Observations on the efficacy of cold-bathing in the prevention and cure of diseases / by Alexander Gordon.

  • Alexander Gordon
Date:
1786
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Credit: Observations on the efficacy of cold-bathing in the prevention and cure of diseases / by Alexander Gordon. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    OBSERVATIONS ON THE EFFICACY OF COLD-BATHING, IN THE PREVENTION ANI> CURE OF DISEASES. This is the pureft exercife of health, The kind refrelher of the fummer heats ; Nor, when cold winter keens the bright’ning flood. Would 1 weak fhiv’ring linger on the brink. Thus life redoubles, and is oft preferv’d, By the bold fwimmer in the fvvift illapfe Of accident difaftious. Hence the limbs Knit into force; and the fame Roman arm. That rofe vittorious o’er the conquer’d earth, Firft learn’d when tender to fubdue the wavec Ev’n, from the body’s purity, the mind . ^ Receives a fecret fympathetic aid. Thomson’s Seasons. A HE greateft of human blefTings is health; and though, like mo ft other valuable things, its worth is not known when poflefled, yet its attainment when
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