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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    from other caufes; and moft likely, as Dr. Darwin has hinted, in all cafes of general debility accompanied with cold extremities. Spasmodic cough, and other nervous affe&ions are frequently relieved by the warm bath. Dr. Whytt obferves, in his Treatife on Nervous Complaints, “ that even partial warm bathing of the legs and thighs is the bell remedy for thofe convullions which fometimes precede the eruption of the fmall-pox ; and for that general tremor of the whole body which often happens towards the end of that difeafe, when the puflules are of a very bad kind.” I am not acquainted with any fpecies of cutaneous complaint which is benefited by a warm bath of fea water ; though many difeales of the fkin admit of being removed by a tepid bath of frelh water, either Ample, or impreg- nated with appropriate medicaments. As it is now determined, that there is no cutaneous abforption while the cuticle remains unbroken, the effect of whatever material may be mixed with