, of a breach of the ftxtli command. Ignorance is not admitted as a plea of innocence for murther. It is not uncommon for the faculty, when their patients’ ftomachs recoil at food and medicine, and their conftitutions much worn out, to recom¬ mend a change of air, as the dernier e re fort, which has, generally fpeaking, either very good or very ill eftedt, according to circumftances, ftate of the cafe, and conftitution of the air fent to. But thofe fent to the fea-coaft, whether for the fake of air or fea-bathing, or for both, we fhall fuppofe them not yet fo far gone, but to be able to take nou- rifhment, ufe exercife (cripples excepted) in the open air, to be amufed, and their ftomachs able to receive and retain a medicine occafionally in cafe of need, or they are totally inadmiftible: it only hurries them a day fooner to the grave— the domus omnium—and make the fea-watering places a general receptacle for the dead, inftead of a prefervatory from the ftiades. AI-