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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    lukewarm, if you put one hand into it, it will feel warm ; if you now put the other hand into water, heated for inftance to 120° or 130°, and keep it there fome time, we will fay, two minutes ; if then you take it out, and put it into the lukewarm water, that water will feel cold, though Bill it will feem warm to the other hand; for, the hand which had been in the heated water, has had its excitability exhauft- ed by the application of heat. Before you go into a warm bath, the tempe- rature of the air may feem warm and agreeable to you, but after you have remained for fome time in a bath that is