A lecture on the preservation of health / By T. Garnett.

  • Thomas Garnett
Date:
1800
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Credit: A lecture on the preservation of health / By T. Garnett. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    bility accumulates ; or in other words, if the body be for fome time expofed to cold, it is more liable to be af- fected by heat, afterwards applied; of this alfo you may be convinced by an eafy experiment—put one of your hands into cold water, and then put both into water which is con- siderably warm ; the hand which has been in cold water, will feel much warmer than the other. If you han- dle fome fnow with one hand, while you keep the other in your bofom, that it may be of the fame heat as the body, and then bring both within the fame distance of the fire, the heat c 2 will