A familiar medical survey of Liverpool: addressed to the inhabitants at large. : Containing observations on the situation of the town; the qualities and influence of the air; the employments and manner of living of the inhabitants; the water; and other natural and occasional circumstances whereby the health of the inhabitants is liable to be particularly affected... / By W. Moss.

  • Moss, William.
Date:
MDCCLXXXIV
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Credit: A familiar medical survey of Liverpool: addressed to the inhabitants at large. : Containing observations on the situation of the town; the qualities and influence of the air; the employments and manner of living of the inhabitants; the water; and other natural and occasional circumstances whereby the health of the inhabitants is liable to be particularly affected... / By W. Moss. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    pra&ice ; and, at the firft impreiTion, are almoft led to confider the inhabitants as a fpecies of amphibious animals. Bathing in a cold bath, or the open fea, is upon the whole a falutary recreation and practice; and there appears to be few habitual complaints wherewith it difagrees. It is leaft favourable in affections of the lungs. There- fore thofe perfons who are fubjedt to afthmas, coughs, objlruftions of the breafi, and are con- fumptive, fhould venture upon it cautioufly, and never without proper medical advice. It is-proper for the rheumatifm [chronic] in any or every part of the body (as has already been explained); yet not in general advifable with thofe who are liable to the gout, efpecially frequent and fevere attacks of it, and at the time that a fit of it threatens or may be ex- pected. A little opening phyfic becomes proper, previous to bathing, in all cafes, where a laxative difpofition of the bowels does not prevail. Oil-case caps have of late been much ufed in bathing. . It was an old and prevail- ing opinion, that unlefs the head was wet, no benefit could be obtained from bathing but that, on the contrary, it would be hurtful. No