A guide to health, or, advice to both sexes in nervous and consumptive complaints : with an essay on the scurvy, leprosy, and scrofula; also on a certain disease, seminal weakness, and a destructive habit of a private nature, to which is added, an address to parents, tutors & guardians of youth, with observations on the use and abuse of cold bathing / by S. Solomon.

  • Solomon, Samuel, -approximately 1818.
Date:
1801
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Credit: A guide to health, or, advice to both sexes in nervous and consumptive complaints : with an essay on the scurvy, leprosy, and scrofula; also on a certain disease, seminal weakness, and a destructive habit of a private nature, to which is added, an address to parents, tutors & guardians of youth, with observations on the use and abuse of cold bathing / by S. Solomon. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    are always most essentially answered by sea*-bathlng; for salt water ought to be preferred, not only on account of its superior gravity, but likewise for its greater power of stimulating the skin, which promotes the perspiration, and prevents the patient from catching cold. Whatsoever is to be effected by bracing the solids, invigorating their vibrations, and accelera- ting the motion of the blood, is with certainty to be obtained from the judicious use of the Cold Bath. All diseases from a sizy blood and a lentor in the animal juices, if the elasticity of the vessels is not worn out with age or debauches, will find relief from the Cold Bath, as Rheumatisms of the most obstinate kind, hypochondrical affections, and de- bility from a too indulgent and inactive way of life. Whatsoever inconveniences likewise proceed from a bad transpiration, or when humours are thrown upon the surface, which cannot get through, but ulcerate, blotch and deform the skin, this remedy will be of service in. For upon immersion the whole nervous system is so shook, that the very capil- laries feel the influence, and the minutest passages are forced open by an incffeased velocity of the circulating fluids, whereby the skin will be cleared, and instead of entertaining gross acrimonious humours, transmit only the imperceptible matter of perspiration. It is necessary, however, to observe, that cold bathing is more likely to prevent, than to remove obstructions of the glandular or lymphatic system.