Practical observations concerning sea bathing. To which are added, remarks on the use of the warm bath / By A.P. Buchan.

  • Buchan, A. P. (Alexander Peter), 1764-1824.
Date:
1804
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Credit: Practical observations concerning sea bathing. To which are added, remarks on the use of the warm bath / By A.P. Buchan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    fent mafs of literature, which has for its objecl the prefervation of human health. Sea bathing is employed for two diftinct purpofes ; the general improvement of health, and the cure of certain difeafes. In treating of the fubjebt of bathing, I have tried to keep thefe different points of view, in which it may be confidered, feparate from each other. To thofe who bathe chiefly for pleafure, I have endeavoured to fuggeft fuch hints and cautions as may tend to prevent the mifchiefs that cannot fail to refult from plunging into the water at random. In the catalogue of dif- eafes, I believe, I have not omitted any, for which either the external or internal ufe of fea water has been proved by experience to be a remedy. I have alfo attempted to difcriminate thofe complaints in which bathing in the fea has been found to be injurious. The general purport of the following obfervations will, how- ever, be confined within limits, which no medi- cal work, intended for popular perufal,'ought, in my opinion, to exceed : they will be found jtather of the negative than the pofuive kind $ and