The cold water cure / by Edwin Lee.

  • Lee Edwin, -1870.
Date:
1844
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Credit: The cold water cure / by Edwin Lee. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    to these complaints, as well as to pulmonary con- sumption, would be materially lessened, were persons, while in health, accustomed to attend to the functions of the skin, by the employment of bathing and cold ablutions more frequently than is generally the case. Many people, it is true, who perhaps never take a bath, yet enjoy good health, for the influence of habit will often enable the body to support many things that are gene- rally prejudicial. But, on the other hand, there is no doubt that many suffer from various un- pleasant sensations and disordered states of health, which might be prevented by the more frequent adoption of the practice. The cold-water treatment employed in proper cases strengthens the nervous and muscular sys- tems, gives tone to the body generally, and to the skin in particular, consequently there is a greater inclination and ability for exercise, a diminution of the undue susceptibility to atmospheric changes, and to morbid impressions on the nerves, which in a high state of civilization are so frequently productive of disordered states of health. The pure air, bodily exercise, plain diet, the drinking freely of water, and consequent copious excretion of fluid, by means of the skin and kidneys, must tend powerfully to renew the mass of blood, and to eliminate noxious matters