Dietetical & Medical Hydrology: A Treatise on Baths, Including Cold, Sea, Warm, Hot, Vapour, Gas, and Mud Baths : Also, on the Watery Regimen, Hydropathy, and Pulmonary Inhalation : with a Description of Bathing in Ancient and Modern TimesBarrington, 1850 - 658 páginas |
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ablution acid affusion animal heat applied bather blood body caloric capillaries carbonic acid cause CHAPTER chlorine cholera chronic cold bath cold water common cool cure cutaneous degree digestive directed disease douche drink dyspepsia effects epidermis eruption especially excitement exercise experience external favour feet fever fluid frequent friction frigidarium fumigations functions Galen gout head Hippocrates hot bath hot water hydropathic hygienic immersion increased inflammation inhalation internal iodine irritation kind laconicum latter limbs lungs means medicine ment mineral minutes moist vapour morbid mucous membrane nervous organs pain patient persons perspiration physicians practice Priessnitz pulmonary pulse quantity recourse relief remedy rheumatism Romans rubbed scrofulous sea bathing sensation skin sometimes springs stimulating stomach sulphurous surface sweat symptoms syphilis temperature tepid bath tepidarium therapeutical thermæ thirst tion treatment ulcers uterus vapour bath vessels warm bath warm water watery regimen writers
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Página 215 - All the days of the afflicted are evil: but he that is of a merry heart hath a continual feast.
Página 261 - ... 4. Water, which contains less than about an 8000th of salts in solution, cannot be safely conducted in lead-pipes, without certain precautions. 5. Even this proportion will prove insufficient to prevent corrosion, unless a considerable part of the saline matter consist of carbonates and sulphates, especially the former.
Página 215 - The sleep of a labouring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much: but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.
Página 37 - The workmen of Sir F. Chantrey were accustomed to enter a furnace, in which his moulds were dried, whilst the floor was red-hot and a thermometer in the air stood at 350° F. (177 '8° C.); and Chabert, the fire-king, was in the habit of entering an oven the temperature of which was from 400° to 600° F.
Página 114 - An abundant supply of water, brought from the mountains by old Moorish aqueducts, circulates throughout the palace, supplying its baths and fishpools, sparkling in jets within its halls, or murmuring in channels along the marble pavements. When it has paid its tribute to the royal pile, and visited its gardens and...
Página 21 - I counted the perspiratory pores on the palm of the hand, and found 3,528 in a square inch. Now, each of these pores being the aperture of a little tube of about a quarter of an inch long, it follows that in a square inch of skin on the palm of the hand, there exists a length of tube equal to 882 inches, or 73£ feet.
Página 358 - ... in the evening, but it may be safely used at any time of the day when there is no sense of chilliness present, when the heat of the surface is steadily above 'what is natural, and when there is no general or profuse sensible perspiration.
Página 192 - Withall she laughed, and she blusht withall, That blushing to her laughter gave more grace, And laughter to her blushing, as did fall. Now when...
Página 188 - Happy had it been for the race of mankind, if other mixed and artificial liquors had never been invented. It has been an agreeable appearance to me...
Página 153 - ... his length near a long (but gentle) fire in the middle of his wigwam, or house, turning himself several times, till he was dry, and then he rose and fell to getting us our dinner, seeming to be as easie and well in health as at any other time.