A treatise on struma, or scrofula, commonly called the King's evil / [Thomas White].

  • White, Thomas (Surgeon)
Date:
1794
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Credit: A treatise on struma, or scrofula, commonly called the King's evil / [Thomas White]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    occafions, his own feelings will be the beft guide. In the very hot months of fu ra¬ nter, bathing, both in the morning and in the evening, mu ft be very falutary. It is the invariable cuftom of a very large pro¬ portion of the inhabitants of the Eaft; and, from its being confidered as a reli¬ gious ceremony, there can be no doubt oi its having been found abfolutely neceffaryj and, I fhould think, muft ]?e a very pro¬ bable means of preventing the great laffi- tude that weakly relaxed perfons often ex¬ perience from perfpiration during night. In cafes where there are no other evident caufes for too profufe an evacuation, by the pores of the fkin, than relaxation or debility, bathing muft be a very probable and a very agreeable remedy. Perfons in fuch circumftances fhould bathe early in the morning and in the evening near upon fun-fet, and alfo, as near as practicable, at high water, when it is imagined the water will be colder than at any time pre¬ ceding