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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    to the rich an apology for that frequent change of place, which in reality originates in a hope of finding, in fome new fituation, objects to excite the attention, and occupy that intellec- tual vacuity, the perception of which confti- tutes the chief mifery of the idle. For fuch f •• ■ * is the prefent condition of man, that thofe who- are not obliged to live by labour, muff labour that they .may live. That propenfity to imitate the manners of their fuperiors, which influences the conduct of fo great a portion of mankind, has diffufed the inclination for an annual temporary change of fituation very generally among the people of this country : and though that tendency to diflipation, the unavoidable confequence of a congrefs of the unemployed, makes the improvement of health, which is the general plea for frequenting what are termed watering- places, appear to the fober eye of induftry, in niofl: inftances, to be merely a pretence for the purfuit of pleafure; yet the periodical migrations of the inhabitants of great towns, and efpecially of the metropolis, to the coun- 8 tryv