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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    [ M7 ] ON THE INTERNAL USE OF SEA WATER. The quantity of fait contained in fea water varies in different latitudes. The fea is lefs fait in cold regions near the poles, and falter towards the equator. The difference in the quantity of fait contained in different parts of the ocean feems to depend on the greater or lefs degree of evaporation. From the power of the vertical fun, the evaporation is greateft under the line ; and great part of the vapours generally moving towards the pole where they defcend in frequent Ihowers, tend, by in fonre meafure diluting the waters of the ocean, to render them lefs fait. And fuch is the arrangement and regularity of Nature, that as this fait feems mixed with the waters of the fea to prevent its putrefaction, lb it is mixed in the greatcfl quantities where the heat is greateft, and where, for this reafon, there is 4 the