Practical observations concerning sea bathing. To which are added, remarks on the use of the warm bath / By A.P. Buchan.

  • Alexander Peter Buchan
Date:
1804
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    C ] ON SOME OF THE BAD EFFECTS OF SEA BATHING. Under this title it is not my intention to notice all thofe complaints and peculiarities of conllitution where bathing does neither good nor harm; but rather to point out thofe difeafes, or tendencies to difeafe, in which fea bathing has been afcertained by experience to be prejudicial: being perfuaded that many people, annually, not only injure themfelves by imprudently bathing in the fea, but wafle the time and money, which, properly bellowed, might have enabled them to obtain that reno- vation of health, in fearch of which, for want of better information, they have purfued an erroneous path. In all febrile complaints, accompanied with local inflammation, cold bathing is hurtful. In thofe languid and enfeebled Hates of the conllitution, in which the ufe of the cold bath is