An enquiry into the right use and abuses of the hot, cold, and temperate baths in England ... With a particular description of ... Buxton-Bath ... To this is added I. An extract of Dr. Jones's Treaty on Buxton-Bath ... II. A letter from Dr. Clayton ... concerning the use of St. Mungus-Well. III. An abstract of some cures perform'd by the bath at Buxton ... / [Sir John Floyer].

  • Floyer, John, Sir, 1649-1734
Date:
1697
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: An enquiry into the right use and abuses of the hot, cold, and temperate baths in England ... With a particular description of ... Buxton-Bath ... To this is added I. An extract of Dr. Jones's Treaty on Buxton-Bath ... II. A letter from Dr. Clayton ... concerning the use of St. Mungus-Well. III. An abstract of some cures perform'd by the bath at Buxton ... / [Sir John Floyer]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    mours, and their natural hot Ef- Aluviums, produced by their Dige- (tion, Motion, Circulation, ot Fer- mentation ; and.’ if they»:be/:too much evacuated by hot Baths, they “make the Body weaker, the Spirits exhaufted; but. if. moderately) re- tain'd,. the Spirits are more invigo- . rated, and all the Animal Actions depending on them, Digeftion, Cir- culation, Perfpiration, are well per- forined: And. by this means Cold Water ftrengthens the natural Heat, Spirits,’ and Vigor or ‘Tone of our Bodies; and for this reafon). the Northern Nations rub their Frozen Parts. with Ice, and have always sharden’d their Bodies by. bathing -n Cold Water. 4. Cold Water by over-much compreffing the Aid Parts of Ani- mals,