Observations on the history and cure of the asthma : in which the propriety of using the cold bath in that disorder is fully considered / by Michael Ryan, M.D. and member of the Royal Antiquarian Society of Edinburgh.

  • Ryan, Michael, approximately 1760-1823.
Date:
1793
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Credit: Observations on the history and cure of the asthma : in which the propriety of using the cold bath in that disorder is fully considered / by Michael Ryan, M.D. and member of the Royal Antiquarian Society of Edinburgh. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    On the whole, it is evident that the fads and obfervations to be found in medical authors relative to cold-bathing in the afth- jna, are few, unfatisfadory, and deficient. That they have had no weight with practi- tioners, is fully evinced by the medical writings of modern times. In all the late publications on the afthma, cold-bathing is not even mentioned as a re- medy, except in one work *, and that too in a tranfient manner : no new fads are brought forward, to give additional credit and {liability to this pradice : the author implicitly relies on the authority of Dr. Millar, and he (as we have already feen) reforts to the doubtful evidence of Sir John Floyer and Dr. Smollet, without any ex- perience of his own to corroborate the tef- tirnony of either. The pradice of phyficians,. according to * Withers on the Afthma, p. 114.. my