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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    lent inflammation, and even a morti- fication will take place, which has f often happened; or, at any rate, that inflammation called Chilblains will be produced, from the violent action of the heat upon the accumulated ex- citability of thofe parts ; but, if a per- fon fo circumftanced, was to put his hands or feet into cold water, very lit- tle warmer than the atmofphere to which he had been expofed, or rub them with fnow, which is not often colder than 32 or 30 degrees, the morbid excitability will be gradually exhaufted, and no bad confequences will enfue.