Remarks on sea-water : with observations on its application and effects, internally and externally.

  • Taylor, Charles.
Date:
1805
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Credit: Remarks on sea-water : with observations on its application and effects, internally and externally. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    beginning, prevents a farther accumula- tion, while the body remains in health. The surface of the body of a person of a moderate size is fifteen square feet; of course, in bathing, a large surface is ex- posed to the pressure and action of the water. The pulse of a healthy person of mid- dle age and stature beats from 60 to 80 times in a minute; in old people, some- times only 30 or 40. Violent exertions will occasion 100 pulsations, and fever from 112 to 140. In no case whatever, where the heat of a bath should be ascertained, is the feel or touch to be depended upon for judg- ment of it; even the two hands of the same person will experience different sen- sations of heat: the trial by the thermo- meter is the test that can only be trusted to, and such an instrument is a necessary companion to every company at a bathing- place. Evaporation -from the body produces cold; therefore an exposure to the air for some time after bathing, is inimical to the vivifying glow of heat required. B3 INTEK-