Google
This is a digital copy of a book that was preserved for generations on Hbrary shelves before it was carefully scanned by Google as part of a project
to make the world's books discoverable online.
It has survived long enough for the copyright to expire and the book to enter the public domain. A public domain book is one that was never subject
to copyright or whose legal copyright term has expired. Whether a book is in the public domain may vary country to country. Public domain books
are our gateways to the past, representing a wealth of history, culture and knowledge that's often difficult to discover.
Marks, notations and other maiginalia present in the original volume will appear in this file - a reminder of this book's long journey from the
publisher to a library and finally to you.
Usage guidelines
Google is proud to partner with libraries to digitize public domain materials and make them widely accessible. Public domain books belong to the
public and we are merely their custodians. Nevertheless, this work is expensive, so in order to keep providing this resource, we liave taken steps to
prevent abuse by commercial parties, including placing technical restrictions on automated querying.
We also ask that you:
+ Make non-commercial use of the files We designed Google Book Search for use by individuals, and we request that you use these files for
personal, non-commercial purposes.
+ Refrain fivm automated querying Do not send automated queries of any sort to Google's system: If you are conducting research on machine
translation, optical character recognition or other areas where access to a large amount of text is helpful, please contact us. We encourage the
use of public domain materials for these purposes and may be able to help.
+ Maintain attributionTht GoogXt "watermark" you see on each file is essential for informing people about this project and helping them find
additional materials through Google Book Search. Please do not remove it.
+ Keep it legal Whatever your use, remember that you are responsible for ensuring that what you are doing is legal. Do not assume that just
because we believe a book is in the public domain for users in the United States, that the work is also in the public domain for users in other
countries. Whether a book is still in copyright varies from country to country, and we can't offer guidance on whether any specific use of
any specific book is allowed. Please do not assume that a book's appearance in Google Book Search means it can be used in any manner
anywhere in the world. Copyright infringement liabili^ can be quite severe.
About Google Book Search
Google's mission is to organize the world's information and to make it universally accessible and useful. Google Book Search helps readers
discover the world's books while helping authors and publishers reach new audiences. You can search through the full text of this book on the web
at |http : //books . google . com/|
40702J
^v
.lo.
* T X P O A O r 2 I' A-
OR, THE
HISTORY
Both Ancient and Modern.
In Two P A^ffsT
The Fifft, written by
Sir JOHN FLOTER, of LilchfiU, TCoi.
The Second, treating of the genuine Ufc of
Hot and Cold Baths.
Thcwonderfiil F.fFefls oi ciic Bath U^ittr, tliatik l.t»t from the
Puinp, in decay'd Jwmjffcj, and ia raoft Difcafct of the
■tftoeh, Litier, and ip/r.-n, &c.
Ai(o pto.iag,
That the heft Corci done by I'a^CeldSiih, arelattly obrcr,
eJ to arifc from the lemiicratc Ufc of the Hqi /laitj fii \\,
ByDr. EDM^^RD BJTNJRDy Fellow
of the College of Phyficians, London.
I
The Fenrih EdUkn ; To Khich is added^ an Appendix.
LONDON.-
intcd for W I L L t fl SI I n n y s, at the rrince'.
Arms in S. f-it/'s Churcli-yaid. M DCC XV.
■L^
7^^
T O T H E
Much . Honoured and very Learned
PHYSICIAN,
Sir John Floyer, Knt.
S a Pojifiript (honoured Sir^ij
to my former Epiflle I fent-
you, concerning Cold Immer-
fion, be pleas'd to accept of
thefe few (but very uncommon)
OhfervAtiom; efpecially, two or three of the
Cafes here mentioned in this fmall JpfendiXy
which, probably, may have no parallel Cale
in many Years, if ever : 'Tis to you only
that the World is indebted, for reviving
that ancient and falubrious Cuftom of Cold-
haihing, for the great Fains you have taken,
and Learning you have fhewn, in turning
over, perufing, and judicioufly quoting (b
a many ■
r
DEDICATION.
many ancient Authors, as well ^hUofophcrS'
as Phyficians, in compofing your Pfjchro-
loufm; a Praftice that has now an cfta-
blifhd Reputation, which will laft as long
as Water is cold, and will run with its
Streams to the lareftAges, notwithftanding
the Difficulties it has met with from fome
Gentlemen of the Faculty, who are now
brought over, by the Evidence Qf their
own Eyes, and not only in the Cure of
their Pdiie/trs, but their own Perfcnt alfo,
and acknowledge that ufeful, what they
fo often IcoH^'d and taughM at ; who, for
many Years, made it the Subjcft of their <
phlcgmy and fpiritlefs DroHs^ l^ft^y astalie-
lefs and inllpid as the Wtter they ridicul'd ;
and fonie, of a more dry and faplefs Con-
ception, have ftrain'd fo hard for a footty]
Wtcictjmy as has even fluxed their Under-:
(landings to drivel it out ; but they had-
better to have fpar'd ihat Part of the f*rcf^,
for I have often return'd them a H*wli for
their Euz.z.ird, Birds much o^ ^Sfecits^ but
not of a Spted, 6cc. but now thofe very
Men make it their Rtfuge and jifylum:
And, in many Cafes, it is become a fae qm
Mo^, for when they are at a Swnd, and
their repeated Infignificancies baffled, they
ftratch the fallow and unpIow*d-up Side of
their A'oddles^ and propofe a Hoi or Co/d
Bafh ; and altho' of contrary Qualiiies, yet,for
fcai
fear of difplesfiDg, often leave it to their
Patkacs Choice, who are ape to choofe
the wrong, according to the Delicacy or
Hardnefs of Conltitution, or Meafure of
Pains they labour under, and fometimes
both, and thereby get a Cure ; bur 'tis
as the BlsHfi-mM caught the hUre, more by
Chance than Defign : Tho', in fome Ca-
fes, both the Hot and the Cold have done
great Cures, when us'd fucceflivcly ; but
tix> often they liave begun at the wrong
End, and prefcrib'd the Cold Hrll. But»
to begin with the Hot Bsths, and drinking
the Wattrs^ to melt and waih off the feor^
hatic, send y»ices, and lixivUl SaIis^ and
afterwards to ftrcngthen the HMhtt, and Ib-
iid tmtfcuUr Parts, is moft methodicai, and
highly rcafonable, by which I have ic^n
great and wonderful Cures done : Nay, the
late famous Railer againll all Bsths^ and
2\dtthoif too, but his own, would now and
theo Aide a Patient into the Pool, trufting
more to the Coldncfsof the Water, than
Power of the Saint, &c. But this was a
Force upon him, where he faw the Necelli-
ty of its Ufe, left another fhould dire^ it,
and run away with the Credit of the Cure ;
as in that known Cafe, and famous Cure,
dooc on Mr. '^oftth Heaihcot's Wife : And
this is the Cafe of fome Phyficians now, who
I prefcribe more cut of Fear of lofing their
a 2 Patient,
I
I
Patient, than Conviflion, that 'tis the only
probable Remedy left \ or, if they are con-
vinced, they are very iilent, and mute up- ,
on the Matter, knowing, that Cold Bathi are
the Epilogueof the P/<*;,the lafl; Difli of the
Feali: ; for after C/^ef/e comes nothing; For,
Fi4i immerjio.ind repetasttir immerfiones^bvin^
no Grijl to the Mi/l \ for, as a witty Fel- •■
low faid, That if Difedfes csn he cured by a
fevt> Wrtncei in a River, DoBor's Hall in
Warwick-lane, mS, in time^ become a Col-
lege ef Laundreflcs: But in this, theMi-
ftake is very great ; for Pliylick, in moft
CafeSj is indifpenfably neceffary, both be-
fore and after Immerfion; fo that it can
never be made an univerfal QuAck-medieiney
as many have known to their Coft, who,
Handover Head, as they fay, have foohth-
ly and unadvifedly usM it. Indeed, it is a
harfli Medicine, and very fevere to nice
and tender Flefh and Blood, and, therefore,
efpecially to Women and Children, (unlefs
rickety ) rarely to be ufed ; but in Ex-
treams, where more gentle and eafy Me-
thods won't do, which always ought to be
cfTay'd and try'd firft, which feme honeft
fhyficians in this Town, who feek the
Good and Welfare of their Patients, have
with great Caution always direfted : And
it is from fuch Men, and their Obferva-
tions, that the Improvement of Fhyfick
mull
I
muft be expcfted. I fhall at this time
trouble you no farther, but conclude with
a Paper of hobbling, unpoliCh'd Ferfes^ fent
by an honeft, well-meaning, Country Par-
fon, to my very valuable and learned
Friend, Major '^obn Htnburj^ of Poot-Pooi
in Moamouthjhire, on the Subjeft of CoU-
kathtjfg ; and altho' they fcem a little harfti
and uncouth, yet, for the Truth they con-
tain, may beelleemM as rough Dinmoads.
So wifhing you (Sir "^oha) Hummd Sdus^
Sincer* Qt*'ts, & Tarda feneiias. I am (dear
Sir)
Your mofi obliged^ humble SeruMt^
EDWARD BAYNARD.
The Countrj Parfons Verfes on CeW-
b»tbingy &c.
A/O cryftal S^rwg^ but flows tvitb Streams
To bathe, or drink ; affording more Relief
Than Compounds caa, ipbere all dejlroys each
Part^
Or fimfle Juice Maach'd hy chymic Art.
Plain Nature^ Hel^s far more effe£lu/il *f e.
What Art fretends to mend^^s does but marr ■
Aad wbiljlour Sophies ibetr Inventions boaji
Of Things ne'er found, and others better lolt ;
vi DEPr CA TiO N.
See here^ whtt we to ChxMce or Madjnfs 9we!
And more by thefe, thtn by our Learning kaoip :
lor, had no Phrentic /e/tf'd mo a Po/U, -.
Or Druokard out of Ditch heem dragg'dJ
hilf drorviid^ \
Cold Watci'i Virtues Reafoo jWw biid\
found. -'
'Til Chance that finds out tS things, Regjoit
none.
Aid when rre bluader on^t, we tsli't our own.
No faoner fee d Simple do 4 Cure,
But fjioil the Effence onV to make it pure;
Torture it with Crucibles, Stills, and Retort,
And lofe the Balfam for to find the Salt :
And after all f.ery Tryals, we arrive ,
To a burnt Calx, or Spirit corrofive.
But Chymiftsyiw the Eflcnce, as theyfay^
Af/d throw the terrane Pans, as mort, aw4y _■
TTjus a French Cook, mth Spirit of Mutron»
A(x Drop in Water makes a. Scop on afudden.
Flefh is but the earthy Pznyou eat.
It is the Spirit that's the Soul oVA' Meat,
And altho' this h{»ieft, well-meaaiDg
Divine, is a great Friend to fafe and (im-
ple Medicines, the Euforifia, fuch as may
ealily be preparM ; yet Chyiniftry muft
not, therefore, be infulted and run down :
For, what wonderful Medicines have been
prcpar'4
prepar'd from Mercury^ and Antimonj, &c.
wbtch DO ochcr Art, but that of the lirf,
could produce ? Which muit be own'd,
as a (landing Evidence ; for, where Faft is
clear, the Truth bears down all before it,
and is not only perfualive, but compuli'ive
alfo, upon our Belief. Perhaps there may
be, in the vegetable Kingdom, Plants,
whofe Vertues are unknown, which might
( if difcover'd ) anfwcr all the Intentions
of PjTOcechnicdil Produftions ; but until then,
they come within the Resch of the old
School Axicm^ De non Extjltulihas^ & mn
AfpdTemtbui eadfm eji Hdtio.
To the Right Worfliipful the
Royal College
of PHYSICIANS,
London.
Learned and Honoured Slrs^
rr^l
1 H E Delign of this Effy
being to recommend the
Ancient TJeuchroluJia to the
prelent Age, I mod humbly beg
the Proteflion and Favour of youc
Learned Society, whofe great En-
deavours are to revive all old Pra-
(Sices ufeful to Mankind, as well as
to invent new ones.
Many Ancient FraQices in Phy-
fick have been lately revived in Eng-
land, fuch as Copiofe Phlebotomy ;
the want of which made Plcurifies
very fatal in England^ as Tolydore
^>ro(7obferved them formerly to be.
This was an Ancient Praftice in
A a Galen'i
The Dedication.
Galen's time, who bled (for Pains
and Inflammations, and Rheuma-
tifms, which he call'd Infiammatory
Lajfitudes in his Treatlfes of pre-
ferving 'Health, till the change of
the Colour of the Blood, or ai Am-
mi deliijiiium) many pounds at one
time. ^ .1 ■ ,
Caliits Aurelianm meptions-Jh^
lAinking of the Nitrous Puiang
■ Water, and the Sulphurous l^th,
and Chalybeate in Italy j and tnefe
but of late Years have come iritoi
frequent ufe in England.
' Cupping was always ufed by thi
Ancients inftead of Phlebotomy up»
on all occalions, and biit little ufe
has been made of thein till very
lately, till the Inftruments were
much improved by the Philofophy
of the Air-Pump ; But I fear the
Ancient Rules about it are difufedj
and therefore fome ill Accidents
will in time condemn the prefent'
ule of Cupping without general
Evaf
The Dedication.
£vacuations preceding. But there
are yet many ufeful Praftices not
yet revived, fuch as the old Gynoia-
jiick Art and Friftions, by a Strigil
ordrySpungc, by which theCircu-
lation of Humours, the Nutrition
of the Body, and the opening of
the Pores were much promoted :
And tiie exaft Method of Dieting
in all Dil'eafes is not reftored yet.
In Bathing the Greeks and Rj>-
mans ufed many excellent Smegmata
to cleanfe the Skin, and cure Le-
prous Scabs ; they ufed alfo Oyls
and Oyntments after Bathing, to
defend the Skin againft the Senfe of
Cold Air, as well as to foften it.
Noneof the noble Structures for
their Hot Baths were made by the
Romans without a Cold Bath or Tif'
cim, and the ufe of Cold Bathing
after Sweating in the Hot Bath., is
I not yet commonly praiSifed in £«§-
The Dedication.
1
No Subject can give a clearer Evi-
dence, how eafily new Opinions
can change the beft and ancient Pra-
ctices, both in Rdioion and Thy/ick,
Irhan this, for the Logical Notion
about the Form and the EJeitce of
Baplifm, inclin'd the Age under
King James 1. to an indifferency as
to 'Dipping or SfrinkUng.^ which he
ordered to be fo exprefled in the
Catechijm • but this gave too much
Encouragement to the Puritan's
Sprinhti«g; and about the Reftorati-
m, the words Vipping or Sprinkling
were left out of the CaUchifin.
The 'DircBory condemns the Bap-
tizing in the place of Fotju, as Su-
perftitious, and ordered Saptifm la
the middle of the Cmgregatim^ and
fets too little Value on the outward
Baptifm, bat declares "Pouring or
^rinkiingoS' Water fufficient tor a
Sign or Secii of the Covenant. To
thefe two Reafons, I impute the
i'fufeof Jmmerfmtj which if it had
'T* continued,
continued, it would have prevent-
ed many new vain Niceties and DilSl
putcs concerning 5<r^r(/(«. Andtharf
this was the Ancient Conftitution of
the Church of fLngUnd^ appears by
the tirft Book of Edward VI.
Where the Ruhrick expredy com-
mands the manner of Dipping ; and
in one of the Prayers of Bapifm
faySj Grant to all them^ tsjho at this
fountain for Jake the Devil^ ^c. IJ
St. Augujiine in his Book, De Gi\
■vitttte 'Dei, Lib. a 2. affures us, Thaol
great Miracles were done by the(|
Sacrament of Baftifm in his Days J I
and mentions the Cure of the Goaf,
the Taljy, and Tumours thereby- j
This 1 mention to encourage the reJ j
viving of that laudable old Cere-
mony of Trine Immerfion.
But by way of Caution I mull
premife, that I will not concern my
felf in any Theological DifputesJ
whether Immer/ion be Effential to'j
Baftifm ? Or whether it be in the!
Power
Thi Dedicatm.
Power of the Church to alter it ?
Neither will I determine againft
the Validity of Baftifm by Al'per-
fion : Thele Difputes being befides
my purpofe. For all that 1 (hall aim
at, is to (hew, that Immnfim was
generally pra£bifed by the Ancients,
and that in this Church it continu-
ed in ufe till the beginning of the
Laft Age, and that there is not that
Danger in it as Parents apprehend ;
but inftead of prejudicing the Health
of their Children, Immcrjlm would
prevent many Hereditary Difeafes,
if it were ftill praflifed.
The Reafons for the difufe of Cold
Bathing in the laft Century, were
thefe.
The Ignorance of the People in
Matters of Phyfick, who ufually
take that as well as their ^DoSors
from the common Vogue, which is
always altering and changing ; and
it was then the Intereft of the Chy-
mcal Tia&ors to recommend them-
■jiv.u'i felves
The Dedication.
ft
felves by new AAoiwMj-, nevi Methods-
and new Medicines^ and they there-
fore rejected and cried down all the
old Opinions and Pradlices. They I
imputed all Difeafes to Crudity and i
Acid Salts, and taught that they
muft be cured by volatile and fixed |
^alts, by Chymical EJences and Strma
TinBures of Mineral Sulphurs., and
Brmuly-Sfiirits, which they did at '
ftire the World did ftrengthen iV<t^]
tme, and purify the Blood by Pfr* i
Jfirdtion, and they wholly defpisll !
all the External Regimen prefcribed I
in Galenick Authors as unneceflary » j
and Cold Baths ought to be efteem'd I
the moft confiderable part of the]
Cold Regimen.
It is alio very probable, that thft |
change of Religious Opinions had I
no fmall influence in the ufeofCoW
Butbs ; for anciently the Virtues of
the Holy Wells were imputed to
feme Saint, which the laft Age did
pot credit, and therefore rejeQed
the
The Dedtcatim-
■ xhenk of Cold Baths, with the Opi-
H nion of the Virtue of theSi«(, af-
H ter which came the difufe of the
W Buftifiml Immerfwn aUb.
I Parents pretended the Danger of
I that Praftice, as well as the Im-
I modefty ; and they could not jufti-
fy thefe Tre]udkes, without crying
down ColdBciths as dangerous. And
fince they now farther objett, that
it never was the Cuftom to Immerfe
Children in E'-gtmd, I will give
this remarkable Inftance of the Buf-
tij'mof Kino iii/j)<ir's Son, Etheldred,
in Pdydore Virgifi own Words, Is
dum irajHizahaUtr^ cum fuhita in fa-
crwn foniem c&nfeHi cibt reh]ui(iA ex at-
vo emififfet^ traditur Dun^a/ius prie-
dt^xijfe tta julurum nt ills quanda^ue
ingens ^atrtx incommqdum d^decufque
■affenet.
I fliall add one more Rcafon of
.the difufe of Cold Baths, which was
jthe Increafe and Intereft of Foreign
[Tftidt in the lift Century, which
srii ' then
I
then introduc'd all the Hot Regimen
from the Hit Climates^ I'uch as Ta-
iaco, Tea, Coffee, Wine, and Bran-
dy-Sprits, and Specs, and thcfe are
unnatural to EK«iifl> Bodies ; for a
Cold Regimeii is proper to CetdGnm- |
tries, as the Hitt Re«imen for Hut
'Regims, becaufe they preferve ouir
^iodies in a State I'liitable to the ani^
tient Air. If we ftop the Tores by
a Cold Regimen in Hot Countries, a Fe^ 1
wrandFfax" immediately fucceed j.j
and if we keep them open by a Ii)t I
Regtmen in ColdCouv.tries, ^ejluxiont \
and Intermitting Fevers, and Faintif 1
, nffj happen.
We cannot aflign any other prqil
bable Reafon, why 'Pleuri/ies ( whicH J
are Species of Rheumatifms) were j
rare and unknown to 'phy/tcians id
Henry VII. Days, and they as well
as Rheumatifms and Riikets, are
now very frequent, unlefs it bef^ .
that formerly the Englifi wereufed
to a Cold Regimen and Cold Baths,
r
I bu
p *
■ orr
The Dedication.
but of late have difiifed all theCo/rf
Regimtnio):t\\eHot. I cannot here
omit that judicious Remark of Sir
Walter Raleigh upon the facred
Story of the Angel\ Advice to
Sarnpfm'i Mother, To drink no Wine
'whiljl (he -was 'wtth Cbildy That fince
JVomen -with Child ufe too much JVine
and Strong Drink^ they Sring forth fee~
Me Children , and the 'wlxtle Race
of Strong Men k decaf d.
I know the great Honour and Re-
fpefl you have for the Opinion of
the Lord Verulat/t^aad (hall endea-
vour to prove his Approbation of
Cold Bathing, and that it exafilly
anfwers all the Rules and Indica-
tions he has obferv'd for the Pro-
longation of Life. He tells us,
That the Prolongation of Life is chief-
ly to he expeSed from a right Regi-
tn£n^ and not from any particular
Receipt or Food. Now 'tis obferv'd
by all Nations, that a rational
ufe
ffifeof
Tie Dedication.
feof Biths contributes much to
the Health of the People.
The Lord Verulam orders the Ap-
plication to be made to the innate
Spirits for Prolongation of Life ;
and 'tis known by Experience ,
that Cold Baths aS much on the
Sfirits^ and preferve them from ■
Evaforatim^ and render them Strimg I
and Figomm : And he alio direils
us to alter the Parts by Tspkks,
fuch are Unguents, FriBims ; but
Cdd Baths do much more ftrengr j
then all the Nervous "Parts, and
ftop the Evacuation of Humours.,
and that alfo helps the Circitk'
tim, in which Life it ftdf chief.-
ly confifts.
CM Baths anfwer all his In-
tentions for the Prolongation of
Life, becaufe they prevent the De-
predation of the Innate Sfirits ,
and alfo that of the External Air ;
the Sprits are made lefs Depreda-
tory when condenfed ; and for this
end
end he advifes Opiates and Nitrous
MeScints , but thefe cannot fo
efFeaually condenfe them as Cold
Saths do, and they ufually cool
and comprefs them, and thereby
produce Sleep.
The outward ^jr is madelefs
Depredatory by being lefs felt by
the Senjes after Cold Bathing, and
by the fame the Pares are clofed,
and the ^ir in the Humours is
much compreffed and cooled, and
rendered more fuitable to a Cold
./itmojjihere.
The following jtlffertion will
more evidently (hew his good Opi-
nion of the CoW iif8?j«™. He fays,
That the "Juices of the Body are made
lefs depredaile hy an auflere Courfe of
'J)iet in a Life accuftomed to Cold hy
flrdng Exercifes, and certain Miner-
al Baths. And I mufl add., that thefe
muft he Cold ones.^ and not Hot, which
hajten Old Age.^ and fiorten Ltfe hy
Evacuation o/Humours. / might in-
1". ftance
F
The Dedication.
'ftance in Sir H. Conir.gsly'i long Life;
he being 88, and that lie imputes
to 4.0 Years ul'e of Cold Bmhtng.
I fliall next offer ray laft Remark^
that the Cold Immerjlon is ul'eful to
other Animals as well as Mimk'md ;
and iince Thyfcims ha ve learnt Bleed-
ing Glifters, and other Medicines from
the Tbyficul TraSice of Brutes, we
may alfo learn Cold Bathing from
fome of them, and its Uiesalfo.
^/mk affirm?. That Wild Pigs
will be vehemently convulfed by
eating of Heniane, but by going
into the IVatcr, and by drinking of
if, they will recover ; and from
hence we may learn the ufe of Cold
Baths in Narcotick Poyfons and
Sleepy Difeafes.
Our Water-Fowl ufually walh
themfelves in wet Weather. And
Celfxs recommends the Ufe of Cold
Bubs againlt Rainy Seafons, which
will cure the "Pain of the Liml/s, and
B
w.
Tie Hedkatien.
^ulnrji of the Setifes occalioned be-
fore Rams.
Canary- Birds are fubjeft to C«»-
vul/ions, and they are ul'ually cured
by Immtrfng them into Ctld Water.
1 1 was lately inform'd by a Lady,
t whole Laf-deg 1 had ieen in Convulp
|»Bj-, that 'twas cured of them by
l-feeing thrown into a Tub of Water ;
And by theie two Inftances we may
obfervethe ulefulnefsof Old Baths
in Convutftms.
When 1 was at Wiliowhidge., I;
obferv'd an old Country-man, whd
broOght his JWiiri^ thither, after her
being covered, and that he forc*d
her into the AKiiler, and afterwards
threw Water all over her with a
Bucket, which pratlice he told me
was common on fuch Dccafions
'Tis certain that CoW^iMff contrails'
and ftrengthens all Nervms Part/y
and thereforeCoWBtt/fo have always
been efteemed ufeful againft ^ior^
The Dedicatm.
I (hall next relate the Steps or
D^rees by which Cold Buths were
introduced. ,
The Art of Cold Bathing was cer- ■
tainly firft invented by the Comrnm ^
Teoph, who ufed itfor thePreferva-
tion of their Health, and fortify-
ing themfclves againft CoW, as other
Anirmh do. The Prierts farther im-
K roved this by applying it to Divim
mmerfun., thereby to purify the
opirits, and to make them more
Calm and Vigorous inDswKOT. The
jiigyftmns and Qriek Phyficians ob^
ferved, how far it contributed iii
the Cure of many Difeafes, whicH^
Hippocrates mentions, Tnljles, Coil-'
vuljions, H'fpochondriacaliniiGoutj^^
ptins., &C. The Romans alfo much'
improv'd this Art by ufing CoU^
Baths in the Winter, for which I-
will give you this Quotation out of
Tlixy's Natural Hjlvry, Cap 291
Hi regekxnt fata cwn repents civitatem
Charmu ex iMaJjdm invafit^ dttnrnatk'
) B 3 nm
J
The Dedication.
nm [ohm frioriim Medicis ; verum
i? hdneis jrigida!^us etiam h'^bernu
algfir'ihu^ lavari ^njuafit^ merfit iCgro?
in lactis^ videbamm fenes amjutares uf-
que in ojientatiofiem rigentes.
The Engli/i Nation has not been
wanting to the improving of this
^rt^ for they have difcovered the
Cure of the Richts by it, and Rheu-
malick-paim alfo ; and fome ufe it in
the Winter, as the gjnnans did. In
Staffardjhhe at WiUoivhridge , they
have a more bold PraSice than ei-
ther the Greeks or Romans iifed ;
they go into the fTutcf in their Shirts,
and when they come out , they
Diefs themfelves in their met Linen,
which they wear ail Day , and
much commend that for doling the
Pores, and keeping themfelves cool;
and that they do not commonly re-
ceive any Injury, or catch any Cold
thereby, I am fully convinc'd from
the Experiments 1 have feen made
<^at^... ,..^ ur--
The Dedkation.
I cannot yet find, that CM Baths
l>}i3ve been tried in many 'Difeafe.!,
"therefore we muft imitate the Ex-
ample of Arttmiui Muj'a, and when
Hot Baths fiiil, try by a cmtraria
A'ledkina, CM Baths, as Tlmy calls
them. And fince the Great Auguft-
(tis as well as other Learned Remans
by their ExamfU and Authtntj, en-
couraged the Praflice of CoW Baths,
fo far, that they lafted during the
Roman Empire ; I hope to procure
the Approbation of your Honoured
and Learned Sacty, which would
much contribute to theRfrawVigbotli j
tlie Sacred and Mtdicind Immerfioti.
TheCommofl People will teach one
another, and be convinc'd by their
Exferience, but Learned Men are
. too apt to adhere to their own Ofi-
^Lxiotts ; and there is no other way to
H incline their ^udgmetits, but your
f Affroiatim, who have a general
Knowledge of the ATature and Vfefitl-
^nefs of all Phyfical Things. And
B
ftnw
fmce I know I muft meet with great
Trcjudices as well as Alujive Refle-
xions in this Undertaking, I do here
lAppeal to your penetrating 'judg-
ments, and 1 queftion not but the
Truth of what is faid on this Sub'
jeS will juftify xheDe/ign. Tho'
I muft beg your Pardon for the many
Errors and FatJts I have committed.
Who am, Learned and Honoured
Sirs,
Tmr tmft humhti Servant.,
John Floyeju]
TliJ
The Antiquity of the Religi-
ous and Medicinal Immer*
(ions.
I
LETTER I.
To the Learned Thyfician,
2)r. William Gibbons.
SIR,
I
s
Defign in this Letter to reprefent to you
the great Antiquity of Cold Bathii
whicli I {hall evidently prove, by reflei
tng on the Ancient Luftration begun by the
Patriarchs, and afterwards imitated by the
Egyptium^ Jews, Greeks, Romans^ and al-
moft all Mankind, which both Sacred aft4
Frophane Hiftories fufficiently teftify: If
the Religious Luftrations came from Revela-
tion, a fhort ufe of thetn would fufiiciently
difcover the Effefts of Cold Water upon Im-
merfion, which evidently Invigorates the
Aftions both of Body and Mind, and ren-
ders both more Sedate and Calm,and there-
fore well prepared for Devotion ; but 'tts
nioft probable that theCeremonies of Wafh-
B 4 ing
Of Cold Baths.
"P^S^
ing in Water, was a pare of Natural Re-
ligion, invented by our Rational Faculties,
and grounded on the Vermes of Cold Im-
merfion, which might by fome accident be
then difcovered ; the ufe of Water being (o
frequent, and the moft natural and eafy
Metliod for cleanOngofthe Body, and that
was thought by the Common People to
cleanfe away Sin ; but by the Philolbpher
to reprefent and produce an inward Purity
in the Mind; for which reafon all Mankind
ufeii to wafh themfelves before their Sacri-
fices, and both Religiousand Medicinal Im-
merfions muft be as ancient as Sacrifices
themfelves.
The manner of purifying by Water
feems as Ancient as the Flood; for
P/.I/0 in his Third Book, De Legibm^ af-
firms, That the Gods purified the Earth by
the Flood \ for which end tliey brought it
on the Earth, and from this Opinion fprang
the Cuftom of purifying by Immerfion Man-
kind as well as the Earth, which Opinion
is favoured by Gro(;«f, where he difcourfes
of Strangers initiated into Judaifm by Bap-
tifm ; hific opinionem arbUror fuijfe tnler i»-
fiituia Vetera orta fofi magnum diluvium m
. memoriAm aqud purgati mu»di. And St Pt~
.«r calls Baptifm an Anti-typstothe Flood.
;.. I will give you fome Inftanccs from theDi-
-t^ne Writing, whereby I may prove, That
;^tbeCeremoay of purifying by Water was
^i . ancienter
ancienter than the Law of Mofes, and
that it was praftifedby the Ancient Patri-
archs; *tis very probable, becaufe we find
it recorded that Jico^ commanded his Fa-
mily to purify themfelves, and change their
Garments, before they went to Bethel xa
Sacrifice. And "^oh fpeaks of a like Puri-
fication by Snow-water ; we alfo read that
PhdrAoh^ Daughter went to the River Nils
(there being no Fountain- Water in Fgpyi }
to purify her felf, or to procure Fecundity,
as was ufually done thereby.
, The Ifrseiites were ufed to Immerfion,
not only by the Example of their Ance-
ftors, the Patriarchs; but fuch Cuftoms
of purifying were ufed by the Egyftiaas
araongft whom they lived many hundred
Vears.
Diodorus Siculus mentions the Cuftoms
of the firft Egyptian King, who firft waflied
his Body in Water, and then adorned him-
felf in his Royal Robes before he went to
Sacrifice.
Porphyry affirms, That the E^pyptiaa.
Priefts walhed three times in a Day upoa
extraordinary Sacrifices
I will add one Teftimony more to prove
that Oiltom among the Egypiians^ and
this Point farther, that they had perfeftly
obfervcd the natural good Eft'etls of Cold
' nm^rfiQns, ufed in giving a great chear-
fulnefs
Of Cold Baths.
'pi^H
fulnefe and alacrity to the Animal Spirits-
. Afuleias difcourfesof this E^;/-"** Cuftom
Ithus, Difculfa pigrA quiete alacer exurgo^ mef^
fttrtficiindi jiadio marwo L/fLScro trado,fepti~
efyue fuhmerfo jiu^iibus eapite Utus & aUetr .
Deam pTiepotentem ftc appreahor
Mops afterwards in his Laws retains the
Immerfions of the Patriarchs and Egypthis,
and prefcribes divers Wailiings for the pu-
rifying of the Unclean, as chofe who had
touclied dead Bodies, or had Seminal Pollu-
tions, or were Leprous, Menftruous, or the
Pairperah ; and 'tis a Jeivijh Cuftotn to wafh
before Prayers and Sacrifice, and their going
into their Temples : So Judith waflied ^fore ,
her Prayers; and the Mahometans fprinkle
their Heads with Water three times before
their Prayers; and they now purity them-
■felves in Fountains, after tlie manner of the
Jem, from whom they learnt all their Lu-
ftrations; and the prefent Moors ufe a Luft-
Tation by wafhing in the Sea.
Pyihjgoras travelled into Egypty and was
a learned Phyfician as well as a Philofopher,
and he taught the Wefiern Nations that
Purity was to be got by Wafhings and ,
Sprinklings; he therefore taught the Greeks
all the Cold Immerfions, whether Medici-
nal or Sacred, which he had learnt in
Eijft.
Diogenes Lurtius in the Life of PUto
jtViJ-iui mentions
I
1
5rtT. Of Qdd Baths.
meotioos a Cure done by the Egyftisn
ft-iefts, by Bathing in the Sea- Water, and
that it was the general Opinion of the
World, that Salt- Water purified both Bo-
dy and Soul, ^oAaaw KAu't^w •jra'pTa n^
^pu-retv jtaitcc, and they alfo efteemed
If ountains more efficacious than Rivers.
The following Greeks^ as well as the
Jfipj, acknowledge three forts of Purifica-
tions by Wafliings; the Immerfion was
called x»<ns; the wafhtng of the Hands and
Feet, «4'*> the Afperfion pavTw/^s.
VirgU defcribes the wafhing of Mjttts
tfccfore his Sacrifice to the Gods above; da-
9tcfiumine vivo Abluero; and in Diio\
Sacrifice to the dU inferni (where they on-
ly ufed Afperfion)
D« (Off us properet fiavUH fp*rgere ijm-
pf>A,
but in all great Devotions, Perftus obferves
that Immerfion was prafiiied.
Hmc fanSte at pofcds Tyburino in gurgitt
Mergii
Mane capat his terjue^ & noStem fiat
purgAS.
The Romans had both their Religious'"
Ceremonies and their Phyfick from the Gr^-
ifCold
.vfMJw, and they improved i
Bathing
Of Cold Baths. Parti.
Bathing, as will be evidently proved by the
Account given thereof in the following Let-
ters, by divers Quorations from Ce/futf
Suetonius, Se/tetit, PUffy, Orobiftis, JEgi-
netA\ and by the Account of the Writings
of Hippoenttes and Galen^ I fhall convince
you that both thefc Mafters of our Faculty
well undcrflood many ufeful Fra£lices
and Cures done by the Cold Immerfioni
and I will only add one Quotation from
Homtr^ to (hew, that the Greeks com-
monly praftifed the Cold Immerfion, both
for Purification, and the fortifying the Ani-
mat jpaculcies. For Hotfter mentions the
purifying of the ^^r/</« in the Sea, and that
Circe was found by Jxfon's Companions
wafhing of her Head in Cold Water, to
help lier Night-Dreams, and her Frophe-
tick ExtaHes.
The moft unlearned Nation knew the
good Effects of Cold Bathing, and alfo
iifed ic in Purification, as well as the E^ptt-
MS, Creels, and Ramans,
Camdea a/Tures us, That the G-ib/j,
from who'ni our Br«rt;»j fprang, had their
facred Fountains, which they called Wvo-
m ; and we may well fuppofe,that they ufed
them both for Luftrations and Cures, as in
following Ages (when Chrifttanity came
into £»^/4«-;; the Saxons did: St. Winefred
lived about the Year 644. and St. MMgah
^ii[ifc4 in
fartl. Of Cold Baths.
in the Saxons times; and we find the Wells
dedicated to thefe Saints, were famed both
for their Cures and Devotion. Many of
(mr Englijb Springs will do miraculous
Cures when ufed in Cold Bathing, which
in Ages more illirerare, were imputed to
the Vertue of the Saint to whom it was de-
dicated, or the Devotions ufed there,
Rt^er Hoveden affirms, That at IVy in
Kjnt, there was a peculiar Well, into
which there was a wonderful Virtue infufed
by the Prayers of acertaln Normtn Monk.
And 'tis reported of St. Francis, That he
cored many by the Water in which he dipc
bis Rope; and *tis alfo affirmed. That
there is a Water in FUnders, which will
cure the Paify after the little Image of Moa-
tis tcuti has been foaked therein.
But I will return to our Englijb Hiftories,
and produce a miraculous Cure done by Im-
mcrfion, which is recorded in Bifhop /M*s
Myftery of Godlinefs, and the fame is quo-
ted by tte New Britaitma. The Bifhop men-
tions a Cripple who for Sixteen Years
moved on his Hands, the Sinews of his
■tt^s being contraQed; this Cripple had
^K^ Monition in his Dream, to wa(h tn a
^■Wdl at St. Msderties in Corntvstl , by*
' which he was fuddenly reftored to his
Limbs. And of this Story the Bifhop took
I
Of Cdd Baths. ?3f
a particular Account in his Vifitation, and
had it fufficietitly attefted by many of the
Neighbours^ fo chat he was folly convin*
ced chat there was no Art or CoUufion in
it; but he believed that feme good Angel
fu^efted the Remedy.
I will next proceed to ftiew the Ufe of
Cold Bathing formerly famous in Eng^Und^
and many Northern Nations for theLepro-
iy and Rheumaiifm.
The Leprofy was formerly more fre-
quent in EaoUfid^ as appears from Cam-
dea in his Defcription of Lekefierjhirey where
he informs us. That the Leprofy about the
beginning of the Normans fpread all over
England by Infe£Vion, and that that Age
fuppofed it to come from Egjpf, as it did
in Pompsfs Days ; he farther tells us, That
at Burton in Leicfficrlh^re, there was a rich
Hofpital built by a CoUeQion through ail
Exglajid, for the Lazars, to the MaHsTioi
whom all the leffer Lazars in EngUsd were
fubjcft, as he was to the Mafters of the La-
z»rs in "JerufnUm.
There is fcarce any Cold Spring famous
for any Cures, but it is alfo commended
for Scabs and Leprofy, which muft be
grounded on the Experience ofthofe times
in which t!ie Leprofy was cured by Cold
Bathing. Andfince the Leprofy was fo fre-
quent m llie beginning of the Norman
Reign,
Of Cold Baths.
Reign, and chat was cured by Cold Baths,
they were alfo frequent among the Narreaas,
The Leprofy might probably be the pre-
fenc Pox, which fpread all over the World;
and one would be apt to fuppofe that 'tis
a Species of the Leprofy defcribed in Jre-
t£uty who mentions many Symptoms of ir,
as the Pains, Scabs, lols of the Nofe, and
Corruption of the Extremity of the Body;
And Phiio alHrms, That the Jea>s were
fiibjefi to an Juikarx or Csrkumh on their
ftn/Sj for which Citcumctfion was ufeful.
""is well known that HippocrAta mentions
le mmSiifii diShiois', and chat a Ctruseie in
ic Vretbra is to be cured by Suppuration;
and thefe are the peculiar Symptoms of the
Pox, and cannot ordinarily depend on any
other Difeafe than the prefent Pox.
The Rheumattfm is an old Eaglijh Difeafe
for which Cold Baths are famous; and yet
that is commonly caU'd a new Difeafe : Tho'
that is defcribed by Hippocrates under di-
vers Names, as 'nvvoi apfipwc, -Trovot ^w/'eMj-j
iriroi TThAifiuv. And the Scidtica is plainly
defcribed, which is one Species of the Rheu-
matifm. And as to the Small- Pox, that
leems to be reckoned by Hippocrates
atnongft the Spring Difeafes, and are calledl I
by him in his Third Book of Aphorifms
f^i^diariAKu^M ; and in the Coaca pranotio^
«p/number i i^.<p?\x^<iiwctf which happen in
continued Fevers, aiid were fatal if they
did not fuppurate. All
Of Cold Baths. Parti
All the Difeafcs we efteem new in this
Age, were formerlj' dcfcribed under other
Titles ; and this Age has only better dcfcri-
bed them, and reduced them to their pro-
per kinds. In I-fffpocrates'*s EpUemichy we
may find all our prefent Fevers dcfcribed,
as thofe with Rheumatick pains, Cho-
lerick-fluxes. Peripneumonia's, Pleurifies,
Angina's, Coughs, &c. ThePleurify was
a Difeafe very rare in Engla/jii is Polydor
Virgil fays. This feems a Species of the
Rheumatifm, and was increafed by our
hot Dyet and Intemperance; and it was
called by Diofcordies, the Rheumatifm of
the Brcaft. 'Tis evident, That Gden de-
Jcribes it under the Notiou of an inflamma-
lory Laffitude, for which he prefcribes
Bleeding, ad ahimi deliquium, or at leaft
twice a Day. He obferves the Fever and
Fains which attend it. He propofes a thin
Diet of Ptyfans, and cooling flymy Diet
of Lettuce, Gourds, Mallows, Biites, &c.
and Acids, as Vinegar with the Ptyfans,
and Fifh for Diet, if it be proper to eat
any Flefh. See Gslen in his Fourth Book
for prefcrving of Health.
The Scurvy is a new Name for the old
Difeafe dcfcribed by Hippocrates, under, the
name ot Great Spleen, in which the Gums
were corrupted, and rhe Breath fmelt fae-
tid ; and if no Hcinurrbagies happened,
nor the MouJi had an ill Odor; the Dif-
Of Cold Baths.
II
Parti.
eale afTefls the Limbs with ill Ulcers^ and
Spots on them.
The Rickets feem a new Difeafe, but it
was probably the fame which Hippocrates
obfcurely defcribes under the N;ime of
thofe Difeafes in Children, which arc de-
|dcribed by the bending of the Spine inwards
tcimS'uKv TV Jt^iTEfc TO iviov ^raj oj/ie;) and we
nd ^opSustij and pa;^e©. ^ia.i^poi^)t and
Jreatnefs of the Head, which are the Sym-
Dmsof the Rickets, wereefteemed diftinfl:
bi(eafes
I have given all thefe Inftances of the
bincient Opinions, Praftices, and Defcripion
of Difeafes, to fhew, tSiat tlie Authors of
our Faculty, Hippocrates and G»len^ have
laid the Foundations of Phyfick, upon which
we ought to Build and Improve, to obferve
all the fenfible Qualities in Medicines and
difeafed Humours, which they omitted, to
deicribe all the Symptoms of feveral Dif-
eafes, and reduce them to their feveral
Kinds, to Correal their Errors in Anato-
my and Phitofophy, and never to receed
from the Foundations they have laid for any
general Hypothefis how curious foever.
The Chrtftian Baptifm fucceeded the
Gtntite Purifications, and that was per-
formed by Immerfion in EagUml^ and all
Parts at the firll: planting of Chriftianity.
lathe Life o^ yE'-fredus^ we find tliat G«-
" C thrumnm
Of Cold Baths. Parti.
thramms the Dst/e^ with thirty ol'liis Com-
panions were baptized in a Fountain ; and
Alfredas de bsptipno fufcfptum mmtnat
Jthelihx. And they then ufed a fecond Rite
of Ablution, Cum vefies c^ttididx depot/enntur.
Such praftices of Ablution ol Children
which is both Religious and Phyfical, is
praftifed in the Eafi-hdies , as Jdert
de Mmdejloes inlbims us in his Travels
among them. Be affirms , That the
Canartms wafii their Children as foon as
they are born, by which they grow ib
hardy and ftrong, that 'tis ordinary to fee
Men among theni of a hundred Years old
in perfeft Health, not milTing a Tooth.
He farther tells us, Tliat the hdi^ns oft
llupify themfeives with the Ddtura, and
; ^at they prefenrly recover by moiftening
^jthe Soles of their Feet with fair Water; by
'ibis effefl, we may learn the benefit tn
Cold Immerfion in Narcotick Poyfoiis. The
iame Author obferves. That the 'J aj/oueji
never fwathc their Children, bur wafb
them in Cold Water; and in J'tpan tlie Air
is more inclined to Cold than Hot. »
Becaufe 'tis ufually objedted. That thd«
Religious Practices of Immerfion are fuita-
blc to Hot Regions, and not to the Cold, S
will give Tome Quotations from the Writers
of Travels into thofc Cold Countries, to
fliew . That the Aw/'frv People ufe fucU
Practices.
Pan I. OfCMB-ths.
'i
Praflices. Okarifis informs us, That Men
and Women in Mufeov) come naked out.-
ofiheir hot Stoves, and (b go into Cold Waw 1
ter, or have it powred on them; and \d '
Winter they wallow in the Snow; and thai
thej' do the fahie in Livonis, where thi
Ft fU/tilers comQ out of their Hot Stoves in^
to the Snow, with which they rub theii?
Bodies as with Soap, and then return intd
rfieir Stoves again for a moderate Heatj
aiid thus they from their Childhood, ufd
tbeOifelves indiflerently both to Hot and
Cold. ;
The Mttfcovitet believe themftlves th(i
I Oflly Chriftians, b^caufc thfcy are Immerfed
' into the Water, and not fprinkied; and.
\ they will receive no Prolelytes till they are
[ rebaptized by Immerfion : They therefore
I Dip their Children in their Fonts, and all
IFcrfons ofriper Years are plunged into Ri-'
f vers at their Baptifms. And Uleari»s far-'
[ther affirms, page 96. That they often break'
"* ; Ice to gee them into the Water. He'
s, The Mufcovite Boys arc bred fo har-
, that they can ftand half an hour bare*"
ioted on the Ice without any Injury.
■Oiearitts alfo delivers the manner of the
' Baptifm of the ArmeniAm^ who fer their
Children naked in the Font, and pour
Water on their Heads and Bodies three'
C 9
In
H
~6f Cold Bath.
In Tiveraitr's Travels, 'tis obferved ,
That the Chrirtians o^Balfara in JJid^ who
anciently lived near Jordan., never Baptize
but- in Rivers, and that the Godfathers
plunge the Child all over into the Water:
And every Year thefe Diiciples of St- 'John
celebrate a Feaft for five Days, during
which time they are baptized according
to the Baptifin pfSt. jToAa. Taverxier alfoi
farther obferves. That the Jrmemansi
plunge tiieir Children into Rivers at Chrijl-
oias, and he wonders that the Extremity oi
the Weather does not kill the Childi^pJ
TheKing oi' Ferfia is oft prefent at this Ce-
remony performed at Chrijimis near^i^^
pAh<tn. '; o;r,t
I have been informed. That our Higk'ri
landers oft Dip their Children in Cold Wa-t
ter: And a Perfon of Eighty Years old^
whowas then very fenfible, tokl me, ThatI
in his time he could not remember the Dip-/
ping of Infants in EfjgUnd at their Baptifm,i
but that his Father oft fpoke of it ; andfar^i
thcr told him, That tlie Parents ufed al::^
ways at the Baptifm of tlieir Children, tq?
defire the Prielt todip that part very weljt
in which any Difeafe ufed to afflift them-
felves, to prevent its being Hereditary. :\
The H'eljh have more lately left Immer-l
iipn ; for ibmc middle aged Perfons havC
told Pie, That they could remember theiitj
Dipping
Of Cold Baths.
>5
Dipping in BapEifm. I fhall in a follow-
ing Letter prove that Cnftom ufeful to the
Health of Infants, and that 'tis only a vain
fear in the Parents, which has occafioned
thedifufe of it, to which the Canon i6oj.
in King Jameses Days might a little contri-
:bute, through the miftake of itsSenfe;
for there all Baptifm, wlierher by Immerfi-
a pnor Afperfioo, is declared valid; but the
l^enfe of the Canon ought to be taken con-
Jbrmably to the Rubritk, i>iz, in cafes of
fieceflity.
The Church of Rome hath drawn fhort
ICompendiums of both Sacraments. In the
;Eucharift they ufe only the Wafer as fitteft
vforProceflion and Adoration; and inftead
.of the Immerfion they introduced Afperfi-
on, which may be more conveniently pra*
iSifed in all places than the Immerlion,
sBut of this I Ihall Difcourfe more fully iq
a particular Letter, concerning the Immef-
-fion in Baptifm, which has fucceeded the
Luftrations of the Geatiles as a Religious
Ceremony: And of both thefe at prefent
I have difcourfed, only to fiiew, That
»' Immerfions have been praflifed by all Mari-
■feind, whether Learned or Unlearned, anij
'itfiat it has been efteemed by them not only
fafe, but alfo ufeful both to their Bodies
and Souls. Not only the great Antiquity^
"ures dene formerly
Cj
of
of late» upon many Patients, bas given me
a full Proof of their fafety and ufefulncfs.
And after fonie Re6c8;ions on tiiis Subjeft,
I thought I could not do a more ufeful
thing for our Couutry, than to contrive for
them all the Conveniences of a Cold Bath,
for the Cure of tlieir Rheumatick-pains,
Lamenefs, Palfies, Rickets, &e. for which
Cold Baths are moft certainlyufeful: The
place I fixed on for my Cokl Bath, is a
plentiful Spring, ufually called X-Vi/f's Well,
which rifes out of a Rock on the Top of a
Hill, North-Weft ixom LitchpeU^ and di-
ftant from thence about a Mile. The Well
is (ituate in the Lands of Sir jCaww Simons^x,,
pfwhofe generous Inclination to ferve this
Country by the incouraging of my Defign,
% am very fcnllble, and I ought to make
this publick acknowledgment of it, that he
jnay receive the due Refpefl of all this
Neighbourhood, and the Thanks and
Prayers of fuch Perfons, who fnall find Be-
nefit by Bathing in St. Chad'fi Bath near
Litchfield. And I hope none will be offend-
ed with my naming thofe Baths by tlie
!j»Jameof that Holy Bifliop, to whom our
» i|^hurch«s have long fince bad their DedJca-
*".t!OH; he, was one of the firrt Converters, of
'^ur Nation, and ufed Immerfioii \\\ x\it
\ iBaptifm of the Saxons. And the Wefl
lac 6'4<m, which may beac ha Namc> was
■ i? ^ pro-
Parrl. Of Csld Baths.
probably his Baptiftry, ic being deep
enough for Immcrfion, and conveniently
fcated near the Church; and that has tht
Reputation of curing Sore Eyes, Scabs,
&(. as moft Holy Wells in EngUad do^
which got that Name from the Baptizing
the firft Chrfttans in them; and to the M&.
mory of the Holy Bifhops who baptized
in them, they were commonly dedicated^
l^ftnd called by their Names.
» The Figure of thefe Baths is oblong,
fixtccn Foot long, and about Ten broad.
iThe Baths lie clofe together, but arc divi.
Ided by a Wall, and the lower receives the '
IWater from the other. The upper I call for
li>i(tindion, The Ladies Bath -^ andthelow-
l«r, The Mens Buth. The Water is fufficiJ
lently deep to reach up to the Neck, and
an be conveniently emptied as oft as^
Kz pleafe, and will fill both Baths in a
'■ Nights time : The Defccnt into the Baths'
is by Stone-fteps, and there is a conveni-
ent Room built to each Bath, for Undrei^
fing, and Sweating, upon great occafions.
As to the Spring- Water, it appears very
Cold: but that I might try its coldnefs, I
made the following Experiments: I dipt
Uw Ball of the Portable Thermometer intff
the Spring, Aitguft 6. and I held it in thff
Water fix Minutes, whichi meafuredbv |
tbcMInute-Glafs, in which time it funkj
C 4
Eightet
Eighteen Degrees. I tried the fame Expe-
riment in both the Baths, and found them
both as cold as the Spring- Water it felf.
And I found that the Well near Utorv, call-
ed St.Chadsy did not infix Minutes fink
the Spirit in the Thermometer fo low as
Vrnteh Wtill ; and by the fame Experiment
I found, that the Steel Water near Stovf,
was not fo Cold as either of the Wells men-
tioned, by three or four Degrees. I by
thefe Experiments was convinced, that the
Water at X'fl/fe'sWell was the coldeft in our
Neighbourhood, and therefore the fitteft
for a Cold Bath.
I have not been wanting this Summer,
fince Midfummer, to make fome Experi-
ments upon fuch difeafed Perfons as would
be perfuaded to ufe thefe Baths; but more
hereafter will be made, when I have pre-
vailed over the Prejudices of the Common
People, who ufually defpife all cheap and
common Remedies, which have ordinarily-
the greateft Effcfls.
I found thefe Baths very beneficial for all
Rheumatick-palns, and Paralytick weak-
nefs, and Stiffnefs after Rhumatifms. And
lean produce a Country-man, who was
cured of a Wcaknefsin both his Arms by
twice Bathing, and immediately after his
Bathing he returned to his Country-Im-
plgymciit, who for many Months before
ip/jui.^ * was
Of Cold Baths.
'9
was confined to his Houfe. This I took no-
tice of as a confiderable Cure, he having
tried all ufual Methods for two or three
Months in vain. And I mufl: obferve this
to you, That feme Internal Remedies, both
Catharitck and Alterative, arenecefTary be-
'htc the ufc of Cold Baths, andalfoa fuita-
HeDiet. ForD«»C<i^^informsus, That
Va/i prefcrib'd the Hydropofta as well as the
wfeuchrolufu to cure At)gnjlui. And I am
prevy well convinced by many Trials about
"eld Bathing, that they fuccceded beft,
l?ho not only drank of the Cold Water be-
bre they Bathed in it, but alfo continued
■he Water-drinking long after.
Many Perfons experienced the benefit of
hefe Cold Baths in Rheumatifms, and they
■found relief of Pains, and a great Strength
of their Limbs, and Vigor of Spirit to fol-
low upon theufeof Bathing; fo that in
thefe Inftances there can be no doubt of its
fafety and ufefulnefs.
I could not procure above one Gouty
Ferfon to try it; and he aflured me, That
he found the Weaknefs and Stiffhefs of his
Limbs much relieved by it. But in thefe,
andotherDefluxions, without Water-drink-
ing, and a cool Purge of Salt, and a tempe-
rare Diet, no great good can be expefted.
As to Hypochondriick Cafes, they who
ufed them do very much commend thefe
.,i'l' ,r
Baths,
ao
Of Cold Bath:
^ffO!
Baths,, as was confirm'd by two of my Pa-
tients, who were much cooled by it,
I obferved, That fome Hot Tempers had
>Ra(h produced by Bathing, and they were
afed of Pains thereby.
I bathed three times, and found the Wa-
I'ter very cold at firft, till I had dipt all over;
^ but after a fmall flay, and upon coming
[''£>rth, Iwasveryhot, and infenfibleofany
f ^Id Air,
I cannot believe that Cold Bathing can
J help any Defluxions, fiich as the JfthmXf
Ij without Water-drinking ; and in a receM
n pifeafe ; neither can Cold Baths ,do any
[ good where the ^f/ewj are decayed.
[ , The Praflice of Cold Bathing is conveni-
L «it for young Peifons to render them infen-
FOble of the Cold Air, and very vigorous
pboth in the Aftions of Body and Mind.
Before Igive you an Account of the Cau-
tions I prefcribe about Cold Bathing, IwiiJ
prefent you with the Scheme of the variety
of Cold Baths, and fome Obfervations and
Experiments I have made to difcover theic
Virtues and EfFeds.
1 believe the Varieties of Cold Baths,
k ^hich may be made or found in BngUnd^ are.
qual to the various Species of Medicinal-;
[ Waters, of which I will prefent you witi*
r the following Table.
,aJ:j.U
I. The
Partr. Of Cdd Baths.
1. TheColdBathsat B«jcf<j»andBrf/?iV,
which have a temperate Heat,buc in a lower
Degree than that of our Humours.
2. The Waters of Rivers heated by the
mmcrsSun.
J. The Water of the coldeft Springs,
hc\iZ.s%t.Wiftifrtd^ St.Moftgah, 8ic.
4. The Cold Springs impregnated by
Ibme Minerals.
. A Cold Bath impregnated with a Far-
Sulphury fuch as that at GodfbiU in Stdf-
'J/hirey and at Sir Natb^itel Carf(M\ near
2. Vitriolick- Waters, whicharefrcqaenc
every Country. i
J. Water6 impregnate with Cq)per*V&
iols.
4, The Sah-Springs and the Sea-Water,
ive us a plentiful Cold Salt Bath.
5, The Petrifying Waters at A'wb/mw in
'arvitkfbirr^ and other Places, will afford
a Styptick Bath, as well as all our Pump*
aters.
6. The fmooth Bitaminous- Waters at
'iSoahridge in Sttffhr^fiire ; and there 1$
Oily Water in the Lands called FUundert
CoItpjt£; they have an evident Oily-
fs iipon Boiling , proper for Leprous
urfs.
7. Nitrous purging Waters frequent in
I^.C^nnitri^ and ctero is a large Spring
3 3 Of Cold Bath.
""1^^!
of that Nature, fir for a Cold Bath in the
I^aods of Mr. Richtrdfon near ColeJbiHj ift
the Groundscalled FUanders. ^
8. Holymilh efteemed a Lead- Water and
is very Cold.
9. In CorflfPiji'/ there are Tin-Waters, and
the Tinners wafh their Cuts in the Watei^
ruhriiog from Mnndick Oar.
10. There are AUbaJler Waters very
rough near Tutbury.
11. M«»'/f- Waters tafte fmooih, and have
a little Stipticity, fuch as the excellent Springy,
called HoljrveHj near Hwekteji in Leicefier*
fiirf.
12. Chalk -waters, and the Lime-ftone,
dry much, and may heat Ulcers in Cold
Baths; we obferve tlie Chalk-waters at St.'
Albans^ and the Lime frequent at Waljball
in Stafford/hire. „^
. All thefe various Cold Baths may be fafe
andufeful ; and for the better underrtandlng
of their Effefts, I will make thefe following
Obfcrvations.
1. That theStypticity in Waters, whe-
ther frOm the NiiramCalcirium, or VitrU
olsof Metals, or Stones, orEanhs, increafc
the Contraction of the Skin, and membra-J
aousFibres, and thereby ftreogthen more
than the common Cold Waters.
2. All Sulphur, Salt, Bitumens, and Me-
talline ViirioIs,mixt with cold Springs, tema
per
t
^ T their extream Cotdnefs; and give' ihcm
tnixtQualiries, difcufling as well as cooling ;
and by reafon of the divei-fity of the Mix-
tures of the Minerals, Saks, Stories, and
"^ tbs, in all Springs; fcarce any two Cold
iths can agree in a!! theit Qualities and Ef-
Ss in Humane Bodies.
[\i ^. Nitre, and a Sulphurous Acidify ren-
r Waters more intenfely Cold, for fo wc
ificially make common Water cooler by
fixing Salt petre with ir, or by putting a
.ollcf Sulphur ina Velfelof Water; we
lereby cool om- Bottles filled with Winew
leer. '. " '
4. 1 put the Thermometer into a Glafs of
Our Conduit-water, which fuflk the Spirit
in Tliree Minutes Seven Degrees ; and af-
ter, I put into divers GlafTes Sugar of Lead,
jn another Vitriol, and in a third Allum,
and none of thefe did fink the Spirit farther ; «
by which I learnt, that none of thefe in-
creafe the Coldnefs of the common WaterJ
but Salt-petre funk the Spirit one Degree
more: But I obfervcd by another Experi-
ment with the Glafs mentioned, that Well-
water was not fo Cold as the Conduit-wa-
ter. . '
5. I tried the weight of the feveral Wa-
ters by another Glafsbubblejfunk by Quick.*
(ilvcc in the Foot of it, that the Water ia 1
i^whictlSalC'pecre and AUum were diflblve<ll
and
H
Of Cold Baths. Partf,
, .and Well-water wer« heavier than theWa*
' ters in which the fame quantity of Vitriol
L and SaechArum Saturiii vfGTit^\^Q\vGA. And
r 50 the weight of the Water, fome of the
1 (cooling and contracting Virtues of Cold
I JBaths may be owing ; but the Water in
which the Air is moft compreffed, is the
[cpoleft^; and alfo heavieft; for nothing
I ipakes Fluids aj well as Solids hcavief one
than the other, but the want of Air in theic
[ jfores OF Vacuity.
.' Before I condqde theft Papers, I will not
[forget thb Cautions I ufually give before
[>CoTd Bathing, viz..
] ■■ 1, To Bleed and Purge, and ufefuch
I proper Diet and Medicines, both before and
[ ^fer Bathing, which a rational Phyfician
I Imows to be luitable to the Difeafe, and the
^Poaftitution of the Patient.
^ . 2. Not to Batbe when hot and fwcating,
' byt qool ; not to ftay in the Bath above two
two Qf ^hree Minutes as the Patient can ea-
iily bear it; and to go in and out immedi- "
ately, on the firft Bathing, after an Immcr*
fion of the whole Body.
J. To ufe the .Cold Bath before Diimer,
fafting, or elfc in the Afternoon towards
Four OF Five a Clock ; 'tis dangerous iq go
in^ after great Drinking and Eating.
4, Continue to Bathe nine or ten tiniei^
jK^a&CWo or three times iaaWed{;!?i: ■-'
•jwA 5- To
^. To ufe Sweating with Cold Bathing
I Palfies and Rickets, and feveral Difeafes
0e9:ing the Nerves with Obftru»^ioas.
! 6. la Windinefs or Sizincfs of the Hu-
pours, or their flatulency, no Sweating is
eceirary,nor where Bathing is ufgd for Pre
Tvacionof Health, pcKbeiovigoruuigof
Jie Animal Spirit^, i.i : ■ -i u/'" !
THOUGH! defigned la the begin-
ning of this Letter to entertain you
"*nly with the Antiquity of Cold Baths, I
fthought tit to add what I had don^n Imi-
ation of the oldPraQice ; and that I find
t as difficult to prevail with the Country
people to ufe Medicinals, as the Divines do
he Religious Immerfion: Though the true
bid ufeful Modes of Phyfick and Religion,
JBcill in time prevail, when People have
had more Experience in Cold Baths. And
the Learned Divines and Phyficians, in
your Town, fpeak the Truth plainly, that
it has been an Ancient Fraftice, and very
fie to be revived, by reafon of the Apofto-
lick Fraflice and the great Cures done by it.
I have here appealed to your Judgment of
the Antiquity as well as ufefulnefe of Cold
Baths ; and queftion not but you can and
will aflift me m defence of what I have af-
ferted concerning them. I have endeavoured
to
a6
Of Cold Baths. ParcL
to ferve our Country, Staffortljbire^ in ere-
fting St. chud's Bath near LiuhjieU ; and
if you think fit to ufe any Cold Baths, tis
my defire you will remember your own
Country in recommendiag fome Patients
hither. I have nothing to add, but that
you will accept of thefe Papers as a Tefti-
mony of my great Efteem for your Judg-
ment and Learning, and as a RefpeS: which
I owe to you my old. Friend and Couocry-
man. lam,
S I R^
Tfiur very humble ServMt,
JOHN FLOYER.
bft^'ff.
LETTER n.
To the Learned Thyfician,
Dr. Phineas Fowke,
Containing Hippocrates^sOi^ir
nion, concerning the Na-
ture of Cold Baths, and
their Ufefulnels.
SIR,
I Long fince acquainted you with my De-
fign of making a Cold Bach neztLttch-
fieJd, and then I gave you fome Reafons why
I thought that Prafticc both fafeaudureful:
But that I might more fully explain my
Opinion, and the Reafons on which it is
grounded,! have here digeftcd myThoughts
into a fhort EiTay on that Subjea. I will
firft give the Opinion of J-fif>pocrates about
Cold Bathing, who has both fully defcrib'd
its Effefts, and given us forae Rules and
Cautions about the riglit ufe of it. And
in the fecond Place, I will reprefcnt the
Ancient Praftice of Iramerfion in theCa-
iholick Church, and moft particularly in
our Climate, for the Baptizing of all forts
D of
Of Cold Baths. Parti.
of Perfons, which continued mErrg/dnd tiW
about the Year 1600, by which I defign
to prove the Innocenceof that Curtom, and
its ufefulnefs in preventing Hereditary Dif-
eafes. I will in the third Place relate fomc
Cures of confiderable Difeafes lately per-
formed by Cold Bathing, which will fully
Anfwerall ObjeiSions and Scruples which
can be made againft this Fraftice.
I know yoa will allow me to pay all Re-
fpe£t imaginable to the Judgment of ////>-
pocratesy who was a moft Judicious and
Rational Phyfician, ard the molt Learned
Founder of our Faculty : and fince he has
recommended Cold Bathing, I cannot un-
dergo the Reflcftion of propofing fome new
unreafonableProjeftin this following ElTay.
I will firft begin with the Opinion of H*^-
f aerates, which he has delivered in his Traft
of Ancient Phyfick. I will next obferve
what he has delivered in his Books of Diet,
and in that which treats of the ufe of Li-
(juids; and alfo have a due Refpeftto what
is colleQed into Aphorifms in his Book of
Aphorims, relating to the fame Subjeft.
In his Traft of Ancient Phyfick, he
gives us tliefe Effias of Cold Baths. If
any Perfonin Health cools himfelf very
Itiuchinthe Winter-time, either by Bath-
"" ig in Cold Water, or otherways; the
or^ he is tooled Of his Body be not per-
feaiy
io
. feflly congealed) the more vehemently ho
■will become hot^ when he puts on hisCIoths
lagain, and comes into a Houfe And hcL
Turther fays, they who travel all Day up-'
On Snow or Ice, and fuffer great coldnefsj
■ on their Hands, Feet, and Head, obferve
^at at Night when they come into thcj
i?arm Houfe, and are covered with Clotiis, '
IT near a Fire, that they fuffer great heat
fld itching; and fome have Blifbrs, lika
fcem who are burnt: He further obferves,
fcat they who have the moft vehement
pivering in their Fevers, have the greatet
"prning in their hot Fits afterwards.
He farther proves, that Heat will fuc-
ceed any ufe of Cold, by this Obfervation:
IJle that toifes about through fuffocating
^eat by that means to cool himfelf, he will
^1 ten times a greater burning and fuffo-
ating Heat than he who does no fuch thing.
That I may more clearly explain the Na-
ture of Cold and its Effcfls as to the Body,
I will mention the EfFefts that Hot Baths
^oduce, which are contrary to thofe of
Sold Baths; and this Obfervation Hippocra-
fStrj gives us of them. If any Perfon will
L beat himfelf very much, either by a Hoc
Bath, or a great Fire, and afterward con-
tinue in the fame place, and fame Habit,
as he who was much cooled, he will ap-
Oiore Cold, and will become more
RtT^i ^ z fhivering
30 _
Of Cold Y aihs'. Part!'.'
fflivering than the other: And heobferves
how Cold fucceeds Heat by this remark ;
after the hot tcver-fit goes' off by Sweat,
the Sick is more cooled tiian if he had not
had any Fever. Upon t!ie preceding Obfer-
vation of Htppocraies^ I defigti thefe fol-
lowing Remarks.
T. That tile Defcription of the Effefts
of Hot and Cold Baths, are not the Suppo-
fitions of Ingenious Men (for all Hyporhe-
fes H/^Z-ccj-^Afj rejcftsas ufelcls in Phyfick)
but certain Experiments often tried on Hu-'
rhane Bodies, which were evidetit to our
Senfes, and we only by our Reafon difccin
the Caiifes of tliofe Kllefts; and by divers
Experiments of tlie fame kind made, we
prove that the EfFctl mentioned depends
6n the Caufe found out by reafoning. '
2. By.the Experimeius mentioned, 'tirf
evident, that Cold Baths heat by flopping^
the Fores, and keeping in the hot Effluvi-
ums or aeria! Spirits; and on the contrary,
Hot Baths cool us by opening the Pores^
dnd by evaporating the hot aerial Spirits
^ry much, and then they chill us after-'
wards; and by tiiis Obfervation we dif^
cern the Abfurdity of that Averfion moft
Feople retain sgainft Cold Bathing, as if ic
would overchil tiiem, whereas 'tis evident,'
that Cold Baths heat them who ufe tliem,
more than tlie Hot Batlis which make us'
£'•'-• -■^- ♦ - ■- feofiblc
fcnGble of the leaft breath of Air, and ten-
der for a lung time afterwards. It muft be
acknowledged, Tiiat Cold Baths direftly
produce a Senfe of Coldnefsupon their firft
t Application to the Skin, but by that Coid-
Kefs the SIvin is contraflcd, and the Hu-
rraours comprefled and ftopt within the Bo-
1 dy, which produce Heac and Burning. Oti
Khe contrary hot Baths by their aftualHeac
f Bifcft tlie Skin, and open tlie Pores, and by
Lrarifying Humours great Sweatsare produ-
[ced, which occafion great Chllncfs after-
Jiward ; of which we are very fcnfible after
Kour Sweats byExercife, which always cool
l,us by the Evacuation of Humours; but it
heats us, if they do not fucceed upon Ex-
crcife. By all thefe RefleOrions we find,
that Heat fucceeds Cold, and Cold Heat
bacurally; and for this end we heat Water
Piiiat it may fooner Cool and Freeze.
3. The Subjeft on which both Hot and
Cold Baths have their immediate Effeds are
the Skin, and the aerial Spirits contained in
I the Animal Humours. The moiftening of
the Skin is but of fmalf EfFe£l, and ot no
great confequence in Phyfick ; but the con-
|enfing and ratifying the fpirituous Air of
bur Bodies, has confiderable Eftefts. Its
.Quantity and Elafticity is increafed by Cold
Baths; but 'tis much evacuated and weak-
lied by Hot Baths : And on thefe Altei,-ations
D J / of
of the inward Air docs all the Virtue of Hot
and Cold Baths depend immediately, as
will be hereafter proved.
4. Neither Hoc nor Cold Baths can Cure
any Cacochymia's, but only their Hot and
Cold Qualities, or their Rarification and
Condenfation, which are theEffefts of a
Fermentation, either running too high or
{landing too low.
According to Hippocrates^ Notioil, there
is naturally in our Bodies, Bitter, Salt,
Sweet, Acid, Acerb, Infipid, and many
other Taftes; (and by thefe I diftinguilh
the feveral kinds of natural Conftitutions)
for when our Humours are well digefted,
well tempered, and well mixt, we enjoy a
perfeft Health, which being feidom found,
fomeoneof thefe Taftes predominate; and
we may denominate each Conftitution by
the Tafte of that Humour which abounds.
Hf/'^ocra/pjobferves farther, That Difeafes
are produced, if too much Sweet, Bitter,
or Salt, be produced, or they be too high,
digefted, ex-jlted, or fcparated from the
reft: fo Fevers do not depend on Heat-
alone, for that is the Effeft of an Efferve-
scence ; but the va rious Cacochymia's which
cfTervefce are the Bitter, Salt, Acid; and
thefe Hippocrates knew, and called them the
Hot Bitter, Hot Salt, and Hot Acid; and
U»e Cold Cacochymia's he called the Acerb,,
[Parti. OfColdBatbs.
3?
r and the Cold Infipid, And by thefe Taftes
[ 'tis plain, that not onlv Fevers, but alfo
[Fluxes of Humours, Obflru-^tions, and
Iptlcrvefcency, ouglit to be diflinguilhedl
^to their feveral Species, that we may pre-
fcribenotfuch Specifick Taftesasare proper
or the Difeafe in general, but fiich as are
•uited to the feveral Conftitutions, in which
ny ol'the mentioned Difcafes are produced,
, By this Defcriptionoftlie feveral natural
ponrtitutions, and the Morbifick Matter,
|is evident, that Cold and Hot Baths can
illy heat and cool, and change thofe Qua-
wies in us. But in our Patients, befides
bthitig, we muft purge off the Quantity,
lind by contrary Taftes, correft the Exal-
tation or Degeneration of any Humour, or
Ijpew mixt it ; temper its Acrimony, ordi-
iBeft its Crudity. Our Patients ought there-
[lore to be well prepared before Bathing,
nd continue a fuitable Die:, and courfe
/Phyfick afterwards. Therefore I muft
fetnark this as an abfurd Humour in our
^tients, to expeft that Bathing fhould
Dmpleatly Cure every thing, whereas it is
UC like all other external Applications, and
ght not to be ufed till fome general Mc- ,
\ has prepared the Body for it.
<. That HippocvAies here undcrftands
Cold Baths, I may prove by this Exprefli-
00, ABo-a/tti®. 4^rif?- ^'i'' Mr. Daeier
D 4 tran-
3 6 OfColdBatW
fify the new Nutriment, and fay relaxing the
Skin, caufe the plumping up of the Habit of
the Body by it: but becaufeofthe Crudity of
the Chylous Serumic will noteafily perfpire,
I iliall next proceed to give an account
of Hi^pocrxtes's Obfervations concerning
the effeft of Cold, out of his Tra£l, Cot-
eernius theVfe of Liquids^ which being an
imperfeft Tract, is only Obfervations ; and
the defign of it is to fhew the right ufe of
Cold as well as Hot ; and though he men-
tions not Bath, yet we may infer, if Hoc
and Cold can produce any confiderable Ef-
fefts in any part, it will do the fame on the
whole, he mentions, mvQJLn 7«mwK5«f©* a-'m.v
l©*7i fjLi^©'. And 1 think Bathing is moll
properly called the Fomentation oi the
whole Body. He feems there to defign to
explain the general EfFefts of Liquids, when
he gives us the account of the general Ef-
fects of Water, in moirtening, heating, and
coohng. Moiftening refpeds the Skin ,
but heating and cooling fhews the Effects
it has on the Humours; and wlien 'tis
drank, it has no other good or bad ElfcQ:s,
By this Obfervation we may be inftruGed
how much the external Ufe of Medicines
agrees with their inward Ufe, and from the
outward Ufe we may learn the inward good
or bad Effeas.
He makes the Skin of the Patient the
Judge of the Heat and Cold, or elfe the
Skin
Of Cold Baths.
?7
Skin of him who pours on the tVater; and
he advifes bo:h to be endured till the effeft
defired is produced ; but that we fhould not
proceed to any great excefs which will in-
jure the Body. This is a fit Caution to be
ufed in Cold Baths as well as the Hot; we
muft ftay in them To long as to produce a
moderate Effeft, but not fo long as to burn
usby heat, nor congeal us by Cold. If we
ftay but a fmall time in a Cold Bath, it will
produce but a fmall EtTe£t; but if we ftay
long, it will produce a great one, and too
"■flng wiU deftroy our natural Heat. He
pcntions the Inconveniences which cnfue
on on excefs in the ufe both of Hot and
lold Water in Fomentations. And the
ime 1 may apply to Baths, had places for
aths been more common in Hippocrates''^
fays. AH thefe Direftions about Fomenta-
tion, and Lotions^ or Ajfujions^ of Water,
would have been applied to Baths ; but he
complains in his Book, Concerning th» Diet
\ in Acute Difeafet, pag. 65. that Conveni-
Kcnces for Bathing, and fit Servants for that
Htfe, were to be found but in few places. I
* fliall therefore continue to make a Parallel
betwixt Fomentations and Baths, as to
their Effefts, and I mufl mention the Ef-
fefts of Hear, that thofe of Cold may be bet-
ter underftood. Exceflive Cold has thefe
Efft£ts, it blackens Inflammations by con-
trafling
trafting th^Skin ; it hinders Perfpiration,
and the Circulation of the Blood through.
Tumours; it very much comprefles the Ait
in our Humours, and venal lilood looks
blacker than the Arterial, becauie the Mo-
tion and Rarification of it is much lefs. He
farther fays, That exceflive Cold caufesfe-
verifh Rigour, Convulfions and Diften-
tions, all which depend on the fenfe of
Chilnefs, which gives the fhivering in the
Skin, and occafions its ContraSion, and the
greatnefs of the Senfation of Cold pro-
duces the Contraflion and Convulfive Mo-
tion of the Mufcles and their Tendons, and
the Tetdnus is only a lafting Cramp. When
we obferve any ofthefc Diforders mention-
ed, we muft: conclude, that we have ftay'd
too long in the Cold Bath; the Effefts of
cxceffive Cold are alfofoon felt on the Breaft,
Stomach, and Belly, becaufe wetifetokeep
thofe Parts more warm than the red.
He gives thefe Eftefts of exceflive Heat,
that it Blifters tlie Skin ; and this I believe
it effects by rarifying the Air contained in
our Humours, as Cupping-GIaces do. To
this Efle£l of Heat I may aflign a contrary
EfTed in exceflive Cold, which contrao:
the Skin like a GoofeSkin, and makes
it very pale. Exceflive Heat effeminates
the Flefb, that is, it makes it very fofc
therefore exceflive Cold hardens it, ex-
ceflive '
Of Cold Baths.
e Heat debilitates the Nerves, an^ ftu-
plfies the Spirits, by evaporating of them.
Exceflive Cold muft congeal and comprcfs
them too much. ExcefTive Heat cayfes
Hemorrhagies by ratifying the ;lirinour
Humours. Exceffive Cold ftops all Fluxes
f Blood, by condenfingand over-compref^
iig the Aninial Spirits in our Humours j
Siefe Effefts of excefnveCoId are not expref-
"■ dby Hippocrates^ but I may juftly infer 'em
■om the contrary Effcftsof exce (live Heat,
i*! Whilft we arc in Health, Hippocrates
*§\ves us ihefe ObfervatJons of Hot and Cpld:
I Mediocrity of them profits ns ; and whilft
Ifliey pleafe us, and are eafily born, they
hey do us good ; but they injure us \'^hen
hey give us pain, and arc difficultly born. ^
The 'Parts of the Body which are natui
^lly covered, are pleafed with Heat, fuch
Tfls the Brain, Nerves, Back- mar row, the
Breads, Loins, Stomach, and Hypochon-
, dria's, and theFlefh; thefe being ufed to
II moderate degree of Heat, arc much of-
jended by Cold when they are uncovered;
sut any of thefe Parts being prcternaturally>
floE or Cold require the contrary, and are
pleafed with it; and when they arc hot,
the drinking of Cold Water is molt accep-
table, as well as the fame in outward Ap-- J
plications. As Heat cures all the Febrile ^
Rigours, Convulfions, and Diftentions',-*
which Cold produces; fo Cold cures all the
ill Effefts of Heat above mentioned, and
Cold is as neceflary as Heat to alter the fo-
lid Parts, and the Humoui-s contained in
them.
I will defcribe the Effefts of Heat upon
difeafed Bodies, and fliew thereby the Ef-
FeQsofColdin contrary Cafes; and here-
in defcribe them as Hippocrates has done,
though in a different manner, to avoid the
Repetition he has made of them in this
Traft.
The hot Fomentation of the whole Body,
orof its Parts, (and the fame is the EfftQs
of Baths) molifies the Skin, which is too
hai-d, and relaxes the tenfe, becaufc Heat
rarifies the Humours contained intheVef-
fels, and thereby molifies it ; relaxes the
Skin by molifying of it. Cold on the con-
trary condenfes the Humours, and occafi-
ons the Contradion of the Membranes of
the Skio, therefore it makes the lax Skin
tenfe and hard.
Heat attrafls the Humours and Nutri-
ment into the Flefh and Nerves; therefore '
Cold on the contrary repels them.
Heat opens the Pores for Sweat, but
Cold rtiuts them up and hinders it.
Heat is proper for the moiftening-by a
Fomentation in the Nofe, Womb, Blad-
der, and Anus^ becaufe they are naturally
kept warm; therefore Cold is injurious co
them all, if fwellcd or dried. Heat
Of Cold Baths.
Heat difcuffes Winds, therefore Cold in-
Creafes them; but in Vouth, and in the
vSummer-time, and in a flefhy Habit of Bo-
[^y, a large PerfufionofCoId Water recol-
Jefts the heat, and cures Diftenfions with-
out Ulcers. The feme is the Effeft of Cold
£atbs, which produces contrary EfFeOs to
'Cold Fomentations, becaufe they produce
Sweats, Urine, Stools, and the Meofcs, as
iam informed by the Women. And pro*
Iwbly for their Hemagogue Faculty, Mip-
focrates obferves, That Cold Bathing makes
woody Urine worfe, which none ofthe In-
terpreters feem to have well underftood.
A moderate Heat increafes the Flefli,
td Cold fhrinks and hinders its growth*
^^ icaufe it repels the Circulation inward, but
Heat attraGs it outward, and thereby fof-
tens; and If immoderate, it melts and di-
ninifbes the Ftefh, and extenuates the
whole Body.
Heat recals the Colour, but if immode-
rate, it dillipates the Nourifhrnent and Co-
Cold makes the Skin very pale, like
lUet, or a Goofe-Skin.
Hot Fomentations of the Head, or other
irts, occafion Sleep, by exhaufting the
jirits^ therefore Cold will hinder Sleep,
by preferving the Vigour of the Spirits.
Heat cures Spafms, and eafes the Fains of
Cramps, and all Pains of the Eyes, Ears,
and
Part I.
and f*ach like; and tins it does by difcuf-
fing the rarified Air which caufcs thofe Dif-
eafes. Cold Fomentaions increafe all thofe
Pains, though Coid Baths by producing
Sweats eafe them.
Hot Water agrees wich the Eyes pained
with fharp Rheum, and all Drinefs and
Ulceration of them.
Cold Water is proper for inflamed red
Ey& without Pain, and againft all Suppu-
ration,- and hardnefs in them.
Water may be applied externally with a
Sponge to cool the Ey^es, to deterge and
moiften the Membranes, and to dilute the:
Salt-Tears, or ilop Defluxions of Salt-Se-
rum through the Glands of the Eyes.
Heat helps the Parts over-cooled, and.
Cold refredies the Parts over-heated.
Heat promotes Suppuration, and Cold
hinders it by ftopplng the Afflux of Blood,
and the Rarification of Humours.
Heat mitigates Febrile Rigours, Diften-
tions, Convulfions, and Hcavinefs Jn the
Head, all which Cold increafes. Hcac
helps the Iiardnefs of the Limbs after Iiiflam-
matiorts or Contra£lions.
Heat is proper for Fraftures, Luxations^
Wounds in the Head, for Bare-bones and
Ulcers, which do not bleed, for all Parts
mortified or ulcerated by Cold, for the eat-
ing Herpes, or Blacknefs in the AnuSy
Gums
Part I. Of Cold Baths. 45
Gums, Vterus. Cold is injurious to all thefe»
and ofiisnds Ulcers, becaufe the Parts have
been ufed to be covered, and it ftops the
Afflux of Humours; but Heat is like Pitch
to Ulcers, helping their Suppuration. '
Hippocrates advifes us to be more careful
intheufeof cold things than hot, becaule
*iis iefs agreeable to our Natures; yet he
freely recommends cold Applications in Hie-
morrhagies, anfl all Inflammations whilft
recent; but it blackens old Inflammations;
He commends cold Water for the Red Pu-
ftules in the Skin, in fuch as have fwellcd .
Spleens; and in thofe wiiich happen by hoc
Baths, or the Obftruftion of the Menfes,
or the flop of Sweat, or rough Garments^
By the Puftulcs in the Splenetick, 'tis evi-
dent he underftands either the Scorbutick,
or Leprous. Noie^ That he here mentions
Hot Baths, and he therefore mult be fuppo-
fed to prefcribe Cold Baths to cure the Pu-
ftules raifed by them. I muit remark far-
ther, That he prefcribes Cold Water for
Cureof the Puftulescoming by the flop
the Menfes, therefore Cold Baths are
alfo good for the Menfes, and itis likewife
proper for fwelied Spleens.
If he had dcfigned the Defcription of Cold
Baths, and their EfFe£is, he could not have
done it more plainly than in thefollowing
Words;
Vi-i',.Jj E
Both Hot and Cold Water are good for th^
f amours of the 'Joints^ and for Podagrick
tins without Vlctrs^ and j/iof pdrt of Cort^
vuljicfis. He th.it pours upon any jiart mirek
Cold iVatSTy extenudtes it bf cauftng SnvatSf,
Mitd ftupijies the Fai», and a moderate Stupor
s aivay Pain, Hot Water sxienuiUes (h^
e, Afidfojtens them. ■'
, 'Note, TnatH>/'/'0''T>«f«defcribestbe Ap^
TpUcation of Cold Water by thefe WordS|
! ^X^'- ■^''=^0'' •>(Cxi'^y-^''^y which has -thfl
feme EfFeft as Cold Baths. j.
Both the Hot and Hold Baths are good fof{
\ibeGout^ Refolul ion 0} a?tj/ part ^ Dijlentioa^
[ ^o/iivuifo»Sj and fach like ; for Stiffnefs^
xXf'emUitigj Paij/es^ or jUght.ApoplexieSy^i
* fiich tike J for Lame/iefs^ Torpor s^ lofs
Spetchf and Suppreffions &f the ififeriM
By theie Obfervat'ions we know tha^
Hippocrates underftood, That Cold Bath^
as wellas Hot, cured the Obftriittion of th<
Nerves in Palfies, Tremblings, Lofs c
E $peech, Relaxaion of the Limbs, Torporf
1 Stiffiiefs.
HeobTerved how the windy Spirits w<
compreired or dilculTed in Pains, Convuj
' f ons, I enfiotis. He afcribes the openin|_
of Obrtruciions, of the Menfes, Urioej
Stools, to Cold 'SVater, as well as H^q,
The ixafon of all thefe gieat Effcfts he atfo
iv^ii 3 obferved
'"cS
raicAflJiv xojeers/ 'Sip/Mi Ss ittoTT* pu'sTiK ; bjT
which 'tis evident that Hippocrates under-
ftood, that Cold produced Heat, and that
that Heat cured the Difeafes, for which
Cold Baths are moft efFe£luaL Therefore
all the Injury of Cold Baths, is from the
ftaying in them too long, or repeating them,
fo oft as to futfocate or congeal the HeaC
neceflary to Cure a Difeafe. From this
Aphorifm 'tis evident. That he prefcribcd;
them rSvpe©^ ^ian in the Summer, notia
the Winter, and vi^ <it/o-apx^, to a young-
Man of good habit of Body.
In the Aphorifms which feem to be col*
lefted out of the Tra£l of Liquids, I ob-'
ftrve, that he defcribes the excefsofHot
"]aths by irAeovaitis ^p--sftscaa-i ; therefore we
puft avoid too oft Repetitions of Cold
nths as well as Hot.
Ein the Aphorifms relating to Cold Bathsj
'ii. V. he diftingmlhes the Pains for which
bid is injurious, and they are ' thofe
ijich preceed Suppuration, or Pains de-
'pbnding on Suppuration: but by the pre-
ceding Traft ot Liquids 'tis plain, That
both Rheumatick Pains and Windy Pains
are cured by Cold only, oS'unv awxTueiBif
TreiM, 'tis the only Fain coid injures. la
the Aphorifms, Cold, fuch as Snow- and
Ice, is obfgrved to produce Coughs, to
E a break
46
Of Cold Baths. Part I'.''
break Veins, and to caufc Deflufttons.
Cold Air therefore heats as well as Cold
Water, and produces the fame Inconveni-
ence in Bodies difpofed to them. Since I
find thefe Aphorifms agreeable to the Traft
of Liquids, I may conclude. That that
Traft was his as well as the Aphorifms;
and by thefe wemay diftinguifb his Wri-
tings. I obferve farther, that he defcribes
in his Aphorifms the Virtues of Hot and
Gold, without mentioning of Fomentati-
ons, Affufions, or Baths; but the to >|-i>-
^V, or TO Sr6f/*t,'i', relate to all of them
equally. That Hippocrates well under-
flood the Ufe of temperate JJaths is certain,
by the Dirc£lion he gives about them in
bis Book, Of Diet i» Acute Dijeafes, that'
he advifes to Baihe, and that the way to"
the Bath be (liort, and without SmoaI(,i
find that there be all Conveniences forBa-.
thing, and that the Perfon bathed fhould
permit the Perfufion and Deterilon to otheri
Ferfons, doing nothing but being filent*
themfeives. The Perfufions which an-^
fwered our pumping, iTratfAwOTflj, fhouid
be quick, the Dcterlion by Sponges, and
the Body to be anointed before very dry/1
After Eating immediately we rauft noi>
Bathe, nor Eat immediately after Bathing.
He recommends temperate Bathing for In-
flammations of the Lungs, and Pain of thcl
Back, Sides, BreaA, becaufe it ripens the
Spit,
'Shi. Of Cold Baths.
+7
Spit, and helps it up ; and this we ought
"» imitate in ftop of the Spit; it promotes
Urine, helps the heavincfs of the Head, for
which we ought to bathe our Patients in
^at Cafe in temperate Baths.
We ought not, according to his advice,
» Bathe them who are too Loofe, nor too
Buch Bound, nor before Purging. We
nuft not Bathe the Fainty and Weak, nor
She Naufcous, andthofe whoaredifpofed
> Vomit, or have a Cholerick Windinefs
^n their Eruftations, nor thofe who are
kpt to Bleed, nor thofe who live on thin
jiet, or are feverifh. I have here pre-
fented you with enough to prove, that
'-Jippocrxtes knew the Virtue both of Hot
^and Cold Baths, and the right Ufeof them.
' Hipf aerates alfo has made the Ufe of Hot
bnd CoJd Baths, part of his G^mnaftick Jrt^
^When in his Third Book ot Diet he di-
rects us after the Exercife of the PaUjir^i
to bathe in Cold Water, but after other
iExercife in Hot Baths.
tBut before I conchide, I muft give you
Cure of that fort of HypochoadriAck Affe-
ion, which HippocrAtes defcribes to afleQ:
e Stomach with Pain and Vomiting
Choler and Phlegm ; and when they
,ke Nourilhment, they are troubled with
Winds, their Head akes, and pricking
Pains are in tlieir Limbs, which are alfo
E J Weak
48
Of Cold Baths.
"Weak and Feeble j diey hum and have a
high Colour in the Face. For the Cure of
it, Ki/i^oer^/ej propofes Exercife, Travels,
l*urges, and Vomits frequently, and a
Cold Bath in the Summer, and in Autumn
and Winter anointing with Oyls, Affes
Milk, and to abftain from fweet, fat and
joyly Dyet, and to keep the Body open,
.and to ufe GlyfVers and cool Diet.
see Wtpccr.
'iff.
If I had quoted no more
than this one Cafe, it is fufii-
cient to juilify my Defign of
Erefting a Cold Bath for the
benefit of this Country ; for
the fame Caufe will oft fall into our Hands,
and among many other Remedies, Cold
paths are necelfary for the Pains, Weak-
nefs of the Limbs, Winds, and Convulfi.
ons. And by this Example, Hippocratet
^caches us not to depend on Cold Baths
3lone, but to ufe them in a rational Method
jfter general Evacuations, and not to neg-
Ie£l other Remedies, which joyned with;.
.Cold BaihS| win after fome time efte£t th&
Cure.
. The want of a true Notion about thflS
MeasofCoId Baths, has made the TrafilS
of Hippocrates^ concerning Liquids, vci^
Obfeure to all Tranflators, and they havj
4ipt we)l diftinguiflied, that the Virtues at
tde beginning belong tomfi/n, snd thol
, repeat!
repeated at the latter end, xaTd^oK, which
i-was performed by the Servant who ufed to
Bur Water upon Perfons,' who bathed ei-
her in Hot or Coid Baths, as I could prove
i Hippocratet: But I muft defift at prc-
, and fubtnic all to your curious Judg-
t, and beg the favourable Cenfure of
lat I have Wrk, and your kind Aflift-
sin promoting my Def^gn ofErefting
old Bath. Jn which I hope the Opini-
jn o( Hippocrates will engage you, as well
^your ufual Candor and Rel^e^ to^
S I Ry
Tour very humble ServMJtt,
JOHN FLOYER.
LET-
tf<> part J,
LETT E R III.
Concerning the Ancient Im-
merfionof Infants in Bap*
; , tif iri^ and the Benefit there-
of in curing many of their
. Infirniities, and the pre-
venting Hereditary Dilea-
fo.
I
CAf7didus egrediiur nitidis exercitus undis ;
Fulgent es animas v eft is quoque Candida fignat^
Et grege de niveo gaudia paftor habet.
To the Reverend the Dean, and Canons, Re-
fidentiaries of the Cathedral Church of
Litchfield.
Mj Reverend Friends,
MY Defign being to recommend the
Ufe of Cold loathing to this Coun-
try, I thought it neceflary for the afluring
all People of the Innocency of that Pra-
aice, to reprefent to them the Ancient
Cuftom of pur Church in the Immerfion of
Infant^
i. Of Cold Baths. 51
Infants, as well as all other People at their
Baptifm. And I do here appeal to you,
as Perfons well verfcd in the Ancient Hi-
ftory, and Canons, and Ceremonies of the
Church of E^glaitd; and therefore are fuf-
ficient Witneffes of the Matter of Fact
which I defign to prove, -i/tx.. That Im-i
merfion continued in the Church of Etigm
land til! about the Year 1600. And from
Ibence I fhall infer. That if God and the
Church thought that Praftice Innocent for
^6oo Years, it muft be accounted an un*
reafonable Nicety in this prefent Age, to
ftniple either Immcrfion or Cold Bathing
AS dangerous Praftices. Had any prejudice
Wfually happened to Infants by the trine
Immerfion, that Cuftom could not have
been fo long continued in this Kingdom,
'We muft always acknowledge, that he that
made our Bodies would never command
any PraSice prejudicial to our Healths,
but on the contrary he belt knows what
win be moll for the Prefervation of our
Healths ; and does frequently take great
care both of our Bodies and Souls in the
fame command. He has oft made that our
Duty which highly tends to the Preferva-
tion of our Health. I may inftance in fa-
fttng and fubduing the Affe£lions, and al-
molt all fort of Moral Duties. The fame
Ideijgatoprove, that tho' he deligned Im-
merfion
5^
Of Cold Baths. Parti.
BSerfion as a Baptifmal Rite for tlie Repre^
ientatbn of the wafhing away all Original
Sin ; yet that alfo mtglit be a natural M&ns
far the cuj-ing the Infirmity, and prevent-
^ ing Hereditary Dlfeafes in Infants.
And if I can prove, that the Ufc of Im*
^ inerfion will be very advantageous to tlh«
Health of Children where Difeafes are He-
ifidiiary, I may help to revive the Ancient
Fraftice of Trine Immerfion, which the
Church does yet recommend to all Perfons,
when in the Rubriek it commands the Dip-
ping <rf the Perfon to be baptized difcreet-
ly and warily. And in this Difcourfe I de-
fign to prove only thefe Two Things.
1. That Immerfion was pra£lifed from the
beginning of Chriftianity, for 1600 Years;
and this Phyfical Ufe I fhall make of this
Point, that they who well confider that
Ancient Cuftom, cannot retain any Scru..
pies againft the ■^■x^^oXvnx. I fhall recom^
mend. The fecond thing I will endeavour
to convince my Country of, isthe ufefiilr,
nefs of the Trine Immerfion to their Chit-'
dren, efpecially in Families fubjeft to He-
reditary Difeafes.
- i will be^in with the firjt, That it w^-
■die general Fraftice of the Primitive Churc^'
tl» Baptize their Converts in FountainR,'
{'onds, or Rivers, and after that manner alj
■1 Nation^
5rtT. Of Cold Baths.
5?
Nations, whether Northern or Southern, re-
-peived the Baptifmal Ablution.
The Holy Scriptures informs us, That
;. John baptized in '^orJdfi, and this was
trt of our Englifl} Liturgy, That by the
Eiptifm of thy well beloved Son, Jefus
V//, did fanftify the Flood Jotdim, and
Dot her Waters. P^ul baptized LydU in
River. And Philip baptized the Eunuch
Water, of whom 'tis writ, that they
^ent down both into the Water. TerfulliAti
Emis, That Peter baptized many in the
S "Tis certain, That there weie no Baptt-
terics built till after ciie Second Century,
bd then tliey were not built in the Cihurch,
ucoutof it, and near to fome Cftthedra),
(phcre the Bifliop ufed to Baptite at the
Eves of Eafier and IVhitfuntide.
*Twas the Cuftotn to Baptize both Men
nd Women naked. And (oConfttntine^
1 the 65th Yearot his Age, himfelf was
eptized, tho' the firft Chrirtian Emperor:
Aiid Mefaphrafies attefts, That after he was
naked, Pifcinnm ingrejftn efiy An.Chrifi. 548.
'Tis related, in ilicHiftoryof the Church,
That Poijcarp baptized Tr/tm^uiHinui T\z\itA\
tho* he had a great Pain in nis Hands and
bis Feet.
St.
54^
Of Cold Baths.
St.ChryfoJtom Interprets the
rio^Ji. ""^- word Baptize by Immerfion,
Trina Merfom Inptifma euique
tritaere: And he mentions the Prieft, la
loco faperiori finns ter ilium demergit ; and
ChryfofiomXiVtdA. C. 582.
I will mention a Quotation out of St,-
Amhrofe^ de Sucmmentis^ who lived An.
Chrift. 381. becaufe he moft particularly de-
icribes the trine Immerfion. Thou art
asked, Dofi thoa believe in God the Father ?
Thou anfwereft, I do bdieve ; and tliou wert
dipped. Again thou wert demanded, Dofi
thou believe tn the Lord Jefus Chrifi ? Thou
anfwereft, 1 do believe; and then thou wert
dipped again. Thirdly, Thou wert asked,
Dofi thou bdieve in the Holy Ghofi f ThoU .
anfwereli, i do believe; and thou were dip^
ped a third time.
St. Cjprian gives a fufficlent Teftimony
of the Baptifm by Immernon, in his 961(1
fepiltle, in anfwer to Ma^fltfi,inthefe Words,
Quxfifti^ tnihi churijfime^ qaid mihi de fSis
videatar qui i/ifirmitite & U>}guore grstiattt
Dei confequuntur^Att habendilegitimiChrifiiani
^aod sqita fslutari non lotij fed perfufi. To
which he gives this Anfwer, /« fteramentis
[Mutaribus necefjitAte cogente ^ Dee indalgen-
tiam fuam Urgtente totum credentibmcanft^..
raat divioa comf>endi*.
I
Parti. Of Cold Baths. 55
In an old Ritual lent me by the prefent
hancellor of our Dioccfs, I obferve the
'eaediSfio fontittm^ and that the trine Im-
lerfion was pofitively prefcribed in the
'orra of a Crofs ; but if any one was fo
ic!i that he could not fafely be Dipt, jujfi-
it ilium aqaa *fferg[.
Gregory the Greaty who lived J». Chifi.
190. introduced the fingle Immerfion in
ipofition to the ArrUn Herefy.
I obferve that in Grdtian's Decretils^ and
'regorf^ Decretals^ both the fingle and trine
wnerfion are oft mentlon'd.
In the time of Chdoveus, the French
ling's Baptifteries were built in the lVeJfer»
k^hurch, and placed near the Door on the ■
Xeft-hand, they were parted in the middle
by a Travers of Wood, one part was al-
lotted to the Women, and the other to the
Men, and DeaconelTes were appointed to
affift in the Baptizing of the Women. The
Cuftom of Baptizing naked Women is de-
fcrib'd by St. Chryfojiom : And this, as Cdfu-
Jius affirms, continued in the Wejhrn
Churches 'till the Year 1140, when it
ceafed in many places, but continued in the
E4J?, and others of the Weft fiill retained
it longer. In all thefe Baptifteries they
ufed Immerfion, and they defcended by
Steps into them, as into a Sepulcher, be-
caufe we are. faid to be buried with bim in
Baptifm: and it was the Cuflom of the
God.
56
Of Cold Baths.
God-fathers to receive the Men, and the
God-Mothers the Women, as they came
our of the Water.
Bccaufe it may beobjefled. That this
Practice may be fitter for the hot Climates
than the colder, I \\'illgivefomeInftances
out of Bede^ S^elrnari'^ Concilia^ Linwood^
and apitrrflivh CoHscfion of ike EngUfh Caaons^
to prove. That Chriftianity was planted in
England by the Ufe of the Immerfion, and
that it was continued in England after the
Reformation, during the Reign of Ed*
irWVI, and Queen £//«.«^f/A.
Spelman in his firft Part of his Comtlis,
gives us an Account, That Lwc/wi writto
Eleutherius to fend feme Miflionarics into
Englandy to Convert and Baptize the Na-
tion, and that he accordingly fent Pbti-
gAPJits and Derw-jtaans, who in the Year
i66 preached, and baptized the King and
his People, (Regem eum fuo fopuh [acyo [ante
Ahluetunt.)
Bede in his Second Book relates how Vaw
lintis baptized King Edwin at Tork^ at Etfi-
er, in the Year 627, and at the Village
R'girt, in the Province of the Bertjicii, he
baptized a great number of People in the Ri-
ver G/e«; andintlie Province of the Dw/,
he baptized them irt the River Swalva,
Arid Bede in Uk ?. attefts, That hebap-
fldigccacMui^wdeirt the River Trj-
'art I. Of CM Baths.
57-
heata. And Bede^ who flonrifTied in the
Year of our Lord 696. gives this Reflexi-
on, Nondum emm oratoriA vel BaptiJieria,
-.fH ipfo exordio ndfce/ttis ecclsfu poterant ^di^~
Wf*ri. Bede gives an Account of Bjrhusy
Mt^ho Preached in the Province of the Ge*
R/Z/ffj, and baptized both their King and
Blis People, Fonte Bmifmatis ; and that Of-
Wfid/dj the King of the Nordhuml>ri, being
rarefent, Earn de Uvacre exeuntem Jufctpijfe.
m The Province of the Mediterrmem-An-
yrU were baptized by St. Cedda^ and his
■tompanions. And Bede defcribes them
■sphom they baptized thus, Bideifont^ fant
wAluti. ' I
■ Wilfrid converted the South-Saxons tq. I
■Ac Faith, Et Uvacrum fulutis minijfrabat,^ ^
wMdiimAUhy their King, was baptized in
BfcrcM, whofe King iVutfhere being pre-
Knt, Bede in his Fourth Book, makes him _
nis God-Father; A quo etiam defeat e egref*^ J
^li ioco fill fufceptus eft, Bede in his Flrft'^i
Book relates how Ceadive/U^ the King of 1
H)e l^eft ^axonsy left his Kingdom, and I I
E^ent to Rome, Vt ad limi^a be/ttorum Apof-^ 1
mi^orum fonts BtptifmAtis ahlueretur \ and^ J
■that he was baptized, Die Sa»lii SahUii^^ 1
ljp4/</W/j, Anfio 689. By all the preced-^J
■ng Quotations from Bede, 'tis clearly pro-^ 1
ned, Thatlmmerfion, was the general Prac-J I
fcccin the &rSt jp^ntingof QirilUahity in.^ '
58
Of Cold Bath!. Part i;
r
H EagUnd; and by the following Inftances
^L it will appear, that it was continued in the
W Eagiijh Church 'till the time of King
■ James I.
m In Spelman*s Concilia, Part the Firft, in
■ the Sjjnod of Cheluchythj under JVaifred,
I Archbifhop of Owfer^wr/, J^m 821. Ca^.
m 22. I find thefe Words, Sciam etiam ^rejhy-
K tiri quando facrum Baptifma tninijlrant^ ut
■ noiteffundant aquam fault am faper capita In-
M faatum, fed femper mergantur in Lavacro,
^L ficut exemplam prshuit per femet ipfam Dei
^H filius omni credertti^ fuafido ejfet ter mtrfus
^B i» afidis Jordams.
^^ That the fame Cuftpfn continued after-
wards, appears by the Caffillian Council in
Ireland, Jnno 1172. in Fart Second, of
Spelman^ Concilia, where it was ordered,
lit pueri deferrentur ad ecc/efidtn, & ibi
hap[iz,entur ifi aqua rnunda, trina merfione.
And in the Year 1195. in the Council
at Tork, it was ordered, Ne in Bapii/mate
flares qaam tres fufcipiant paerum de facro
fonts. And Spelman fhews the continuance
of Immerfion by a Statute made In the
Council at London, held 1200, Hiveropaer^
in neceffitate haptiz^ettir a Uico, fquenli* iiti-
merftomm non prxced'entia per facer doTem ex-
fU'antur. Many more Teftimonies ' of
the Immerfion may be obfervcd in •S^e/-
In the Conftitutions of Rie. Epifc,
Saraptf
L'^
F
I
fJPart I. Of Cold Baths.
vam liiy. 'tis ordered, That in Bapcbs-
'[ ofa Boy, there fhall be but three, Jd
'aifditm pueram defonte. And in the con-
liiutions o? Rich. Epifc. Dunelm. 1220. 'tis
ordered, That the Water where the Child
is baptized, fhall not be kept above Seven
Days; and in the Symdas iVigQrnknpSy
TtinA [emfff fiit Immerfto Bsptiz.andi^ Anno
1240. And in the Synodus Exonienftt^
'J287. Si puer rite htptiznius^ mn ipfd fuh"
[merJiOy nee precedential fed fuhfequentis per
faeerdotem fuppU*atur. And the Synoaas
Wintonienfts^ Jm/jo 1^06. mentions the Im-
merfion. I have quoted all the preceed-
ing Paflages from Spelm^LR^ whofe Credit
cannot be qaeftioned; and I delire alfo
thence to obferve, that the Immerfion was
always ufed to Children, as well as Adult
Perfons.
I will next produce Lit/wood, who be-
to write his Confiitatiofies Anglix about
Year 1422. And he give? the Provin*
Conftitutions of Edmund Epif. Cunt.
[^ ,DotM. 1254. Bxptijterium ha^eatar i»
Tihe't ecelejin B^ptifaali Uptdeum^ vel aliad
■ompeteas. And a competent Baptiflery
Lintoood interprets big enough for the Xm-
merfioa of the Perfon to be baptized.
And Littwoodj Page 242. gives thefe Re-
marks on the different ways of Baptizing,
"'"' ' Baptifm may be performed by
F Afperfion,
to
Of Cold Baths, ml
Aperfion, or AfFiiTion of Water, wherq.]
there is fuch a Cufton), yet tlie more lau-
dable Cuftom is, that it Hiould be done by
Immerfion ; and tho' the Imfneifion matf
^e pne, yet the Cuftom of the tripe Ini-
merfiQn is tpore to b^ approved, becaiife i£
^ fignifies our. Faith in the Trinity, and
, three Days fepultureof Chiift. Tho*
was the Opinion of the Canonifts in hii.
Day?;, yet ,tis plain, that the trine Immeri
fion continued longer in Etirland: For Era^
fftn noted it.ap a piece ofSingularity in tlir
tȣli(l/ Church, becaufe in his time thei
ufed Irnmerfion ; and it is evident by thi
Rubric} in King Edward VTs Days, that
the Ett^lijh Church ufcd tliat pra£ViccV
^ 1*1165^01311 the Priert take the Child in h^
Hands, and ask the Name, and namina
the Child, fhali dip it in the Water thrice-
firjl^ dipping the Right-fidej ^econdlj^
the Left-fide : And the 7'///V^titne, dippinj
the Face towards tliQ Font, lb it be. dij
creetly and waiiJy done. In the Coin-
mon-iPrayer-Book in Queen Elizahethy
] Days, the /\ff^r;H' fays,,N:imingiheC!uI<t
you (hail dip it in the Water, fo it be dip
creetly and warily done; but if the Child'
be Weak, or be Baptized privately, in caE
6\' neceffuy, it was fuMcient to poUr ^t/if
ler upon it.
; Kyigi Edirard\ Jnj,vp£lions weic pujj^ij^'^
'art I. Of Cold Baths,
1547. by which all People were forbid the
breaking obfVinately the laudable Ceremo-
nies of the Church. And inSparrow's Col-
leBton of Jriiclft, S:c. In the Articles of
Qneen EUzxheih, i <^6^. 'tts ordered. That
the Font be not removed, nor that the
Curate do Baptize in any Parifh Churches
in any Balbn, nor in any other Form than
is already prefcribed. And 1^71. Lihtr
Csfso/juTfi^ Foftrerno cur/thufit at tnjingulis
ntUfiis jit Sscer fons, fron pelvis, in quo Bip-
"muf mini^Tttur^ rittqae decent er drmunde
tfeKVetur.
r have now given what Teftimony I
ild find in our Engtifb Authors, to prove
conftant PraQice of Immerfion from
time the Britam and Saxans were
•tized, till King '[f^wes's Days, when the
tple grew peevifh with all Ancient Ce-
_ lonies, and through the love of No-
vdty, and the Nicenefs of Parents, and
the pretence of Moderty, they laidafide
Immerfion, which never was abrogated by
any Canon, but is ftill recommended by the
prefent Rubnck of our Church, which or-
ders the Child to be dipt difcreetly and
Warily.
I havebeencreedibly informed by a Per-
fon of Quality, who had the Relation from
Mrs. ^Arfti', an Ancient Midwife, that Sir
fUkry J^ff-A, in King Charles Ts Days,
F 2 caufed
i2
Of Cold Baths.
catifed three of his Sons to be dipped in the
Font without any prejudice to them; andj
that one of that Honourable Family, who
was thus baptized, is now Uving. I men-
" tion this, to fhew the Opinion of Tome in
' thofe Days, who thought that Immerfion
, Innocent ; and 'tis probable that many
. others were very unwilling to part with
this laudable and ancient Fraftice of Im-
I mernon.
I could not but obferve thefe prudent
Cautions ufed by the prim itiveChurLh in the i
Ceremonies of Dipping.
1. The times of Baptifm were appoint-
ed at Esjler and Whitjuntide in the Wefierit
Churches; which, though it was a reli-
gious Praftice in rcfpeft to the Death andi
Refurreftion of our Saviour, and the fend-l
ing of the Holy Glioft at thofe limes; yet!
thefe times might be accounted more fafe
for the Immerfion than the Winter; but^
the Immerfion was alfo ufed at all times ofi
the Year, when tliis Praftice began to bel
djfufed ; and in die Eafiern Church theyi
baptized at Efifhanyy the time of our Sa-ij
viour's Baptifm. ii
2. The Ancient Church ufed Faftin^
before Baptifm till Evening; but this was
at laft changed into a Morning Baptifm }i
farting or being empty makes the Cold Im-i
nierfion kfs dangerous, as in Cold Baths,
J. The Ancients anointed the Child*s
Breaft and Shoulders all over before the
Immerfion, and fuch Un£lion was alfo
^pra£lifed in Cold Baths.
I By the time of the Year, theFaftingand
bnftion, 'tis evident, that the Church
■udently confultcd with our Phyfical Ex-
[erience in theCircumltances of Immerfion.
nd fince Cold Baths were frequently ufed
Aaguftush Days, (and the following
Emperors, till Gi/e«'s time, and after) as
'E{)pears by Sueiomm in the Life of Augufius .-
ind Cdfas often mentions it as well as
tlelius AureltuMUi ; and Galen in his Traft
the Prefervation of Health, has giver^
1 Direftions concerning the Ufe and Be-
fit of it; all which I have quoted in my
^Trearife, Of the Right Vfe a»J Jbufe of
Baths: *Tis no wonder that all Chriftians
then freely ufcd Trine Immerfion, which
She general Praftice of Phyfick had then
ittught the World to be both fafe and iife-
|bl ; and when Chriftianity was firft plant-
"", the Bath Struftures were turned into
femples, and the Pifcina\ or Cold Baths,
iTere called Baptijierid by P/i/ij Junior, and
a tbem they baptized frequently.
I will next undertake to prove. Thai
^he Ufe of Immerfion had a Natural as well
as a Divine Virtue, which was the pre-
veming of Hereditary Difeafes, and curing
"~ F j fome
j64 Of Cdd Baths.
Z^^S
fome Infirmities in Infants. I cannot (iip
. pofe that any Body will afTcrt that the Con-
[ deration does alter the Nature of the Wa-
L tcr, but rather improves its natural Effe^s;
[therefore whofcever is immerfed, jnull
I fartake of all the natural Benefits whicli
.are produced by being dipped in Cql(l
Water.
^V But before I give the natural Effcfts of
Coy Water, 1 murt remark, That ihp
Church Hiflorians" attribute many Cures to
a miraculous Power, as Ntamd» was cureij
-by his being dipped feven times in JorJaa,
■'and the Cripples in tiie Pool of hetbeJ44.
,Thefe I have mentioned to fliew, that
miraculous Cures were done by the u(e qf
"Water in the '^em{h days; and fome are
^lentioned by tlie Chriftian Hiftories^
Cofi/laxthe was cured of his Leprofy by hU
^aptifm, in the Pond he faw in his Vifioi|,
^1 \^hich Pope Sjl%iejhr afterwards dipped
hinp. The f<nne Story is reporie^
-««»4S9. 0^ CLodo^vem by Gregory Taromnfif
,at his Bapiifm, that he was alfo cured ^
^ Leprofy, Prodit novm Covjl^iinm ad /(T;
V-iitura Aiktu^ui Isfr^ -veterii morifMtjf^
Greg. Tiiion. l:b. a. It was thcCuitom qj
tlie Church to keep the Water in the Fool
l;9cf>'^tl up, to preferve it from fiipcrdiEii
oit„ Uies, whith were probably grounda^
9^, ,f,I}e ^ur^ oMcryed tp be dpfie by ttjji
joJt Immer^
Of Cold Baths.
Uraerfion in Baptifm; and this might oc-
fome fuperftitious Ufcs of k in
tiring Difeafes. It has been a proverbial
laying amongft the old People, That tf my
t complAtned of 4ny ?*in in thttr Limbs^
^tlj thai LirrA had never hten di'pp'ed ia
f Font-, by which we mayobferve, that
E Cofnfnon People believed that the Iti^-
1 prevented Rhciimatick I'ains, ftp
hich Cold Baths is very beneficial .
. 'Tis very probable that the "jeivflb Pro,
facts and Prielh, had a great knoU'Ifedge
1 Phyfick, as well as the Divine RiteS j
hey were Judges of the Lcprofy, and its
Cure, and tlie feveral Specie? of it. In that
Ot Country, this Difeafe being common,
bey muft obferve all the Methods which
iJtperience, or the Holy Spirit Had fuggeft-
1 for the Cure of it. By the Miracles
|5ove cited, we find a Divine Preftriptioh
> the Ule of Immerfion; and by the
dden Cures, 'tis certain the natural meails
r Dipping was much invigorated By a
^eroatural Virtnc to cure the Leprous,
Irthecleanfingofthc Leprofy they wafh-
Ibis Body as well as his Cloths; and in
lat low degree of Leprofy in oui' Nor-
B Climate, which we call LepnGri-
w^ I have known the Cold Bath at
WiRottkridge to have done ifluch good,
^mjfor the Scurvy, Swimming in Rivers
P 4 '*
I
66 Of Cold Baths. Parti-
is oft prefcribed ; and our Country has
found by Experience, that the Cold Water
in Sutton-Park cures all Scabious Affcd-
ions, which have a like Nature as the Le-
profy.
As Phyficians have learned the beft
means to prevent and cure the Leprofy by
the miraculous Cures of it ; fo ought all
Perlbns, in whofe Family any Leprous Af-
feSions are hereditary, to confider both
the Miracles mentioned, and the natural
Means ufed by Phyficians for the help-
ing that Difeafe. And thus to argue, 'tis
a Rule in Phyfick, That what will cure a
Difeafe, will moft effedually prevent it ;
therefore all the Children of Leprous Pa-
rents do want the Trine Immerfion in Bap-
tifm, which will in their tender Age cor-
rect the putrid Odor of Leprous Bodies,
^nd caufe a better Perfpiration of it. It
caufes Evacuations by Stool, Urine, Sweat;
qnd thofe may difcharge much of the putrid
Humours, which they derived from their
Parents : And I muft add this farther Dire-
ftion, that fuch Parents ought to breed up
theirChildren to drink Water, and to ab-,
ftain from fermented Liquors, and Flefh ;
becaufe thefe promote the PutrefaSionin ■
Leprous Bodies, and by a frequent ufe of[|
Cold Baths, the increafe of that Difeaftft
will bs very much hindred.
Thg
Of Cold Baths.
The miraculous Cures at the Fool of
^thefda^ Dr. Hammond conie£tures to be
'om fome natural Virtue the Water acqui-
wd from the Blood of the Sacrifices, which
D great quantity was mixed with that Wa-
^r, upongreatFeftivalsi that blocdy Wa-
K r might cure the Leprofy, for which a
l^thcH Humane Blood is commended by
[he Ancients. 'Tis probable it was only
fat Vulgar Opinion, That an Angel moved
he Water, when the putrid Blood did fer-
nenC, or rather fome Mineral Fumes af-
Koded with the Spring in a narrow cora-
pafs. And fuch hot Places of fmall Extent,
^e find in our Batlis, where one only Per-
|bn can fland to receive the benefit of it.
^t the Fool of BethefdA was certainly
Cold Water, becaufe 'tis called the Sbeep-
^ool, for wafhing them before the Sacrifice;
^nd therefore had its Virtue from the Blood
which putrified in fome certain part of it,
1^ rather from Mineral Fumes, and that
pired the Blind, Lame, and Withered, (or
iEonfumptive) which lay in the Hofpital
xalled Beihe/da, expeiSing the Ebullition,
or moving of the Waters, which made
them Sanative in an extraordinary manner.
By this Inftaace we may obferve how rea-
dy all Ferfons are to admire and ufe Sana-
tive Waters for the Health of their infirm
Bodies: Imputing their Virtue to fome
God,
68
Of Cold Baths.
God, or efteeming fuch ufeful Medicines,
as ^wc %«pes.
I wil! next from the Sacred Hiftory give
fome Examples to (hew, that the Ablution
in CoJd Water was ufed by Divine Men, to
prepare them for Divine OiHces, and to
difpofe them for new Doftrines. TUeJetp.
ijh Priefts wadied their whole Bodies before*
tliey went into the Temple to officiate, an
Imitation of which were the Wafhings and
Luftrations of thQGtntties,
•'■ The Jews ufed a fecond fort of Wafhlng
of the whole Body, when they received
Profelytes into tbeirTemple. The Profe-
lytes born of Henihe^iijb Parents, received
thcjeipffh Religion, not only by Circurti-
cifion, butalfo with the Ceremony of Ab-
hicion of the whole Body, done folemniy
in fomeKiver, where they fat up to the
Neck in the Water, and iearnt there fome
Frecepcsof the Law. St. John BiptiJ} took
tiiisCultom from thcjeirs^ and he baptized
at Ainoo in a Confluence of much Waters,
all tliofe who repented of their Tranfgrcffi-
ons of the Moral Law, and believaithe
fodden coming of the Mrjjiis. John'% Bap-
tifm was only a Ceremony to initiate all his
Converts into his new Dottrine ; and tliat
Hfcethe Prieft's Ablutions had not on ty t
natural Power for the Ablution of Corpio-
real Inipumtes, but alQ) it prepared the
■■'"■* . Ml '■
t
nd for Divine Illuminations and Govern-
t, by componog the Heat and irregular
otion of the Spirits, and all Corporeal
eflions of Love, Anger, and all other
:eires, which the natural Temperament
"uces. Thofe Spirits are moft capable
Judgment, and Wifdom, and Memory,
which are ftrong, lively, but tranquil in
j^^ir Motion, and it is the certain Effefl of
e -jo^jioAuai'a to invigorate the Animal
irits, and refrefh them, to cure that Stu-
whichallhot Regimen produces in the
ind ; and aifotheweaknefsofthe Nerves
■educed by the fame.
Cold Baths caufea ihnfe of chilnefs, and
^c as well as the Terror and Surprize, ve-
ry much contracts the Nervous Membrane
Vid Tubes, in which the aerial Spirits are
contained, and they being kept lenfe and
Comprefled, do moll eafily communicate a!!
External Impreflions to the fenfitive Soul •
pot only the External Senfes are more livo^
ly in Cold Weather, but all our Animal
Aftions and Reafoning are then more vig&i
rous by the External ComprefTure of Cold
Air ; and the fame may at any time bft
produced by Cold Baths; But when di«
Air is warm and wet, the CompreOion oa
the Body being abated, a Heavincfs poffeP
fes the Head, and all the Senfes are more
0ee|^y anddull. And to prove that the Cura
X> ' ■ of
70
Of Cold Bath, Parti.
of moft Infirmities of the Brain may be
perform'd by Cold Water, I will tranfcribe
the Words of Cetfus^ Capitmil aque frodefi
Mtque aqua frigidd. Itaque « tai hoc wftr-
mumejl^ per djlAtemj idheneUrgocunaliquo-
tidie dtbet iliquando fubjicere^ femper tumen
etiiim jf fine Halmo uaiius e/?, neque Cotum
terpus refrigerare fuflirtet^ caput tamen /tqun
frigidd perfandere debet. He farther obferves
the great benefit of the frigids LavAtio^ as
rhe calls it, to the Diftempers of the Eyes,
fi/eque veto its folis quos capitis Imhecil/itar
tor^utt ufus aqux frigidd prodejt, ftdiisetiam
quos affidua iippttudtnes, gravedifies^ diflilU-
tioneSj tonjilU male habeat^ hie noa tantum
caput perfumdendum^ fed etiam os mult* aqu*
frigida ptrfundendum.
*Tis a curious Remark which Ctlfus has
made about the Mi^ of Cold Baching, that
it's moft ufeful in wet Weather, when all
People are fenlible of a Heavinefs and Dul-
nefs of their Spirits ; thefe are his Words,
Prscipue omnibus quibus hoc ttuxilium utile
efiy eo utendum p//, ubi gravms caelum Au-
firi reddideruftt. I have clearly prov'd Cold
Immerfion to be ufeful in all the Infirmities
of the Head and Eyes: And I might add,
That Deafnefs has been lately cured by the
fame, in the Cold Hath at Loadon. And
from the Cure of thefe Infirmities of the
^aia, we may infer, That the Ceremony
jbf Ablution of the whole Body, had a good
natural Effcd on the Body, and prepared
the Mind for the Reception of Divine
JThoughts and Impreffions, by purifying
the Animal Spirits, and compreffing their
Irregular Motions. And fincc all Phyfici-
ans and Moral Fhilofophers, teach us to
reftify the natural Infirmities of the Mind
by a fuitable Diet and Exercife, I hope you
WiU not think this ReBexion extravagant,
that I fay all Divine Perfons have ufed the
Immerfion into Cold Water upon the fame
Account, and that the Chriftian Inftitutioa
has only improved that Ceremony, by the
annexmg great Benefits to the Performance
of it, 'VIZ.. The Admillion into the Churchy .
the-Remiflion of Original Sin, and the Re-^
ception of the Holy Ghoft, who by aSu**
lematural Power purifies and enlightens the;
4ind in a greater meafure than thePowe^
'of the beft natural Means we have can ef-> i
:£l, which only alters the Temperament^
(introduced by the Original Sin of our firfc ]
Parents. Hippocrates imputes all Wifdomt ]
and Folly to our Natural TemperamentSji
which we may make better or worfe as tot I
Wifdom or Folly, according to our good *
or bad Regimen ; for when the naturah I
Hear, ov globuli jangmmi prevail toomucfej
above the natural Degree of Serum in oudi
Humours^ the Soul becomes too quiclc^]
preci-f
— I
^ei
Of Cold Baths. FarcT
brecipitate, inmnftant, and furious. And
[, be teaches us for that chis Regimen, To in^
oreafe the Serum by moiftening Diet, to
;pfe only gentle Exercife after Eating, and to
«roid all Excels of hoc Diet, which makes
them furious ; to eac rather Herbs and Fifh,
and to drink nothing but Water; ro uf6
moderate Exercife in the Morning,by walk-
ing rodifcufs hoc Humours ; and lie com-
mends a Tepid Bath. But that a Cold Im-
merfionaUb has a general good EfFcfl: in all
the Infirmities of the Brain, I have fully
proved by the Quotations from Celfus ;
and becaufe Gold Baths ftop the Circulation '
of Mot Blood t» the Brain , the^ may
therefore give a greater clearnefs to its Fa-
eulties. The elfeit of all violent Pailit)ns'
which difturbthe Judgment, is to carry a'
great quantity of Blood to the Brain ; and"
by a violent Circulation the Spirits are furi-
oufiy agitated, which is very prejudicial
both to Wifdom and Prudence. I have
therefore believed that Cold Bathing is a ne-
ceflary Regimen for the obtaining of both,'
and not only a pure Ceremony for the Ini-
tiation of Profelytes.
I will nextconfider theufefulnefsofltn*
merfion in the contrary Temperaments,- '
where the naturu! Heat or Spirits are but
few, and the Serum does too much abound,
fuch Temperaments make us Dull, Stupid,
Fooiifh,
OfCMRabi.
71
Foolifh, and SJow in all our Aflions and
tenfes; for where the Circulacion of Hu-
noursisflow, there the Animal Spirits ait
^avily. And for thefe Tempers;, Hip^a-
iffdies preftribes this Regipien : to ufe a
[frying Diet, arid to Eat little;, they mufl:
lefe violent Exerclte, and Purges of Hey/eW,,
nd Vomits, and hot Stoves ; and by thefe
il^ethods they will attain great Health both
tin Body and Mind, and thereby become.
Isftore Bribk, Wife, and Prudent. That
I Cold Immerfion produces a Prineislnover-
Imoiil Conftitucions, is evident by the Eva-,.
fcuations it makes by Urine, Stools, and
Sweats; and by a moderate degree of it,, ^
; produces a Heat and Ebullition in the
'umours which may be ufeful to cold Tein-
Taments ; but in hot Tempers we ule *
Breater degree of Cold Immerfion, to Ru-
pfyand congeal the over rarified Humors,.
Ka flight continuance in hot Bachs rati-'
pes and heats our. Blood; bur a longcCyj^ J
life cools by Evacuations of Sweat- An(i|.l
t (b it is in Cold Bathing, we may ufe it iri,^!
[different degrees, and thereby producc,jI
^ntrary Effects; a httle Cold heats, but^:^!
1^ exceffive ftarvcs us, Moll PaiHoosVl
fete attended with a difbrderly Motion of |1
' the Spirits and Blood, which the Cold fni-'^J
merfion cliccks, or alters iheir Motions ;
^^jaCold Baths the Puhe is fmall, DoWj
and
and rare, and the Spirits fuffer a fhivering
or tremulous Motion, and a Fright or Sur-
prize, which certainly diftrafts any im-
prefTed Motion from the Body in its natu-
ral Faflions, as well as the voluntary Paf-
fions depending on cogitation. That the
Cold Immeifion flirs up the Lethargick,
we may obferve by its EfFefts on a Drunk-
en Man, who by a fudden Immerfion into
Cold Water, does prefently become Sober,
and makes great quantity of Water. We
fprinkle Cold Water upon fainting Perfons,
which excites their Spirits to return into
the Senfes ; but a great Terror and Surprize
happens upon an ImmerOon, and that ex-
cites the drowfy Spirits to contraft all their
Tubes and membranous Veflels, by which
all Senfation is made more lively, and all"
Actions of the Body more ftrong, and the '
(hipid Mind is powerfully excited. '
If we reBeft on the vicious Regimen of
Men of this Age, whoaddift themfelvesto '
too much Tobacco, Strong Ale, or Wines,
or ftrong Waters; to Salt, and high Sau-
ces, and Gravies; to a conftant Diet of
raw roafted Flefh-meat, fermented Bread,
and fermented Liquors, (without any fuch
Intermiffion as the Church advifes in Lent '
and Fafting-davs) we may truly difcern the
occafion, or fifft Original of the Difeales '
moft frequent r^mongus, which depend on '
part I. Of Cold Baths.
75
|BIood too much heated, fait or inf[>ifrat*,
, or theSpiritsover rarified : Such is the.
!beurnatirm,theGout,Stone,Contumptions^
bnvulfions, Scurvey, Apoplexy, Deliria,,
^fclancholies, Hypochondriacifm, Cancers.-
I If wealfo confider the vicious Diet or
Lgimen of Women, who are taught tO;
B-Jnk not only Strong Wines and Hot Li- .
pors, but all forts of fugared -and fpiced
jquors. Chocolate, Coffee, Tea, from
(eirVourh; they are ofc ufed to Strong
Oths, High Sauces and Picltles, Oyfters,
ichovies, Herrings, Mufhrooms, Strong
Etagcs, and Meat full of Raw Blood j
ijjefe Errors in Diet produce all the Female
Fluxes, Scurfs, Leprofies, Confumptions,:
Hyfterick Diforders, Cancers, Decay of
Appetite, and fpecdy Old Age. What
Children are produced from Perfons, who
have thus by an ill management corrupted
their Blood and Spirits, muft certainly in-
herit the Difeafes of their Parents, and af^
ter, ifbredupin the vicious way of Liv-
ing, they will ftill increafe the Propagation
ofthe fame Difeafes, which are very much
heightned in their Virulency by the conti-
nuance ofthe fame ill Regimen for two or
three Generations, 'Tis certain that ner-
vous Difeafes are of all moft Hereditary.
And I have heard fome complain, That
Fits of the Mother, Hyjiocfaondriacifm^
G : ^Con-
Of Cold Baths.
Convulfions, and Apoplexies, are now-
I more frequent than in former Ages; and'
I thefe cannot be imputed to any thing niore^
I than the ill Reginren in Hot Diet, want o^
y Exercife, and the vehement Paflions of the*-
t Fetnale Sex, as well as the Efteminacy of
[ the Virile. That tlieft Difeales may be-
t much prevented by the Trine Immerfiofr
' will be made V-ei-y probable, fince theyj
■ may be much relieved, palliated, or cure*
. by Cold Bathing. I will firft defcrib^
', the general Benefits of it which Infantj
i have hereby, who are Born of Parents thai
' have injured their own Healths by a hoi
I Kegimen. Such Infants, like their Parents^
. have a foft flaccid Flefh, and porous Skin.!
The Cold Immerfion hardens their FlefHj?
and contrafts the Skinj and maltes it ih»
fenfible of all the Changes of Weathci^
Such Infants have weak Limbs, and a ftttj
pidity of their Minds: The Cold Immerfill
on win ftrengthen ilie Limbs and clear th<
Head, and excite the fenfitive Soul to afl
more vigoroufly. No Diftemper is moH
frequent in Infants than the Rickets ; arw
fince 'tis certainly known that Cold Bl
thing will cure them, as I fhall hereaftd
prove, we may clearly infer from thend
that the Immerfion in Baptifm would prtf
bably prevent that Diftemper, which feizr*
Infants from the ninth Month to a Yi
Part I. Of Cold Baths.
77
and a half- Since the Rickets is efteetned
a new Difcafe, I thought fit toconfidcr
its Original in our Country, and I find that
this Diftemper is reputed to have commen-
ced near the time when the trine Immer-
fion began to be difufed in our Church. Wc
have this Account of the Origin of the
Rickets in Dr. G/z/Jos's Book concerning
them. The Rickets were firft known id
theWeii o( Etiginffdy in the Countries of
Derjet and Somerfetj about thirty Years
before the Writing of his Book ; and the Se-
cond Edition of it was printed 1650. but
the firft fome time before.
The Rickets therefore appeared firft:
about the Year 1O20. and afterwards tra-
velled into ail Parts of the Kingdom, and it
was more rare in tlic Northern Countries^
where they commonly cured it by Bathing
ia St. Mango's Well.
I have proved the continuance of thelra-
toerfion, till after Queen Elizabeth's
Ebys ; therefore by the difufe of it, '*'''
tb^ rife of the Rickets was much promo*
ted: For fince Cold Baths are the bcft Cure,
the Immcrfion would have been the beft
Pi-efervative againft them. Therefore what-
ever might be the firft Caufe of the Rickets,
whether the neighbouring hot Baths, or
aaExcefs of the Ufc of them by its Bor-
derers, or any Intemperance in Diet, I may
G a cet*
78
Of Cold Baths. Part I.
certainly conclude, that the difufe of the
I Trine Immerfion very much helped its
' fpreading all over the Kingdom of E^g*
: iand.
1 will proceed farther to give the Effefts
* of Immerfion in other Dlfeafes, to which
- Infants are fubjeft.
Infants are fubjeft to the Stone, and much
I fabulous Matter is fettled in their Urinary
t .Paflages during their ftay in the Womb j
for which reafon, Children are oft Borfl'
Vith the Stone.'Tis certainly known that by
Immerfion into the Water the Suppreflioit
of Urine may be cured ; therefore the Trjnt
Immerfion does very much cleanfc the Uri^
nary Paffages, by occafioning great Quan«
titles of Water. ^
Children are much troubled with Grlpe^
if much bound, but the Cold Immerfioql
caufes the purging of the Black />(pj,whicli
caufe the Gripes in Infants.
Children are fubjefl: to Pimples and Scabs
in the Skin, Inflammations and ExcoriatU
ons of it ; the Immerfion not only clears
the Skin by Ablution of the fame tromthc
Salt Humour in which it fwam in thi
Womb; but that alfo produces Sweat, an^
tranfpires the Acid Salt Serum, which coj
rodes and inflames tlie Skin.
The New-born Children are fubjeft tb
Inilammations of the Mouth, Navel, an4
V-' •' ^"-- ■:■ -v--'-
-Tea c >
or
of the Ears ; Coughs, Vomits, want of
leep, Frighrs, and Convulfions, &e. Moil
' tfiefe Difeafes depend on a fharp Serum,
hich being evacuated by Urine, Stool,
Sweats, which are occafion^d by their Im-
merfion into cold Water ; thofe Difeafes
will alfo be prevented by the fame : Which
'Ifocontraclsthenervous FibrilUyinA there-
(Irengthens all Parts againft any Defluxi-
of Humours.
I have mentioned the Childrens Difeafes
hich the Baptifmal Immerfion will pre-
I, and I think it probable that it may
ify the rfJuU flamwn of the folid Farts,
id the ill Effervefcency of the Fluids, by
" ich hereditary Difeafes will in timeap-
,r. The Immerfion contrafts all the fo-
Parts, and therefore ftrengthens not only
le Limbs, but the Glandules; of which'
ture, the Liver, Spleen, Kidneys, and
Brain are, who all receive a better Tone
thereby; all the hot Blood and Spirits, and
their Veflels are comprefled, and the Child
becomes hardy, brisk, and aflive, all which
may very much prevent the growth ot He-
reditary Difeafes; fucharetheGout, Stone,
Afthnia, Convulfions, Melancholies, and
other De/rrM, Palfies, Apoplexies, Blind-
nefs, Deafnefs, Confumptions, Rheuma-
tick-pains, and King's Evil. And fince
Cold Baths are great helps in curing of thefe
G ?
Dif-
8o
Of Cold Baths. Parti.
Difeafes, the Trine Immerfion may con-
duce very much to prevent the fame.
I hope you will pardon me, my Reve-
rend Patrons, for intermixing Phyfical and
Spiritual Things. I have made the Immer-
fion almoftan Univerfal Remedy for our
infirm Bpdies, as well as a miraculous Pu-
rifier and Cleanfer of the Soul by its fuper*.
natural Virtue.
The frequent Confideration of this Sub-
jeft hath afforded me thefe following Refle-
ctions, That all Divine Inftitutions have
fuch large and difFufive Virtue, as to reme-
dy theDiforders both of Body and Mind;
fo the Obfervation of Fafting-da>s in the
Church preferves the Health of the Body,
and prepares the Mind for Divine Medita-
tions. Our Saviour firfl: cured the Difeafes
of our Bodies, that thereby he might con-
vince the Infidel Jem of his being the Mef.
fias, and thereby fave their Souls.
The Second Reflexion I made, was,That
the Church of Hwg/iiW continued the Ufeof
Immerfion longer tlian any other Chriftian
Church in the M^/y?fr» Parts of the World;
for the E^y/er^ Churches yet ufe it; an4
our Church ftill recommends the Dipping
of Infants in her Kubrick ; to which I ber
lieve the ENglifj will at Jaft return, when
fhyficb has given them a clear proof by
diver&i
. divers ExperimeiKs, thit Cold Baths are
"othfafeandureful.
The laft Refleftion I made, was, Th»t
jihey did great Injury to their own Chil-
drea, and all Pofterity, who firlt introduced
the Alteration of this truly Ancient Cerc^
monyof Immerfion, and were theoccafioa
of a degenerate, fickly, tender Race, ever
fince. But this difufe is no way imputable
I to the Church, but to the perverfe Humour
|«nd Prejudice of tlie People, who would
Ij-ather have no Baptifm, than not have it
I according to the new Mode of the laft Cen-
) tury.
Before I conclude, I ought gratefully to
lacknowledge the Ufc of (bme of your Books,
l| borrowed, relating to this Subjeft, as well
I as the kind Incouragement and Afliftance ia
the building of my Cold Bath. All the Re-
fpefts I can return, is to chufc you Patrons
for this Eflay, concerning the old Ceremony
of Immerfion ; and I thought nonefo fit as
the Governours of our Church, who by
their Eminent Piety and Learning are the
great Ornaments of it, I beg your Acep.
tance of this fmall Prefent I make you,
and defire it may be a Teftimony of my
great Efteem for the Primitive Conftitu-
tion of the Englifb Church. And that I
might hereby exprefs my Defign of do?
jfig good, both to the Bodies and Soul$
G 4 9f
II " ■' I' . ■ ■ . ' i C". i .
8a Of Cold Baths. Part I;
of Mankind; I have exceeded^ I know,
the Bounds of my Profeffion, and if I have
any waydeferved yourCcnfure in treat-
ing of thefe Eccledaftical Affairs, I beg all
*your Pardons for niy Miftakes and Errors,
which I hope yop will freely grapt tp mc,
-who am,
My moH Reverend Patrons^
.'.'■'.
Tour moft Obliged
ptcbfietti, Ocam^
4fid Humbh S^rvjfit^
JOHN FLOYER.
. !■>■ . r t t J I •——-»■■■ ■ p «»iWr»«W»'M»»»»i"»T«»l •• ■! I • I ■ "^*»WMa*a*Vi«i«l«MB«k^MW«a
LET^
LETTER IV.
ioncerning fome remarkable
Cures done formerly, or
lately performed by Cold
Bathing.
Pw C4fat & fiemAchum /upporttra fatitil/ut atidtttt
^vfinu, GabKifque pelunt & fri^iati rura.
Horat. Epirt. xv. ad Valam.
roaUthofe Worthy and Oblig-
ing Gentlemen, who lave
contributed towards the Bre-
wing the Cold Bath at Litch-
field.
PHyficians oft find it a difficult Task to
conquer the Avei'fions of Nice Pati^
Cnts, and to perfuade them to ufe thofe
Medicines to which they have not been ac^
cuftomed, until they have firft convinced
them, that their Medicines are both fafe
and neceflary. I expeft to find the fam^
A verfion to Cold Bathing. I will therefore
take;
8+
Of Cold Baths.
~~^W
take the fame Method to convince you, my
Honoured Benefaftors and Councry-men,
ihat Cold Baths are both fafe and uieful.
None will deny that tliat Method of Phy-«_
fick is fafe, which has been long tried by
the Ancient Phyficians; artd again, lately
tried and well experimented by the Modern
Dof^ors: ^ndallwill then admit that Cold
Baths arcufeful, when I have proved that
they are neceffiiry, both for the Freferva-
tion of our Healths, and for the curing ma-,
ny confiderable Difeafes.
The Antiquity of Cold Baths is fully
proved by what I have obferved from Hip-
^(W«rf A Writings and from thence I ii>-
fer". That Cold Baths are as Ancient as the
Hot Bath's. And when I have hereafter
given G<*/m"s pireflions for -tbe fame, ic
■wilt appear that Cold Baclis lalted. longer
than tlw GrecUm Monarchy, and that the
Grecians had that Praftice from the Stjthu
<»j, and Mgyptims, as well as all other parts
of Phyfick,^ which they improved, and
communicated to thzRomms, And that
t^iey commonly ufed the Cold Immernon,
appears fufficientiy by the Tcftiraony of
Cdfus and Horace ; and the Cure of Auga*
fiasy related by Suetonius -^ and by what
Seneca writes of his own Practice. And
P//«y largely defcribes the Cold Bathing in
Iiijl tioK. CnUaj AureliMus gives us the
:a£i'ic& o( SoranaSy who in many Diftcm-
rs, as the Afthma, ^c. prercribes the
icftraiafiaj and be Uved about Trajaa^s
ic. But Gale» many Years after, and
praftifed at Rotne, as well as among
e GrtciaMSy who alfo was well verfed in
Art of Cold Bathing, and prefcribed
lany Cautions about it. After liim JEgi-
is, jEtius quoted what he wrote, and
•efcribed Cold Baths for the preferving
f Health, and the curing of many Difea-
s. To all thcfe I muft add what we have
J an uninterrupted Practice ufed, both at
aoijiveii^ St. Alungd'Sy iViHowhrUge^ Roo-
^en-mliy and many other Cold Springs in
IxgUttd. If we had not thefe Pra£tices
1 the Romam^ we may be fuppofed to
: learnt them by our own Country Ex-
erience; for Nature feems to have taught
H Nations the Ufe of Cold Water, where
he Art of Phyfick has never been yet
^nown ; as in Tartary^ Mufcovy^ and
•mong the Indians; fo that we may efteem
'"le Uie of Cold, as well as hot Baths, to
5 from the Diftates of our Natural Rea-
1 and Senfes, whereby we are taught to
at our felves by Fire, and cool our over-
leated Bodies by Water. Cold Baths were
'■older than ////•/'oerri^fj's Art, not the pro-
duft of any Hypothefes, but eftablifhed by
the Experience of all Mankind la the colder
"Climates. The
86
Of Cold Baths. Parti,
The Author /ffhe Emhajfjfrom Mufcovy*
to China, gives us an Account how thV
Tcur/f^aefes, a Tartarian People, hardea
themfelves againfl: extream Cold of their
Air; as foon as their Children are Born,'
they in the Summer-time put them intrf
Water, and in the Winter lay them in
Snow to harden their Skins. Sir John Chsr^
din mentions a kind of Wafhing the Men-,
grelians ufe to their Children in their Cel-
lars ; and that the Romiflj Priefts only drop
three Drops of Water on their Forehead,
which with a mental Form of Bapcifm they
think fufficient to make the Tartars good
Chrirtians, Mr. Lof^e tells us, That the
jffipj in Gerr»<t»y and VoUrtdj where the
Air is as Cold as in E»gUnct, Bathe them-
felves, both Men and Women, in the Win-
ter, as well as Summer, without any pre-
judice. And the Germans o^oXd, and the
lri[!3 at prefent, Bathe their Children iri
Cold Water; And that in the HighUndio^
Scotland, the Women Batlic their Childrert
in Winter. By thefe IniUnces it appearsi
that the Northern People have found Cold'
Baths very ufeful to their Bodies.
I might urge the Practice of the Primi-
tive Church in the Immerfion of all Per-
fons baptized ; but that matter being fuffi-
ciently proved iq have la fled i(Joo Years,
is a convincing Argument for the fafe Ufe
Part I. Of Cold Bathu 87
of Cold Baths, as well as for their Antiqui-
ty. I will only add fome Modern PraQJ-
ces of that Nature, to Hiew how clofely
ibme Nations yet retain that Ancient Cu-
liom.
Sir pAul RicAut gives us an Account of
I the prefent Baptifm in the Grecian Church,
(which extends it felf into Mufcovy^ and
CeorgU Northwards, and into An/ttolU^
ThfAce^ £cc. In ILort, mofl: of the Eaftern
Chriftians follow the Pradices of that
Church); and he tells us. That Churcb
holds Dipping or Plunging into Water as
necefTary to the Form of Baptifm, as Water
10 the Matter; for the Proof whereof he
fays, They quote the 50th Canon, called
ApoJioHcal-t and the 42d Chapter of the
Apojttes Confiitutio»\ and that tlie Trine
Immerfion was ufed as a Teft againft the
Hereticks, who deny the Trinity. And
Dr. Smith delcribes tlieir Font or liver one
Foot and a half deep; and he tells us, That, I
they Dip the Child at the mentioning of^ [
each Perfon in the Trinity. And he altures
us, That they rigidly retain the Trine Ini-|l
merfion according to the Cuftom andPra-rf
ftice of the 6rft Ages ; but that they vaiy^ 1
from it on fome occafions, and pour Water.j I
on the Child's Face three times.
lam informed, That fome of the Wetjb
)iize by Dipping, and that their
Nurfes
Of Cold Bath
Nurfes ordinarily wafh their Chidren in
Cold Water every Day from their Birth,
till they are three Quarters of a Year old ;
by which Method they preferveihem from
the Rickets-
Mr. Bcrewood informs us, That the Ha-
hAJ^ARs Baptize themfelvcs every Year on
rhe Day of the Epiphanji in their Lakes and
Ponds, which they praftlfe as a Memorial
of Chrifts Baptifm on that Day in Jordan^
And he adds, That the Mufcovites do the'
like on the fame Day, in Memory of our
Saviour's Baptifm. And by thefe two In-
flances we may obferve, That the Chrifti-
uns m Mufcovy znd Mthiofn, agree in thc"
Immerfion in Baptifm, as well as their Me-
morial of it, though their Climates are ve-
ry differing; the one being extream North',
and Cold, and the other very Hot.
yaapjler, in his Prefent State is^^gypt,
gives an Account of the CoptPs praftifing
the fame Ceremony on the i6th o^^nnaarjj
when they celebrate theFeaft of the E^i-^
phmy^ when after the Prayers at Night.'
they dip themfelves in a Fond or Bafon of
Water, which is near the Church in a
Cliamber, three Perches fquare, but as
deep as any Man is high ; and after thd
Men have done, the Women dtp them-'
felves.
Of Cold Baths.
89
P
Dr. Giits Fletcher gives an Account of
the Rujfiiins Baptifm, That the Prieft ftand-
cth ready in the Church-Porch with a Tub
ofWater by him ; and after certain Pray-
«rs, heplungeth t!ie Child thrice over Head
and Ears; for this they hold to be a Point
meceflary, that no part of the Child be uni
dipped in the Water, if the Child be Sick
or Weak, efpecially in the Winter-tiftic^
they ufe to make the Water lukewarmi
Sit Purchas Pilgrims. He further tells ti^
That on the Twelih day, the River at Mof-
to is made Holy ; and after the Women dip
iQ it their Children over Head and Ears,
and both Men and Women leap into it;
feme naked, and others with their Cloaths
on; and this Water they give to their Sick
to Drink. They ufe Bath-Stoves to Cure
their Difeafes ott in a Week, and when
they come out of them fweating, they leap
into the River naked, or elfe pour Colo
Water all over their Bodies, and that iQ ij
t the coldeft time of the Winter See PuN
^L chas.
^V I think it ncceflary here to Anfu'er an
P^ Objeftion, which thofe of this Age may
make, viz.. That if this was an Ancient
and fiife PraQife, how came it to be fo
totan? forgot and negtefted till now ? To
whicn I may readily anfwer, that not
only the Praftife of Cold Baths, buE the
Ufe
Ufe o4the hot Ones were totally fubvert-
ed by wq Inundations of many Barbarous
Nations into thefe IVefierK Vans of Europe^
who not only dcftroyed all Books, and
learned Arts of Phyfick, but rendred the
Language in which they were writ unin-
telligible ; not only Phyfick,- but Poetry,
painting, Law, Divinity, were almoft
joft: in the barbarous Ages fucceeding the
bevaftation of thefe Barbarians; Igno-
rance over-fpread all Places and Arts; and
of late Years our Phyfick has been tranfla-
ted from the JralfUns. And fincc Inquifi-
tive Men have got the Books and Langua-
ges^ in which they were writ, many of
the old Opimomqf Hippocrates are received
and pafs for new Inventions, becaufe more
clearly proved, or farther explained by the
Modern Writers. Hippocrates aflerts,
That the Subftanee of the Brain was glanr
dulous, which the Moderns have defcribed
more exaftly by the help of their Glaffes:
he believed the Heart to be muftular, and
the new Anatomifts have now clearly de-
fcrihed the fevera! Mufcles, and the Fibres.
He afferted, That the Air was contained
in the Animal Humours; which the Mo-
derns have fully demonftrated by the Air-
pamp. Thi', ingenious Age has not only
revived fi i> Opinions, but alfo many old
Prafliees, fucli are the piofule Bleedings,
Of Cold Baths.
ad dnimi deliquium^ in great Inflammations*
" fae extream Purges in Dropfies, the Helle-
orifms in Madnefs, frequent Cuppings
pd Scart6yings inilcad of Bleeding ;
Urning with Moxa inftead of that ufed by
pppocmtes, by Flax, or Cotton, or Mulh-
And among thefe old PraSices I
j^ud not omit, that this does endeavour to
ivive Cold Baths ; and how far the Cold
[faters have proceeded in that Affair, may
ftcollefted from my Account oi Hippoera-
'/s Opinion concerning them. The Ac-
ttnt of Cold Bathing, I fhall more par-
Blarly confider hereafter.
' Since the Metiiods of Cold Bathing were
well known to the Ancient Phyficians, all
I pretend to in this Eflay, is to recommend
what they have done, and to take otFany
prejudice which the Moderns entertain
againft that Praftice. And for Method-
fake, I will divide the Cold Baths into
thefe Three Kinds, and difcourfe of each*
1. T(&e Water of Rivers which is irtfolated
or Tepid bf the Heat of the Sun.
2. Common Water moderately Cold^ with
nihich ipe fVd/h either the whole Body^ or th«
fiveral Parti of it
3. Extream Cold Spriags impregnated with
fuse Cold Mineral, ftich as the Stypticity
. «i Well'Waters ; fame Particles of Lend, of
' H %/>
91 Of Cold Baths. Part 1.-
etfe Water ^ in which the Jir is extreanfly con^"
den fed ; all which are very Cold to the Touch.
I. The Benefit of Bathing in Rivers is
very great, and this is chiefly praftifed by
young Men and Boys. All Creatures be-
fides Men being difturbed by theSummer^s
Heat, go into Rivers and Ponds to cool
them. Mercurialis bathed himfelf in the
River Arnus at Fifa^ and thereby cured
himfelf of the Stone in the Kidneys ; and he
advifes the Nephritick to place their Backs
againft the Stream of the River. And he
gives this Advice concerning this lort of
Bathing, where the Blood is hot,- and the
Kidneys burn, and any trouble happens in
making Water, where the Skin is dry, or
deformed by Scurf, Itch, Puftules, to ufe
frequent Bathing in Rivers.
It was accounted an opprobrious thing
among the Rcn?ans, ncc natare nee literss
fcire: And our Saviour fent the Blind Man
to Wafli in the Pool of Shiloj which was a
Common Bathing-place.
The gcneial Hffecls which Experience
' affures us that it produces, arc to cool in the
Dog'days to cleanfe and moillen the Skin ;
it cures Thirll, caufcs Sleep, produces much
Urine, prevents Fevers, and feeds thin Bo-
dies, and creates them an Appetite, and
helps their Digeftion ; but its neceflary to
obferve
Parti. Of Cold Baths. 93
obferve thefe Cautions to prevent tlie Inju-
ries which may happen by it.
f. Not to Bithe in Rivers immediately af-
ter Entifig, nor after Drinktr^ ft'ofg Li^uors^
nor after ^r eat Exercife.
a. Not to jlaj in too long^ not above an
Hour, or fo long m to be over-chilled hj it.
2. I fhall next Difcourfe of Common
Water, and its Ufein Bathingj orWafhing
the feveral Parts of the Body ; and this is
like the Perfufions ufed of old to thewhole,
OT feme part.
Celfua advifes the wafhing of the Head
with Cold Water, to prevent Rheums^
Pains of that part, and of the Eyes. I
find this Pra£tice ftill continued among ma-
ny wife Men ; they Shave their Heads eve-
ry Week, and wadi it every Morning with
Cojd Water, which hardens the Skin, and
cools the Brain, whereby the Flux of too
much Blood into it is prevented, and that
coldnefs of the Head renders it fitter for ail
Rational Thoughts, and the Animal Spirits
being comprefled, are more lively, fpringy,
and fitter for Motion. Every Parent wilhes
his Child may be bred up to a great degree
of hardinefs. The belt Methods to attain
I that, is the Immerfion at firft into Cold Wa-
L tsr in Bapcifm : and afterwards to ufe the
kK H 2 Me^
n
Of Odd Bath.
Method of Wafhing their Children in Cold
Waterevery Morning and Night, 'till their
Children are three Quarters old ; for hy this
the M^e/f A Women ufe to prevent the Rickets
in their Children ; and 'tis a common faying
among their Nurfes, Thar no Child has the
Rickets unless he has t dirty Slut j or his Nurft,
This Method is ufed in this Country, by
an Honourable Fiimily, of Wafhing their
Children all over, but they ufe MUk and
Water cold.
It wastheCuftom for the 7«*'j(for which
fee Ezek/el, Chap. xvi. Verfe the 4th) and
, of all JJia befidcs, to Wa(h the New-born
Children in Salt and Water, to make the
Skin hard anddenfe; for which end Galen
advifes to fprinkie Salt al! over the Infant.
See his Book for Prejervatioa of Health.
Mr. Lock in his Ingenious Book of Edu-*
cation, advifes us to Wa fli the young Pupil's-
Feet in Cold Water every Day, to rendei'l
him able to bear the Injuries of wet Wqa-*
ther better. He advifes us to begin in the
Spring with Lukewarm Water, and fo cold-
er and colder every time, and to continue
this Winter and Summer : And for the ea«
couraging this Method, he tells us, That
he knew this ufed every Night in the Win^i'
ler, tho' the Ice covered the Water,
Child bathed his Hands and Feet in
s Cuftom
i began 1
^as veryij
puling r
'artl. UfCold Baths,
95
puling and tender. This Bathing of the
Feet may beas falely done, astheWafhing
of the Face and Handsevcry Day : N^othing
makes any difference betwixt them, but
Cuftom ; and if Changes be made by in-
fenfible Degrees, wc may bring our Feet
and Head to bear the fame Lotions, as the
Face and Hands, without either Fain or
Danger.
" He that confiders the Nfature of Perfp'i-
ation will believe the Morning the moft
lonvenienr time for thcfe Affufions of Cold
Vater, forthen thePerrpIrationof thcBo-
By is fully finifh'd, and the Body is become
npty of all hot Particles, produced by
le Fermentation of the Chyle and the Ef-
Tvefccnces of the Blood.
The way to prepare our Body for Cold
ths, if very tender, is to wafh it all over
warm Water firrt about the Spring-time
in Mdy, and fo every Morning ufc cooler
tin it can bear the Scnfe of very Cold Wa-
ter ; But I have known many tender Per-
is to have ufed the Coldell Baths immedi-
:ly without any Danger ; but they ought
It to ftay in them at firft trial, but only to
Immerfe, and immediately get out again.
I will next defcribc fome particular Ufes
of Cold Water, and after give thofe Me-
thods which are prcfcribed to preferve our
Health by Cold Baths.
H ? The
Kr
96 Of Cold Baths. Parti.
The Ufe of common Cold Water is well
known to the Farriers, who have a Me-
thod t)f curing foundered Horfesby it thus.
Take a founder'd Horfe within forty four
Hours after his being foundered, Ride him
till he Foam and Sweat much, then Ride
him into the Watqr to the Saddle-skirts,
keep him there for an Hour, then Gallop
him to the Stable, tye him to the Rack,
and let him not Eat for four Hours, Drefs
him, Litter him, and put Blankets on him
to Sweat, and cool him by degrees. .
I have alfo been informed. That the way
of Sweating by Cold Water, is fometimes
praflifed by our Country Gentlemen, who
love Horfe- Races, to abate the Weight of
the Rider by Sweating. Dip the Rider^is
Shirt in Cold Water ; and after i^t is put on
very Wet, lap the Perfon in warm Blankets
to Sweat him violently, and he will aft6r
lofe a confiderable weight, a Pound or two.
I have met with this Method to flop
Bleeding, and to prevent Fevers upon
Wounds : Put tHfe Limb hurt into a Pail of
Water, and hold it there till the Blood be
ftopt, and the Part return to its natural Co-
lour, cover the Wound with the Skin of an
Egg, and lap it up in a Cloth for nine Days ;
andif a Fever happen, put the fame Part
into the Water again. It has be?n a tried
Experiment for Women to put their Fedt
into
Of Cold Baths.
into CoM Water in tlieir Hemorriiages
from the Womb j and to bathe rlie Anitf
with Cold Water prevents the Piles. .
Mr. Lock commends the washing of the
Feet in Cold Water for the preventing of
Corns.
I have mention'd thefc partial Lothr/s^ to
Ihew the fafety and general ufcfulnefs of
Cold Baths to particular Parts. I fhall next
tranfcribe what Methods and Direftlons
Galen has prefcrib'd for the PreOrvationof
y our Healths by Cold Baths, Hefdys,They
^L'jire proper lor Perfons in perfeft Health, to
^Kthicken the Skin, and make it infenfible of
V^Cold Air ; 'tis proper for fleOiy Perfons, for
^ the temperate, and thofe who ufedue Ex-
ercife; the chief Ufe of it is in the Summer-
time, and we muft accuftom our felves to
it by degrees. The Benefits the healthful
will receive by It, are t!ie incrcafe of Appe-
tite, thequenchingof Thirft, thellrengtlv
ningof the Digeftion, and therendringthe
Limbs ftrong, mufculous, and lively, and
Panders the Sltin infenfible ofall theChanges
1^ Weather, and tiie whole Habit of the
^dy becomes more compad and fitter for
Exercife. On the contrary he believes Cold
Baths injurious to thin Habits, growing
Bodies, under Twenty, and very cold Coii-
ftitutions, to thofe who live intemperatcly,
and ufe no Exercife j and they are danger-
H 4 ous
98 Of Cold Baths. Parti.
ous after Vcnery , Laditude, Crudities,
Vomiting, Gripes, Loofnefs, Watching,
and to thofe who are not accuftomed to
them. He gives us tliefe Cautions about
the Ufe of it, not to ufe it raOily and fud-
denly, but ad vifes to begin tlie Ufe of it in the
beginning of the Summer, that we may get
a Cuftom of it before the Winter; wc muft
chufe a calm Day, and a hot one, and the
hotteft time of the Day, the Perfon to be
bathed ought to be in perfect Health, and <
in his Fourth Septennium^ and of a hve-
ly and chearful Spirit. He orders the Body
to be prepared in a temperate Gymnnjterium
by plentiful and vehement Friftion, by a
courfe Cloth, and afterwards by rubbing
with Oyl as ufualiy, and exercifing with
equai and quick Motion ; He may defccnd
into the Cold Bath not by degrees, buc all
at once by leaping into it; a Horror is
produced by going in by degrees, and the
Water muft not be very Hot, nor very
Cold, at the firft time ofufing it, but cold-
er afterwards. We may ftay in Cold Baths
what time we can conveniently bear them:
and in a iefs Cold Water, if we ftay long
enough, we may liave the fame EfFeS pro-
di:ced as is by a very Cold Water, whwe-
in we ftay a lefs time. When any one
comes out of the Water, he ought to be,
v^bed with Oyl, and that by many (ill
thq
Of Cold Bath
.the Skin is warm ; afterwards let him Eat
UDore than ufualiy, and Drink according to
Bpis Cuflom; thefe things mud be praftifcd
■for three or four Days, and afterwards he
may at the fame time go in after Fri£lion
a fecond time, or ftay in much longer. He
obferves, that we have flaid in too
long when the Body is very pale, and it is
Boc foon heated again by Friftion , and does
Jfeot recover its natural Colour and Heat
Kiereby : but we have ftaid in moderately ,
jirhen the contrary happens. See Galen /«
Ecf Third Book of the Prefervation of Health.
Fhis Quotation fufficiently proves Gates's
"pinion of the ufefulnefe of Cold Baths,
frhich I (hall farther confirm by the follow-
* Refleftlons.
Since our frequent Epidemical Fevers de-
fend on the Changes of our Air, the fre-
_ juent Rains and exceflivc Colds, we can-
not invent any likelier Method to pre-,
vent fuch Dlfeafes than by Cold Baths,
which fo harden the Skin, that it becomes
iafenfible upon the great Changes of the
Air; the Stomach is very much ftrength-
ned and locreafed; by which the breed-
ing of any Cacochymia's is prevented, the
Spirits over rarified and tumultuous in
iheir Motions are comprefled, cooled, and
made fitter for rational Operations; the
Mufcles are made more ftrong, compact.
Of Cold Baths.
-and vigorous, in all the Exercifes we ufi^,
whereby Health is very much preferved,
To all thefe advantages oi Cold Baths, I
may add, That the coldnefsof the Water
contrafls the Nervous Fibres, and thereby,
ftrengthens their iMotion, and hinders
their Laxity and Evacuations of Humours,
which would prejudice our Heahhi they
alfo promote Urine and Perfpii'ation, as
Sanlforim affirms, and the Menfes. If
Cold Baths had no other Effects thsn help-
ing our Digeftion, and making the Body'
more vigorous in its Rxercirc, that would
be fufficienc to prove tlieir ufet'ulnefs for
the prefervation of our Heahhs; but
their Eft'efts are more confiderahle
ftrengthening the Tone of the Solid Farts,
and preferving the Crafis and Motion of
thi; Fluids; and its KfFeds reach the very
Soul of the Animal, rendering it more live-
ly and brisk in all its Operations ; and we
preferve thereby that Di'vint farticuUm.
«flf,e in its lull Lufter, as our Noctiluca's
arc kept in Water. Life confifts in the
Union ol'the Soul with the Animal Spirits,
which are longeft preferved by a Cold Re-
gimen, but loon diffipated by a Hot, or
elfe made too Elaftick, Windy, and Irre-
bblar in their Motions, by too much Heat
i 6nd Ratifications; and this Error of the
[Spirits is bell corrededby Cold Baching.
N.- Ant
Of Cold Baths
d6 fince by the enfuing Difcourfe it win
t evident, that Cold Baths will Cure con-
feerable Difeafes, ! may thence infer,
!hat the ufe of them will prevent all thofe
it can Cure : and thereby confirm my A(^
fertion, that Cold Baths are neceffary for
Jie Prefervation of our Healths.
I might farther intimate, that Cold
Ibaths muft have a great Effeft on the Heart
^s well as all the other Mufcles, and that
; ftrengrhens its Fibres, and invigorates
s Motion, by comprefling the Animal
jpirits which agitate its Mufcular Fibres,
f caufing a greater Tenfion and Contra-
5ion of the Fibers themfelves, and by exct-
nngthe Motion of the Heart, when the
jHumour makes an Effervcfcence after their
ComprefTion by Cold Water: for though
iVuring the Imerfion into it, the Pulfe (lops,
jand the Motion of the Heart is flower;
^et, after that, for fome time that Muf-
t!e works fafter, and evacuates by Sweat
Ind Urine, and the Menfes, and the whole
Jody fcnfibly hotter. And if the Mufcles
W the Heart become flrongcr by Cold
Baths, then the Sanguification of the Chyle,
and the Secretion of the old F-eces of the
Blood, viz. the Choler, Bilis arfa, the
Slime, Salt Semm, and the Aerial Gas, are
better performed, on which our Health
yet;y much depends. But I will ufe no
more Arguments, but: only fubjoin a Let-
ter concerning the Ufe of Cold Baching pra*
flifed by Sir H. C. for the Prefervation <rf"
his Health ; and this was writ by a Per-
fbn on whole Credic I can depend.
Mirch 4. 170?.
Moft honoured Sir,
ACcordin^to your deftre I here furnijh you
with the befi Account Icaa of Sir H. C.
$a the County of W ■ r, at remark-
gile an hftdoce as A»y upon the Suhject you
»re trediing on^ I mean the Advantage of Cold
Baths. / remember I have heard the Ac-
eount of hit Method^ and the Advantages he
hath received bf ity from himfelf afd others,
Me was afflt^ed with the Gout in a very
terrible manner^ that in no very long time his
'joints were fo knotted^ that he could fcareely
go, «r endure any Fer/on to tread in the Room
where he was. In /hort, he ivas reduced to
fach a Condition, that it made even Life it
filf A burden to him. The Method taken ivilh
him was warm things. As J remember, he {aid,
bis floor was covered with Bays, and he felt
the Air fo piercing, that he durfl fcarce look
out of the Window, but it would affeSi him' •
When hefaw that he grew worje bj this Method^
he began to ufe himfelf to the Air, And to. fry
Of Cold Baths.
lOJ
Cold tVater ; whether he was advifed to it or
mot J I cannot tell^ but he quickly apprehended
mme Relief. After jometime he got 4 retired
yVUce , where there was a good Sprii^ that
flood convenient for hinty which he fo con-
trived as to go what Depth he pleafed in the
Water. U quite altered the Hahit of his
Bodj^ and dilated his Fain to that degree^ that
often he would fay^ he was abfolutely cared.
And thofe returns of Pain that he had^ were
never very violent^ as I have heard-, itfeca-
red him from the Injuries of the Airy and
' change ofSeafons\ fitting up Uie never difor-
l ifcrcii him : And I have been told^ thdt he fet-
^dom or never took Cold ; it made his Stomach
^odf and Conjlitiition strong ; and the main
thing that he attributed all this to^ was the
W^if of the Cold Bath. He would laugh at
E tSofe People that thought this a rigorous and
\anfitppor table Method. He affirm^ d^ It was.
^ nothings a little afe would make it eafy and
familiar ; he never declined it in the Froji and
Snow : One cold Morning in the Chriftmas,
/ weS remember, 1 ftiw him tn it: He would
be very Copious in the Praifes ofit^ and fay
That nothing gave that Vigour to the Spirits,
and did fo fortify the Conpitution, though
'People would not be perfwaded to it.' -He
himfelfy I am fure, is the mofi convincing
Evidence of it, having ufed it, jor ought I
kmwy above thirty Tears mthfuch a va(i.SuC'
cefsy
104- Of Cold Baths. Parti.
«//, that msf give it the mofi ddvantageous
Charafferj ds one of the cheApefi and mofi ef-
eSttiti Remedies to conquer the mofi tough nad
ohfiinate Difiempers. I could have bees more
targe in thefe Particu/arSy but I thought it beji
to jet down rvhst you might certainl) defend
nfoa.
I am.
S I R,
Your moft humble Servant,
POSTSCRIPT.
S/ R H. C. yegin his Cufiom of Cold Both.
ifig bj Wajbtng his Feet in Cold Water in
Hot Weathefy and afterwards be ivafbed aU
over at aU Seajons ; he does not go to Bed after
Bathing ; he ufually flays in the Water m long
at he can conveniently hear it.
J. The third and greateft Dgree of Cold
Baths, is tliat of Springs, whofe Water
contains an Air much comprefled by the
coldnefsof its Terreftrial Receptacles or Ca-
verns. That Water which which is frozea
Of Cold Balks.
IOC
I
much colder, but not fo fit tor either
temalor Internal Ufc.
The Coid Baths of the Romsns were
iprings, into which they leapt, and not
covered as feme be here; both Horace and
SenecA mention fucli. 'Tis certain, that a
Spring covered by a Building is much cold-
er than the fame uncovered ; and therefore
not fo fafe; this is evident to them who
have tried both the one and the other at
WtUowhUge. AU Phyfica] Praftices which
have leart of Art, are ufually more agreea-
ble to Nature; for wliich reafon I prefer
the open Cold Baths at Holjwdl and Lhch-
felJy before the covered Springs: fortho*
in thefe there be lefs cotdnefs, yet there is
fufficient to produce any of the fame Ef-
fefts, if we ftay fo much the longer in thefe
Baths5 and then we incur no danger by
any exceflive coldnefs, neither are we over-
chiHed by the Damps arifing from a covered
Spring before we go into the Water.
Of late, Cold Bathing began to revive in
England^ as is well known ; and the Inge-
liousPhyficians, whofe Experiments have
given it a new Birth, and have ertablifhed
its Credit, deferve a great Honour from all'
of their Profeffion, as well as their Coun-
try. For they have born the Envy and ill-
natured Refleftions, which all Fraftices,
which appear new to the Vulgar, occafion.
All
1. To abfiilM from Flejb-meats^ sadfeed
much on Fruits, and to drwk Wdter rather
than aft any fermenttd Lifuon^ to eat boiled
Me*t.
2. Ta cool oar Bodies hy expofing them to
the Air^ dnd tvearing thin Clotths; to eaol-
oar hUhitUions hy Urger Windovs and Doors ;>
to svoidgoiag iato the Atr in the haitefi ttmes
of the Oaji, and to Walk onlj in the Morfiiiag
dtid Evening ■ and to tie cool at Night. To
ufi Coid Bsths in the Summer.
J. Our iS'atural Reafon tesches the Hot
Countries the Vfe of Hot Tea's to promote _
the Sxeeats thereby the Body if cooled^ and the
^hta yMfors raifed by excefffve hot Air are eva-
vjittd: And for the fame Reafon all the hot ,
JluttHries ufe temper ite i^'^arm Baths to pror
Wmte their Sireat, to cleanfe their Skin, tt»4:
Tmoifien their dry Bodies i
Cam Stomachus domini fervet potu^ue cibofj ■
I Frigidior Getieis petitur decocia pruims.
■ Juvenal. Satyr. 5*
The Luxury of the Hoc Climates con-
' fills in ufing aU the Methods mentioned to
I «a cxcefs ; they furfeit their Bodies by cat-
i isg immoderately of Fruits and Herbs,
I theycool their Fruits, Creams, and Wines
to an unhealchful Temper by Ice; they
\ fiop their Sweats unfeafonably by cold Air,
1 by
lo8 Of Cold Bath. ^tl
by Fanning, Ventidufts, or Cold Baths..]
For all thefe fnconveniences depending oo*J
Cold in an excefs, in the Hot CountriesJ
they ufe alfo Brandy-Spirits, Hot Tea's, I
High Sauces, with Gariick and Strong Pot- I
tages, whereby rhey correal the Iniuriesof I
Cold Dict,and by their Hot Baths they pro J
mote Perfpiration neceflary in Hot Coun-<l
tries. m
That the contrary Errors are committed ,
in Cold Countries will appear, by refleft*
ing on their ufnal Regimen, which inclines
them to the Ufe of hoc things in excefs.
In Cold Climates the Humours, -viz.
the Blood and Spirits, are naturally too
much condenfed and comprelTed by a hea-
vier Atmofphere, and greater Cold, and
the Serum is lefs evaporated. And in this
State of Humours, Nature teaches us to
ufe an attenuating hot Diet of Flefh-
meats, acrid Herbs, fermented Liquors,
flrong Beer, or Wines; we wear more 1
deaths, ufe greater Fires, eat Roaft- 1
meats, ufe more Exercife, clofer and lower 1
Habitations; and for our Difeafesufe Cold I
and Hot Baths. The great fear oftoO'l
muth coldnefs drives into an Excefs la
the life ot hot things, to an Excefs in
FItfh-meat;
Ftrmci
&r? foiitt*
too mu
.r1 U
lighS
jiiors.
■andy S _
too much Tab
Spiced and Sugared Mead
Coffee and Chocolate. 1
rtT. Of Cold Baths. 109
2. To confine our Pelves in our warm
Houfes too much, to ufe too many Cloaths,
to warm our Beds, to frequent hot Baths,
foft Beds, hot Periwigs, perfumed Snuff
All thefe Excelfes in tlie Hot Regimen,
are chiefly to be helped by a contrary Cold,
I lad which contains thefe Particulars:
I. We muft ufe a cooler Regimen of
moderate warm Diet, Flefh-meats roafted
once in a Day ; more moderate vinofe Li-
quors, Beer of three or four Strike at Meals,
and a thinner Diet at I'.reak-faft and Sup-
per, and all Liquors cold ; ihcy who ufe
Water for their ordinary Drink, have their
Humoars leaft rarified, and confequently
are Icaft fubjeft to the Changes of the Wea-
ther. For hot Blood like boiled Water, is
fooncft froze or chilled ; and after Exercife
we fooneft take Cold, I will on thisocca-
fion mention the Advantages of Water-
^^nking : The Water-drinkers are tempe-
Httte in their Afttons, Prudent and Ingeni-
■ Ms; they live fafe from thofe Difeafes which
affcft the Head ; fuch are Apoplexies, Pal-
fies, Pain, Blimlnefs, Deafnefs, Gout,Con-
vulfions. Trembling, Madnefs. The drink-
ing Cold Water cures the following Dif-
caies, the Hickup, Feetor of the Mouth,
and of the whole Body. It refifts Putre-
(aftioo, and cools burning Heats and
Thirfts; and after Dinner it helps I>tgefti-
I 3 on;
Of Cold Baths. Pan
itft
on; and if the Diftales be very great, two
or three Ounces of Water cooled with Icei'
is fometimes given by Phyficians.
If the Virtues of Cold Water be ferioufj
ly confidered, all Ferfons would value it as
a great Medicine in the Cafes mentioned,
and in preventing the Stone, Goui, AOhmajt
and Hyrterick-fitsi and to the Ufe of this,,
Children ought to be bred from their Cra^^
dies, becaufc all ftrong Liquors are injuri-
ous to the Conftitution of Children, whofe
Spirits it inBames, and renders them Mzdjn
Foolifh, Rafh, Tender, and Interaperali
in their PafTions.
2: The Ufe of Cold Air and Riding,
Walking much in it, cools the overheate^i
Blood and Spirits, and renders the Confti
tution more Hrong; we ought nor to warn
our Beds conllantly, nor wear too man/i
Cloaihs, which exhauii the Serum anc^l
Spirits; fliaving the Head, and wafhing
it with Water, prevents Defiuxions. Th<
old Writers preftribed an Excrcile nakedj
Tlie wearing of Flannels renders the Perron
very tender, and fubjccl to the Changes q(
Weather, and too much Perfpiration, and
this Cuftom can never be changed wiihoiu;
fome great danger, Sitting conrtantly by.
jheFire, much imoaking Tabaco, conftani
ufe of hot Liquors, and hot Baths, mafci
Chc^qdy lubjcd to greater tendernef^, aad
con*.
Part
Vf Cold Baths.
coniequently to tlic Changes of Weather in
Cold Countries. Down-beds are aifo very
injurious.
- 2. Cold Baths are the chief means and
Lainoll etfcdual in the Cold Reginr.en; no-i
^hjiing preferves the Body fo well from the
^■pjuries of Weariier as Cold Batliing,
^Kphich makes the Skin moredenfe and con-
Hpa£ied, and confequently more infenfible
of the Changes of the Air, its cold
and moifture; and we account that Skin
^.the belter which is infenfible and hard,
;an the lax and tliin, which lofes all
i Nutriment and Spirits by too much Per-
biration. I have known many endure
ipell the Cold of the Winter after the ufe
f Cold Baths, who always found their Bo-
Kes more tender after the life of Hot Baths
] the Winter fo!lowini»; and die truth of
_^his will appear by the Cures I fhall relate
"of two tender Perfons ; but I will firft give
thefe Remarks.
1. That as Hot Biths cure the Injuries
»Bf a Cold Regimen in Hot Countries, fo
iCold Baths Cure the difeafed Alterations
by a Hot Regimen in Cold Countries.
2.Theufefulncfsof Cold Baths was found
out in the Northern Countries, who gene-
rally fortify themfelves againlt Cold Air by
the Immerfion of their Bodies into Cold
■Water ; and to prevent the Mortifications
- I 5 of
of their Limbs, they rub the frozen Parts
with Snow.
J. That Cold Baths and the Baptifmal
Ablution, are more improper for Hot Coun-
tries than the Cold, becaufe in Hot Coun-
tries the Perfpirarion is very great, and ne-
ceffary to prevent Fevers ; but iti Cold
Countries it is much iefs natural, and the
ambient Cold Air difpofes us not to Fevers
fo frequently, and Cold Water will pro-
duce greater horroi*s upon thofc Bodies
which live in hot Airs, ihan thofe who are
ufed to Cold Air. Which Obfervatioa
fully refutes the common Opinion, that
Cold Baths are only proper lor Hot Coun-
tries, /E,qjpt, Greece^ i'^^hi where the old
Writers tell us it was commonly pra&ifcd;
but we muft remember that Hi^foersies
knew Sycthia as well as Lybj.7^ and ihat he
migiit have the knowledge of Cold Baihs
from the Northvrn^ as well as the Ureof
the Hot Batlis from tlie Southern CUmates.
And what he has writ of Baths, is as what
iie fays of his Prognofticks, true, both in
Seythit and /Etiiwpia. And that he knew
SejthtA^ is evident by that Defcription b«
gives of the Difcafes of the Scythians], and
of the Climate and Peopleofthat Coimtry*
Since \ve find that Cold Bariis are not fo
couveaientiorthe Hot Ciimares, wc muft
not fo much /land upon ttioie nice Quiti-*
Part;. Of CM Bath.
'?
ons which the Greek Writers have given
about chem, fuch as we find in Gdlen. 'Ti».i
certain the Romans ufed Cold Baths wiih> [
Icfs fear, as we may obferve in Pli»y and'
Celfas; and I quertion not, but the fartht^
Northward we examine the \3k of Cold I
Baths, we fhall find them more frequent, . (
and the moft common Pra£lice for harden- \
ing their Skin againll the exceffive Cold of ]
their Air. The Northern People ufe alfb
Hot Baths, but chiefly to cure theDifeafes ]
produced by extrcam Cold.
If it be objected, That Cold Baths by
Itopping the Pores, will retain all the Hot 'i
I Vapours produced by an cxceffive Hot Re-
gimen, but Hot Baths will more readiljr
difcufs them, I may anfwer, That Cold
Baths win produce great Sweats, whereby
thofe Vapours aredilcuiTed, and afterwards
it comprelfes the rarified Humours, and >
Goncracis the relaxed Membianes, whereby
the rarified Humours are rellored to theiii
natural Confidence, and the Fibres to the
proper Tone. Where any difcafcd Hu-
Hiours are m any part ftopt in their Circu^ ,
btion, or mixed with the Blood, it feenlj
«be moft rational Method to Sweat at th0i
firft ufe of Cold Saths ; but where tlrere is
no Evacuation of Humours neceffary.
Sweating is not proper after Cold Bathing,
but only grack Exercife or Fridion.
I 4 4.
4* Thelaft Remark I fhall make, is this,
;That Hnce the Inconveniences of an excef-
five Hot Regimen in a Cold Climate, are
produced by a very hot Diet, Strong Wines,
-Hi§h Sauces, Tabaco, Brandy, &c. and
alfo by ufing our felvcs over tenderly in
Cloths, warm Beds, hot Rooms, &£. We
'.inuft remove the External Cauiiis of our
■,Tendernefs, and ufe a cool temperate Diet,
,COol Liquors, cold Air about us, as well as
..Cold Bdths : for no perfeQ: Cure can be ex-
pelled irom Cold Baths, unlefs we avoid
■ihe Occafions of our Difeafes; for if we
-Continue any Excefs in our Hot Regimen,
that will again renew thofe Difeafes the
Cold Bath has cured. And 1 generally
make this Obfervation, that where Cold
Bathings are neceflary lor the Cure of a
Difeafe, there drinking of Water is alfo ne-
ceflary to prevent a Relapfe into the fame.
2. I will now f^ivefome Inftances of the
great Cures done by Coid Baths in Englaad,
Mrs. B^tes oi Jjhhj h la Xsuch in Letcef'
ierfbire^ beiiiE; above Fifty Years old,
ivas eftcemed by al! her Neighbours Con«
fumptive, becaufe file coughed much, and
Ijad Rheumatick -pains near Twenty
Xearsi the Pains made her Lame with a
Sciatica, and Ihe had a Numbncfs and
Weaknefs in her Knee, fo that (Tie had htde
yf^ofher Legs, but f^te conilautjy neac
Pa rti. Of Cold Baths. 115 '
the Fire, covered with many Cloaths, and
was fo tender, that (he durft not go into
the Air abroad ; ftie complained of a Pain
in her Back, which fhe beheved to be the
Stone; and fhe had much Pain in her
Breaft, which ftie thout^ht Cancerous.
In the Year 1699. in the Summer fhe
went to IVi/loivhrid^e Cold Bath in Stsfj'oriU
^irty which isaverycoid Water, and feels
fmooth and oily, where fhe bathed conftjatu
ly once in a Day, and drank many GlalTeP |
of that Water every Day, and the continU'i
cd this Method for a Month. When fho i
was in the Water up to the Neclt, the fonet |
, Breaft pained her very much the firft cimtj ,
I (he went into the Water, but never after* 1
L wards ; and upon the fecond time of goin^ f
I into the Bath, the Pain in tiie Hip fell inta* I
[ the Foot, and by the continuance of thd I
Bathing it was perfcOly cured, and never* |
\ returned fince ; fo that (he now goes wett
I eats well, wears fewer Cloaths, and iscu'
I red of the Stone in her Kidneys, and tb
I Swellingof her Breaft, which was I believtfj
I a Milk Tumour, tho' it had continued \tk J
her Breaft many Years : She yet continue* |
the drinking of Water ever fince. I had!
this Account from her felf; andthisgreaO j
Cure has occafion'd the going of many td I
Willowbridgt Q^l ol LetcejiErjbtre-, and thbi I
whole Country can atteft the Truth of thi» \
Kela-
Relation. In the fame Country I met with
a Cure as confiderable as the former, done
by the Cold Bath at Londaa; and in 99. In
5tf»e 1700. I waited on Mrs. ti'atj of Lei-
eefitr who very kindly entertained me with
the Relation of her Diforders, and the man-
ner of her recovery, which I Ihall briefly
defcribe thus :
She was troubled with continual Vomit-
ings, and an Hyfterick Chohck, with wan-
dering Pains in herLimbsand Head, with
Convulfive Motions, and Violent Hyfte-
rick Fits, with much WindinefMn tire Sto-
mach and Belly, with continual Sweatings,
lofsof Appetite, and an exceffive Tender-
ncfs, and a confumptive State of Body.
Dr. Hirtop of the fame Town, thus de-
fcribesherlndifpofition in his Letter tome:
Her Indifpofition was a perpetual Chilnefs
of Spirits, with Pains all over; efpecially
iOthc Teeth, from theleaft inclemency of
Air, accompanied with Vapours, Faintnefs,
&c. fhe tried all the ufiial Methods in vaio,
&ch as Steel, the Cortex, Vomiting, Opi-
ates; and at laft file went to Bawe, and
continued there fome time drinking the
Waters, and Bathing; but at laft finding
no benefit byany thing, fhe wasadvifcd by
Dr. Bsysard co ufe the Cold Bath in London*
about Michitlmas <)<)y (he bathed there two
and twenty times, within the fpace of a
'!: )1 Month,
Month, flie dipt herfclf undev Water fijt
or feveii times every Morning, without
ilayiog in the Water any longer than the
time of Immerfion, and fliecame warm
from her Bed to the Water ; by this Ba-
thing the Skin contracted , and {he was
never very tender (ince, nor fubjcft to
Colds as before ; her Appetite and Strength
returned, and Ihe became more Plump
than before; all the Sweatings, Windineft,
Pains, and Convulfions ceafcd. And Dr.
Hittof alfured me, That fhe was well re- ,
covered to the Admiration of the Country, I
to whom both her long IndifpoHtiun and j
wonderful Cure were well known ; and
from many Hands I have had a fufficient
Teftimony of the fame.
The (ame Ingenious Fhyfician, Dr. Wifr-
to^^ gave me another Relation of a Patient-^
of his, Mrs. 6«//A of We^on^ who con-i
ftantly ufed to fit by the Fire, and fhftl
doathed her felf very warm; (he ha&l
much Tooth ach and Rheumatick pain^j
and frequent Sweatir)gs ; fhe was much \
worfe by the ufc of the Hot Baths; h* ]
therefore advis'd hei- to Cold Bathing,
which (he began by Bathing her Feet firft,
and Chen the reft of her Body ; and when
fhe came forth of the Water, fhe walked
about in her Cioaths, 'till fhe was warm.
This Method (be continued for a Month's
I
tiine, and was perfcdly recovered of her
Tendernefs.
1. By the firf} Cafe wc may obfervc,
That [he Sciatica or Rlicmatick-pains
were relieved by Cold Baths; therefore
Cold Baths are proper in fi^y, vifcid Blood,
which commonly appears of that kind in
our Country People ; and no Diforder more
common .in England^ than Rheumatifms
and Inflammations, which areoccafioned
by lizy Blood,
2. In the fame Cafe we may obferve.
That the Inflammation of the K.idncys was
CQrrefted by tlie Cold Bathing, which cools
the Reins, and produces much Water; and
hereby 'tis proved, that in Sale Cacocliy-
mia's, Cold Bathing is ufefuU which pafles
the fait Serum by Urine and Sweat.
J. By the firlV Cure we may obferve,
That the indurated Glands muy be refol-
ved by Cold Bichs;, bv whicli it may rati-
onaiiy be inferred, That the Secretion
through tlie Glands is promoted fay Cold
Bulls. And what particular Virtue Cold
Biths will have in the King's Evil and
Scrofulous Glands,whethcr conglobulate,or
conglomerate, or in thofe of the Mefentery,
a farther Experience in Cold Bathing will
fiiew. i have been credibly informed ac
iViibisbrUge^ that a Scirrhous Tumor upoii
the Hypocondria, was cured by ilw Cold
Bathing in that Water.
4. The great Tenderncfs ofall the three
Women above «ientioned, was cured byi
the Cold Baths, and their Appetite and
Strength rertored, and the Menfes in one
were helped; by which we may obiervc,
how much Cold Baths help the Circulation
of our Humours. And that 1 may farther
confirm this Notion, I will mention the
following Cure of a Varix witli an Ulcer,
at ^^iltowbrid^e^ which i had from Mr.
He£ior^ an Eminent Chirurgeon in our
Town. The varicous Ulcer was in the
Leg, and bled much ; but both the Ha-
morrhage and Ulcer was cured by the long
ufe of M^///oiv^«W^f Bath, though it would
not yield to any ordinary Methods, The
Blood is congealed and grumous in all Va-
rices, and the Blood- VefTcls relaxed ; but
by Cold Bathing the Blood was refVored
to its Fluidity, and the VclTels to their due
Tone, and the Ulcer cu red by Cold Water ;-
which I thought to be a veryconfiderablc
Cure, and may give us a very fair Hint of
trying Cold Baths in the Polypous Concre-
tions of Blood, both in the Blood Velfels
of the Lungs, and the Obftruftions of the
Hypocondriain Splcnetick Perrons, and in
Dropfical Patients, who complain of great
Fains in the Belly and Sides.
5- In
1 10 Of Cold Bath. Part™
5. In the fecond Cafe we have a Cure
of the greateH: Hylterick Cafe that cowld
happen; the Vomitings, Running Pain,
the Fits of the Mother, *nd Convulfiom,
depended on a windy or fermenting Blood
and Spirits. The Conllitution of this La-
dy is very hot, her Spirits lively, her Sta-
ture low, and Body thin, and her Hair
black; alt which arc Sign of hot Hunsoors.
And by this Cafe we may obferve, the
Cure of all hot Windinefs, which oecafi-
ons Running-pains and Convulfions, isef-
feftually performed by Cold Baths; but
I muft not omit that file has eat many hun-
dreds of Lemons fince, fpittiiig out the
Pulp, or elfe (he fqueezes them into Water ;
and fhe ufes Wine and Water for hefcon-
ftant Drink ; fhe found great benefit by the
vie of Cre»nt of Tartar, iifsor ?). in Water-
Gruel for the Hyfterick Vomiting. I men-
tion thefe Particulars to fhew, That it h
rcquificetoufe fomc cool Alteratives for the
windy Cacochymia inwardly at the fame
time, and after the \J(c of Cold Baths.
I fent this Year an Hypochondriacal Pa-
tient to a Cold Bath, who complained
much of Convulfive Beatings all over his
Body; and he informed me, that he found
great benefit by it as to that Symptom,
which. depended on a windy ftateof SjmtIe*.
I have
I have difcourfcd wicli an Af^hmacick
Perfon,wiiohashad an habitual AiUimafor
many Tears, and ftic informed mc, I'hat
ftic went into St. M'imfred'^ Well at Haiy^
mS^ but once, and tliat her AltmatickDry
Cough went off for fome time, but at laii
returned again. I mention this tierc, be-
caufeA^hma's depend on windy InHations,
■nd are of hl(c Nature as the former Cafes,
And I find chat Cdlias Aurelitnus com-
mends the Pfuchrolufia in that Difeafe:
wafbing ilie Head is certainly ufcful againft
! it.
6. I obfervc, that continual Sweats id
the third Cafe were Itopi by the Cold
Baths, fo tliat by them we both produce or
Aop Sweats. Immediately after Cold finths
the Sweats arc pi-oduccd, if we commit the
Patient to a warm Bed ; but a looger Ufc
of Cold Baths rtop all Evacuations. I find
the old Phyficians prefcribed Cold Baths to
flop the Coaorrhaa [implex \ the coldncfsot"
the Water contrafls and ftrengthens all the
Membranous Veflcls, as well as cools the
hot Humours. And Dr. Btyfttrd gave me
an Account of a Perfon cured of a Rupture
by the Cold Bath at London^ which muft
be cfFefted by the contrafting of the relaxed
Peritonaam-y and by this Cure we may be
dire£led co try the Virtue of Cold Baths in
the
Of Cold Baths. Pai
H 133
B the Procidentia Vteri & Jni, and in the
V Tumours of the Hsmorrhoids.
I 7- In the firft Cafe I obferve, That the
^k Numbnefs, Weaknefs, and StifFnefs of the
^K Limbs was cured by Cold Bathing; hj
^P which we may apprehend that Cold Baths
^F rellore the Animal Spirits and the Blood,
^' to their ufuaj Motion in Paralytick Obftru-
I ilions, and flrengthen the Tone of the
■ Nerves. And as a farther Proof hereof, I
I will again mention a Letter of Dr. Bdj-
f »,ir^'stome, inwhich heaflures me, That
a Deafnefs was cured by the Cold Bath at
LoKdoa. I have not yet heard, whether
Coid Baths have been tried in the Guttt
Serena, which feems as likely as the curing
of a Deafnefs, and a lofs of Speech, which
was done by the lame Dofter in a young
Boy at Bdthf as Dr. Gold his Father inform-
ed me. But I fhall fully prove the EffeSs
of Cold Baths in Paralytick Refolutions,
by the following Letters, which I received
from a Reverend and Ingenious Divine,
Xir. Nith.Ellijbny in Arrfwer to fome In-
quiries I fent him, about the cure of the
Rickets in his Children by St. Muneo\
Well.
Honoured
Nemajile, jf4«. 25th, 170!.
Honoured Sir,
Would have retarded a fpeedier Aafwef to
jour Letter^ but I xvai in hjftsour Pfjfp-
miis here vfouU have drawrt up their Thoughts
Ik Jn/rvtr to your hquiries^ ahut the Vfe And
vtcefs of Cold liiths Among m. But they
Uittg detained hji Hufinefs, you mujlhecoatrnf-
'^ at prefent with my ReUtioti f>j the Matt er^
tiieh it what I know to be commonly praclifed^
md the Suceefs of rvhich 1 bdve experienced in
Ikjown Family.
Nothing is more common in this Coantrjf
and proves more generally faccffsful for the
previnting or curing of Rickets^ than to fend
Children of a Tear old und upivards, to Ht.
BedcV, Honwick, or Sr. Mango's tVells^
(which art exiream Cold Springs) and in the
Months of June and July, to dtp them in the
Evening for a fortnight or longer^ intermit-
ting a Day or tivo, or more in the rvboU^ if
the Child be very iVeak.
Some Dip them twice or thrice over Head
and Ears rviih their Shifts and Night-Caps on,
giving them a little time to Breath betmen each
Immerfwfi. Others Dip them nt> farther than
the Neck, (becauft the Water is apt to flop
their Breath) and Dip their Night-Caps tbo-
Ttii^hly. aaiput them Wet upon their Heads.
K Othtrs
p^w
'134. Of Cold Baths.
Others (where the JVeHis not Capacious enough)
content themfelves to put the Children into a
Tub of Water, galhtred from the Springs
and Dafh the Water upon tliem over Head
aod Ears, -i^ll which Immerfioas are to be dif-
pateh^d as quickly at msj be^ that ja the (^hij^d
may not continue any longer in the ^^ater than
is necejfary, that is^ ^ti/l his Body, and Shifty
and Night-Cap he thoroughly Wet. Others
out of i endernejs to the thlldy or in Re^ar4
to the Chtld^s Wtaknefs^ content ihemjel'ves,
with Dipping only the Shirt and Night-Cap
in Water, a^d_ ftdt them on Wet upon him.
Js foon AS the Children are dipped, they irith
their wet Cloalhs on are wrapt up in marm Blan-
kets over their Head and nhole Body, and pug-
immediately to lied^ which injlantly puts ihet
into a violent fiweat. In this Coodttioa th
lie aS Nighty ''till towards Morning theCtqttt
0re taken ofj' by degrees, that jo fheytnai co
gradually^ and in the Mor/iif'g they have J^
Shirts andHead-Cloiiths put on \ the fame Shff^
and Night Cap in ivhtch thq are dipp*d^ at
us'd a/I the time of their Dippings and are o)^
drfd.
The Children in three Minutes time reeovt^
themfehes of the Fright which Dipping pAt»
them into ; and tho'' for the prefent they mig^ \
be weaker, (having exhaufied their Spirits q| I
violent Sweats) yet ihey recover their Stre^gfbA
gtudatim by the help of fireitgthnin^ Gettiei. «f\
'Of Cold Baths.
135
Hirtshorn, Calves-Feet, Sfc. infomuch^ that
ahut the Fa/I of theLeaf thej are either perfeU'
Ij recovered^or fenfibly httter. Ij'oue 1'edrs dip-
fittg proves not Juccefsful^ "'tis repeated the
next Tear, which generally aafvers Expecfatton.
There^s no dijceraahle Aittration^ either t»
their Vriffe, Stool, or Colour of their itkiitj
nor a/3j preparative or fubfe^uent Fargalives
ufedf nor any other Cordials given, except *
fpoonful of Sack immediately before and after
hippiag, if Children will take it ; tior are they
debsrr'Q their ufaal Diet or Play : Only
care muji be taken to keep their Necks warm to
fecure them from catching Cold.
Sir, Jf you rvill try the fame Experiment
with you, I doubt not but you rvill fifid the like
good Efecf, if j-)u h.vue Springs fo Cold by
Nature as fome of ours are^ or can make them
fo by Art. I can affure you. That I have had
Four Children of my own dipped with very good
Succefs. J never heard that an) Children who
had only the Rickets, dy^d of Dipping, and
few or none but found great benefit by it.
This Account is not Exjt£i enough to appear in
Print, without your very fevere Correilions. If
you mil pat it into a more agreeable Drefs, I will
Jlffver for the Truth of the Relation ; rvho am,.
S I R,
Your very AfFeftionate Friend,
and Humble Servant,
K 2 N. Ellffon,
ia6 Of Cold Baths. Parti.
Newcafile^ Febr. ^ 170?,
Honoured Sir,
Since my U(l^ I received this folhmng Jc-
count of St. Mongah'i and Honwick
Wellsy from Dr. Th. Davifon, Utelj Fellow
of St. John^s College y Cambridge, tvho is late-
ly come to Rejide among /^.
I ft, The People that re fort to thefetwo Pla-
ces come to he curd of fx*d Pains ^ whether in
the "Joints or MufcleSy whether with or with-
out Tumour ; and for jack as come upon long
Rheumatifms and Qjtar tans ^ as well as Strains
andBruifes^ the RicketSj and all Weaknefs of
the Nerves^ whether Vniverfal^ orof anjpar*
ticular Member.
idly, They are immerfed at all Ages^ viz.
from Six Months old to Fight j Tears. Chil-
dren are twice or thrice dipped in^ and pre/ent-
ly taken out again ; and while they are in^ the
officious Women at the Well are active in rubbing
their Backs ^ or the maimed Parts ; but thts
feems only for Form. Adult People flay in a
quarter y or near half an Hour.
jdly, They ufe no preparative Phyfick^ nor
obferve any Diet before nor afterwards^ but a
Draught of warm Ale or Sack to comfort them
after they come out.
4thly,
Parti. Of Cold Bat bs. 127
4thly, The di/femper^J People go to Bed af^
terwardsy €nd Sweat for two Hoars or more.
Hut the Healthful that go inforVleafure^ put
on thtirCloathsy and go to their Bufinefs or
Diverfton.
5thly, The Healthful immediately after
coming out find a great warmth all over^ and
would probably Sweat as much as the Sick if
they went to Bed upon it. They find them-
felves after Bathing much more nimble^ and
their Joints more pliant.
6thly, The People ufe thefe two WeUs pro^
mijcuoujly for the Dijlempers above-mentioned^
gndwith equal Succefs\ tho^ Honwick // a
Mineral^ and the other is noty which makes me
believiy t hat * t is to the fame Caufe^ viz. their
Coldne/Sy and not any othn Qjf^^tty^ that th^
Cures are $wing.
7thly, St. MongahV has no manner of
Sign of a Mineral ; whereas Honwick tinges
the Sides of the V\^ell^ and being drank ^ Purges
gently by Stooly but more by Vrine^ and is of
the fame Nature with Aftrop. The Well is
fa little^ that they are forc'^d to take it up in
Pitchers^ '^till they fill a Vcffel large enough to
Bdth in.
Sthly, They Bath every Day^ or twice a
Day^ for a Fortnight or Month^ 4$ their
jtrength will bear^ and as their Dijlemper re*
quires more or lefs Bathing.
K } Sir,
riF"" Of Cdd Bdths. Part 1-
Sir, If in any thing elfe I cm [etiie you^
jou tnaj Lommdnd
Honoured Sir,
Your moft humble Servant,
AT. Ellifon,
The Remarks I (hall make on thefe two
Letters ; are,
, !• That all Obftruft ions in the Nerves
may be cul-ed by the Cold Baths ; thereforfe
not only the Rickets, but all other SbetiiSs
oF the Palfy may be cUred by the wrtt ;
Deafnefs, Blindnefs, lofs of Tafte, Srhfell,
lofsof Appetite, weaknefs in Swallowing,
Venu^ Languiddy Incontinence of Uriiie and
Stool, Hemi[)legias, and Dittortion df the
Mouth by a Palfy, and any particular Weak-
nefs in the Motion of any Mufcle, as well
as lofs of Speech.
2. The Northern Praflbice direfts ns to
Sweat after Cold Bathing in all Obftruai:-
ons of the Nerves, by which the fizy Sc-
rum, which obftrufts the Nerve^, fe eva*
cuated, and the Motion of the Spirits is
promoted by firft coni^reffing them, itA
giving them an Irritation, when they exci^
(h^ir natural Elafticity.
3, Tha(
Of CM Baths.
\la
3. That if we can cure theObftriiaions
m the Nerves by Cold Baths, Obrtruftions
in the Blood VefTels are much cafier to be
relieved, viz. Pains, Tumours, Inflamma-
tions, Coagulations of IMood after Bruifes,
and thefe depend ing on 11 zy Serum in great-
er quantity, require alfo more Sweating af-
ter Cold Bathing.
4, Cold Baths agree with Children, be-
1 caufe they are naturally very hot, and fub-
jeft to Fevers, Pains, Scabs, Swellings,
Eonvulfions, for which alfo Cold Baths are .1
«feful.
J. I will laftly confider in what Difeafes
»e may raoft conveniently ufc Cold Baths,
^nd for which they arc improper ; and fub-
')in fome Remarks, both on the proper
leafon for them, and feme Cautions in the
^feof them. As Hot Bathsagreebeftwlth
he Cold Conftitutions, and Cacochymlas,
'S Cold Baths are moft proper for all the
i.ot Tempers \ for young Perfons above
Twenty five, for People of a lively Spirit.
1. Cold Baths agree with the biliousTem^
ers, and Difeafes which depend on the
Mood or Animal Spirits over ratified in t!ib
hot Scurvy.
2. With the windy Conftitutions, as ap-
pears by the benefit the Hypochondria-
cal and Hyfterick receive by them, as well
as the Afthmttick and all Nervous Pains.
K 4 5. With
Of Cold Baths.
J, With the Salt Tempers and Difcafes
depending on Saltnefs of Blood, as is prov-
ed by ihe Defeafes of the Kidneys, and the
Gout , in which Cold Baths have great Ef-
fe£ts, in curing the Pains both of the Stone
and Gout.
4. The vifcid Temper of Humours re-
quires alfo Cold Baths, as Is evident in cu-
ring the Rheomatick-pains.
, 5. The putrid State of Humours require
alfo Cold Bathing. I onLClenta Woman
to iViHorv bridge, who had great benefit by
it for her Leprous Scurfs by Bathing fome
Weeks there, and by drinking the Water.
2. Gden cured Hefticks, Ephemera's,
by Cold Baths; and he prefcribes them in
putrid Fevers, without any Inflammation
of the f'tfcera^ in the height of the Fever,
after the appearance of Concoftion in the
Urine in young People, and in the Sum-
mer-time; and the like good Succefs hap-
pened to a Woman in a Fever at AUermasy
who by leaping into a Well, was imme-
diately relieved, and had both her Fever
and Delirium cured by it, Gd€» obferves,
That the feverifh by going into Cold Wa-
ter, either Purge or Sweat, by which a
Crifis is made, as well as by drinking Wa-
ter at the fame time of the Fever.
The Hydrophobia requires Cold Baths,
and that has been pradifed in all Ages foi'
Parti. Of Coli Baths i :; I
it, Americui Vtffutius relates the manner
of the Americans in curinii; their Fevers.
When it is come to the height, they Im-
merfe themfelves into Cold Water, and af-
ter run about a hoe Fire cill they Sweat and
Sleep,
J, OriUJias lived long after Gale/i^ and
no Fhyfician ever prefcibed' Cold Baths
with fo much affurance as he at all Sealbns.
He commends them (by a Quotation out
of Hirodottis^ De aquis fpoate nafcentibut )
for Defluxions, for Diftempeis of the Blad-
der, for Fains of the Head, and malignant
Ulcers; and for thefe Difeafes the Patient
is advifed to ftay in the Water but a little
t at firft, "viz. half an Hour, and fo in-
[ creafe to two Hours, if the Pains require
it; but we rauft be more cautious, and ftay
i in the Cold Bath but little at firft, and no
[ longer than we can well bear it at any time,
|, 5, 7, or 9 Minutes.
Orihsfifft quotes what Galen has writ,
I concerning the Prefervation of Health by
' Cold Baths; and many otiier curious Ob-
t fervations out of Jgaihinus, concerning
Cold Baths, which deferve to be known
by all ; and for that end ! have tranflaced
Agat&i/tus\ Words, They who deftre to pafs
the (bar t time of Life in good heah/j, ought of'.
tea to afe Cold Bathing ; for I can fcatee ex-
freft in iVi^ds horp much henefit may be had by
Cold Bmhs 5 for they who afe rhem, although
almoji ffcttt with Old A-i^f^ hive a flroHg and
e^mfxU t'lf/b, And a florid Colour in their
Fttci'y Jtftd thrj are ven JSfive and Siro/ig^
dsdifjeir/lppiftiees and D{^t.'(lions are vigoroas,
and their Senfes are per feci and exatt ; and
in one iVord^ they have all their natural j£fi-
(iBj ipell perfomted. By tliefc particulars wc
difcern how milch the Cold Baths pre-
ierves our Hcaldw, and by the contrary
ElVefls how mucli Hot Baths prejudice
Gor Bodies, by making the Flefli Iodic and
flaccid, the Colour il], the Nerves weak>
and they deftroy the Appetite.
/I^athinas mentions the Cultont among
the barbarous Natinns (by which he means
the Northern Nations, the Gvrmans, Eng-
li(b^ and Scythians) that it was their Cuf-
tom to put tlieir Children every Day into
Cold Water ; whilft others boiled them in
Hot Baths, by which they became fubjtft
to Convuinon-i; (by this Obfervation we
arc iriftruflod how to prevent Convulfions
by Immcrfiuf^ them in Cold Water at theip
Baptifnijiind every Day by wafliingthcmall
over till tlicy are three Qilarcrrs ofa Vfear
did) Tie advifcs Cold Baths to all Boys after
their Infancy, though Galen Ufed it not till
^\z ajth Year.
. Gw/fwadvifcs the beginning of Cold Bath-
ing by lUcm who are not ufed to it, to be
in Hot Weather; but Aii^xthirtus fays, It
may be begun at any time of the Year
without any Danger, as he hasobferved
many to do; and if any difference be made,
he would prefer the Spring. The ufual
Caution he gives, as well as GiUn and
Herodmui^ is to ufc Cold Baths when the
Stomach is empty, and to warm our felves
with moderate Exercife before nur going
into the Cold Water. The befttime for
going into the Cold Water, he fays, is
about Dinner-time, neither fooner or later.
He advifes to put off the Cloaths in the
Sun, where no Winds blow ; and if a Ri-
gour feize him, to Cloath again and walk,
or elfe to ufe Friftion with his own Hands,
tb anoint moderately with Oyl , by which
if the Body be warmed, it is fuflicienily
prq>ared for a Cold ISath, into which he
muft <Jefcend fuddenly.
He advifes. That the Cold Water fliould
neither be froze, nor of a Coldnefs too rc-
mifs, for this does more Injury than the
other; and he prefers the ufc of Sea-Water
fot the firft Cold Baths, which has cold-
iiefs chough, and fome warmth from the
Baltnefs. He advifes to go in at tht
famfe time thrice, at firfl: with a little rub-
Wng, after to rub much and anomt, and
goinagain,and to continue their Swimming
longer than at the firit time, and then to
Of Cold Bath.
'34
return tothe Friflion and Anointing, aod
after to go in a third time, and if he ftays
but a i^nall time, to place the Head and
Stomach under the Aquodufts, orelfcto
luve many Veffels full of Water poured on
him, (and this ib the >i^VAiffji/.©. or ^.•)(utn<;i
to which Hippocrates attributes the lame
Virtue as we find In Cold Baths) and after
all moderately to be rubbed with Oy! ,
not to relax too much ; after to rub the Bo-
dy with a Strigil, till it is moderately red,
by which the Body is ftrengthened and
made fmooth. He obfcrves. That though
we have eat, we may ufe it upon the ac-
count of extream Heatsaiul Burning; and
that he himfelt'in extream Heats, did ufe
Cold Baths alter Supper to procure Sleep,
by which he procured a pteafant Night's
Refl. He advifes us to llop the Ears,
whicii Parts (u^cv Injury by Cold Baths,
which j^gathtKits wonders at, fince Cold
Baths are more ufeful than any other Regi-
men for prefcrvation of our Healtli.
I have here mentioned moft of the Cau-
tions prefaibcd by the Ancients, the reft
1 will quote from G.i/e», who prepared the
Patient for Cold Baths, by putting them
into the Hotfirft; on the North Hde of their
Baths the Romans had tlieir Fifcina^ which
were called by the Greeh^ jyAu/^CnTg^,
and fometimev ^aTTsT^j^ia, and thcfe rec^i-
^i ved
ved Cold Water from fome Spring, and irt
thefe they did Swim after tlicir Hxercife.
Gileu thought Cold Baths injurious to Old
Men, and Children; thin Habits in the
Winter, and to thofe who were not accuf-
tomed to them, and after eating; but Ex-
perience fhews thefc Cautions needlefs.
Old Men have experienced them when
above Sixty. Springs being warmer in
Winter than Summer, they may be ufed
then, as in Sir //. C's Cafe. We have tried
them in Children fufficiently in curing their
Rickets, and in thin Hyfterick Women,
and Hypochondriacal Men, and they have
affured me, that they become more flelhy
thereby. An Old Man at Jjbhj/ de U Z^ach^
of Seventy Years old, who had a Pain in
his Back, and Lamenefs, ufed H^ti/ctvhrxdge
Bath, by which he was cured the firfl Year,
and when the fame Infirmity returned, he
ufed the fame a fecond Year, and was won-
derfully relieved by it.
The old Fridion may be ufeful, if the
Body be very cold, both before and after
Bathing; and to prevent any Inconvenien-
ces, the Patient ought at firll' only to dip
two or three times, and not to ftay in the
Cold Water. If we prefcrifae Sweating af-
ter the firft Bathing, wc iliali thereby dif-
cuis all the Hot Vapours produced by thofe
, Hot Cacochymias, .which require Cold
|7'''»in;j Baths^
Baths, and have thereby the lame advanta-
ges as thay who ufe Hot Baths before the
Cold. As CO the Unftion ufed by the An-
cients, that may relax the Skin dried and
fhriveled by Cold Air and Cold Water, as
well as by Hot Air in Hot Countries, and
Hoc Water. This was the Praftice of the
Old Britnins, to Paint themfelves when
they went naked. And Hippocrates advi-
fes us to anoint towards Autumn and Win-
ter, to defend our Bodies from the Cold.
But in this prefcnt Age the Northern People
only ifi|) themfelves in Water, to harden
their Skins, and to ftrengthen the whole
Body without any Friflion or Anointing,
but they ufe Exercife afterwards to warm
chem.
They who have a weak Heat, and are
much decay'd, muft not venture on Cold
Baths; Nor they who are intemperate, and
have eat or drank extraordinarily, becaufe
the Diftribution and Confumption of an
abundant Chyle being ftopt, it muft occa-
iion Fevers or Defluxions.
If the Spirits be funk by Locfenefs, Vo-
micing, Venery, Watching, or any other
Evacuation, we cannot well bear tlie Cold
Baths; our Spirits being weak, will be
overcome by its Chilnefs.
In the Fits of the Gout, Epilepfy, and
in Inflammadons of the Lungs, in the be-
ginning
Parti. OfCddBiUhs. 1^7
ginning of putrid Fevers, Iliac Paflions,
aod in the Gripes, aod during any Defluxi-
on, Cold Baths are improper, for ihey
binderExpe£lorarion, repel Pains, promorc
the prefent Defluxlons and Fluxes, and
Pains; but when thefc Acute Difeafes, or
Chronicali'aiiis and Defluxions are ended,
'tis certain that Gout- pains are prevented by
Cold Baths, and ufing to wafh tlie Feet.
Aagufius was cured of his Defluxions, as
Suetonius lehitSt by Cold Baths, and Cold
t' Baths as well as Water- drinking, prevent
all Inflammations, Pains, and Effepvefcen-
pies of Humours, on which Dcfluxion$
depend.
jEtias commends Cold Baths for Laffi-
tudes in ill Habits of Body ufed at certain
intervals. And he advifcs them, who arc
burnt by the extream Jleat of the Sun, to
ufe a Perfulion of Cold Water all over.
4. Moft Evacuations depend on Hftervef-
cencies, and Defluxions of Humours: too
much Evacuation by Sweats or Pcrfpiratlon
in tlie limimtA aninay are cured by Cold
Baths, as jiltias advifcs, who alfo com-
mends Cold Baths for the Catameaia too
abundant, as well as the Whites, and Pol-
lutio no{fur»* zn^ limbic Gonorrhea. Tho*
the External Pcrfufions ftopthe Menfesand
Hxmorrhagies ; yet Cold Baths affefl the
Head, and move the Blood too much to
flop
L
ftop Hemorrhages, but they rather in-
creafe them. To prevent the Pain of the
Head, occafioned at fir/l by Cold Baths,
they laya wet Clothon that Fart, orwaffi
it firft.
5. Calius Aurelhnus quotes the Greeks
for curing the Head-ach by the Pfeachraalfia:
and the reafon of that Cure is evident, be-
caufe a Hemicramn is a Species of Rheu-
matifms ; and in the Seiaticjj running Scor-
butick-pains, and Pains of the Shoulders,
Cold Baths have certain EffeGs.
Hypochondriack-pains, Gout pain, Stran-
gury, Nephritick-pains, Con vu I five-pains,
Hyfterick-pdins, are all cured by Cold
Baths. For which I may quote Hippoera-
tes's Jphorifmsj Lib. x. Cold Water largely
poured on the Part affected, cures Swell-
ings, and Pains in the Joints, if without
Ulcers; and alfo the Gout-pains, and Con-
vulfions, all which it eafes, and diminifh-
es the Tumours, and takes away the Pains,
for it occafions a Stupor which eafes Pain.
Hippocraies alfo advifes Cold Water in
Inflammations, and Heat with rednefs from
frelh Blood; and he declares, that Cold
Water hinders any Pain from ripening.
I have mentioned the great Effefts Cold ,
Baths have in rarified hot Bloods in the hot
Cacochymias, in Fevers, Defluxions, Pains,
Inflammations, and fome Evacuations of 1
Humours.
Part I. Of Cold Baths, i ^9
Humours. And I fliall next give a Cata-
logue of the EfFefts Cold Baths have in'
NervOu5 Difeafes, which are very much re-
lieved by them, becaufc the Animal Spirits
are too much rarified in fuch Diftempers.
But as to the great EfFefts which Cold
Baths have in curing Paralytick Obftrufti-
ons, I have fufficiently defcribed them al-
ready. I can only add a remarkable Paf-
fagein Hippocrates^ in his Book about Vir-
gins, concerning the Mature and Cure Of a
Torpor or Stupidity of the Limbs, which
is produced by forcing the Blood and Spirits
to ftand in the prirt bv an External Com-
preflioh ; but he defer ibcs it by forcing the
Blood from tlie Hips nnd Thighs Into the
Legs and Feet ; and hv this Torpor an Im-
potency to Morion is occafionM, 'till the
Blood remrn to the fame place, which he
fays will foon recurn, if any one ftand in
Cold Water above the Ancles, By this
Quotation 'tis evident, That Hippocrates
never knew the Nature of the Circulation,
but he well apprehended that the Blood had
a Motion given it by Cold Water ; but
what he imputes to the Blood, is due to the
Nerves alfo, which being comprefTed, pro-
duce both the Torpor and Palfy, which dif-
fer only in degree : And that both thefe
were cured by Cold Baths, is very evident
by the Book of Liquids, in which Hrppo-
L crates
14.0 Of Cold Baths. Part I
crates commendsCold Baths for Paraplegics^
Lamenefs, Stupors, (i'apK?0 ^"^ iofsoi
Speech. By this cure of external Stupors,
as Hippocraies direfls, pi iv SSihTt •^^pa!^
'twas eafy to infer, That all inward Stupors^*
fuch as are thofe of the Hyfterick and Hy-j
pochondriack, were cured by the fame Me-
thod, viz.. by cold Baths: And of thej
highefl: degree of thefe, Hippocmtes treats,T
^- in which are great Fevers, Deliria^ Ap-'
l.pearances of Daemons, Suffocations both
in Men and Women. In Cold Countries:
the Extremities of the Body grow Stiff am
Torpid by Cold, and if they apply he
things, or corae near the Fire, the Nofe
Ears, Hands, or Feet, are apt to fall oj
to prevent this Mortification, the PoUnder^
and Ruffians before tliey warm themfelvi
put their Torpid and Frozen Parts in
Cold Water, which Experience, and n
any Learning has taught them, to Cure tl
Injuries of extream Cold Air, as well as
fortifie their Bodies thereby againft 1
Senfe of it. And Mr. ^oyk obferves, Tl
frozen Eggs will Thaw fafter in Cold Wa^
terthan in the open Air ; from which Exr-
periment we may conclude, that Cold Baths
may faliely be u(ed in Winter, to cure con- ,
geal'd Humours, or too much coldnefsof
our Bodies. An Excefs ia Cold Baths is
cer-
Parti. Of Cold Baths.
certainly injurious ; for Galen
tells us, That AUxs«der the fj-J^^,„\;,^f
Great^ whilft he wafhed him- c^'T"-
felf in the Summer-time in the
River Cydnus in CilictHj was feized with a
Convulfion, Tremor, and Torpor. And
in after Ages, Frederick OeaohnrbaSy the
Emperor, died by Wafliing in the fame
iWater. Thefe Misfortunes in the Ufe of
lid Baths, may be attributed to thofe
perors ufins of Cold Baths when Hot,
or after great Surfeits, or their ftaying in
them too long ; but that this Water of Cjd-
nus might he ufed with ^jreat benefit, StrA-
affirms, who fays, That the ^^^
iWacerof it was very Cold and ''^*''-^^'
"^lOugh, and that it was very beneficial in
iring the Gout, and that it helped the
iick Humours, which pofTeiTed the Nerves,
both in Brutes and Men. The fame Truth
Vitrwvius and Vlinj afterwards confirm ,
and affure us, that the fame Water being
poured plentifully on the Gouty, immedi-
ately eafes that Pain.
There is a dangerous PraGice at Wihw'
hridge^ of which I have heard fome Patients
complain : they wear the wet Shirts,in which
they bathed, all Day afterwards, by which
fome were over-chilled ; but I have heard
others, that were more ftrong, who bore
thac Pradice without any Injury, as they
L 2 ia-
145 Of Cold Baths. Part 1-
informed me. The Inftances I (hall give
of Cures done in the Difeafes depending
on rarified Spirits, are in Watching, and
the feveral kinds of De/iria.
I have given JgathinU'S^s Experience,
That Cold Baths will procure good Reft,
and the fame EfFeft we obferve after Bath-
ing in Rivers,
Ter unStus
Tranfranto Tyberim fomno quibtu efi oftis dto.
Horace lib. 2. Ser. Satyr. 1 .
and if thereby reft can be procured, the
Cold Bath will prove ufeful in curing Mad-
nefs, wherein that is always wanting. Mer^
curidu informs us, That he cured a Wo-
man of a Furor uterhus^ in which they oft
drown themfelves, by a Cold Bath ; and he
defcribes it thus, EH apfetitus venereum cum
uteri ardore & delirio ; de vemre loquufitur^
^ tanquamfuria quadam agitantur. I once
difcourfed with Dr. Tyfon^ about curing
JMadnefs by Cold Baths ; and he informM
me, That he had ufed it fuccefsfully in a
Woman who defigned to drown herfelf,
Celfus advifes for curing the Madnefs called
Hydrophobia^ to throw the Perfon into a
Pond, that he may be forced to Drink ; and
we commonly in ErtgUnd fend Ferfons bit
by
I. Of Cold Baths.
iby a Mad-dog to Bathe in the Cold Water
of the Sea, which cools and purges.
■ I have been informed of a Phrentick Fe-
ver which was cured by Bathing the Head
itwith Cold Water. And there are fbme
Authors, who advife the putting them io-
*o Water.
Not only (having the Head, but mode-
rately Bathing of it, mav bcufefut to the
•Maniacli, and the fomenting the Head
with Vinegavand Water, was pj-tftifed by
"fome Phyficians; and fince Cold Baths
Cool, Swear, and caufeRert, they Teem a
■true Specifick for the Maniack, which far-
,ther Experience may fully confirm. I have
tnet with fome Inftances of Perfons in the
•mall Pox, wlio cured their Frenzy by
leaping into Cold Warer.
» 2. All the hot Windinefs of the Spirits
rtquire Cold Baths, fuch are thofe of the
Epileptick Vertigo, Convulfions, Hyfte-
^k or Hypochondriack Suftbcations, Pal-
pitation of the Heart, CkortA SAnCHFiti,
Chincough, Hiccougli.
1 have given a cafe out of Hippccrates^ to
prove Cold Baths to be ufefultothe Hypo-
chondriack : And one of the Cures menti-
oned above, was in an Hyfterick Woman.
* i to Convulfions, or Sprains, Hippocrates
his Aphorifms. mentions mttrrf/^To, as
fome
1 «Tamo^«°f * jbV a ho -^y b«
*
Of Cdd Baths.
H5
Parts afFefted, He commends the Sea-
water, or the confuetudo frigidi U'vacri^
atmt ffeuchroiuftitm Appe!Ui3t. lam certain
lohot Regimen can be proper forthe Afth-
na, but the Cold is very ufefuU viz, to
Irink Water in a Morning, to ihave oft,
wafh the Head every Morning, and
% Cold Bath once in a Month or fourteea
>ays.
As to the Orirogoao/j, CxH^ commends
the Pfeuchrolufu for- it : And in the Pria^if-
mtifj he advifcs the fame Method as in the
^ifeafes of the Bladder, which are to Drink
iod Wafh in the JHfula , which hath
^he Stypticity of Alum; but in the Difeafes
)f theSkone, headvifes to ufe either Salt,
IT nitrous Water, qu-t potanii^, & /avacro
\dhthenia
For the Tympany, Ctlius advifes thus,
ddhibendi nxtnlh marilma^ vet aqaarum
Uaraiittm : He efteems it a Species of the
iifeafcs depending on an Erapneamaiojis ;
ad in this Cafe he advifes Sweating alfo,
phich may be effciled after Cold Bathing,
ind is proper m all Calcs in which theSe-
urn abounds:
Cold Water poured largely upon any
part afFefted with a Tetanus cures it ; therc-
"pre Cold Baths are ufcfuL in the fame Cafe;
|id in the Gout^ and other Pains tliere is
L 4 an
146 Of Cold Baths. PartL
I
an Inflation of the Membranes, for which
Cold Baths are proper.
Seneca^ as appears by his 56th Epiftle,
was fubjeft to the JFthma^ which he calls
Sufpiriumj for which he u(ed a Geftation
for his Exercife, cum ex aliqua can fa fpiri-
tus denftor erat. He defcibes it thus, Bre-
ws valde & frocelU fifnilis inepus eft intra
horamfere dtfwitj altud quicquid eft agrotare
hoc animam agere. And ^tis very probable
that he ufed Cold Bathing for it, Epift.
54. Memor artificii met veteris mind m^ in
fnarCj quomoae ffeuchrolutum decet gaufapa*
tus. See Epift. 83. Jb hac fatagatione
magis quam exerciattorie in frigidam decendi.
By this Inftance *tis plainly proved, that
Jfthmaticks ufed Cold Baths in Italy^ where
C^elfus Jurelianus^ or Soranus^ adviled their
Pfeuchrolufia.
Biccius commends Cold Baths againft
the Poyfon of the Juice of Mandrake,
which has an opiate Faculty ; and this hint
ought to excite Phyficians to inquire how
far, and on what account Cold Baths can
help the Poifon of Opiates.
In Sleep, the Spirits return inward to
tlie Vrimd via^ to help Digeftion and the
Periftaltick Morion; they alfo leave the Ex-
terior Mufcles, Membranes, and Senfes,
to fupply a greater vigour to the Mufcle
pf the Heart, whereby Nutrition and Dif-
tribution
Of Cold Baths.
H7
(Iribution of the new Chyle, and Sanguifi-
^'tarion, is very much promoted ; the refpira-
tory Organs then alfo have their Motion
continued in Sleep, becaufe they alfo pro-
^'niote the motion and mixture ofourHu-
tiours. The Eifefts then of all Opiates,
nuft be to draw the Animal Spirits from the
External Scnfes and Parts into the inward
'Jerves, to promote the Periftaltick Mociob,
She Puliation of the Heart, and the Refpi-
fration. 'Tis certain, that the immediate
lEfftfts of Opiates are firft in the Stomach,
jind vomiting them up immediately cures
hem; and 'tis as certain, that Opiates
vork on the Stomach by their naufeous
litternefs, and Acrimony and Fetid Smell;
his naufeous Taltgivei a pingiog Faculty
SaUjiam Ligupfum, Tabaco, Mirahile
VeruvUnum, and after [he llupifying Ef-
fcftsofthe Opiates are over, they oft vo-
nit in the Morning, which is occafioned by
[ihe naufeous Bittcrucfs, (Opiates being (li-
ny as well as bitter) and the Foetor and the
""Acrimony of the Opiate pafTes into the
Nerves, which are next to it, viz. thofe
of the Stomach, Heart, and Diaphragm,
which are about the Mouth of the Stomach,
and in them they caufe a pieafanc Senfari-
on, which as Dr. 'Jones has ingenioufly de-
fcribed in Jiis Myjlery of Op/arej^ caufes a
Relaxation of r!ie Exicrior Parts and Senfes.
That
r
,48
Of Cold Baths.
That this Senfation may be imputed to a
Dilirium is probable, becaufe all Opiates in
great Dofes produce fuch EfFe£ts ; for fuch
is the Effe£i of CUata^ Henhaae, Poppy,
in hot Conftitutions, and SoUnamffiriofumj
and Mandrake. And Hippocrates tells us.
That they who are hurt in any Part, and
feel no Pain, are certainly diftempered in
their Minds, and the Infenfibility of Pain,
Thirft, and Evacuations, are the known
Effe£ls of Opiates.
Mandrake is defcribcd to be naufcoufly
Bitter and Fetid, which produces a Fcetor
in the Body, Madnefs, intolerable Itching
and Burning in the Skin, Red Eyes, Tu-
mid Face, Drinefs in the Mouth, Sadnefs,
Dulnefs, Languor; thefe Symptoms may
be relieved by Cold Baths, which promote
the Perfpiration of the Foster, and excite
the Stupidity by affefting violently the out-
ward Senfes; they cool the Itching and
Burning in the Skin, the inflamed Eyes,
tli^ naufeoufnefs of the Stomach, andfleepy
Languor of Spirits ; and this Effeft ought
tQ oblige us to inquire farther, how far
Cold Batlis may be proper for jlcepy Dif*
eafes, of which kind the Apoplexy, Le-
thargy, and Incubus may be reckoned, and
the bleepinefs preceding Fits of the Mother,
and.otlier Convulfions, If the Apoplexy,
Palfy, and Lethargy have Rhcumatick
Blood, .
part I, Of Cold Baths. 1 4 9
IJBIood^ and very Sizy, upon that account
ICold Baths after fufficient Evacuation by
f pleed'mg, Vomiting, Purging, may excite
I the Stupid, and promote the Motion both
k of Vifcid Spirits and Siz,y Blood ; And 'tis
[ not to be thought a Paradox, that Cold
r Saths fhould be proper for the Apoplexy,
rjRnce'tis fo ufefut for the Falfy, and Cures
Icerrainly all the Species of it, which are
I|nentioned above ; to which may be added,
l^ePalfy of the Eyes, the Flux of Tears,
IWeaknefs of the Lips, Ldpfuf Seminis^
l^trofhia Nervi/ia, Paify of tlie Diaphragm,
iLungs, Guts, Oefophayiiff Stomach, FeMu,
f #nd prevents fudden E>eatli, which Hippo-
\erd$es calls thePalfy of the Heart. 'Tisob-
tyious toar^ue, if Cold Baths can Cure all
Ijjhefc EfTc^s ot an Apoplexy, which we
Ifall different Species of the Paifics, why
nay wc not believe they may Cure the
ftupor in the Head and Limbs ? Ctlias vc-
y much commends the Allf$il.t^ which are
Cold Waters, and Swimming in the Sea
pr all Palfics. 'Tis certain, That Hoc
laths when ufed by young, orhotPara-
bticks, oft occafiona new Fit of the Apo>
Hexy. The Sca-mcn cure their Sailors by
prowing tliem into the Sea when they arc
__Dead-drunk, whicli excites their ftupid
Senfes, and makes them very fober. The
drowfinefs in Apoplexies is from ftagnati-
I50
Of Cold Baths.
on cf the Blood; but in Druiikenners and
Convalfions, from the filling the Nerves
with Serum; and in both thefc Cafes Cold
Baths may be ufeful, becaufe they caufe
the Stagnating Blood to move ; and they
prevent Defluxion through the Nerves,
which happen in Afthma's, Hylterick Fits,
Convulfions, ac which time the Sleepinefs
oppreffes the Spirits. At the end of all De-
fluxions, CV/«/ advifes the change of the
Air, and the ufs of Common Water to
Drink, and to foment the Head; and fince
all Hot Baths, Hot Wines, Hot Fumes,
produce Defluxions, and incrcafe them, it
ieems very rarional. That Cold Baths as
well as vvafhing the Head, will prevent
them. Inall Catarrhs the Rheum ispulh-
ed through the Glands, about the Mouth,
Tliroar, Head, Neck, and wafliing the
Head prevents the Defluxion of the Serum
that way by conftraining the Glands.
And for this EfFed I can rely on Celfus, as
well as common Experience, which affures
us, That Hoc Baths weaken the Head,
and that Cold Water ftrcngthens it : Dc-
fluxioHj depend on EiFervefcencies, Ephe-
mera's or Putrid Fevers. An^Gden has
obferved that what Fevers are cured by
Bafhingi are cured rather by the help of ^
tord Wafhing, than by the not temperate
Baths,
Baths, or after thefe the Fcveridi ought to
defccnd into the Cold Baths.
Pdultu advifes Cold Baths for the Dim-
,nefs of Sight, which depends on a Defluxi-
on through the Nerves; and if the Eyes
be opened in the Water, he fays, they
will be confiderably ftrengthened thereby.
Calias blames Diodes Tor recommending
*he Pfeuchroiufia in the Ulcer of the Lungs,
which thougli it cannot be cured thereby,
yet the Heflick may be helped in forae
meafure; and Cold Baths will prevent
Impofthumations, and theTumourswhich
preceed the Phthifick, after due Evacuati-
ons, and mixed with the method for curing
Defluxions. The reafon why they are noc
good for the Tabid, is, becaufe they will
pinder ExpeQoration, and promote Loofc-
plefs.
CMsai advifes, after the Cure of Spitting
Blood, Iiieunda Coi^fueiadofrigidi Uvacri i
therefore Cold Bailiing will prevent all Hae-
morrhaiges.
Cxlius com m ends Cold Baths for prevent-
iqg the Gout, fuch as tlie Cotili^ and Al-
iaU in fiilj, Dabit tnim dli'ti integram fani-
tatem, alii s rarxm dolor it admonitionem.
The old Athh-i.e bathed in Cold Water
roft, to prevent any unchaftDefircs, they
King generally forbid the ufe of Women,
and
Of Cold Bath.
and the (ame is proper for natural Polluci-
ons.
Ail Innammatory Pains which depend on
fizy Blood, fuch as tliofc of the Rhcuma-
tifm. Pains of the Hars, Eyes, Limbs,
Teeth, Head, arc certainly relieved by
Cold Batlis.
All Pains depending on fait or corrofive
Humours, fuch as the Gout, Stone, Stran-
gury, arc relieved by Cold Baths: The .
Pains of tlic King's Hvil and Cancer, have
not yet been tried.
C'e/fm commends Cold Baths for the
Jaundice in Summer, fo that we may by
this obfervc, how much they promote the
Secretion of Humours thro' the Glands.
Select informs us, That tlie Romans
waflied their l-tgs and Arms every Day;
but tlicy wafheii their liody all over only
on their Nundinx , wliicli was every
ninth Day : and this Cullom we may well
imitate, becaufe of the Changes of the
Moon happening once in fourteen Days.
By this ninth Days wafhing in the Sum-
mer time, all Defluxions of Humours and
other Alterations depending on the Moon
will be prevented, efpecially if we wafh
every Day the Head, as well as the Arms
and Legs, tlicBody will be thereby kept
very cool.
The
telT Of Cold Baths.
'53
i
The Spring ufcd at Rome^ was that call-
ed K;r^(?, which was very Cold, and in
that they bathed after Irot Baths, or mode-
rate Ecxcrcife.
Virgine visJoU lotas ntsre Aomiim,
I find in Dr. Lei^h^s Hirtory o( Ld/ict-
\/hiref fomc PalTages relating to Cures done
by Cold Baths: I think my rclf(and all
our Country aifo is) obliged to him for them
and many other curious Obfcrvations, with
which his Books are filled, relating to
Waters, Minerals, and Animals, dre.
He tells us the mart rcm.nkable Cold
Spring is at Sorhck in Lancajh:re ; and that
upon the Immerfioii of the Hand into it,
the Hand grows extreamly Red, and that
a violent Pain is perceived in it, and that it
is a Chalybeate Water; and that if a
Thermometer be fulpcnded in it for half an
Hour, tlie Spirit in it will fubfide an Inch-
If the Spirit will fubfide an Inch, that
fhews how much the Animal Spirits may
fubfide by Cold, as well as be comprcfTed
by the weight of Cold Water upon Bathing
in it. Our ordinary Barometer fubfides in
our Climate upon the Changes of Weather
near three Inches ; and that fliews how
much the Alterations of Weather ufually
change the Ratifications of our Humours
\
in Air, or Climate ; and if ux defign to for-
lify oiir felvcs againll: Cold, which com-
prefTes, and incur Climate alters our Blood
and Spirits,we muft always keep themcom-
prefled by Cold Baths: for in Cold Cli-
mates, about Eighty one Degrees frorn the
jEqaator, the before-mention'd Doftor in-
forms us, That the Barometer alters not
above hflif an Inch by the Changes of Wea-
ther; therefore in Cold Climates the Hu-
mours ought to be conftantly kept compref^
fed, and the Air lodged in them condenfed :
So on the contrary in the Climates near the
Line, the Barometer ali<:^rs little, there the
Air is moft rarified, and the Air in the
Blood ought there to be always kept in a
rarified State, and not to be over compref-
fed by a Cold Regimen. In our Country,
which lies betwixt the A'ortJj and South, the
Alteration of the Air, and its condenfation
by Cold is more than its Rarification by
Heat ; therefore fince Cold exceeds the
Heat, we muft adjuf} our Air in our Hu-
mours to the fame Temper, and keep our
felves more cold than hot; forthc hotter
wekeepour fclves, the more we fuffer by
any Cold that happens, as well as the al-
teration of the prelTure of the Air, which.
is very great in our Climates. For the
Doftor tells us in Degree 45. the Barome-
ter alters three Inches,but in 6o,two Inches,,
Of Cold Baths.
'55
in 75, but one Inch; and in i^fromche
Line, one Inch; and in jo, two Inches.
All tcndcrncfii fccms to depend on being
[kept too hot, fothat we cannot bear the
fenfc of our own Air, and this is only to ■
' ! cured by Cold Baths; and if we be af-
fted by the Changes of Weather, that
iippcns by the liffervcfccnces which arc
icomotcd by the Alteration of the FrclTurc
'the Air; which is beft prevented by
wping the Humours cool, and of the fame
ITemperasour Air^ for then they will eafily
'condenfc and rarify with it, and not run in-
to violent Ebullitions, if the Air beconne
lighter, norbeomefiz,y iftooCold, or over
comprelTed.
The fame Author, P^ijie ^'\,cif Lib. 2.
gives this Oblcrvation, In Leprous Diftem-
pers, Scorbutick Klicumatifms, and the
Rickets, and Scorbutick Atrophy, before
the Hc£tick heat be too intcnfe, I have
not known any Medicine to perform the
Hffcfts which thefe Waters frequently do.
In tile Leprofy, which he truly takes to
be a Species of the Scurvy, Lib. 2. Puge 515.
he commends Chalybeat Waters, Cold
Baths, and an AbdinenccfromFlefh-meats,
by which Dr. lUynArd recovered his Pati-
ent from the Leprofy , when Bath-watei s
and Salivation did not fucceed.
If Cold Baths are proper for the Scur-
vy, and Confumption, tlien they are ufe-
Of Cdd Baths. Pa:
ful in the feveral Species, and Complicati-
ons of them with oilier Difeafes.
The Scurvy is complicated with He-
micranias, Fains, Dropfy, jaundice, \J\-^ '
ce\-5, Vertigo, Afthma, Convulfions, &c.
and in all thefe for the Scorbutick Hu-
mour, whitli is Salfo-acid, Fetid, Acrid,
Bitter, Bilious, and lilfc their Urine, which
is bitterifli, fetid, andlixivial; in all which
Cold Baths are ufeful. Under the name
of the Scurvy, divers Uifeafcs are compre-
hended, bccaufc we may obferve in it the
Comphcation ofDivtrs Cacochymias.
On the Acrid, Sale, or Corrofive Hu-
mours, depend the Corrofion ot'the Teeth
and Gums-, tlie excclTive Pruritus in the*
Skin, the Diarrhsea, Coughs, Sweat, Atro-
phy, Confumption, and Lixivial Urine;
On the Vifcidity ot'the Blood, the Hemi-
crania, Inflammations, Fains in the Skin,
Limbs, Teeth, 'ionfits, and all Fuftulcs;
depe^d. n
On the Putrefadion of Humours, tliei
pEtor of the Mouth, the Spots in the Skin,
Putrid Spits, Scorbutick Ulcers, Gangrenesj;
Morphew, Scurl^ Lepra, Hemorrhagit
by Dyfentcry, Hemorrbagies by the NofCf
Vomiting, Coughing, and by the Gums.
On the Flatulent Cacochymia, all tl
Symptoms in the Nerves depend, Convatt
five Motions, Trembling, Stupor, Bea^
:n,i
Of Cold Baths.
'57
[ iog, Vermiculacions, Coldneis, Numbneft,
IPalfy, Erratick-Pains, C/jorea Sanlti Fiti^
IColick, Aftlima, Epilepfy, Vertego, Hy-
Ipociiondriackand Hyftcrick Cafes. I have
numerated all ihefe Symptoms of the Scur^
to fhew in how many Cafes Cold
iBaths may beufed for the Scurvy, and that
where it agrees with the Cacochyima, it
11 generally agree with all the Difeafes
sending on it. By the feveral Cacochy-
j's mentioned in the Scurvy, we may
bferve, that Authors call all the Hot Caco*-
hymias, the Acrid, the Bitter, the Vifcid,
ialfo-acid ; the Acid, and Putrid, the Scot-
'[ Humours.
' Confumptions depend ondivers Difeafes,
h as Evacuations, tlaor alhus^ DiarrhdSf
thfes. Scurvy, Rheumatifms, Stone,
■out, Afthraa, Chiorofn, Rickets, Surfeits,
norrhagies, Obltrufl:ions, &c. And
yhere the Original Difeafe will admit of
Cold Baths, there they muft be ufed to
ure the Heftick ; and fince theConl'ump-
^ve have always a Sizy and Salt Blood, for
1 alfo Cold Baths are ufeful to correft
b Cacochymia's.
Since Hot Baths propagate Infeftion,
[why may we not try^cold ones to prevent
" it ? lofeftious Difeafes are very rare m Cold
Countries, and the Hot Blood is fooner in-
rcclcd in Children, than the Cold in Old
M 3 Men.
Men. Hot Baths occaHon Faintnefs ; there-
fore Cold Baths by keeping in the Spirits
ftrengthen them.
By all the Particulars mentioned, I have
proved that Cold Baths are proper Speci-
ficks or Antidotes againil Opiates, and flee-
py Diftempers, for which they arc effec-
tual Anti-hypnoticks againft Defluxions,
Inflammations, Pains, the beft Preferva-
tives and Anodynes; they are alfo good
Aiiti-Phthificks, Anti-Storbuticks, Febri^
fuges, Anti-Rheumaticks, Anti-Rachiticks ;
and in a word, the beft and only efFeSual
Cephalicks, Anti-Paraly ticks, and Anti--
Convulfives, Diureticks and Sudori6cksy
&c. I think I have need to fay no more of
Common Cold Baths, but will give fome
Charaftcr of two other Cold Baths, which
I met with in the old Writers, viz,, thofc
of Sea- Water or Nitrous Springs.
Since we live in an IHand, and have
the Sea about us, we cannot want an ex-'
cellent Cold Bath, which will both pre-
ferve our Healths, and cure many Difeafcs,
as our Fountains do. >
Swimming in the Sea is commended by
Aritem for the Cold Pains in the Head. By
Mtius for tlie ftoppage in the Nofe, and
lofs of Smelling, if weufeitconftamly. By
Ctljus and Antiliuj for the Dropfy, Scab,
Leprofy, and Spots in the Skin or any De-
■iiu I . fluxion
^^iFI
I. Of Cold Baths.
fluxion on the Legs, or any other Part,
and for the Atrophy. C^Uus AurelUnus
commends it for the Palfy, the weaknefs
of the Stomach, the Jaundice, Spleen, Ob-
flruftions or the Cacheftick, and in Pains
of the Head , and Epilepfy. Jrijiotle
obferves, That the Sea will much better
carry the weight of our Bodies than Com-
mon Water, and he fays it is more whole-
ibme, and that it caufcs a greater expence
ofHumourthan riding in a Coach; it makes
the Body lean, ftrengthens, heats, and at-
tenuates.
I have fufficiently enumerated the Bene-
fits of Cold Baths ; and that I might pre-
vent Inconveniences, I will mention the
Injuries done by them.
'Tis obferved by JmillM^ That all fort of
Swimming offends the Head, the Circula-
tion of the Blood being outwardly checked,
it is forced inwards for the prefent ; thisi$
to be prevented by laying a wet CothocJ
Night-Cap on the Head, or wetting thai^*
firif, and diving under Water,
Cold Baths fometimes procure Deafnefs ,
which may be prevented by flopping the
£ars, or uHng them lefs, and not too fro-
guently, nor flay in too long at any time.
An excefs in Cold Bathing occafions
Cramps, Horror, and Fevers ; all thefe ar*
prevented by flaying in them no longer
M J ch^n
i6o Of Cold Baths. Parti.
than we can bear theSenfation of the Cold
Water without exceflive Chilnefs, and to
ufe Friflion before or after; thefe Inconve-
niences the RomaTJS prevented by Friftion
and XJnftion, which heats the Body, and
by heating the Body with moderate Exer-
cife before.
The fame Errors may happen in the ufe
ofCoid Baths, as in the Hot Baths; they
may be ufed in unfeafonahle Weather ; and
in very cold Weather Cold Baths cannoC
be convenient, but from ^"»e to September
they may fafely be ufcd. Cold Baths may
be ufed as well as Hot Baths in proper Ca-
fes: Cold Baths agree only with Hot Con-
ftitutions, and not with Cold, nor tn de-
payed, weak Spirits, and very old Ferfons,
nor after Excrcife and great Laffitude, nor
during great Inflammations affeding the
inward I'arts, as in Pleurifies, PhthiGck?,
Colicks, nor after great Surfeits, and full
Meals, andin Convulfions.
To prevent thefe Inconveniences, let every
Perfon confuft fome Pliyfician, who may
better krtow his Conftirution, the Nature
ofthe Difeafc, the proper time for ufing
Cold Bsth^, and may firft life all proper
Methods of inward Mfedicines, and aftet
them ufe Cold Baths, S'ecundum artemy^tA
not Empirically. ' '
Of Cold Baths.
I
We may abufe CoM Baths by going into
them when too Hot, and by ufing them too
frequently, or flaying in them too long, or
by holding the Head under the Springs,
or bucketing the Body, orBreaft, or Wear-
ing wet Linen after them all Day. For
Example of thefe Misfortunes, let all Per-
fbns refleft on Atexmier Oe^ohirbasy and
Young Maree/lujy among the Ancients,
who received Injury by Cold Baths. And
Suetonius tells Us, That both the Vef-
pa(ia»s died at t!ic Cold Waters at Cutilia.
But Pliny commends thefe Nitrous Waters
for the Stomach, Nerves, Joints. And
Ce/fiis commends them in the Refolution of
the Stomach and Atrophy. And yitruvi-
us commends them for the Struma. Buc
to prove tliat there is a proper Ufe to be
made of Cold Baths, I muft refer the Rea-
der to the Hiltory of Augufus in Suetoniuj^
to FIi»/s Natural Hiftory, to Horace adVa-
Urn ; to SemcA in his EpUHes, who calls
himfelf Pjeuchroloutei\ to Pliny's Epiftles,
Lih. 2. Epi(i. 17 who defcribcs his Baths,
Inde liiheicelU frigidaria^ fpAtiofaj & effujity
cuj/is in contrartt! paneiihus duo lidpti/hri^
1/slat ejeclAfiisanntury ibunde capaciaf/taatir
o»e in proximo cogites^ adjscet ttniiorium^ hj-
pQcaup^iim^ ^dyuet proptgneum Bainei, max
da.t celU mxgii elegantes qaam fumptuofti.
Spe more of tins in the Fifth Book. See
M 4 Diogenti
I
I
Diogenes Luertius in his Life of PlatOy where
Euripides^ who accompanied him into jf^yft
was cured by Bathing in the Sea, to which
the Prieft advifed. From hence the Ufe
of Cold Baths was firft learnt by the Greeks^
and Hippocrates might learn it here, as
well as from the Scythnns. Moft part of the
Grecian Art of Pnyfick came from yhgjfty
which had a Fhyfician for every Difeafe, ex-
cept thofe of Cliildren; and their Diftem-
persare moft dcfcribed by the Grecia/t Wri-
ters, fuch as the Rickets, the Small-Pox,
Meafles.
Since by Hot Baths, Wjne, Eating, Ex-
ercife, and all other things we ule, we
may receive good by a prudent, moderate,
reafonable Uieof them, and great Mifchiefs
by an unfeafonable, improper, diforderly
Abufe; foldefireall Perfons would think
of the proper and improper Ufe ot Cold
Baths. They may preferve our Healths,
and cure many Difeafes, if ufed according
to the Ancient and Modern Art of Cold
Bathing; or el fc do great Mifchef by un-
skilful, imprudent Management, as I have
obferved in fome Patients, who the firft
Year went with good Advice, and after fit
Evacuations and Alterations, to Cold Baths,
and there received great Benefit ; but by
going unadvifedly the fecond Year, and
irufting to their own Experience, found
many
m^^- *
Of Cold Baths. i6j
Kany Inconveniencies to happen to them,
hich would have been avoided by a pro-
g:r ufe of fpecifick Remedies, and good
vacuation, if they had been prefcHbed
kfore their fecond Year'sUfe of Cold Baths,
No Remedies, though never To good, can
^ve a certain good EfTefl, unlefs ufed ia
►roper Circumltances, as to Time, Dofe,
IJuantity, and in proper Conftitutions and
[)ifeaies; and if thefe beobferved in the
Ufe of Cold Baths, I know all Mankind
will allow that I have proved what I de-
fign, That Cold Baths are both fafe and
Ufeful, for prefervingour Healths, and cu-
ring our Difeafes.
Ptulas Mgineta commends Cold Baths,
but gives this good Advice, to ufe an eicaft
piet, and convenient Exercife \ the Diet,
f 'ought not to be too hoc, becaufe that will
breed Acrid Humours, which being kept
In the Body by Cold Baths, may occafioa
fome prejudice to our Healths, thereforo
we mud ufe a Cool Diet, whilll^ we ufe
cool Baths ^ but immediately after Cold
Bathing, we may take fome Cordial Li-
quors, as Ale, or Wine, if we be very Chill.
Moderate Exercife is alio necelfary in
Cold Bathing, not only to warm the Body
ibefore and after it, but at other times to
^fcufs hoc Vapours retained in the Blood.
Orol>afiui taidQ bis Compendium of G^
1*4 Of Cold Baths.
~P^^
ten's Phyfick, fay he Command of^uiia»
the Emperor, w h was made O/ir, Mn.
Chr. J 57. J€«a/ was his Contemporary,
and I have quoted him for Cold Bathing.
TrdKUnus writ after thefc ; he alfo approves
of Cold Baths in Melancholick Cafes, Con-
etdendum at mn modo in eslido fotioy fed, etism
frigidx Ubro diutius immoretar.
A-.pt»eu writ laft of all, Jn. Chr. 420.
and his Judgment I have given already
concerning Cold Bathing, and his Cautions
I gave about it. I have mentioned all
thcfe Phyficians to fliew, That Cold Ba- ,
thing was the general Paftice at Rome from
the Time of Muja, in the 20th oSJa^uftai*s
RcigOt till v^/WM*i Time, which is near
400 Years in that Empire. And fince the
cureof "bifeafes by Cold Baths wasgene-
rally pradifed by all People, as well as their
Emperors, that prafltce of Cold Bathing
mnft needs come witli the reft of the Roman
Cuftoms unto us, and certainly remained
among the Hrttaws when the Romans \eh
this Inc. The Smxoks^ who fucceedcd the
Rqtftgxs, brought inthsGerman Cuftom of
Wafliing in Rivers for the preferving of
iheir Healths, and that made them receive
the Baptifma! Immerlion in Rivers and
Fountains, without any fcruple ; and *tis
probable, that on thefe the firft Chriftians
tflfiporedthe Name of their Saints, and Re-
<:>'* ligion
i
Srtt. Of Cold Baths.
165
BigioD taught the Heathens to change the
Wames of their Springs, and dedicate them
ko the Chriftian Saints, which for their
great Cures were formerly dedicated to the
Dxmons. So t^/rgo, the famous Spring ^
tt Rome^ which was dedicated to DUr/a^ 1
<vzs afterwards "confecrated Di'v.e Mariit
Virgini, as the Learned Bitecius affirms.
The C«///rf were famous among the RO' 1
vtaa rhyficians. They werecold Nitrous I
Waters, and were ufed both in Dnnhing j
and Bathing for the Gout, Stone, Inflam- t
tiiation in the Eyes, the King's Evil, all |
Hot Dcfluxions, and to ftrengthen the Sto- '
mach. We Iiave a great Quantity of thcfc J
Waters in En'>_iind, and out of them we ]
Jpiay contrive Cold Caths, for the Diftem-
" ers mentioned. Celfus and C.vltas Aureli'
y»»jmadc ufeoffuch Cold Baths in many
Difeafcs, and we cannot well cure fome
Difeafes without tlicm. The bittci' Salt
made out offiich Waters, fecms to be the
true Nitre of the Ancients, which they
made out of Springs by Decoftion, or the
•Heat of the Sun, and their Nitrous \ya-
ters are dclcribed to be bitter, rather than
Salt, and th.it rhcy are more bitter the lefs
'inixt,(with Salt, Ahim, Vitriol, or Sul-
phur) thcNitrewas. They f;\y, the Virtue. '
of the old Nitre was to purge by Urine and
Stool, and that it had an Acrimony to open
^Obftruftioos. And fince Dr. Grm\ pur^-
"iwr;
1 66 Of Cold Baths.
ing Salt has all thefe Qtialities, it is certain*
1y the ancient Nitre as to its Phyfical Virtue.
The JlhttU are oft mentioned by Cslius
JurtiianuSj Gslen, ALttuSy and thefe were
Aflringent and Salt, ofa mtld Heat; and
inftead of thefe we may ufe Buxton as a
temperate Bath in Rheumatick cafes,
and the Stone, and Ulcers, and all Fluxes
and Abortions, and for exciting Appetite.
Cdiias defcribes the JlhuU frigid^ vtrtatis,
pag. J JO. Solutione labor ant ibus vel jluore
qu»rumlibet officiorum nAtufdium a veterihus
ApjproprUt€. He advifcs the putting the Part
afi):£ted under the Falls of Springs, which
the Greeks call Catactyfrnus^ and that caufes
great changes in Difeafes,
That Purging Waters were uftd with
Cold Bathing, is evident by the ufe of
thefe Cold Nitrous Waters, both at the
fame time for Bathing and Drinking^ and
where wc want them, we may ufe the bit-
ter purging Salt to prepare our felves for
Cold Bathv.
To thefe Cati/Uy the Romans ufed to go
in the Summer as we do to Epfom, and
there both the VefyafsA/is died. Of FUvius
yefpaftan^ Suetonim tells us how he mifear-
ried, and that creberrimo frigid^ a^ux ujity
intefiins viiiajfet : And we may obferve
chat fome of our Country-waters occaCon
£)yi!i:atei'ics, when ufed tooofr.
pi
I
I think fit to recommend the Regimen of
MtXMdir Siverujy a prudent Umpcror, to
the prcfcnt Age, which Larffpridius thus
defcribes: Firft in the Morning he dif"
patchM all Publick Affairs, whether Civil
or Military, afterwards he read the Grwi
Authors, thenhcapphcd himfclf to Tome
moderate Exercifc, fuch as Running, Uall-
play, or Wrcftling, and afterwards bcii^
anointed, he bathed in Hot Bath:i rarely or
never, but in his P//c/fl4 always, andflay'd
n it near an Hour, and in the Mornmg
i jalhng he drank Cold Water, about twen-
ty Ounces; and after his Cold Bathing,
hecat much Hread and Milk, Hgcs, MiiT-
fiim ; and after thcfc he dined often, but
rometimescat nothingtill Night. By this
ufc of Cold Baths, he, like a Fhilofophcr,
prepared his Body for his Studies, and hard-
ened it for War; by this wife Method he
lived to be old ; and (incc he came into En^-
Und^ and conqueral his Enemies here, and
at lart dyed at fur^t, we may very well con-
clude, that this Method of ufing iCoId Baths
was well known in En^Uad, and praflifcd
here ever fince by the Old Bntatm, who
oft on the account of Cold Bathing, fre-
quented St. Wimfrtd'^ Well. All the Ac-
count I can meet with, o( St. Wwifredy or
%t. Moitgaby is contained in the following
XdCttcr
168 Of Cold Bath. Part
Letter from a Learned Divine concerning
thofe Saints, to whom our moft Eminertt
Cold Baths were dedicated by Britainsoc
the SMxofts, when Chriltianity was firit
planted among them.
Moft honoured Sir,
I Have Uft Nighty and this Morrtitig^ httff
turning over mi poor Study of Book$^ to
find fomething of St. Mongah, Tim Ai-
count } find of inm. -Hii true Name is
Kencigern, And. he lived about the Year 560.
aad was Bifbop of Glaicow in Scotland,
Ibhence he tvas driven out hj the Pagan Saxons
for ought licmfv. Hoireper he rvas driven
oat 0} his own Country^ and fled to St, Ataph
in Flintfhire, where he found Means to build
d Monajiery betmen the Rivers Elwyd and
"EXv/y^ fome time after he built n Church, and
there flocked Abundance of Fcople to htm^ fo
that hit Monafiery at Ufi Amounted to the num-
ber of 660. tvhereof ^lis J'aid, 'i'hit he dp-
fointed 300 that were utterly unlearned to 1 ill
the Groundy and other Hmhandry H^ork^ And
other Handicraft M^ork in the Manajlery^ &c.
——His Church was frjl built of Timber^ and
afterwards of Stone^ not without fome refifi-
once of one Malgo or Maglocunus, a Britifh
K/fgt dwelling then at Deganwy, -* dozen
Miles offs^ but At lafi he gAve him liberty j and
conjented hit Church jboald be *n Epifeofal See^
and withal hejtow'd feverai Ma^aors and Pri~
vileges upon ity S;c- This Kcntigern tvat.
frji Bijhop herey and he i* fnid to he the Son
fi/ Thanes, who ivm Duti^hier to hozhf /Qng.
of the Pifts ; who his Father him, couUnevtr
beknorvn : M^fiy Ignorant People there mrein
old timey that thought that he jvm born of his.
Mother^ tewg a pure l^trgin. Hosv long he
lived here i»Fiint{hire « not known ^ hut he
left his Bifboprtck to his Scholar Afaplj, from,
whence it after had its Denomination of Se.
I -Afaph^Mff^ called before Epifcopatus Elguen-
rfis& Elv«nlls, from the Hiver Elwy, ai wm
Jaid before,- But ^f I fatd^ Kentigein
at lajl had leave to return into Scotland, to
his former Btfbopritk of Giafcow, and lived
(tu the Legend and other Accounts fny^ if rve
fan believe them) to the Age of 185 Tears.
Could it be proved that he bathed himfetf in
Cold Watery it would he a noble Inflame to
yourpurpofe? But jou will fay what haihKen-^
tigern to do with St. Mongihy fen- fo it the
true Name f I anfmery That Kentigcrn was
Scholar to ScrvanuSj Bijbop of the Orcades^
or the IJlands of Orkney, and iniirely beloved
of hinty tnfomuchy that he would fitll call him
Mongah ; that m in the Norifli Tonguey or
Tongue there fptkeny a dear Friend, or Dear-
ly t^loved. Of Servanus / could ffty
norcy but this may fuffice : So that by this
mtatti.
I
tntir/fy Kentigern heame mofi eommonly
knofVH i» theje t'ounfries hy the Name of Moa-
gah, M Chryfoftom, aW othersy have been
mponfuch account S:, whofe true Name tvas John,
and the Name of Chnyfoftom, or Golden
Tongue, given him for hu Eloquence^ fothat
now that if the Name mofi commonly he is
known hy.
I cannot find any where he did any Miraeies
at thefe Wells you mention^ hut it rvas a com-
mon thing to dedicate Wells, &c. foSaintSy
who never had been there^ even by the Account
the Legend gives of them. . I know khumdanct
0^ Chad- wells, rvhere Chad is never fuffofed
to have been \ the Virtue they might have by
Prayers or Dedication^ as was common^ to dedi-
cate Churches to them ; but if there be any thing
more than this, and the Legend mentions any
f articular Ble/jing the Wells had from his Pray-
ers, there is a full Account to he had, as I find
among Archbifbop UflierV A/ AX w Dublin
Library^ vita Tanfti Kentigerni, Cod. 19 j.
Capgrave, / fapfofe, hath fame accot/at
o^ him in Catal. five Legend. Sanftorum
Bdic. Legend. 1516, fol. and his it but an
ExtraEi out of a targe Work imire in the Cot-
ton Library, Tib. E. i. MS.
Since my Writing, J find a large Account
(j^jWw wUQierVPrimordia, pag. (58i,c^».
of ray Edit. 4°. Mine is not the bejl, hut of
hit otfH Publifbing 1 ffffofe the MS. 1
Of Cold Baths.
171
meationedift the HuhXyn Lihrarjf is Johanes
Tiinniuthenfis, or JolmiJ^Tinmouth ; ani
Ufher hath given a Urge Ah^n^ out ofhim^
vinefft^^ Ifuppofe all that it in him. Here
fie is made go to Rome to Convert fame of the
"pagan Saxons. The Account of hit being
^iven from Glafcow « nt Urge repeated^ flee.
mt mthing of hit Miracles at thefe IVeSs, as
^ CM fad.
Concerning St, Winifred^ Wellf the Legend
i well known^ that jhe being a Chaji Virgin^
rould not yield to the Imbraces of one Caro-
'doft, Lord of North- Wales, tvho cut of
her Heady &c. 1 fuppofejoa knotv the Legend
well enough ; this they (ay was in ^44,-^
iffoy the Virtue of the Water mufl have its
rife from that time; bat there's ajhrewdOb-
jeBion sgainfi thit Tradition. For Giral-
dus Cambrenfis, an admirable Scholar for his
timt^ who lived in the time o/Henry II. that is,
about 1 2Q0. for he lived long \ He^ i f'Vi ^
Welfhman, took a Joarftey into all Parts of
Wales, and is mighty particular in the Account
of all the AlbieSj and miraculous things efpeci-
alljfy and fometimes fays more than is true ; yet
he makes no mention of this mir&cuolusWeS^
»or any thing relating to it It is to be ob^
ftrved, he faysj he lay one Night at Bafing-
werk, rvhich « but half a Mtle from thefe
i^tSs. But it it rAttonally fiippofed that the
I JMbaij o^Bafingwcrk, (which Abby tvasfouK'
M about A hundrtd Tears after Girafdus,)
Of CM Baths.
framed all theff Legends for their own ends.—^-^\
Sec Dr. Poivei m his his Aiinot, toGirald,
Camh. at large.
1 have given you, my Honoured Coun-
try-men, all the Kxperimems I could col'
Ic^ bath from the Ancients and Moderns,-
and have nothing lartlicr toadd, but an'
Anfwcrto ihc Vulgar Objcdtion, thatoiiT*
Country is too cold torCold Batlis; to whicl^
I have already in part anfwcrcd, by menti-
oning the liathing at St. A/H«^oand /Y*{r-^
we//y which is yet conlbntlypraftilcd. And^
I will add, that ('.ef^r in hisCommcntariw
tells, that the old BntAint went almoft na-'
ked, and painted their IJodics to afirightf
their Enemies. He farther fays, Thatthtf
S«ft/iand o\(\ Cirrmans, (from whence at'
icrwards our Saxon Race came ) had n<
other Cloathing but Skins ; and tliat in theil
Cold Coxmuy^l'yomtfcai- ftnminibui ferium
tttr^ and that moft of tlicir Bodies were uij
covered. ^
Buchanan in his Scotch Hiflory tcHs U|
That the Pi(:U went nalicd, and naintei
chcir Codies, and that the Scotch Ulandcri
rtccp upon the Snow, or malic thcmfelvcs'
Bed-: oi'Heaih, with the Flowery ends tip-
wards, wliicb, Muliiiif cfim flumx cerHnt,
falubrisaie crrtefapi-rant, omntbus non trtgH'-
gentU mode in caUitris^ fed ajfei'iatio incuiti
horroriSf & dtiritii fuwrna efi. He farther
itlls us, That the Inhabitants of the Oretif*
pre-
Of Cold Bathf. 17^
prefervc the Vigour, Beauty, and Large-
LaefsoftlKirBody, as well asHoaltli inrlnrir
£Wind, by their obferving th«ir old H.iilirno-
, and that their If;norancc of the nice
I luxurious ways of Living, conduced
..ore for prefervina their Health, than any
Medicinal Art. When the Northtra Na-
tions had taught the /<pW4»i the ufeofCohl
Bithing, by tho frequent experience they
found among thcin, Hot Baths began i(*
be difufcd towards G(ilsn\ time ; anu /.iw-
priMitt tells us, Thai: /tUxander Sevrrit*
LTcly bathed in Hot Baths, but almoll al-
Bysin zPiJUhm. 'Jha fume Author gives
I Account of Helh^Aifslus, wlw nlcd to
plour his Ftfciud with Saffron and preci-
K Oyntmcnt before he ufed them. All the
'barbarous Nations at pre Cent,
fuch as the Hsm^ids about Tsr- ^" '^""''"•
tarjfy harden their new born Infants, either
in Snow or Water. And in the Wejt- Indict
they not only Wiifh their Children, but
Mothers alfo, immediately after their Chil-
dren are born-
I cannot better advife you any Method
for prcfervation of Health, than clic Coltl
Ilcginicn, to Immerfc all your Children in
Bapcifiu, to wafli them oltcii aferwards 'till
Three Qiiartcrs old, whereby the Rickets
and C'onvuHions will be prevented ; 10 uic
Children to Cold Air, Water-drinking, to
»ar ftw Cloaths, which if many, con-
N 3 {uxn:%
^
174- Of Cold Baths. Parti.
fumes the Fledi, and renders all Children
fubjeiSt ro Rheums , cc ufe them when Boys
to Bathing in River*., and when Men to
Cold Baths, to harden their Skinsagainit
the Changes of Weather, and to increafe
their vippetite and Digeftion, and Strength
of the Limbs, to expel the Serum by Urine
and Sweat : It loofens the Belly in fomo
Perfons. The Prefervation of Health ,
Cleanlinefs, and pleafantRefrcftimetit after
Cold Baths, are fufficienc to recommend the
ufe of them.
What I have writ on this Subjeft, was ac
firft defigned for my own Information, and
DOW I havepublifiied it for the Inftruftiofl'
of others, and to give all my Country-
men notice of the Conveniences I have'
made at LiuhjieU for Cold Bathing ; and'
I doubt not, but a full Experience of that-
Praftice will aflftire you, my Honoured'
Country-Men, that what I have here pro-r
pofed, will be Cafe and ufeful, and ne-^
cert'ary, both for the Prefervation of youp^
Health, and curing alt the Difeafes mcn^
tioned, which is the hearty Wifhof,
ilJ/ Honcitred Benefa^or/, -f
Toar verj Humble Sei
JOHN FLOyi
OfCoUBaths.
'75
jTo the Ingenious and Learned Tbyfi-
cian^ Dr. Baynard.
SIR,
J Think my felf, as well as all others of
our Frofeflion, much obliged to you,
your great Induftry, in promoting the
Ufe of Co/d Btthifigy and your kind Com-
!inunication of fuch Cafes as have received
benefit by it, which arefufficienr andcon-
j'Vincing Evidence that CoU Baths are both
Safe and Ufeful. I think my felf fartlicr
obliged to give you a particular Account of
Iny fuccefs in curing the Patient you recom-
Inended from Reptoji to our LitchfieU Cold
'Btib. I will firftgivca particular Account
of the Cafe, becaufe you did not fee her,
tut were only confulted by her Friends.
- I obferved, Thit Mrs. Pifer oi' Repton in
pfrJ^/i&irf, was very much fwelled inall her
Joints by a Rheumntifm, which had lafted
itour Years i the Joints of her Elbows,
Vrifts, Knees, Ankles, appeared very big
iand knotted, and fo fore, that fhecoujd not
fufFer any motion of them ; the Fingers were
contrafted clofe, fo that flie couM not mowe
them, nor any other of her Limbs ; her
hatids and Arms where diftorted into a
ftrange figure by the Contraftion of the Si-
news ; all the reft of her Body was very
"'' N J kawy
176 Of Cold Baths, Parti.
Lean, and Qie had a fhort Cough, which
gave me a fufpicion of a Confumption.
When I had viewed die Patient, I was
much difcouraged by the difficulty of the
Cafe, and believed you had fent me a Pati-
ent to difcredit my Bath ; but my fuccefsin
this Cafe has much credited it.
I began with her, by letting her Blood,
and by Purging her once, for her Strength
could not bear any more : This I did by
way of Preparation for the Bathing after-
wards. She was dipt in the Chair three
times at each Bathing, and (he bathed nine
times in the whole ; the wet cold Weather
caufed us to leave it off, though fhc found
a great Refrefhment always after it. Be-
caufe of the Tumors and Fains, I put her
to Bed after her Bathing, and fhe Sweat
plentifully after it, by the help of warm Ale
and Spirit o^ H Arts-horn ; once or twice fhe
did not Sweat, and found her felf not fo
well relieved as by Sweating ; by the ufe of
the Bath and Sweatings her Pains and Swel-
lings did prefently remit, and after a while
went quite away, and fhe began to ufe
her Arms and her Feet, which Ihe had not
dpne of tliree Quarters of a Year before :
Ihe eat her Meat better, grew in Flefh, ana
the dry Cough abated : As foon as I found
the Fains were abated, I prefcrib'd her Ibme
Steel aad Antifcorbucicks, and Oyntmencs
foe
I. Of Cold Baths. 177
for the contraQed Sinews, by which (ho
I received fome benefit, and (he continues
very wcH in all parts but in one Leg, where
the Sinews under her Knee are not yet come
CO a full length. Not only by this Cafe,
but by others I have tried, 1 find Cold Baths
relieve the Rheumi^ick-pains by driving the
Humours (^agnating In the Limbs into the
circulating VcflTeis again, and that by
Sweating afterwards they are readily eva-
cuated; therefore I find that Sweating is
neoeflary in Baibtpg for Rheum At ifms.' And
;! alio obferve, that Evacuations and Alte-
Wlives, and Oyntments, arc neceiTary as
IDich, as the Difcafe indicates, befides the
Bathing, and therefore I believe Cold Bt-
tbing can never be made a Quack Medicine,
ID Ik prelcribed alone, nor to be ufed for
tflDifciifes; but according to Phyfical In-
dications in company with other Medicines,
id theo they will perform very greatCures.
mult give you a little farther of my Ex-
ffience in Hypochondriack Cafes, where-
B I have done much good, but I always
^^^ermixr Alteratives and fiich Evacuations
the Difeafe required; I vomited and bled
them by way of Preparation, and gave
item the Steel- Waters every Day they Ba-
ttled, and after all a Steel Courfe, and they
always felt great Relief, and a< cheariul
Spirit after Bathing, and flept well ; but \
\ui N 4 ob-
:^
obferved, that their Convulfive-Pains can-
not be relieved till after two or three Years
ufQ 0^ Cold Baths, and Sweating after Ba-
thing is not necefTary in thefe Cafts.
I have met with a Cafe in the Hydrofho-
hU where the Man bit died after his return
from Bathing in the Sea, which I mention
to fhew you, that the giving the Deecif. ad
morfam Cants is neceiTary, as well as the
Sea-Bath; and for want of Alteratives join-
ed with the Cold Bath, that ufeful Practice
will fuffer in its due Reputation : And this
PraSice the Cafe of HipfocnteSy I have
quoted, vi'ill juftify, who for HyfochoadrU
seks ufed other Medicines as well as Cc/^
Baths.
There is a particular Circumftance miift
be well obferved ; for where we defign
Sweating, we muft not keep the Patients
long in the Water, but only dip them thrice,
and immediately take them out again, that
their Natural heat may quickly return, and
raife a Sweat to difcufs Tumours and Fains;
but in Hjpachopidrtack Cafes, there the heat
is great, and Spirits furious, and in thefc
■we muft continue our Patient in longer,
and repeat it oftner. And to prove this, I
■will give you an Inftance out of Hdmont,
who tells us, that a Maniack was cured by
leapii^g into a Pond, and continuing there
till he was half drowned j and he tarthec
iays,
■ys, That by the fame Method he had
great fuccefs in curing ManUs : JViJi quoties
formidine prttcoeiter amentes ex aqaa extrahe-
rtt. And he obferved, That Common
Water as well as the Salt Water, fuffocated
the mad Ideas.
'Tis difficult to determine how long each
Difeafe requires Cold Btthitrg^ this muft
be learnt by Experience. I will give you an
Account of what was praftifed this Year by
a Perfon of Quality, from whofe Letter
I have tranfcribed it about the Rickets. My
Boy was at the Cold Bath shout three Weeksy
Mnd WAS dip twenty eight timeSj that is, frfl
ninetimesy aadthenreftedfome Days\ andhe
vms eft dipt trvice in s Day^ Morniftg and Af-
iernoon, and softer each time he was put to Bed,
vd Sweat but very moderately (heeeinga weak
''hiii) ; but others, who are fironger Stveat
rf, and after the Refi mentioned^ they dip
t three times more^ andfo a third time :
k'he vay of Dipping rvas thus, a Woman
Uunges the Child over Head and Ears, and
then fets them on their Feet in Water, and
rubs them all over , efpecially their Ltmhs^
Back, And Belly ; they plunge and rub them
ihriee, and that is called one Dipping ; they
tmafi not be above three Minutes in doing this.
If the Children do not Sweat, they put their
Maids to Bed to them. Note, That the
Children Purge as long 4S they ufe the Cold
Bathing;
Bathing; tat that ceafes ai foon ts they leavt
By this Letter we may obferve, That a
long Ufe of Buthing is neceirary for curing
the Rickets^ which was the Child's Di-
feafe, and that the 5er«>» which opprefies
and fills the Nerves, was evacuated by
Stools and Sweat ; but I am of Opinioo,
that fome Evacuations before, and Altera-
tives after, would very much promote the
Cure. As to the preventing theGtf»/ and
Afihm^i^ and other Chronical Cafes, there
mufV be Water-Drinking and due Evacua-
tions by Vomits and Bleeding,)oined with a
long Ufe of Cold Batht^ fuch as Calias Au-
rtlUftas calls Cof/faetado frigidi Ut/acrif or
elfc no Cure will be performed by .them,
but the Chronical Difeafes will return upon
zny Ejferi/efieme of Humours. I have this
Year had good fuccefs in helping an Afih*
mAtick by Vomiting, Drinking Steel- Wa-
ters, and Bathing at Buxton^ and ufing
Water for conrtant Drink; this Method
has kept him well many Months, when no
other could /lop his Fits. As to any iojury
by Caid Ba.tbsy I never yet met with any
where they have been ufed according
to Fhyfical Indications, and after due
Preparations, fo that I cannot but be-
lieve they will in time prevail againft the
Prejudices of all People. All the young
Pa-
Praftifcrs will out of Curioficy try them,
to which they will be well difpofed by
what they have Read concerning Religious
Wajbiitg in Homefy &c. (fuch as Penelope*^
wafhing before her Prayers, z.r\ATelemA-
chtd^ Wafhing his Head ;) and as to the Me-
dicinal Ablution, they will Bnd enough of
it in all the Greek and LAtia Authors they
have read ; fo that every FhyHcian will in
the next Age, be a Pfeucbrolutift. We are
much obliged to a late Ingenious Au-
thor, Dr. MedJ J who in his Mechani-
cal Treatife of Poyfons truly afTerts, That
Meidaeholy^ as well as HydrofhobtM and
M*mat , were formerly cured by Cold
-Biths J which by their Cold and Gravis
mty produce their Effefts as a Diuretiek:
Ind he gives Quotations from Helmonty
l5r«/^w, and Appius , to prove the Ufe-
'imcls of Cold Baths in the Cafes mcn-
ioned.
We fhall wholly gain all the Experienc'd
'hirurgeons, who can relate many Cures
ley have done by flopping Hemorrhagies^
aling frefh Wounds^ Varicous Tumours^
z. by their Application of Cold Water.
And I was inform'd by an Experienced Chi-
rurgeon, that he had a Schrophulous Tu-
mour on his Foot, cured by holding it un-
der the fall of a Spring for many Mornings.
You
you may obferve in Celfusj That the Ro-
mans held their Heads under the Spouts of
their Springs. And we may obferve in Ca-
liia AureiixniiSy the lllifio aqtiArum\ and in
Hippocrates, the Affufions of Water, all
which anfwer to our Pumping ; and this
is one of the dejiderat a laCoid Ba:hings^ and
it ought firft to be tried on our MoMUeks.
That I may farther convince all my Coun-
try-men that Immerfiofi in Bapiifm was very
lately left off in England, I will affure them,
that there are yet Perfons living who were
So Immerfed ; for I was iflform'd by Mr. Be-
ruford, Minifter of Stretton in Derbyfbire,
that his Parents Immerfed not only him, but
the reft of his Family at his Baptifin. He
is now about 66 Years old. So that he is a
full Evidence, that the Baptifmul Immerfion
began not before the laft Century to hedif-
ufed, and 'tis probable that it continued
longer in Ufe in the Northern Parts, where
there is lefs EfTeminacy and longer Lives,
than in the .So«.'/jer» Farts of this Kingdom,
and to a more cool management of their
Children thofe good Effefts may be juftly
atti-ibuted. I fhall add no more on this Sub-
ject, for they who will not be convinced by
the Experience of former Ages, nor thofc
Modern Cafes you have communicated,
muft be left to their own Opinions, and
you
fum
Part I. Of Cold Baths, 1 8g
you and I muft be coatented^ that we and
other PhyGcians have endeavoured tbreftore
a very Ancient and UfeTul Pnidice m Phy-
fick. Khali ever be.
S I R^
m. K
.' 1
Tour much obliged Trhnd^
difd bimtli ServAfftf \\.
Mil0«2S» 1701. /
•It! ■ .■
I > . » k s «
.• ' * r • ■ .
, - • .• .
" J ' * • •■ * ' \ »'
;
•
♦
^: *. :.
, f. . - - . i ■* -.^
JOPN FX,QPR.
•k .x .*
,.'.,'
^' r •
•.1
«
i
0/
.8+
PartTEl
Of Cold Baths.
PART n.
A Letter from Dr. Baynard
in I^ondon, to Sir John
Floyer, AV. in Litchfield,
co»f er«i«g Cold Immerfions,
u
Honoured Sir J
PON the Difcourfe I had laft with
you, upon your defign of writing a
fmafl Tract on that Noble Subjeft oiCold Im-
7>terfio»,a. PraClice fo old in the World afmoft
forgotten, as if it had been dead and buried
thro* extream Age and Superannuation ; Ac-
cording to my Promife, I now prefcnt you
with fome few Lines touching feme won-
derful and moft remarkable Cures done by
(the amazing Effects of) CoU Water, fuch
only as have fallen under my own EyeznA
Obfervation. And I hope I Ihal] be fo juft
both to my Heif and the Warid, as to re-
late notliing but: what is pofltivcly true in
FtUi i and efpccially thofe whicli I have re-
corded ; the" in fomecthers perhaps thar de-
pend on my Memory, and weretranlafted
longfincc, probably ibmecircumftanccmay
be forgotten or omitted ; but in the main,
to the Deft of my recolleftion, I give you
the whole of what I can remember. I al-
ways (I thank God) lookt upon it as moft
impious, and one of*^ the worft of wicked-
nefles (in ferious things) to irapofeupon
the Living, but much more to B(i»/pr, and
hand down a Falfhood to Foftcrity. A Fault
(I doubt) too many of our Fhyfick.Obfer-
vators have been too guilty of, as that ridi-
culous Story of Phidifxtj Salmonthw, in his
Chapter de Parta per Os ; and that of Car-
tUH\ quoted by Hen. Ab.Hnrt^ whofe
Words are thefe, viz,.
QuAtttsm communionem habtdjtt genitAlisiy
ptrtefyae if [is vising cum C&pite^ AdfeverMy
fmod fiquis CMitie deformis untcatAntum neUe
ilUnsc J'crotum vmnsfque partes jucco ex rit-
dUe jugUadis vtridi exprejfo, C^tnitie dffefi(4
migtrrimo colore Capifis Ptlos injieiet^ totum
anuaatdardturOy &C.
Such unnatural Amufings, and moft im-
I probableStories,makesany ferious Difcourfe
'liculous, and makes many true ones 1'uf-
', for even the moft Crc(^*/tfMr, when
find
find themfelvesimposMon, and deceived,
rejeft every thing ofthe leaft Difficulty, and
doubt even known Truths, that does not
eafily Aide into their weak Apprehenfions,
&c. for Men ought to be very juft in what
they publifh and aOert, in that tender and
nice Concern of Life\ for all things .in re-
ference thereunto ought to beconfider'd
well, and treated with the greateft Caatio/t ;
for there lies no Writ of Error in the Grave,
but the fick Man is finally concluded by
the Knowledge or Ignorance of his Phjjiei-
M. But where Knavery and Negleft help
to compound the Dotiory there, I iay» the
Patient is in a deplorable Condition, more
from his Direftor than his Difeafe ; and too
often in Acxdte Cafes, where Life and Death
perches upon the fame Ueam^ the leaft Grain
or Error of Neglett may turn the ScaU^ and
irretrivably deftroy that Life which on the
other hand, a lucky thought might have
faved. And I think it a Duty indilpenfably
incumbent upon the Phyfician, that where
he thinks he has not taken a right Scheme
ofthe Cafe, nor had a true infight into the
Difeitfe^ or has the leaft doubt upon him ;,
there, I fay, both in Honour and Confci- ,
ence, he is bound to call in fome other to his
Affifiance, which is fo far from being a Dif-
grace, that his Care will be (among wile
Men) efteem'd as the Produft of his Ho-
nefty :
PaTt II. Of Cold Baths. 187 ^
r nefty : and howfoever Providence fhould dif-
^koi Impatient, yet by this faithful dif-
tharge of his Duty, he enjoys the Conforts
I bf a calm Bredfl. and fleeps with a quiet
When on the other I}and, the forward,
old, poficive Corinthian tfjrujler on, fwolrt '
\fith the Poyfon of his oWri Opinion, as if
Re were the Achme^ and top Branch of his
profeffion, right or wrong, goes on ; but
br want of Aim or a Ready Hand, hits the
[ Wrong Mark, and kills the Patient inftead
1 of the Difcafe ; wliich no more troubles
I iiim, thanifhehadfir'daraFIockofGfp/e. '
And here I am apt to think, that the In-
vention ufCow/'oaai^f was from not know-
ing the Virtues of Similes, fuppoling it
like fhooting at a Bird with fmall Shot;
put into a Gun Pellets cnougli, and onis or
other muft hie. But true Knowledge of a
Medicine, is like the Hbrfe-Jhoe (kuck at a.
Man's Girdle, (whofe Life was faved by it;)
quoth he, I fee a littU Armour )vi!l ferve ttje
turit, if it he put it the right place, Src. But
Difcourfes of this Nature are necdiefs (Sir)
toaPerfon of your great Cucumfpeflion,
where Care and Vigilancy attend in fuch
PerfeQiion, that I well know the lealt mif-
take can no more efcape your Pen, than it
1 has done your Praftice; for in what joa
I hvc already writ, your Caution is re-
l . O markably
Of Colli Baths. ' Part
Partin
^BarkaUy feen. And I know alfb you)^
great Reading and Learpiog to be fucN
that very fcw^ if any ccmarfeabic Paflag^
among the many Vohimcs of the Andci _^
Greek and i.<»« Writers, {lip your ObfetvA*
tion; cfpccialiy being fo near 4 Netghbew
to that Magazine oILcarniag,^ the Libracjf
of the Learned Dr. toivle, a Gentlcmaij
who isDOC only an Honour to our Facult^W
but a polifh^d Scholar, and bright m ajf
other manner of Learning.
Icannoc)oin vvirh JgatJjintf-\ iobiswoaj
dci'ful Encomiums ol Cold Bathing, a&bi|
ib quoted by Ori^afms^ Phyficiaii to-JuUaiit
the (Apoftaic) Emperor, wherein he I
ftanccs the tre^uent ufe of it in himfclf, aim
recommends it 10 the World, as a. mcM
Wbokfoine and falubrioui tra^Jce, zm
ieems CO have but a low and languid C^
uion of the UfcofWtJ/ liaihs. ror with
dueRefpeft to lo great a Man (asdoubc-
Icfs he was in hii Generation) I muft take
leave to dilTuit i'com him, and by way ot
PigrcfTion tell you, that 1 have at Icaft, lor
the fpace of j6 Ycairs, (one Summer or
two exicpted) conftantiy viCted the H)t
Bxihs at hath^ Jn ^or/jerjet/hire, as a Fby-
ft^ian, and have fecii wondedul and molt
deplorable Cal'es there cured, and
in a very little time, where Care and
tion ha5 been obferved in the ufe oft
Fart 11. Cf Cold Baths. 189
and efpecially in the Weft-hdU Grifvs and
Ct>lieks, where a Paralyils has been general
with a total lofs of tlieir Limbs ; and others
with Arms, Hands, Legs, and Feet, ftrange-
Iv contrafted ; yet the Bath has cured both
tne Solutions and CoMrMcliofis, which being
contrary Operations, ispaftniy Philofophy
toiind out how fuch Cures are wrought ;
without, as Helmont fays, it be by com-
forting the Jrcheus with mild and gentile
warmth; for 'tis a friendly Fomentation,
a natural Sal volatile oleofunty a Cordial to
»'. faint and languid Spirits, and puts them
a Power to aft more vigoroufly.
Indeed when iMen will batlie that are of
Plethortick Habits, and Sanguine Confti-
tuions, with a Cargo of Wmeand good
Cliear in their Bellies, without emptying,
or any medical Preparation, or that over-
heat the Biood and other Fluids, beyond
their natural Standard of CalefaSion, by
fwimraing and cxercifing too much in them,
or (laying too long on the Hot Springs, &c.
there, I fay, fomeiimcs the confcquences
have been ill. But then I hope he muft
aHow, that the Fault is not in the Bath,
but in the irregular Bathing. And what
freat Cures have been, and are daily done
y drinking the B-iih-Water hot from the
Pt/mp^ Res ipf.i loquitur -^ for the Cures
would fpeak tliemfclves, were Men mute:
O 2 (ot
195 Of Cold Baths.
p^S^B
vital Flame was even blinking in the Sock-
et, and the Soul (one Foot over the Threft'
old) turning out of its tattered and debay'd
Tenement, by the cautious ufe of the Bath'
Witers and Bitters, bad a new Life put
to Leafe , who to this Day enjoys
an uninterrupted ftate of Health. This
Lady was fo very weak, that at firft wd
gave her but two or three Spoonfuls of the
Bsth Water y and about half an Hour after
one Spoonful of a bitter Infufion ; and here
by the way, Note, That mUSage, white
Hoar-hound^ and Hopps, are the only let-
ters that will agree with thefe Waters, and
makes them pafs, fo that they are in the
wrong Box, that direft only Wine, or
Wine and Water to be drank at Meat by
Water drinkers, when a well brew'd mid-
dle fort of clear Small Heer moderately
Hop'd, fhall fit eafy upon their StomachSi
and make the Waters pafs much better, for
Hops J is both Diuretickand Anrifcorbuticlc,
helps Digeftion, kills Worms, and may
be accounted as good an jintUiihUfis^ as
the beft, tho' the foolifh Vogue upon its
firft ufe, here in E»g/dn^y ran Counter to
its true Phyfical Veitues^ by branding it
with breedmgthe Stone, dre. but Experi-
ence has long fince convinced the World of
that Error ; whilft iVixe contrafts and har-
dens the Glands, and hipders Secreoon,
i-s. this truth any Man mav try upon hint-
fclf, let him obferve one ana tlie iame Re-
^mcn in his Rxercilc, Etculcnts and Potu-
tnts, fomc Htclc time before, that an hour
l*itcrhis ufuai quantity of Bath Waters,
liet him talcchali a pint or a pint of Winc^
1^ what foit he plcafes, and tlie next Day
\%l the fame time after his Waters, let hint
Iteike the ftme quantity of a well brcw'd>
||p:^M Mah Liquor, that is not too ftrong,
""iJtw and Verty, nor Stale or Sower ^ V\\
|oM two to one, that tliewvU HopM Male
liIaQ> Iha!l pifs fooner and more in quan-
Sty than the Vintner, and etUmhoc cemies
roi*vij dr »u»^aam fefe/lit BxperJme/ittim ;
: that I forbid a (ilafs of good Wine at
, cfpecially to thofe who arc usM to
J but t write this to let them fee how talfe
the cry of this late Litter of Phyfick-
fbelps^ that hunt and run down Malt
^uots^ without any reafoning orairurting
why. But to the Cafe, an Hour after that
t little more S/tth Witers , then Bitters
laiOjflndlbby degrees, from lefs to more,
brought her to &;ar half a Pint of the
Iratcrs hot from the Pump, which ftavM
Irithout loathing or vomiting ; then fhebe-
;an to be better reconeilM to the Sight and
Well of Meats, and to tAkc a little Chick-
en Brothi &c. and in a Day or two more
Oie coula bear a Pine taken at a or three
4 Drauglits,
Dratights, and then began to eat folid
Meats, and in the fpace of nine or ten
Weeks recovered her Health to admiration,
inromuch that when fhe went into the
^Church, or to walk in the Grove, when
fhe came out of her Chair, (he was point-
ed at, faying, there fje is! that's/be! that^s
the Lddj that tvdt fo rveak^ Sec. dtgito mon-
frare & dicier hec eft. So that the true
Reafon why fome mifs of a Cure, is either
becaufe they drink too much in qoantity,
or take (too foon) Cordial Waters, or
Wine after them, oreat before they have
pafs'd off; for the Sromach fbould have
time to dry, and the Fibres to contraft and
ctofe, &c. and never to ear without Ap-
petite, and then but two thirds of a Meal.
I'know, now living, a certain Knight, who
is fqll, if not aboVe, a Iiundred Years old,
whoiSasagi!, as healthful, walks upright,
can fit, rife up, or ftoop, with as much
^afeas any Man of forty Years ; can walk
as much, and as long as moft Men, who
told me that he attributed his great Health
aiid Vigour to hi^Tcmpei-ance in eating;
for he folemnly declared. That he never
filled his Belly tpfttiety in his Life ; and
tho'hecandrinRaglalsof Wine, AI9, op
Cyder, yet in tl^e main, he is as tcmpef-
rate.irihis Drinkirig alfo, as in his Eating,;
ki\^ that when irt^iis Retirement in the.
t^'"a'''--' »• '-^ Coup-
Of Cold Baths.
Country, he told me, he drank little cHfc
butWatcrfora oc j Months together. But
now as to the other Ladies Cafe I mention'^,
ihe was brouglit to the Bath /» Extremis^
ith all the frightful Symptoms of Dcai
#:
^poii her, vifible in theghaftly look of hi
Face, accompany'dwith Dtfpondencj, St£
fcg, 6'trr)o«/«ir, Singultits and Cofn'utjiomj
ft^ith an univcrfal Atropfr/, yet by due Care,
ind the powerful Vertues of the warm
lBrf/6 Wattrs^ by (low and gentle SteiT;, • by
^adual AcccfHons, in the fpacc of fix
Weeks fheacquirM fucli a Stomach, fucha
tonftitution, rliat fbc Danc'd in the Town-
Hall ; nor did fhe receive her Cure from
idrinking only, but was comforted and rc-
Crelh'd with rlic mild and gentle warmth of
itiie Crofs Bath ; for bathing in many Cafes
£l of wonderful ufe, as in Colicks, Gripes^
Scorbutick Atrophies, Cramps, and all ftiff-
ijefs of the 7W«'j and Uml's ; To that there
'4i"e few Cafes but where moderate Bathing
itiay be join'd to Drinking, to finifh ana
tomplcataCure, favinf* in fomc Difcafcs of
ifhc Headf and all ffrff/ch and unnatural
^tatj, Fernifirts and Ehiiflithm of the
Blood, all which miifl be left rothe Judg-
iticnt of the directing Phyfician, if the Pa-
tient has the good luck tocfcapcthc hard
fate of poor Mr. Cope, the Lottery-Man,
and light on (t Phyficianthat can ditllnguiOl
be-
196 Of Cold Bath.
between a Kjttle-Drum and d^Cttrt-WheeU
But to fwill and drink great quantities,
Fumes flie into their Heads, their weight
extends the fibrous Membranes too much,
wafhesoffthe A/tff«yof theG«J/, andfome
times from the HUdder too, and gives an
Ardor aria^ for a little time : But generally
this happens to thole that drink as much
Wine in the Afternoon, as they do Water
in the Morning; and when the Stnimrt
are.relax'd by the foftncfs of the Waters,
and the obftrufted Glands of the Mefmtery
opened and relieved, Quantities of Wine
muft do much Mifchief, when in the Blood
there is an Union of To much ii/f and Jar-
t±r ; fo that the beft Method and Medi-
cine too, may be abufed by over or under
doing it.
I remember whejn I lived at Prefiort in
Lattcufijlre^ a Man died with a Cheefe in his
Belly, by drinking new Miik upon Sowre
Stale Beery which fofrightned People from
theufeof Milk, thatallforfookit, but the
wifer Calves. And here a word of Admo«
nition may not be amifs : I have known a
great many that have deftroy*dthemfelve8»
and fome very fuddenly, by drinking MUlt
toofoon, upon any fharp acid Liquors, as
Wine, Cyder, Stale Beer^ &c. when thoftt
Liquors have been drank fafely after Milk^
tho^ X Ihould not care to drink marp Ltquor&
irtll. Of Cold Baths.
too foon upon Milk, for fear of Curdliiig,
trufting too much to the Daich Pro-
Jprb,
PViae up Miliock^ is good for Eiotk ,
But Milhck up l^ine^ it u teniae.
mho' Millc curdles upon all Stomachs what-
ivcr, even upon the youHgcrt Animals, but
k is a foft Curd and loofc, when Acids make
t hard, {tiff, and compa^^, for if Milk
lid not Curdle, it could not Nourifli, for
ais to be fupposd, that fo grofs a Sub^anco
Curds are , could never enter thofe
treighi, clofeand invifible paiTages into
Blood, &c. Two of my Acquaintance
1 alfo of a Surfeit of Halmot/^ eaten un<
jier-boiPd, after which Accident feme
irould never more touch S/iimon, &c. fo
, no particular Cafe or Accident ought
t) (bake or undermine a known and receiv'd
Qood. How many Men have died fudden-
fly in the Street of Jpopiexits^ &c ? Now
^ad any of thefe unhappy Wretches been
ial that inftant) put into cither Hot or
%old Batbs^ not only the Mob^ but even the
r^ravc and more Learned Noddys of the
Noddiliiy (would all be Corw^r;, and) have
laid the Murthcr at that Door. A grave
Nod, and a gracctul Grimace, with acnarge
of NofeGun-Powdcr, Snuff 'twixt Finger
god Tl^umb) or a Spit after his Pipe, are
Signs
Of Cold Baths.
Signs of difapproving^and are home Thrufts'
to the New invention ; but if the Charafler
of Whim or Gimcrack be labellM unto it,
'tis for ever damn'd. Such is the force of
ooe/C^-irfonaCrowd of Fools^ as is daily
feeninraoftoftheTranfaftionsoftheWorld.
One cries up Cr/ih and Loyjlerf^ as if Health
cartie from Sea in Armour-, t'other 0««^f/
and Lemons. "Dr. Jlk/t/jfkys, Vinegar and
Pepper is bad with Roaft i^tff ■■ And Dr.
Jei^y that a Pearl Necklace fwells the
Glands of the Throat, arid will breed J^in-
fys or tlie Ki»g^s Evil. ' One asks his Pati-
ents, Can yc eat Oyfiers? And t'other,
Can ye drink Verjuice? So that you fee,
that the Ldtid-Crths and Sea-Crabs can ne-,
ver agree. All thefe foolilh Extreams are
of ill Confequenceand of pernicious Ten-
dency to the Commonwealth of /^a/rjJ';
For to be wedded to an Opinion is true Mad-
nefs, unlefs warranted by infallible Demon-
flration. Pbyfuk Bi^gotrj is worfe than that
of Popery, and docs more mifchief to BoJies^
than that to So»/s ; for God may have Mer-
cy on an Error in his Worjhifj but a raif-
applied Medicine can have none, but muft
on and afl according to its N^itare, what-
ever be the Confcquonce. And yet, not-
withl^anding we daily fee the ill Hffefh of
fome MedietmSy and little or no virtue in
0therif yet we preferibe on, and will not
■■■•-]"■ cake
■ Of Cold Baths. 199
; Fains to Examine, but take things on
Ji. and Tick. Credulity is Harbinger
» Infellibinity, and clears the way for £r-
r to ambic on, and intails miHakes to the
md of the Chapter. How many hundred
ITears has Jrfemck been miftook for Gm-
Won, and worn for it as on Amulet againft
Be Plagufj by the raiftake of an Arabick
jvord Ar'fifk or Jrfepick, (as I am told) fig-
iifies a Genus Cw/tamoai^ and founding near
^rfenick as an Amelet to prevent it, which
irror had done much Mifchicf, and was dif-
pver'd firft by Diemeri/roek, fee his Book
"ePeJie^ &c. And nothing is harder than to
ivet a wrong Notion. Things received
3 root, and not cafily yield to ExtirpM-
How many Men has intempeftive
nd over-bliftering deftroyM, (efpecially
ipon a CriHs) in altering the Faces of all
fte Juices of the Body, difturbing the ge-
buine Secretions, by mixing the venomous
1 corrofive Effluvium^s of the Canthari-
with the Blood, accuatingthc Pn/fi^
Icfides bringing Straaguries^ and other
failchiefs on tlie BUdder^ infomuch that I
clieve the Devil himfelf old Bel^l/ubto
i nothing but a great CamhArid the Prince
f FljSj they aft fo according to his Nature,
) plague Mankind where-e'er they they
ire applied. I knew an old Romanin; in
'|cu of other corrcftions, would blifter him-
fe!f for his Sins, and call'd it his Baifamum
Pofttificmi^ &c. And here 1 caanot omit
a Srory of an Apothecary's Man, in Flett-
ftreet^ whofe Mafter died in a few Days
Sicknefs of a Fevety which his Doftors
quicldy made malignant. Quoth Ae, I
wonder that my Maftcr fhould die lb
foon, for he had a dozen Elijlers on, and
they all drew very ftrong: That is true,
quath one fta^ding hj^ thou art in the right
00% for in four Days time (together with
the help ofa Teem of Doftors) he was
drawn out of his Bed into the Vault over
the way there, pointing at St. Dunjidti'i
Church. I am apt to think that from this
Killering Doftrinc came the Proverb, Hu-
mam corh ludere ; not but that BHliering is
good in fome Cafes, but there is meafurc
in doing it, as well as Judgment, when
and where it is to he done. And violent
Sweating Medicines have not been much
fliort oF as mucli mifchief: How havethey
brolie the Glohuli of tlie Blood, diforderiag
at] the Fluids, by putin^ all the Juices upon
a Fiuor and Fret^ fo forcing the morbiij
Matter out of the Channels into the Hdit^
Nerves, Stc. introducing T^KwtJrj, Detiri^
urns, Subfultw tendinum and ConvuijionSf-
andall thedifmal Train of the Grave's Ar-
tillery, thcEnfigns of approaching Dm;A,
which by a mild and tender Ufage, attend-
^p!r
Of Colli Baths. 50I
I
ing and aflifting the Efibtts of Nature,
jnieht have been feparated from the Mafs,
^tid carried off by Stool or Urine.
How many (even in the Agony of Death)
have been crara'd with Buri: and Boius^ and
fcnt hence with the laft repeated Dcfe undi-
geftcd on tlieir Stomachs ?
How many thoufands has Dr. Morphem
tock't up in his leaden Coffin, by ncedlefs,
intempcftive and wronR apply'd Perago-
richy &c. hung their Nerfe with Garlands
of Ni^hsShade^ and lung Kequiem's to
their Sou!s in Wreaths of Foppy! when
their droulic Prtfcriptions !\ave provM their
- Oedentials, or a Warrant to nap on, rill
the day of "Judgment.
But wliere a Phyfician gallops over Iris
Fatieats, and rides Poft to be Rich, t!terc
his hafte is too great for final! Obfervations,
and the Sick-man loft through Precipitatioa.
But this is no detriment to the Doctor, for
while they Die, others Spring up; and
wlulft there is Intemperance in the World,
there will be Difcafcs. And where he by
Policj or Party has gain'd his Point, and fet
up his Standard in the Opinion of ¥ool$^
where his Spaniels range through a City to
Spring his G^wp, and Truy is rewarded
with the Oftals of the Quarry, there the
Phyfick-Kirp/t flies only at G(j/(i, the well-
fare of his Patient is but the Side-board o{
his
hisBufincfs, and ColUterais of his Care.
But this G^Z/w/vr is a Saint to the Sharer ;
thofc that go Snips with their ApathecArits^
areVillains of thefirrt Magnitude; here the
Patient is in a pretty Fickle being Aire to
be dous'd according to the depth of his
own Pur fey or his poSor's Cottfeteace ;
and this I call both fi-io/iy and Muritr., for
the Man is firft Ruh^i^ and then K)&'^:
thefe Pulfe.pMlSy tbcfe Bcdfide Handiiti arc
the worft of Rohlers j for either through Ig'
norsme or Avarice^ they never give Qparter,
but fire at you the PuivU grefitUy or z quid
i»(ifidum, a White Powder which makes no
Noife- But theft things only pafs upon wed'
Mtnds^ People of fupei ficial, httle or no
Thought, at leaft of fuch (hallow thinking,
that the fiiort Legs of a Loufe might
wade their Underftandings , or elfe they
could never be Gu^'d, and led by the
Dad ing-ft rings, but by People of as little
depth as themfelves; for there is an unac-
countable Sympathy between foois, and
where e'er they come, tho* in a Crowd, or
other Company, they always find one ano-
ther firfl: ; their diftant t'iflitvtum\ whidi
makes the Sphere of AOiivity, won't mix
with thofe of a wife Man's, but like Exche-
quer Tallies, will only fie their own Sticks.
Yec the Fool does lefs harm than the
K/iAvey Dr.M-'iWf that takes any ImprelTion,
Part II. Of Cold Baths, aoj
or ftamps it on another , chat always fays
as the Ddtne and Nurfe fays, and becomes
all things to all Men, that he may gain
fome (Many) ; This Phyfick-Faber touchy
es you tenderly with thufmooth File, and
fills his Pockets from his own Forge ! This
chucks the Church under the Chin, and
Ipits in his Hand, ftrokes up the Diflenters
Ftfrehadf SkC. In fliort, hs'is]ikGJ:fudiiiras*s,
^^gg^ff good for every thing, and fticks
at nothing to grow Rich.
The next is your Noftrum-wonger Dr.
Stew-Toadf one that fets up for Miracle antl
Mifierj^ and always makes Honejofa Dogs
Turd-^ this Martyrs more Toads than Pope-^
py has Hereticks, and crams his Patients'
with Bufo inftead ofB^^/; (for a Toad is
as innocent as a Fifh) t!io' the Patvis Aichi-
apieietf as they call it, has no more Virtue
in it, than the Powder of Pickled-Hnring:
ind yet thele Sir Pafnives will be no more
[lirred than a Mill-Jlone ■ and in Confultati-
oa they are always moved with a Lever^
they are too heavy and unweildy to be
drawQ from their own Opinions.
I once heard of a whimfical Fi:llow that
fo doted on Bu£, that they called liim Cap-
tiitt Buff", for nothing could pleafe liim bift
Ba/, BuffShirt, Band, Beaver, Boots, &t,
aD Bufff and dwelt in a Buff-Budget, like
Diogems in his Tub, and would eat nothing
' F but
I 504. 0/ Cold Baths.
[1)01 Triffej becaufc it lookt like BufF;
i I doubt we have too manyofthefe Bnl
I C/^fams'in the now Pro/? /r«/e anddegenerai
But to cure this Evif, is hie Labor hiff
Opm^ ib to leave tliem in the Foffeffion 6P
themfehjeij under the /w/tfe»ff of their oWftJ
tJnderfiand'mgs is Cutfe enough ; for when
the Gr4Cf of God can have noadmittano'
' all Admonitions are fpilt and thrown awa;
for Stttpdity is Proof againft Satyr as we
as Wifiom. And fo to the bufinefs of Cold
■ Water.
Among many that have commended Ca
"iVaterj I find Hermanm Vander Hejden cfll
it up to the Skies: ufed both inwardly and
extreamly in Stone and Gouts, he wondd*
fully commends it, and in many other Cifi
fes, inPains of thc'SVowtfc/'and yc/Wj; hiM
his Words are, 'viz.. Ne^ue hie omiffum vi^ \
Urn quod ficutijrigida una atqae altera hsrt .
Ante totnam ajjumpia dolorihus artieularibtis
medetar ; It a etiam quardoqueqatbufdtmfio-
machf doloribm ejajquefrfgdx cyathus rmntfdi'
ate pofi praadiuTN evatuatus, /blear fubvemrf, 1
imo Pomum crudum^ acidam tametty nut auj-
terumy cum cyatbo etidm j'rigidg^ loco c»»»
(ibi aatfotus^ tewfere *■«■?/< oblatm^ eoncto- '
natoribiti aliiji^ue recenii raucedine lahermt>-
hu^y claram cr naturaUnt fofiridie voeemft-
fiffime refiitaft.
Of Cold Baths. 105
And a Reverend Divine, Dr. IViat by
fame, Minifter of Bromhim in the County
iViits, told me, That being very ill
his Stomach (and fearing a Surfeit) after
eating Salmon not well boiled , he went
immediately into Cold iVater, and was pre-
fently cured: And in this it is alfo com^
mended fay Cornelitts Celftu^ Galerr, and
others; and I my felf have often been re-
lieved from Wind and Crudity by Swim-
ming in Cold Rivers.
And Mr. Arch-Deacon Clement this pre-
Et Minifter of Bif* told me, That when
was a Student at Oxfvrsi, eating too
chfatVenifon he found liimreUextremely
in, and fearing a Surfeit he went into the
Water and fwam up and down for the fpace
of near two Hours, and came forth very
well, and coqtinu'd fo
The fame Author of hisownKnowledge
affirms, and quotes Pi/h and Alexander
Tra/Uanua, how that many have been cu-
red of the Stoire and Gravel in the Kidneys,
by a. long, but moderate ufe of Water
drank warm or cold, -Si (^ frigida -vet
tafida djfumaiar ; f/ofi emm dubilem uiramque
tonveturCf imo & calidam^ /edjrigid>ir» maxi*
wte. And why fometimes they gave the
Water warm, (Ae yij^/) becaufe theyfuppo-
fed the Diftemper to proceed from a cold
Caufe, fo proceeded according to the Axi-
V 2 om,
4o6 Of Cold Baths
om, Contrarhcontrariis, &c. which is not
I always Orthodox, for vevy often fitf/iUsfi'
\-. And I knew an old Phyfician that held
rthc drinking a glafs of warm River or
[■ Spring Water (that would lather) a little bc-
[■ lore Dinner, as a great Secret, bothtopre-
rient and cure the Stone. And I think I
liave read fome fuch thing in Bagliviy the
now Pope's Phyfician.
He fays alfo that it will cure a Red-Faet^
Ct vitia omnia Catama, which he worded
{o prettily, that I'll here repeat them td
make you laugh. Sir Joh/r, viz. Sic qui va-i
rifgAlo faciei rubore^ Nafoque Carbar/caiari'^
^ ap^rime PofiuUlo (qitod pltrumque a Bad
chi nut Cereris decotii potemiorii fuligiao^i
i/aporibtts tvenire folet) in medium fradeunt^
fic. And in an another place he fays pofi-'
tivcly, that where through extremity of*
CoU, the Hands and feet are benumbedj
it fails not to cure. Et quidem nulU pr*tet
TAtionem vtderi debet ^ ft hie etudacter afftratU
pedes ita faviexte Hyeme contr Alios & coHgeUX^
tos^ ut eorum digiti ad mfiar fitpiitt rigejceo'
Us appareanl^ infrigidam aliqaiies renoVitiM
meditt adtniTim hora fpatiotmnierjhs adprijii-
nam denuo jiatum rei>ocarf^ ^c. Again, jk
frigidam Tetanum curare docetj Hipp. lib. <.
Aph. 24. Sic P^ralyricum rjufdem f rigid*
Crure^ Braehioy Humeroqat reJoUttis, ton'
tinui
Of Cold Baths.
: c^ rtnovAU applications duArum dut
Hum harirum fpado^ inlegra & eidem die
•Jtritumfuijfe a fide dij^no percept, &c. And
J another place he cells you tliat Contorfons
" 4ffd Contti^ions^ tho' never ib big and fwellM,
are curablu by Cold Waier^ iJ;c. in hit Ver-
_tii. Multo minus dbfonam vidchitar^ ft hie
wmaveroy quod Coniorfiones jan^iurarum^
trnmque imo c^ diAtum quarumlibet corporis
fftium contufwaes turn ingenllhus tumoribus
KniVf ia frigidum immerfione longe ficurius
flAm per quxvis alia Rcmedia, abfque jump'
w, fivt molefiiA & temporii jA^fura citius ^
\rto citius curentur ; fic manm ^ maxime
\dtsyt qat diiiis coutorfionibus ^ accideatih/u,
tqutntius ob/ioxtt efje folenl^ ad prijlinum
\»ur & frmum grfffam reduet poJ[unt ; imo
ttiamfi duabus aut tribm horti pofi dicloSy
dr alios fimiles fort uitos Caj'asy feduh aliquo-
liet renovando frigtdam idipfum fiat, m hifee
occults tton femel vidi, repellendo fp^do unim
hora Humor eray qut ob pr^diSlam moramplu-
rimii tiimis unpacius vidtretar, ut repulfoni
pareret ; ty* ob contufom/tf, & riimis ingen-
tem fratuberatiomm j'appurAnim aut tanqusm
fsnguit extravAJatm traUandus ejfe exijltmare-
fur ; ille tamm adhuc hxrtns ia venuUs capil-
Urtbus dtlafatisy & cum came elatis hacfri~
gida (cum ea dtfcuti aequeat) repditur, quan-
do 3»oa nimisftro applicatur -y quamquam etidm
negUcia omni omnino cura^ pofiridiApam banc
P J 6!-
I dr.
ao8 Of Cold Baths. Pi
^ rfg'ffe longAtn AffUcationem^ ahi tarn immt-
nis non erm protuberatioy integrt frofuiffe
mifji conjtet : qua wfortanin cum fepiffimt
accidant Ugnariif, ferrariis, (^ mnrxriis fs-
^nSy & cajupvis generis operarus, fet'mffimum
(jr ohviam ilhs hoc foterit ej[e remedium.'
And out of Hippacrates he inilances abun-
dance of Cafes, not only Immerfion for the
G(7«f, but in moft inveterate Pains of the
HeadalCof Cr rebiHibus defluciiombus auxili-.
4/ or, &c.
He gives you the Hiftoryofan E/tgajb
Noble-Man, oticTobias Maiihervs^ who for
twenty Years laboured under a moft vio-
lent Hcmicraftiam, & dsutijjime abfqaeynter-
miffione 4 deflaxionepertinaei^ in tantu c^U
per Pa/alum & Hares m/iaCHle^ at inde ftro-
phpUfuA jemper madide circumferre cogeretur^
dffliBusfuiffet ; tam feltciter diBa capitis im-
merftone anm atatisjua Co ab utroquefe itf
commodo liheravify &c. And he fays, that
the Gentleman lired to more than 70 Yeair
of Age, and perfeflly freed from any Re-
lapfe, and that he continued the dipping
bis Head ever after, and that in the depth
of Winter; and that he alfo advifed ano-
ther A'oble-mMt in the fame Cafe to the fame
Courfe ; ^« cam longumfimili dolors excar-
ficAtM fiiijffit hoc agendo modo, feipfam &
i'n^nitos deinde ftmiliter a^eSios^ omnium am
^pimju integrs jknitatt dontvit.
PPPfe Of Cdd Baths. 209- ^^
Kjt . /i*c etia,m jii^iUri Authoritxte Cormlii i
jt . /i*c ettam jtabiUn Author tlnte Lorndit.
,tl[ipAtH ex c. 4, dr 5. fritni lihri Jtii uhi
/iicit • Eos quibus CA^tti injirmttm efi^ & (tfli-
4ftis liffituiinihm^ gravedinibu'Sy deJlilUtio-
fihus i^r tonftllis labor anl, nihil frigida xque
frodejfe pojfe^ eapafq; per afiatem Urgo Cunn-
4 aliquAmdiu quotidie fubjicienduw t^ per-
'tfndendum. Him aliquoram ptteri qui bene
ifitti funty ut tiies ejfe preferverent audo Cx-
afte sb ipfif Crepu/idiis mjuriis externis expo-
rt permittaatuTj fecundum docirinam prsj'iti
^ruelii Celfi^ qui vult ut omnes qui & bene
furietf & fui fpoTitis fuaty iis ajfuefcant^ &
MM rainus in reliquo vita regimi?tey &c.
^., He alfo affirms, that it cures Toath-ach^
iiflammatioii ot the Ejes^ and by ftandmg
" Cold Water above the L^s, it takes off
;e Pains of Wind and Colick \ and for the
rlag of R.ece»t IVt/uttdsj the Bitings of
td OogSf&i. lie has a loag Difcourfe, and
sms. 10 back his Arguments with two
lE^derable Sublhnttajs, Reafaa and Ex-
yenee,
^^ He alfo has a very fine Difcourfe of Vi^ine-
fttegitrj not only as moft admirable in the
"igae, bocli in pi"cvention and Cure, (if
\^\y tal(en) but in the Cafe of almolt all
ffi^i, and tlpceially in that of a^mad
gy which he compares to betnuch ,the
iame, as the t^ojjofj of an Jfp. And be*
laufe Dr. ColUtch has iiillanced a Cafe !>f
i^iperh Bile ciired by Addii J think.U
\^.
a 10 Of Cold Baths. Pari
not impertinent here to recite it, though
'tis fome Digreffion from my Text of Cold
Water. Cornelius Celfus. Nullum Aeeto
ijfe prdfiantius remediam^ & R/tttone a fri.
ori, & ex^erii»tta ipfr contetidit adjuncts
odolefcentis Hifioria , qui ictus ah Afpidi
cum ejfetf & fe in Locum contulijfet aqua
df omm liquore dejiitutum^ O" afualtter jid-
ti tangemm refer lens, earn evacuetidofimul &
femet&fttim iutolerahi/em cjr pr^tfentiffmam
venenum exti/ixir.
He commends the Herb PimpimlU fteep'd
in Vinegar, both in the PUgue and other
FoyfoTH. And Colonel Rosjbn^ a Gentle-
man of Z,<i«w/i/f?, told me, That when his
://£)»;*ii/ were atany time bitten by a mad
D'o^y that he ufed to give them inwardly the
Juice of Drrfftfs/w with Vinegar, andalfo
applied it outwardly to the Bite, and it fel-
dom failed to Cure. But to my Bufmefs; ,
A Lady in Lancafbire, of good Quality
and Worth, having for fome Years laboured
under a Complication of Diftempers, but
chienyA^eri/a/and Hyfttricd, of atbinHa-
bit, very Pale, a decayed Stomach, faint
Sweats, and a low languid Pulfe, came to
Londoa by Direftion of Sir Charles Hearho'
rough, unto whofeLadylhe was near relat-
ed,' and had in Confuttation no left than
Ten or Twelve Phyfictam ; flie had tried aU
things triable and probable, but fruitlefs and
in vain, at length when almoft at the Brinb
of
Of Cold Baths.
the Grave^ by the Perfuafions of Dr.
'borough and my Self^ (he was prevailM
ith to go to St. MuKgo'sy a very ColdSfring
Torkjhire^ and there couragioufly imraer-
;ing to a Miracle, was in lefs than a Fort-
lights time perfeftly reftored to her Health,
.nd lived many Years after without any
Relapfe.
And now I am on Sr. Mango's, (^which is
very cold and quick running Spring, but
ither too iliallow, it being not above three
'ootdeep, or very little more, and open at
'icTop, which is a fault,) having the good
irtune to meet with that Worthy Gentle-
Mr. H«/-r;/fl», (attheBaths in5£'«»fr-
^/fcirffj who is Owner and Proprietor of
at M''?//, he was pleafed to give me an Ac-
luntoffeveral great and confiderableCures,
and thofe to his own Knowledge ; but for
farther Confirmation, direfted me to write
\to Torkfhire, to the Minifter of the Place,
:hich accordingly I did, and here I wiU
[ferttheSumof hisAnfwer, viz:
Sir, I met with your's on my Road to
Torkj &c. I here fend you fome few inftan-
ces out of many ; but Tiraothy Wehfter^ who
farms the iVd, thereby having the better
opportunity to obferve the Cures done, can
terfurnilhyoui iothe interim be pleas'd
iccept of thefb few Obfcrvations, viz..
^
i
Mrs.
Wl Mite * " ; t^, toe of R"^ ^efo
Eft", *f wS^th.o'h^^'^fnd is to"
Mirl""' ?" 'can, «^«?"Sortai
Of Cold Baths.
WMav) Wharton 0^ Cackermouth^ came in a
Tripple-Cart, fhc is now mCofgrAve^ and
has been a fijearer at Harveft-work feveral
Summers.
Tour Seri/ant to Commmd.
J. Richardfon.
' I my felf faw a Man at St. Mungo that
_iiid totally loft his Limbs, had fuch a Tor/'or
knd Numbaffsy that he could not feci an Awi
f Pin run into his Flclh ; yet before he
rent away, could feel a Fly touch lys Skin,
^d I faw him catch a F/j on his Le^ with
^sHand; he was poor, and almoft naked ;
fe lay by the Well-fide to receive good Pco-
Hes Charity, and went into the We// (by
"fclp) four or five times in a Day.
' The aforefaid Gentleman, Mr. Harrtfoitj
Md me, That a poor Woman came to St.
Hango^s in a Cripple-Cart, having by a Pal-
^y loft all her Limbt ; fhe came from Lever-
io/f or near it, in LAmajhire^ and after
lime time fhe came to him, (being a "J^fiice
SjF the Peace) defiring a P»fs to go home
pto her own Country, which is not much
SJort of a hundred Miles. Heask'd her,
flie wasnoE the Woman that came fome-
^me fince in a Cripple-Cart ? She replied.
She was,and had been at Harveft-work near
a Month, togetaliitle Mony to carry her
home ;
, Of Com J^"^ —
M^" ^="'^ b oogta People to h, help. ^^^
cotne home, he « ^ f^^^a that ;»»
"'!'="' Cf hi Bafmefs very « "• ^'^
U Of Cold Baths. ai5
(a fCMG Nathaniel, \n whom there is noGmie)
a Woman brought in a ChUd about five
Years old, it could neither Go nor Stand^
but would fali all on a Lump like a Clout ;
(and to the beft of ray Memory, fhe told
me it never could ftand) fhe being but a
poor Woman, ask'd my Advice, if any
thing could be done in her Child's Cafe? I
bid her dip it over Head and Ears in the
coldeft Wellov SpringWater {hz could get,
three or four times in a Day, which the
poor Woman accordingly did ; fome time
after that, I being come again to the Colo-
'Wl's Houfe with Mr. Moor^ the Woman
came into the Parlour with the Child run-
ning in her Hand, to my great aftonifhment ;
for at that time, when ladvis'd the Cold
» Water, looking upon the Cafe as deplorable,
l little thought it would cure it.
The Cafe of Dr. GauU's Son-in-law,
(now a hopeful and ingenious young Gentle*-
man) is ib well known, that I need not
mention it, it being a C/jore^, call'd St./-^*-
tuis'Jigt with ftrangeGefticulations, was
pcrfeflly cured by Cold Water. Which Dr.
Fierce, in his Bath Memoirs, has mentioned.
A Youth aged about Twenty Years, long
troubled with a ftubborn Qunrtm Ague \
after many Medicines tried in vain, went
into the Qold Water juft upon the Acceffion
of the Fit, and at one Immerfion was per-
feaiy
^
fef^ly cured ; but to prevent returns, he
continued it fome time.
I have known feveral cured by Cold Im-
merlion in all forts of Agues^ which I affirm
to be done by the effect of Concentration,
Freffurfy and Cofitraliion^ (of which in an
other place) and not thro* Fear or Fright,
becaufegood Swimmers, where there has
been no Terror or Apprehenfioxs on the Mind^
have been perfeftly cured.
My.Hugh Hdmmerjlj, an Eminent Gold*
fmith in the Strand^ near Somerfet Hoafe^
had a Daughter curM in a Nerval Cafe,
where there was an Jphoiiia, a total lofs of
Speech ; fhe was by Cold Immerfion in 1 5
Days perfeSIy cured ; This Cafe is well
kaown to Dr. Gil/hofts, Dr. Gould^ and fe-
veral others.
Of the Cure of IVeak Umhs and Rickets
in Children, I could give you a hundred In-
ftances.
Jimes Crook in Conduii-Co/trt, in LoMg'
Acre over againft the Kjng^s Bagnio^ having
both Drop/}, 'Jaundice^ ^^^fh R^'t^fffi^ttck-
funsy and an ioveterare old P«/ff in his Back»
(aged about 56or 57 Years) which Fainhad
been upon him 6 Years : He was a poor
Man ; and formerly (as he faid) was a
Coachman to his Grace the Duke of Bem-
fort. This Man was cured to a Miracle; for
in three times going into the Cold B*th, the
Swel-
I
Part II. Of CoUl Baths. 217
Swellings in his Legs wcra totally abated
and gone, together with that old Pain in
his Butt, as alfo the Jaandtccy blowing
from his Nofc a gixat quantity of a Biltom
yellow Matter.
O- Note, 'That IB rAf Dropfy, efptcuHy the
Aoafacra, r/w Cure vMy ire folved hji'ppofii^^
/i&rff/Af Frigidity andPrcS^arcof theWater^
refirin^itig and amt^aciiag the whole Body,
fquttxing equM/iy sliiMy 'from the Feriphciia to
*Atf Center, fAf Morbid Fluid »»« foritdfram
the Habit tnto r/ji; Channels, and hy Secretion
tkrovu of iiy Urine ; whnh was thu Cafe^ for
he pilTcd mach more than he Drank ; hut hart
the Ifterick matter jbouldhe chroivnoffhythe
Nofe» he that mil tell rue thatj Erit mini mag-
nttsApolto.
Mr. To^fial, belonging to the Jfritan
Heujif from a Bed-i;id Cripple, wis perfcft-
ly cured in a {hort time. I chink ; facitold
ne^ he got his Lamenefs by being Ship.
wradit, andJyinguponaPiankftooTongia
Salt-Watcr. . 1 ■ :;
A Scotchman in the Dropfy Jfcittit^ was in
a fair Way of Recovery when I came from
London^ Aij/ zoch, 1701. and Ciicc I heat
tbat be is cured ; He fliew"d mc his Girdle
withiwhicli he raadc tus Obfervation, and
tini five Days he has tailed almoftyijc Inthesy
iadtfaogan to Ff/> fVeoIyv /! !
;■■.;■■'•::■ ■ . . -.^..i.j... .u,r:..;j'..
1::.;.^ Mrs.
Mrs. Ride, Daughter to Mr. Kp'fM °^
Spittle-Fields, who was fo Oe*f that flic
could not hear the Bells ring in the Steeple,
though fhc pafled under them, in a little
time was fo cured, as to hear the Clock ftrikc
at hair a Mites distance. She had alfo a
Hemifltgin, in which flic found much bene-
fic» but not cured.
The Cafe of Mrs. Wats o^Lticefier^ is
moft remarkable, who from a SkeletoH,
through: an ill Habit, decayed Sfomach, Hff~
terick, 6rc and fo tender that flic could not
endure the Witjd to blow upon her ; by the
ufe o(Cold Immtrfioa, is become Strong,
Vigorous, and Healthful; and as I am told
is hardaed co that degree, that (he walks
any where in any Weather, without wrtp*
ping, or catching Cold.
Cap. Jetre/I, a Daxe, with an inceifaot
J lain in his Stomachy for a long time, Mt-
ittcholick, and Hyponchondriack, after ma-
ny Effays by other means, - was pcrfefHjr
cured by Cold Immerfton, in Mr, B^ynh Batu
in London.
And here Note, cv that Ihaveobferv'd
in feverai Perfonsafflifted with old invete-
rate Pains of the Stomach, when neither
Bitters,. JromMticks, Burnt Wine, or ftrong
Waters, nor Anodyns, as Opium, &c. nor
external AppiicatioDs, fuch as Sponges, Fo-
mentation, Embrocations, d*!^. has all fail'd.
Cold
■«•
Part II. Of Cold Baths. 1 1 9
Mil.
Cold Water by continual application to
the Part, for an hour or two, has not only
given eaie, but in a little time has made, a
compieat and perfeQ: Cure ; the Stomachick
Pains when very pungent, are more ex*
quifite than any, by reafon of the Senlatir
on of its Membranes interwove with lb mi-
ny nervous Plexures. This Captain Jerpety'
by many Phyficians was fupposM to hive.
an Vlcmin fundo Ventriculi^ for his'PainS
were never off totally, tho' more fevere irt
the Night, they began td encreafe upon
him towards Sun-fet, and held him (in un*
foeakable Torture) until towards Sun-n-
fing, all which time he fat up in his Bed,
rocking and groaning, &c. but thro' Gpd^^
Blefling on the means, he \yas cured by the
Cold Bath, and in publick Prayers return'd
God Thanks for the fame.
Mrs. Kjng at the Sign of the Kojd Ex-
chdffge^ in Leather-Lme^ Holbourr?^ Lame
for a long and confiderablc time, (I think
two or three Years, to the bell of my re-;
membrance her Husband told me fo) fo
Lame that fhe could not ftir, but as fhe
was lift in a Chair; it was long e'er fhe
could be perfuaded unto the ufe of the CoU
Bithy but after a few Immerfions, fhe got
^trep^th find now is fo well as to walkabout
herBufincfs*
a Mr.
aio OfCald Baths Pa:
Mr. Hnynes^ who lives at theCo/d Bath^:
itew'dmcafortof Regifler^ which hekeptj
of fcveral forts of Cures, fuch as Jfihma's^^
Rheumatifms^ Rickeis^ RuKtiiugGouts^ and,
jnoft Diieafesin the6'i'/«; and it feldom or
lliever fails in that curfed Diftempcr that ufu-.
lally afflifts the fineft Women, the Fluor JU,
us, ,
There is lately difcovered a Plant boiled;
^ Broth or Milk, which feldom fails of CurQ;
{] that Cafe. , y
Now, Sivy I could give you an hundrc%
ciuch Precedents^ which would be too iQOffi
[and tedious, (and to fmallpurpofc;) Iwili>
V now proceed to two or thi ce very great audi
[inoftconfidcrabie Cures, the RariotA^ and
I fuch as crown PJychrolufu^ and are almoin
incredible, but known LoNge Ute^ue to aHi
the Country. 1
The firft is that great and wonderful Oire,-
done on Mr. Samuel Crew of Lacock in tbfr
County of Wilts^ taken I'erbitim from his
Own Letter, which Letter was written in
the Prefence of Mr. Edward Montigue u
Leckhim^ one of thcpleafantefi Seats in
EngUndiax Wood and Water, and was 400
. Years in my Family of Bajaard^ until latc-
\ ly loft from the Name, in the Heir General,
ivilere, according to Mv.Camden^ has bwa,
gfeat Store of /low^^ffCoinsand Urnsfound|
and in my time I well remember fevera]
fertll. Of Cold Baths. ini
!Ces of Romm Heads and Infcripcions
iind by Servants and Work-men digging
p and down the Grounds, &c. Mr. ^^mes
touRtigttey now the prefent Pofleiror,knows
^s Relation of Mr. 5<iwa*/ Creip's to be lit-
erally true, Mr.Crfw being both his Te-
Cnant and Neighbour, and he faw him in
the time of his extream illnefs, tho' not
vifited him fo often as his Brother Edveard
^ieceas'd, had done, &c,
^K The Letter is asfoUeweth^
^K "¥" The faid Samuel Crew^ about 2 Years
^» M fince, wasfeized with amoftintole-
^Rrable Pain in my right Eibo<v^ from thence
^* the Pain went into the hfieps of both
' Feet, thence into my other ^rw, and the
* lower end of my B'tckBone, thence into
' the Nape of my Neck ; but after it had
* feized my Neck, it fpread all over me, not
* only in my Joints, but Fkjh alfo, info-
' much that the Calf of my Leg was co//-
* traced as hard as any Iron Wedge, and fo
* continued three Quarters of a Year, wicli
* fuch racking Pains as are iuexprertiblei
* my Belly feem'd to be clove to my Buk'
^ BonCy infomuch, that it was all Hollow,
* like a Di/h, and would hold Water when
* Hay upon my Back; my Fundament s^2S
' drawn up three or four Inches into my
* Body, and I was grown fo Thi», and ex-
Q. 3 tream
ail Of Cold Baths. Part IL
tream Poor, that I was Raw and Galled
with lying, and Lowfy with Poverty of
Fleflf^ and had fuch Pains in my Ears^ that
if a Red-hot Iron had been run into them,
they could not have been worfe; I lay'
upon my Back half a Year, not being able
to ftir or move Hand or Fgot in all that
time. In fliort, the Pain did fodifttaft
me, that I hollowM and hoop'd like a
mad.Man^ with extremity of Mifery^ in-
fomuch that I really thought Hell could
not be worfe ; nor is it poflible for any
Tongue to tell, or Pen to write, the Mi-
feriesl endured. I was worn to a meef
Skeleton^ and when I went to Stool^ Which
\vas once in four or five Days,and then for-'
ced by purging Syrups, &c. no Wofnan
in extream Labour could have more Pain
caufed thro' the Contraftion of my Fun-
dament. I had feveral able Phjftcians with
me, to whom my Cafe is well known ;
they prefcribed me Purging , Bleeding
much, and very often, they Sweat me a
whole Month together, I took Viper PofP^
ders^ Srahs Eyes^ Penrl Cordials^ Sal Vola^
tile^ Spirit of Sal Jrmoniack^ Spirit of
Harts-Horn^ Ojl of Tartar, and feveral
other Dr^//^ and all the Wood-drinks,
and all to no purpofe. I went to the Bath^
and there bathed, which fo encreafed my
Fams, that I am well fatisfied^ one Eflay
^ more
more in the Bath would have coft me my
Z.{/e, even in the Waters. At iaft, meet-
ting with Dr. Baynard^ he perfuaded me
to go into CnU IVjtterovcv Head and Ears^
every Day faftinf^, and ufe the Decottion,
•oi Wild Sugu^ Ground-ivy^ Ground- Pine^
Gtrmander, and a little White Hoir-hoandj
acidulated with Crttk I'erjuice^ for my con-
ftant Drink, which I did, and in fix Days
Immerfion in tlie Water, andufingthc
Drink, \ was lb well as to wi!k about my
Grounds, ail my P-Tinsinfenlibly vanifli'd,
my Stomach wiiich was quite loft and de-
cayed, wasrcftorcd; Igot A'/rf/f^ri, flept
found, my i-Zf/Acameon, and myColour
came into my hace.
* All this is well known to the Neigh-
bourhood ,and Country roiind,which with
my humble Acknowledgments tO-^/w/fj/i/y
Gc^for this my great Cure, I atteft to be
Jiterally true.
Wit net's my Hmd^
if-.ai lc(.Miain,/iiiic
Samuel Crew.
w
^V The next C'j/f that I (hall ofTer you, is
^Tltfc' altogether n'. fiirprizirg as that of Mr.
Crew\ and much more, confidering how
inftantancoudy it was performM ; and in-
deed it was a CJne of that momcm» that the
Learned Mr. Wilham Baxter thought it
Jifordi inferting in lii? Criticil'ms upon Ho-
r
w
234. Of Cold Baths. Part 11.
rsce^ Epift. XV. where you have the Hi-
ftory of that bold Undertaking of Atitonitu
Mttfa^ thePhyfician, to Immerge the Em-
peror /4agafiuf in Cold Water : Nam cam do-
lors Artbritico labor aret^ & ad farrirnxm maci-
tm ferdu^us tffet^ crc. which had fuch hap-
py Succefs, that the Senate rewarded him
with a profufe Sum of Mony : A nd Suetonius
fays, That the Emperor order'd his Statue to
be ereQed in the Temple oi MfcaUpiui^ &c.
But as to this great Cafc,I will give you Mr.
Baxter's own Words, viz. Rafiictn quidam
Cof^nomento Plamharius in vico vernaeule af-
fellato Harrow on the Hill, quod ejl Herga
five Caftra fuper Colle ; qui quidem 'vicmfatk
notus efi in medio faxonum nofirorum Pago;
frdferiim vero nobu qui tn facro tflo monte
Mufas primujn xdivimits. Laborat htc vir
fefquimsflriferefpntio imfhanibtu Arthrttidii
"vagdy Paratyfeos, atque etiawtfpafmAtum do-
lor ibus^ adeo ac neque Pedibus i/ijijrere valeret :
Plurimis autem iacajfum tentatts Remediiij
imo e^ Mercalialifa/i'VA inutiliter mota mifel-
lui ifie tandem (incredibile diciu) ab omnibus
ijlis tarn f*vis /jmptomatibuSj vel uniea in
frigidas rtofiras im'ixerfione ex toto liberatas,
ad integram fanitatem rejlitutm «/?, j^jfi*'
tamen firmioris ejficuix eaufa iteralo bis
terve in eafdemAquas fi demit tere.
In this Cafe there was one Paflagc omit'-
ted, which I believe Mv.Baxter had no O^-
nizancc
Part II. Of aid Baths. 015
Dizance of; for Mr. Robert Montague^ a
worthy Gentleman, who often ufes CoU
Baths himfelf, and that in the very cxtremi-
WJ^ of Winter, as well as in milder Seafons,
iold me, (for I was not prefent the firft time
jbe was plung'd in) That with Extremity of
I, fain when he was ttir'd, he faw the Sivettt
run down the ends of his FtKgers^ and that
three or four lully Men were ftript to help
I tim in, and after the fpace of two or three
)^iautes (if fo long) his Pains were abated,
aod the Man able to come up the Seeps
pimfelf, and in 3 or 4 Days (altho'a Coach
ame for him) yet he walked fome Miles
owards home on Foot, without any help,
rr. •
I remember that a Lady of very great
biality of ScotUnd, and nearly related to
pisGrace, 'Diyk^ Hamilton, told mc (about
|.or 5Yearsrim;e) thatfeveralof h.QvSoriSy
^ttio' Born ftrong' lufty Children, yet pin'd,
dwindl'd, and fell into C(3/fvi///;c0j, and di-
ed in a little time ; and that 3 Highland.
Woman advifed her either to Wafh or Bath
them in Cold Water , (I have forgotten
which) and accordingly the Lad) did fo,
Kl ever after her Children thriv'd, and!
well^ and are now lufty Urong Touitg
a. This, I having had the Honour fince
to wait upon his Grace, Duke Hamilton af-
fii'iu'd 10 me to be true, forthe L«(/y wsa;
Q. 4 his
3a6 Of Cold Baths. Part 11.
his own Siffer, and Wife to my Lord Mur*
raj.
In Fevers I have known a great many in
my time, who by the over-care of their
fiealth'Wrights were made Delirom^ and in
their Fhren[y have leapM into a Pond^ or any
other Cold Water ^ and not one as ever I heard
of, ever got any harm, but were thereby
Erefently cured. And Dr.lVi/lu^ I remcm-
er, inftahces a Cafe or two, wherein they
have recovered by immerging into Cold fVa^
terj either by Accident or Diftraftion. And
lately I faw at Mr. Charles Frubfhaxp^s in
Sali6bury Court^ a Servant Maid, who not
lon2 before being Delirious in a moft intenfe
Fever, got loofe and leap'd into the River
Thames^ but being foon taken up by a Boat
Avas brought home in her wet Cloaths,who
no fooner being ftript and dry Cloaths put
on, but fhe went about her Bufinefs, and
was as well as ever fhe was in her life. I
had often heard this Story in the Neigh-
bourhood, but being curious in the thing,
ifent for the Maid, and had this relation
from her own Mouth.
A Learned and Ingenious Gentleman, a
Do£for of Laws, now living told me, Th^t
being Light-headed in a Fever, and moft in-
tenfly Hot and Thirfty, got from his Nurfe^
«qd rufh'd into a Horfe^Pond in the Yard,
«a4
Of Cold Baths. aay
and there rtayM above Iiaif an Hour ; it
brought him preiently to his Ac»/ej, and al-
layM both hisKc^f and Thirft. Aftec which,
when in Bed, hefell intoalbiind Sleep, and
■whenheau'a!{'d(in a great Sweat) he found
he was Will, but complained of a great
Pain in his Head for fome time after, which
he himfelf thinks proceeded from not wtt-
twg his Head,
Mr. Crfrr, the prcfent School-Maftcr of
J^Urlboroughy told me. That he recovered
when given over in a fever^ by drinking a
I- farge Quantity of Cold Hfri/ig Hunter. And
Lthat I have known in twenty fuch Cafes in
■ imy time, but that is not to be depended
upon, for Ibme have alfo recovered by a
quite contrary Method, as drinking ftrong
fermented Liquors^ as Cyder, iiack^ C/arefy
Zee. in large Quantities. See Harnnnut
'VA/ider Heydeft de »Ja aq.fontmx & ftri Ldc-
tis.
A Turk (a Servant to a Gentleman) fal-
ling Sick of a Ftver, fomcone of the Tribe
of Treacle-Confiers, (being calJ'd in) whe-
ther Jjfothecarj or Fhyjictaff, I can't tell,
but, (according to Cuftom) what between
hlifier and Boli/ij they foonmade him Mad.
A Country-man of his, that came to vifit
faim, feeing hihi in that Broiling Conditi-
on, faidnothing, butin theKight-time by
fome confederate Help got him down to
ii -■>■'} ^l!;,., the
m
38 Of Cdd Baths. Part 11.
the Tbimes-fidt, and Jbuntlly duckt lum :
The Fellow came home fenfible, and went
to Bed, and the nest Day he was perfeQiy
well. This Stoi v was attefted to me by
two or three Geatlemen of undoubted In-
tegrity and Worth; and I doufat it not,
but believe it from the greater Probability j
for I'll hold ten to one on the Thames- ftdt
againfl: Treacle^ Smke-root^ Sfc. and all that
hot Regimen, which inflames and exalts
the Blood, breaks its Globles and deftroys
the Man, and then torfooth the DoSor
fneaks away like a Dog that has loft his Tail
and crys it was a pelHIential malignant Fe-
ver, that no Body could cure, and fo fhews
his Care of the Remainder, bids ihcm open
the Windows, air the Bcd-cloaths, and
perfume the Room for fear of InfeQion, &c.
And if he be of the right Whining, Canting,
Prick ear'd ltamp,concludes as they do at T;-
barn^ with a mournful Ditty, a Pfalm, or a
prefervative Prayer for the reft of the Family
&£. fo exit Pr;^, with his flarcht formal
Ch«ps, Ebony Cane, and fring'd Gloves,e^f.
Dr. Tarhorough told me, That his Kinf-
man, Sir Thomas Xarhorottgh, fent him a
Letter from Rome^ wherein he gave him
an Account ofa Foo^-»»a»ofhis, who when
delirious in the Smd/l-Pox, got from his Bed,
and in hts Shirt run intoa Gr(j»i3 of a Car-
dinal's, where there was Water, in which
he plung'd himfelf, but was prefently got
UQC
out; the Smallpox feem'd to beyjK^rjtand
firMck in, but upon his going to Bed they
came out very kindly, and nc (afely reco-
vered.
»t But my Worthy and I-uarned Friend, Dr.
|?W«, ffacw^d me an Account from an Apo-
Hiecary in Worcejhrjbire^ whofe Name (I
think) was Mr. Mstthervs-^ the Subrtancc
of which was, That a Young Man dclirous
pin the Small FoXy when his Narfe was aflecp
limp'd out ofRcd, run down Stairs, and
ircot into a Pond, the Noifc awakM the
."Jurfc, who followM with an out-cry,
irhich out-cry ratfcd the /'oj[/e of the Fami-
y, who furrounded the Porid, butheparled
with them, and told them, that if any Body
xme in, he would certainly Drowa 'cm,
iiod that he would come out when he faw
lis own time; and accordingly did fo, and
iivalkc up Stairs, and fat (in his wet Shirt)
upon a Cheft by thcBed-fidc; in which
fPoAure Mr. Mattljem found him when he
Itme into tlic Chamber. Note here, That
Jw ApothecMrj iiv'd three or four Miles from
Ithe place, and he was in the Water and on
Tthc Cheft all tliat while in his mt Shirt, that
the Mcflengcr was gone for him. This
Jpothtcary, Mr. Matthews (for fo 1 take his
I >Iame) ask'd' him, How he did ? He an-
llwered. Pretty well. HeaskM him, if he
' i have a clean Shirt, and go into Bed ?
He
2^0
Of Cold Baths. Part II.
Hefaid, By and by he would ; which ac-
cordingly he did. When in Bed, he ask'd
the Apothecary, If he had nothing good in
his Pockec, for he was a little faintifli ? He
laid, That he had a Cordial^ of which he
drank a good Draught, fo went to Sleep,
and awaked very well, and in a little time
recovered. Now, as Dr. Co/eobferv'd ve-
ry well, A Man, quoth he, would not ad-
vife his Patieftts in fuch a Cafe to go into
Coid Water., though this Man efcaped with-
out Injury ; but it gives a good occafion to
reflefl: on the many Mifchiefs that attend
the SmaU Fox in the Hot Regimen^ fince
fuch extravagant and intenfe Cold does fo
iitfle or no hurm.
Dr. Dover ^ o^Brifiol, told me of a Vint-
ner's Drawer in Oxford^ that in the SmaS
Pox went into a great Tub of Water, and
there fat, at leaft, two Hours, and yet the
Fellow recovered, and did well.
A Gentleman deiirous in the Small Pox^
run in his Shirt in the Snon', at lea ft, a
Mite, and knockMthemup in theHoufe
where he went, they being all in Bed, the
Small Pox fuKky- yet by the benefit of a Loof-
nefs Tie recovered.
I remember about two Years fince, a
Learned Gentleman, a D'fUine, told me,
That in the Country, where he was Bene-
ficed, in a fmall Town, not far from him,
11 H many
linany died oi a. Maliga*»t Small fox. A
Icertain Sa/, a Farmer's Son, was feized
I witli a Pain in liis HeadanA Back, vomited,
I was feverifh, &c. and had all the Symp-
\toms of the Smu/l Pox. This Youth had
[ promifed feme of his Comrades to go a
, Swimming with them that Day, which
notwithftanding his Illnefs, he was refol-
ved to go, and did fo, but never heard
tmore ot his ^ma/i Pox. Within three or
four Days, the Fathtr was fciz'd juft as the
Son was, and he was refolv'd to takeT^^cFx
Remedy; his I4^ife dilTwaded him from it,
but he was rcfolv'd upon it, and did Im-
merge in Cold i'Vater^ and was after ic very
well. The Worthy Gentleman that told _
me this Scory, promifed to give me it ittl
writing, with the Perfons Names and Place; "
but I neglecting of it, he went out of 'Town
in two or three Days, fo I lo{t the oppor-
tunity of being better inform'd.
Mr. Lamberty Brother to my Worthy
Friend, Mr. Edmo»d Ldmbert of Bojian^ in
the County of ^Vilts^ told me, That when
he was at School in Dorfe/jhtre^at leali: thir-
ty or more ol the Boys, one after another,
fell Sick of tlic SmaS Pox, and that the
Nurfe gave them nothing elfe but Milk
and Jpphs in the whole Courfe, and they
all recovered. There was but one diflent-
ing Boy from that Method, who. by com-
mand
Pa^H
33 a Of Cold Baths.
mand from his Parents, went another
Courfe, and hehad like to have died ; nay,
with very great difficulty they faved his
Life. And fince another Gentleman told
me, Thathimfelf, and divers others, were
cured by Milk and Apples, and buttered
Apples, in the worft fort oi'SmaS Pox,
I was at Chifwickf and fometimes in Lon-
iottj in the time of the great Flagae^ in the
Year 1665. and I very well remember, that
it was the Talk of the Town, that a Brew-
er's Servant at Horfleydomn, in Southwarkf
was fetzed with it, and in his Delirium rua
into a Horfe-Pond^ firft drank his fill^
and then fell faft afieep with his Head upon
the Pond's Brink, where he was found io
the Morning; howlonghehad been in the
Pond, no Body knew, for it was in the Night
he went into the Water, and had no Narfe
then with him, but he recovered to a Mi-
racle.
I heard alfo about chat time of a Nurle
taken with the Fitgue, that accidentally
fell into a Well, fomewhere near JHon^
and was immediately brought to her Se^fes
and recover'd. I was told this by fome A-
ton-mza.
Notey That during the time of the PUgtu
there was fuch a general Calm and Serenity
of Weather, as iffK/Wand /l^//) alfo had
been baailh'd the Realm, for, for many
Week*
Weeks together I could not obferve the
leaft breath of Wind, not enough to ftir a
Weather-Cock or Fane, if any, k was Sou-
therly ; the Fires with great difficulty were
made to burn, I fuppoie, through the great
fcarcity of Nitre in the Jir^ there fell abun-
dance oiMildem, and the very Birds would
pant for Breath, efpecially Crorv/, f(tteSf
&c. and I obferv'd them to Fly more henvity
than at other times. It was obferved alfo,
thatfuch as dwelt in Water-Mills, and kept
home alfo, fVater-Mea, B»rge-Men, &c.
that were imployed on the River-y were
not at all, or rarely infefted with the
PUgae. I remember that I heard an Apo-
thecary fay, (I think it was Mr. Thomtts
Seiner) who lived then on London^Bridge,
(an ingenious, fober Man) that there were
but tvro Verfans died on the Bridge in the
whole time of the nfitatioH. The Truth
of this may eafily be inquired into, there
being many Men now alive, that then liv-
ed on the liridge, or near it. And I have
been lately told, by fcveral Eminent Men,
living on London-Bridge, that they have
obferved, that for the quantity of Houfes,
that the Bridge fcapes better than other
parts of the City, in any Contagious time
whatfoever: as alfo Fifhmongers on the
Hill, are generally healthful; which muft
proceed from the much ufe of and dabling
PaPniH
154. Of Cold Baths.
in Cold Water, which concinualiy evapo-
rating , and arifing moderares the Heat
and Ferments of the Air, rendered infaln-
brious by fo many Heterogeniou^ Exhala-
tions, &c. whicli rault arife from fo
many Sinks, Bog-houfes, and other Cada-
verous Fumes, which cannot be avoided
in fo great, popoulous, and large a City,
&c. At that time- Feople were generally
Fiii»t^ and proclive to S-veat, creeping low
PalJ'es^ but when firft itifeftcd, very high.
Dr. Hodges, an Eminent PhyficUv^ then in
London^ Author of an Ingenious Book, De
Pefig, with whom I ufed to drink a Hottle^
told me, That he diftinguifbed the PUgue^
[pots from thofe of the Scurvj, by running
a P/« up to the Head in them, for they were
mortiSed and indolent, &c.
Now how Cold Water fliould cure the
Plagae, is pa ft my Philofophy ; but if thefe
Relations were true, we muft concecd to
it, for there can be nothing faid againft
Fiici: Now a fudden /'/ft«^f and Immsrfion
into very Cold Water, where there is a great
quantity of ir, muftbe tliegreatell ^//^J-
ttve in Nature, for it muft give a new Mo-
tion to all the Spirits, both from its Fri/Ui-
ty as well as Prejjare^ by driving them from
their Pofis to another Jlclioa ; for I conceive
Life to bean aftual FUme, as much Flame
as any Culinary Flame is, but fed with its
f¥artIL Of Cold Baths. 3^5
sculiar and proper Pabulum^ made out ot
he Blood and Spirits for chat purpofe: and
joy Reafons are thefe, viz..
Firfiy Life is as extinguifhable as any
"^ other i7.H«e' is, by excluding the ^/r, &c.
for hold your Handkerchief clofe to the
Mouth and Nofe of any Animtl that has
~ ungs, and Life is put out, the Creature is
ad in a Moment \ there Is no Skin broke,
or Bone broke ; no Wound, nor Bruife ;
Pifeere Is your whole Man, but dead he is.
Seco/fM)i, No Fiame will burn without
^rUl Niter, or a ^iii Jeriam, whatever
t.be; fome will have it a m\\'d Gas ofNi-
_^r and Sulphur; but whateverit be, 'tis
edufsfinequitnori^ fomething without which
00 FUme will burn: and that the Lungs
ferve to this ufe, and arc Jir-Sirairters^ is
very clear to me, by that Experiment of
the Caffdle and two Pappy-dogs, put into
a great Oven, and ftopc clofe up with a
Glafs-Door to fee through; and in a little
time, when they had fuckM in fome, and
the Candle wafted the reft of the Niier, the
Do^fdied, and the Candle went out with
them at the fame inftant * . ^j„,^_ rb^K-Ttrimm,
That F/>e burns fierceft in f /'-'Uog.dndcanJie, t
Wtenle rrojty is palt all ■^eryg^o^^uiinriijfotiit
Fdifpute, which muft be al- *^Z:Uihrlt^' ""'
Wed to proceed from the
''4ft quantity of roUri/e Niter then in the
R Air.
3^6
Of Cold Baths. Part 11.
Jir. Hence came the uie ot Bellows to
draw the Aereal Niter in at the Vdve or
Clack, (placed in the middle of the under.
Battle-door of the Bellows) which clofing by
the PreJJare of the KiW, fqueezeth it ouc
of the Rofirum or Nofe, together with the
Air its vehicle, fo forces it by the blaft intd
the Sulf>har of the Coal; which A£lion by"
their Union makes Aecenfton , or that whiclt
we call kindling. Now all Vftion^ as tho
quid infiAmmnbile walH, leaves by Incinera-
tion AicAliom and Cauftica/ Salts, either fixM
or volatile, which from their Figure or im-«
bibed Fire, become of a pungent CorrofivA
Nature, and fix upon the A/fmir<*»«, beinfl
Nervous and moft exquifite ot Senfe anfl
Perception, which by Irritation caufe t
light InfiAmmntidfi, which Inflammation fl
called Thtrfi; which Salts hang on all th<
Membranes lefs or more , but chiefly aboul
the Mouth and To/igue, there being mofl
Harbour and Shelter for them, by real<M
of its downy and Januginous Membrane;
which AWfj are melted and wafh'd ofFl^'
Drinking., the groffer by AVeo/ with the fi^ I
lid Excrements, but thofe of more voluih 1
and fubtile Particles creep with the Chjli
. into the Bloody and have no way out but
by Vri»e. Hence Water is the beft men-
firaum to dilToIveiW/*, and that which is
moft Simple and Elementary is the bcil
Pl-^ater,
FiL Of Cold Baths. 3^7
fWdterj as leaft impregnated; fuch Waters
wafhoffand dilTolve their Points and An-
gels, by which they prick, fheath and in-
i Vellop them into their own Pores, and with
Ithemielves run them off by Vri»e, and
fo forced by Meat and Motion, as to
'fturbthem in their Paitage, the Current
iVrine IS check'd, and the AV^j leave their
^old of the Water, Ihoot their Vortex, and
ora the Chxnnets get into the Habit of the
)odj^ which if not difolved, melted, and
hrown ofTby Sweat, they inflameand caufe
Ttvers, &c. nor will they ceafe their Afti-
I'ton and Inquietude, until totally dijfolv^d^
dr forced back into their common Pajfa^ef,
and the Salts precipitated and run down by
Vrine: for I look Upon the Pores and Sweat-
wf»/j"as fo many Back-doors and SiHj-^orts^
by which Nature drives out the Bnemj crepc
into her Garrifon. This truth isdcmonftra-
ted in all Fevers, where the Caajlkal Sdis
are not wafli'd off, but remain behind on the
Glands and AUmbrAnes^ forfaken of their
diffolving Menftruunty the Water, &c.
which that Ingenious Chymift, Mx.Gecrge
Moulff byChymical >4«4///// made appear
infix Quarts Q^ febrile Vrtne, whidi I fent
him, and he found but the tliirtieth part of
thole Salts ufually found in a found Man's
"^rine: fo that of ncceflity tliey mult re-
main behind, and be I&ft (like fo many
R 2 t'rvnh
0^8 'Of Cold Baths. Partus
French Dragoons) to Quarter on the Bloa
and Spirits at Difcretton. The Hiftory (
which is printed in the Philofophical TranfJ
aftions feme years fince.
Now, that which we call infenfible Pw-J
.fpiratioa is nothing elfe but the Smoak, madtfj
from this vital F/ame, and the Pores are thjl|
SpirAmentu through which it pafles,
when thefearey/o/'V, theSmffiitisreturnV
and the Flame hccomQ,%reverberatory^ whirf
fometimes is neceflary to force an ObftriS
ftion, &c. for the Body has its Regijters anJl
Vent-holes as well as other Fartraees ; and in 1
this Cafe Co/cl Wner is the beft Method of I
doing it, which muft not be continued too
long, for fear of Extinftion in very weak
Bodies; though lam apt to believe, that
upon a total Occlufion of the External Pom,
a great part of tliat Smoak goes through the
Lungs, and out of the Mouth, otherwife
Men could not continue fo long in CM
Water, as feme Ship-wrack'd Men have
done; And to prove this, if when you are
iiptothe C*&w mCvld Water, you breath j
through a Hiort Tru^k or hollow Cane, your I
Breath fhall foil a Lookhfi^-Glafs ztzX'OiC&t
twice the dirtance, as it fball, when thr
Preifure is taken ojf, and you out oftM
Water, &c. But to proceed, thefeA'i/ttl
fometimes Cryjlatlize, fo that the commoul
MenfifUA will not touch them no more thu
KrtlL Of Cold Bath.
I File wil) Steel pr hardned Iron, and then
t is a true Didetes, (and here the PhyficU
! is at his Wits end, and that no far Jour-
;) then Hey ! for Lime-water, Quince-
j and other Reftringents, which if ic
J poflible, would rather make a Coaief-
', and tye the Knot the harder; no,
the Cure lies in Solution, by melting down
the Salts, which rauft be done by open,
raw, and unimpregnated Mefijhua^ fuch
as the £tj-/y?cj/- Waters are, as moft Simple^
having the leart Contents in them, they be-
ing nothing eife but Waters dirtill'd by Sub-
terranean Heats in thofe vaft Mountainous,
Rocky Cavtrns and Ovensy and 6nding
Lodgmentsand Gutters in the Clefts of thofe
hollow Rocks, which when full, run over,
and by Circulation and conftant Diftillati-
bns, arc perpetually fupply'd, and make a
continual Sprirtgy &:c. But more of this in
another Piece I defign to publifh, when
my other occafions will give me leave, I
Tiall here only add two Letters from Mr.
f/o«, to my Ingenious Friend Major Hdn-
iirjiy concerning the wonderful Cure of
; Go»t in Sir Henrj Conningshy^ as alfo
I Account from Sir He»rj himfelf to Mr.
which I now have fent laft Poft to
5 from the Mayor.
R?
from
a4.o Of Cold Baths.
Parol?
From Mr. Mott to Major Hanbury,
S I Ry Bewdly, Junes. >7oi'
'T7'0ur''s of the 24th of Ma; I received,.
I but it had the misfortune to come by
tneLarfte Poft^ or elfe you had fooner re-
ceived an Anfwer, &c. Yelterday, accord-
ing, to your defire, I waited on Sir Heary
Comfjgshj, who gave me as pleafant and as. ,
agreeable Entertainment, as could have
been expefted from an Ingenious Gentle-
man of Thirty Years of Age, had he not
wanted the Ufe of his Z-e^J, which is the
only Deficiency in him, his iw/c^e^j being
as found and firm as ever, which you may
partly perceive by the Account he gives of
his OTw C</e,written with his fl8'»//4W, He
is now in the 88th Year of his Age^ and yet
takes away 16 or 18 Ounces of B/00*^, once
every three Months, and drinks nothing
but Spr(i9g-W*ter, and now and then a
little Brandy. He farther acquainted me.
That his Fingers and Toes being full of
Chalk-Stones, (the Remains of Gouty Pi- ,
raxjjms) they were totally dijfolved and .
gofie, and thofe Parts rellored to their na-r
tlirtl Size by the ufe of his Cold Bdtb,
which the old Knight is pofitive will iofal-
l.bly Cure that Diftemper in any Perfon,
he having had no Fit for feveral Years.
Thefe.
'art 11. Of Cold Baths. 34.1
'hefe, Sir^ are the mod material things I
jld inform my lelf of, and in any thing elfe,
:. Command.
SIR,
Tour much obliged humble ServMt,
T. Mott.
from Major Hanbury in London,
to Dr. Baynai'd at the Bath,
June loth^ 1701.
Dear Doclor,
Cr^H T S I have received from Mr. Mott
I of Beardljf in Worcejierfbire , within
ree Miles of Sir Henry Cofihgsbfs: I
Eprote to Mr. Mote, not being fure that Sir
Henry was living, but he is, and I have
fent you a Paper \vric with his own Haad^
being his own Cafe.
His Weaknefs now in his Legs, is from
his -(4^f, and former Gout, but not in the
leaft Paralytick . I wifh this come in your
time. .If you have received this, let me
know by a Line direfted for me at Richard's
^ iffee-Houfe, Temple-Bar.
I am your faithful, &c,
John Hti^urj,
R4 A
24.4. Of Cold Baths. P(
any Relief from what he had taken ; but
going over a narrow Bridge in I'Vofi'y Wca-
thcr, he fell over it into the Water, covered
with Ice, in which he ilood with his Mouth
\\il\ above the Water, and made his way
out as foon as he could ; when lie came home
he got a warm Shirt, tooic fomi; Broth, or
other warm Liquor, flcpt well that Night,
the next Day found his Cough almoin gone,
and within a very few Days was altogether
free from it. He is a fober, creditable Fel-
low, yet living, and can attcfl: the fame.
This happen'd before I knew him. I am,
Doftor,
Tours,
R. Bcttenfon.
The fame Man having the SmaH Pox
when he was a School-Boy , after they
had been out a Day or two, rofe out of
his Bed, put on his Cioaths, and played
with other Boys, on whicli the Small Pox
difappcarVl, a purging followed, and con-
tinued a rortnjght, by means of that he ci^
capcd and was well.
A Genileman that was my Patient here
lad Year, told me, Thataboot Three Years
fincc he had taken Cold, on which followed
a Cough and Shorttiefs of Breath, this con-
tinued about a quarter of a Year, he fpit
with it, and was emaciated and wcaken'd
fo
Of Cold Baths. 14.5
> much, that he walked very feebly. Go-
to fee fome Friends near St. Mongab's
he bathed there, and in three or
ur times doing fo, was freed from his
Cough, and in a (hort time recovered his
Jlefh and Strength, &e. as by bathing in
^hefe hot Baths, and drinking thefe Waters,
he recoverM that Pain and Weaknefi of
Limbs, which Rheumatifm and Scurvy
|Md lefc, &c. and I heard lately he is very
althful and well.
R, Bettetifon.
Mj dear DoSior,
Ccording to your Commands I have
_^ (though very imperfe£lly) fent you
Be bcft Account of the Cold Bath's Virtues,
Itceived by feveial of our Parifh.
Imprimis, John Plummer, Tenant to jRi-
rt|<rd P*ge^ Efq; of Vxendon in ParoehU
if Harrow^ &c. which you have alreadly
^ken notice of.
2dly Witum Tij/or^ my Footman, put
to a Carpenter in our Parifh, in the Ham-
let of Pi/ttfcr, who ferved about j Years,
~~as feized with a Rheumatifm in all his
»nts ; the Phyficians were confulted, they
iok away muth Blood, and direQ:ed a.
we Diet, viz.. Water-Gruel, (ire. for
out two Months, which proved incffe-
" ' aual
046 Of Cold Baths. Part
ftual. He was fent home to his Indigent
•I'arents to be taken care of; by their Ad-
vice I fenr him to the Cold Bath, and in
lets than a Months time he returned to his.
Mafter, and has continued well and lufty
without Pains, (which is two Years fince)
' and is (who was a Durgen before) becoms
""i ftout proper Fellow.
|y Thirdlj, Samuel Greenhili my next Neigh-
li)our» and a Man of a good Eftate of nis
^own, and Rents about 150/. per Jnnut9\
* wasfeiz'd, as I think, in AZ-i^laft withtha
Rheumatifm in every Joint, and continued
fo (though he had the help of feveral Phyfi-
cians) for at leail: fix Weeks. He was
wrapp'd up in Flannel, and not able to
move without the afliftance of feveral Per-
fons to help him. I direfted him (by youc
Advice) to the Cold Bath. The day fol-
lowing he had my Coachj and biolftred up
with Pillows for his Conveyance, and im-
mediately upon his arrival, (with a little
refpit after the Fatigue of his Journey) was
put into the Chair, and let into the Bath;
before three minutes were* over he w^i'
brought up again ; he then walk'd up Stairs
and in an Hours time walk'd to CUre-Mar-
ket to his Lodgings, at alKinfman's: H^'
had not before this Virtue receiy'd, been
able to ftir, yet in left than a Fortntghts
fime he rccovgr'd his Health, and follow'a
I
lis Plowing, and is free this inftant from
Pains, and all his Swellings; tho' every
Joint was as big as if blown up by a Blad-
der, yet were they reduced totneir'iifual
bi^nefs ; he had no Stomach, but the firft
Night after he walked to Qdre-Marht^ eat
a very plentiful Supper of Flefh (which he
naufeated from the firft timeofhis illnefs.)
I could add more, but I have had a Glafs of
Wine too much.
Foarthlj^ Your humble Servant was vi*
fited with the fame Diflemper about three
Years fince ; he had no more than one Phy-
Ccian, (but never without one for fix Weeks
together) ; he never ftirred in his Bed with-
out the help of fix Perfbns to remove him
(though 'twas but one Inch); they took
away, at lea (t, 170 Ounces of Blood, and
had no other Diet than one or two at the
moft, of Water-Gruel, or Milk-Pottage
for that time. He was able by purfuing
of the above Directions to go upon Crutch-
es; but coming to Town about a Week
after, 1 went to the Cold Bath, and by the
(irft going in, I was able without the help
of Supporters to come to my Lodgings, and
within a few Days was reliored to perr
feft Health; and when the Pains have re-
turned, by making ufe of the Water I have
found the fame Relief
rtfthlj
r
ap Of Cold Baths. Parti
Fifthly^ S. Ltthwell this Winter has been
very bad with the like ail, but in lefs than
a Foytnights time was reftored to the afe
of his Limbs, and now is well.
SIR,
Ifyou and I were together, Icouldhave
given better Satisfaftion than what you
will meet withal from this Paper. I hope
you win not Print it till I fee you, (though
I think I may fwear to every particular);
This is all the trouble at prefent you fliall
receive from
four humble Servant,
Much 9, 1 701.
Edw. WaUo.
I have obferved many times, that thofc
who ufe Cold Baths, are not fo Dry and
Thirfly as other People are ; nay altho' very
Thirfij when they got into them, yet af-
ter a Httle time their Thirft fhall vamjb and
idfdte. Difcourfing on this Subjeft with my
learned Friend, Dr. Dn^g of Shirhourn in
Dorfetfbire^ he told me, That he had read
one Aiexunder A^hroi^ifitUj a Phyfician, who
affirms the fame thing.
And here I may very pertinently let you
know (Sir jfo/'»,) what my learned and
good Friend, Dr. Saverj of Mdlbarough in
Com, Wilts, told me on this Head, (by
good
luck) Ihavejuft now (unlookcfor)
lound his Letter written to me two or three
Years fince, as I guefs, for it is without
Date ; and that jrart of his Letter which re-
lates to this Subjeft' I have here tranfcri-
ibed. His Words are thefe, "viz,
' * A few Days fince, talking with a Coun-
try-fellow of tolerable Senfe, about what
,* would procure a Stomach to Eat ; one
* propofed ukiag the Mr ; another Riding j
* a third Old hoc. Come, come ! fays my
* Fellow, I have tried all thofe w/iys yOu
* talk of, but nothing is like going a Fifli-
' ingup to the Chin in Pi^ater for an Hour
' or two, that will get you a Stomach I'll
* warrant you, nor am I Dry, &cc. Dear
it DoQior I am
Tour^s
, S. Savery.
Now, to folve this Pfj,er>omenoa , and
give a tolerable reafon how Standing or
Swimming in Cold Water fhould quench
Thirft^ fince it will not be allowM that it
enters the Pores of the Skin ; if it did, it
could not get into the Dlood-i'ejfeis, and di-
Ilute the Salts there ; no, I think there is
but this one reafon for it, which muft ferve
until fomebody offers me a better, viz.
That the fudden plunge into Cold Wditr^
caufcs a very fudden Contraflrion, which
Contraftion dr iving the Sptrtts and flutdt
from their prefent JciJony Pofiure, or Pofis
they were in, may either diflodge the 5i//r,
or change their Figure^ for they do not
caufeT/«r/2untilthey fettle, and fting, and
prick the Memhrane; for wh lift they arc
fwimming in the fiaid, they are muzzled
and invelloped in the clammy and glutinous
Parts of the Menjiruum. Now, though
the Sdlts are fettled, aud Thirft is really
commenced, yet by prefling the Fluid out
of the Hubit into the Channels^ rauft fcov/er
and wafti offthe Aj/fj in the current, and
precipitate them by Vrme\ for we fee Hor-
fes, and all other Animals, generally P//}
when they come into CoH iVater, which h
done by contraciiaz the Parts, &c. Or elle
the Reafon muft be this, all Water, eva-
fonttes continually, and the higher thofe
aqueous AVe-im/ rife from the Surface of the
Water, the more dilated and (eparated
they are, and mix'd with the ^;r, and confe-
quently by the Beams of Light, which is
expanded Fire^ are heated fo, that they are
notfo apt to coal the inflam'd and ibirft-
ftung Membrane.
Now, when a Man is up to theC(&/*in
water, his Moutli is fo very near the Sur-
face, that he fucks the Steams of it into his
Lungs cool and crotvded^ together with the
Jir, which is rendered much the cooler by
mixing with the evaporating Particles of the
Water,
Of Cold Baths.
which being drawn by Suflion iii-
3 the Mouth fo moistens it, as to make the
ondens'd cUmmy Spittle more flaidj and
lelps to I'acilitatc Deglutition.
, I could wifh that the Chance-mongers of
ur Hap- nap-faculty would Read left, and
%hink more ; at leafl improve that Reading
fThiakitigj and not take a parcel of Stuff
J)on Tieky and Bury their Patients in a
fomb of Book- PI under: They may as well
prelcribe the powder of an old fafliioo'd
itd-Pofi, as feme of Old Ntcholas^^ Receipts
W. and to learn to know PUnts more, and
iompound lefs, which is the great ^j()/«ff«
" Ignorance, blended and niixt up with
ftavery. I remember when I was at Ley-
t in Hohfidy not much Ihort of 40 Years^
fince, walking in the Phyfick-Garden, a
Scotch Gentleman, a Student there, asked
the Profeffor, hraacifats de U Boe Sjlviiu^
What Ayftnthium nurinum was good for ? ^
The Profeffor fmilingly ask'd him, What)
Country-man he was r He anfwer'd, Scoto-^
britaanw. He ask'd him, If in their Me-
tropolis, Edenhurghy they had not fuch a ,
Punilhment as the Boor to extort Confeffion
from the ftubborn Criminals ? He anfwer'd ,
Yes. Why then, quoth Hjlvnti, take this
Plant in his luxuriant Seafon, Root and.
Branch, and clap him into the if^^cr, and
, fqucezc it hard, for without it mtfejftsy 1
S doubt
.555 Of Cold Bath.
"%
s
doubt neither Thee nor I Iha!! ever (truly!
know what his virtiicsare. The moral isplain.
If a Man rightly confiders the Syn/pathies
and Antipathies between all created Beings,
the myfteriousand unaccountable hermenr^
things broken and mixt have within them-
felves; Howofcen we miftake, even in cut
greateft Care, and take 770/1 cuafi, pro eatti
y*, and give that praifc to the Medicine
which is more often due to Nature, and i
good Conftitution: Ifweconfider buttha
one Ccmpofition of Gun-prnder^ how nic "
it is -, firft no Coil will do but WiHoiv or Jt
dffy and that rew burnt too, while thejffrj
Particles are in it, andfuch and fuch dij
Proportions of Feter?in6Brmfio»e\ if yoi
take away a third ot thefe, or abate in ne-
verfofmaila quantity, or add never folilS
tie of a fourtli thirii;;, 'tis all fpoil'd ; how i
muft be granulated and corn'd that the Ai
may lodge in the J//ter/}iiW*s, or elfe it wil
Fiz, but not explode, as we may fee intl^
bruifed Dui\, of winch they make Rockeh
and Serpents.
Now 'tis p:ift doubt, that the fame Parf
ty ofReafon lies in all Compounds, ifw{
could find it out; every Plant which we
[ call Simple, is compounded bytheunfearclt;
able Wifdom of the great Compounders
tibr what can we fay, when wefindtliai;^
[ the Root, Stalks, Leaves, Flowers, and.
Seeds, in many Plants have their differeoc'
Tipi
r*Jis, and different Firtaes', why fhould
ne Flowers of the 5/fl?-Tr« purge, audtlie
Pruit bind ? fo of the ^//m^ and Medlar,
Bjc. All that remains, is, let Men cndea-
f" vour to know as much as they can, and be
I honert in that Knowledge. As for my own
r' irt, if I could wifh or blow a Man well ,
would do it without Medicine: 1 have I
f lliank God a great deal of Pity and Comfaf-
KjKf» in my Nature, ahd cannot be eafie,
I whilft I fee another in Pai/t and Mtivrj.
dnd if I could but eftablifh fome few Cer-
iintics in my Profeflion for the good of
jHankind, I did notcare^ the' I my felf
Irene as naked as I was born» to my Grave.
I hope, Sir "John, you, and all good Men
ate of my mind, and it" every one would do
a little, each fet his Hand to the P/on-, and
be' Sincere, Faithful, and Honeftin what
they difcover, it would be pleafingto God,
and beneficial to. V/./ff. I defign to go into
Ldftajbire when the Seafon is over at the
Bath, to fee my old Friends once morebe-
tore I die. 1 fpcnt the beft pare of my
Youth among them, fo can't but have a
Love and Rcfpeft for them ; and in my
Journey fhall call at Liichpld^ to pay that
Refpeft to Sic ^ohn Flayer, which is due
from his
Afs/? hrnnhU mi. obliged Strvtnt;
Hdw. Baynard.
.5 54- Of Cold Baths.
Iliad(SirJohtf) almoft forgotten two ow
three remarkable Paflages in our Coldi
He^imen^ which (liould not have been omit^
ted, becaufe tliofe Cafes fiequcntfy occur^
The firll is in weaknefs of the /*?;»«, and)
loft Ereciiony often through ill cured Geno/m
rhedd'sand Gleets^ &c. And fometime&bj(
that curfed School- wickednefs of Msfiur*
lattouy (resf(eda dtitu) by which many ^
young Gentleman has been for ever undooq
which fo weakens the Parts, that whefl
they come lo Manhood renders them (t(
Women rediculous, becaufe) Impotenti
a Vice condemii'd by the Heathen Foet^
&c, as Mania/, Epigram-, in Pcm/cam, &Cf,
fuch, I fay, I have known perfeftly Lured^
and made Potent ad ^&c. when all oihcCi
Remedies have faiPd, nay, and after fortfii
Years ftanding, when the Cafe has heeffi
old, and no hopes of Cure ever expeGed ij
where tlie Crem/in's, the Mufcles of their
Te(imomes, have been weak, and tlie Clock-
weights of their Hearts ilink and hung low^
C^-c. there 1 fay, in more than Twenty fucl»
Cafes the Cold U'ater (together with ave»
ry little other help) has wound up theiri
Watch, and fet their VfndultiM in Jlatu ^a^
&c. One Hiftory wliereof is moft remarka^
ble of a certain Gentleman well-knOWfli
about Town for his great Strength and
Courage, tfince kill'd ia a D«t/) who was
PartU. Of Cold Baths.
not fhy ofhis unhappy Difafter, after tak-
ing all the CUp-Coarfes over and over to no
f)urpofe, but to his Oertruftion, by need-
els repeated BleediHg and Purging^ which
'^nought him down almolt to the Brink of
■ifie Grave; he Tent for me to confuk me in
}iis Cafejwhicli was a violent Gket and loft
^Ere£fio», of four Years (landing, and not
above 29 or 30 Years of Age. I told him
I would try what I could do for him ; in
order whereunto, I bid him go into the
Country, out of the fight of any IVomen,
and find out fome very Caid Spring or River^
where he fhouid firft plunge over-head,
then put on his Shirt, Coat and Hat, to
prevent catching Cold from the Wind and
\\r. and fit uptothe Waiftfor an Hour at
1ea(r, Night and Morning, and for a Month
irink nothing but new Mil!{ twice a Day
Veetne'd wim Sugar of Rofes; at Noon
t well-roafted-Mutton with Cold Salets,
Cue/fibers^ Lettice^ PurjUne^ &c. and
Irink nothing but Spring-Water with a
ttle CUrec-IVine, and at Night wrapupi
hWhore-Tackle'm a Linnen-Cloath, wee
i ftrong Vinegar and Claret-Wine, and fo
to Sleep; which Dircftions he punftually
obferved, and in lefs than 14 Days he was
well as ever he was in his Life ; but I
ubt returned to his old Trade, and Wo-
:anizM as much as ever. Andinfeveral
S ] others
Of Cold Baths.
others, I have found nothing better than'
Cold Immerfioit to invigorate and ftrengthen
all thoCe Parts, nay, even when the Pati-
ent has been reduced almoft to D/jpair and
fomc to DiJlra£}io/i, their Heads running
perpetually on the Ruin of themfelves and
tlieir Pofterity. And I muft fay, that
thro' the many miferable Speftacles, and
fuch deplorable Cafes I have feen, that
Pexes and CUps, i<tc. is the grcateft Curfe
that can befal a Man in this Life. And I
here declare, as old as lam, rather than
have any Infirmity in that Corner of my Aft-
crocofm^ I would chufe ro be hang*d this mo-
ment; for a Man does not only ruin bim-
felf, but docks the hta;I of his own Ulood^^
and brings a ^e piii^ ulira on his NumezxiQ,
F*milj i lb that one falfe Step in the Whorssg i
Adventurer is not only the Ruin of himfelf'
but all hhFoJferiij, a confiderationof Note,
and difmaItoreflefton,efpecialIy to fuch mif-
erable Wretch es,w ho feFolly and Incogitance^
has embarqu'd 'em in the Misfortune, fromj
which, neither the Skill of the Lear aed^ thej
Prayers of the De'voat, nor the TreafureSi
of the indies, can ever retrieve 'em. And
therefore Sylvtiti'^s Definition of the Pox wasj
the belV I ever met with, havuig Brevity^
Perjpieutijff ind Feriij, whenhecalt'd it,
FUgellum Dei in ^cortAtores. .\
Sh^rp is the Lafh whips off their ^uies. -t_
ii. Of Cold Baths,
So an oM Harlot-hunter complaining o*
his many Misfortunes he rccciv'd from w o-
ncn in rheconrfuof liis Life, but nothing
jHev'd him as much (he faid) as the lofsof
Bis Nofc ; qiiothoneintheCorapany^cheer
Up Friend,
I"
■' j4t the Dsy f>f [jud^mrrri 'twill tome dg/tWy
r1 As 4 fnifjl'»g EvideHct of. tky Sia ;
1' 'fhd' 'here among our nicer Hcttus
p'' The Ore fs lies more in Whig thiin Kofe,
W j4t>d ivhta tmhtzPd jrom the Face 5
*Tu *MOft^ Vw rechfi'd no d'fgrnse^ f
Proviifdpu meat a I'atcli if its Place, j
It may be objcflied Iicre, that fome that
h^ ve had tlicPflJcliave begotten found Chil-
dr-€jn. I grant it, fuch as have appcar'd fo
ac Itall, ytt it has jairt fmothcrcd in their
ii^t^dJs; and either fuch Children, when
grownup, haveproveddcklyandwealc, or
their Cliildren been i<td-ety, Kjn^s Evil'^d^
tif nmfnmpii-vp ; tor the Shakes and Girds
iH'Ofij* Phyficli {^iv'es the Human fdbriek,
'^\il\ loofL-n fiVme /<ivt/jand I'ins, aslmay
^ay, that fhotild go to the ^alkning of the
Vounddtion of his i-amUy : So true is that
faying ofG.f/cw, Lib. de feEiis prope fiaem.
N(^ue imptirte pojje adminijtrarf remedia^
W omnia, prater aaturam fint^ ab td^ue natu-
\h facttttates infejient^ me poffini adto wor-
S 4 hj4t
Of Cold Baths. Part II.
bofas Caafas refciadere^ quia ana illis aii^uid
etUm hmignafuhftantidt rapiam.
And riiis is that which caufes no good
Texture in our Off-fpriug. Hence, the com-
plaints of yiirt/*y?4wwM vit£^ when the Web
and the Woof are not well ftruck together.
How many Children have I heard (from
their bitternefs of Soul) curfe their Parent
for begetting them» the wretched Heirs ap-
parent to Pills^ Potions, and Poffet-driaky
dwindling out the fputtering Snuff of Life
in Pain and MJfery, and fpending their little
Subftance among V\vj(\ck-HarPies , and
their ravenous Attendants A'*)-//, Quuki^
Apothecaries, 3:c. Were I a young ^rom<»»,
I think 1 (hould very well be acquainted
with my M»n, and his Manners too,- e'*er I
ventured on the Voyage-Life, in the Ship
Matrimony; and.^ conirario, the Man
fometimes has been Shipwrack'd on as Rot-
ten ^Bottom, &c. In this wretched Con-
dition, Ifind fooieof ourE»£/;)2'-»w^», and
thofc of the beft Quality, in the time of
HenricHs &b Heers, frequented the Spatvs in
Germany, in hopes of a cure to their languifli-
in^ Prologomena, whom he mentions in a
Joeo-ferioM fort of Stile, by the Name of
Mylordi, whofe Words are thefe, "viz.
lllu(irii qaidam Afis^liu, quos Mjiordos, hoc
eft dominos per exceilenli/mi nominantf Sfit~.
dum venit ante amos ^uindecim impottitti4 rt*
1 -:: »w-
Of Cold Baths. 359
vtHum qu^reriSi &c. This Unhappy Gen-
jtleman could not touch a Woman, but tii
frimum Uhtorum eontdBum femeo tmitttbdt,
fed imbelU & frorjus dqaeam cjr fero (imH/t~
juum ; uxorem duxerat A/tnot natsm fedetim^
fid^uAm totobierfnioy ttUm ft JAtentt^ noH
dtvirgtntvemt ; optimt erat habituSy cerpore
froeero, eaftrcosy genis rubeniiffimu.
One may look irxj;(', \N\t\\ Cherry-Cheek,
And yet ielotv Stairs very weak.
That Woman's in a doubtful Cafe
That builds her hopes upon a Face ;
As one was cheated, when fhe chofe
A Husband by the length of's Nofe.
NoH fvm^er inferias, ficut fupertus. *
He tells you of many fuch Cafes, wherein 1
tjiey came to the Spam in hopes of help ; buc *
as much as I can perceive, he boafts of no, i
Cures by thofe Waters \n that Cafe, but that, ]
they returriM re mf'tcia. 1 r
I remember he tells one odd Story of a '
young Man abus'd by tlie too much ufe 00
Guai4eup$y whofe Hands all chopt in cro& 1
Chops, like an Iron Grate, and all his Skin, |
broke out into a Upraor ElephantiaJiSywhidl, I
bad foparcliM and dryM his Liver^ that he \
cured him by laying him under a Spout of a-
Mil], andletthe Water run upon him, and
gave liim CryAal with cooling things co
drink.
a6o Of Odd Baths. Part]
drinlc, tfpecially ftoreof PVhefwliti S/ilj>r
ne/Uf &c. DeinMf in ftramineo UBulnf^b •
tiffimo moleKdino, fuffl-jminato hunc in ufb
jgsmttrft^ jliHieidiHtn ex alto in Hep/ttis regit
fftm (Adeits Fxctfirt aquit gelidiffim4e neque me*-
tu Nefae foUribta r adits ealFfaffa; hoe talk
mxHi ajr fiqttihota mtiecanAm alie^aot dies ft^
cijlf^tj & fdfiiffimtu t^ pahheritnus fxSitis.
I much wonder why he fhouldftyjA'fj'wf
moiii^ neque Jolaribiis radtis caleftltie, becaufe
'tis well lif^own, chat all Liquids thcfwifter
their Mbti6n, the cooler they are, efpecialljr
Water; for that wliich flagtiates is only
warm by the heat of the Sun ; at leaft war-
mer dvin rarj/l'l^/gSValt'r; and we fee in
fcalding.hot M''4;er, the farter it is poor 'd
our of one VeiTcl into another, the fooner
if Cqoh ; but the fWiftisft Motion that can b6
in K'lifitfp; or fftn-trfv'd by Jr/, canOfrf
flfiillvC-Waterthat is aftualty CoW, in theleaft
dig.f'X Hot- : Swift Motifin indeed, by the
Contrition of folid hard Bodref, will wax
Ho)',' StUo/ik, zn^Fkmf, asin W^Apf//, &c.
h\M\y\ Ltfaid^^ hfijus C6ntrariam fft 'vtmm',
and I have fee n a Smnh raltea fmallBarof
Ml^Wrt^h lrf}», alrd ill k^fs than ft Ve or fix
Mitiufo^tiniehas hammer'd itonacold^^ff-^
v>^, iiWiHt has been red Hot. But toth«*
Hufifteft. V
Caph^iwpierinhisjoidrmlsof hisVey^
jgfe found tlic World^vts an Account tbatif
Of Cold Baths. 361
tAehimfe very much delight to wafh in
ddWater. His Words are thefe, viz.. •
r* They are here, as zi Mindanao^ very
Vfupcrftitious in wafliing and cleanfing
"Ithemrelves from Defilements, and for that
Lreaibn they delight to hve near the Rivers
Tor Streams of Water. The River of -.^c/jw,
* near tlie City, is always full of Peopie of
* both iVjrw, AndaWJges; fomecomeand
* walh themfelves for the plcafurc of being
' in the Water, which they fo much dc-
* light in, that they can fcarce leave the Ri-
K-Tfr without going firft into if, if they have
any Bufinefs brings them near. Even the
.Hick are brouglit to the Ri-ver to wafh. I
know not whether it be accounted good to
(Walli in all Difiempers ; but I am very cer-
tain from my own£jr/'frw«'£',itisgood for
' thofethat have the tlux^ efpecially Morn-
' ings and Evenings, for which reafon you
* fhail then fee the Rivers fulled, but more
' efpecially in the Morning, &c.
And in anorhcr place he fays, I was per*
fwaded towafh in the Rivers for the Reco*
very of piy Htaltb^ which I did Mornings
and Evenings; and tho'itfeemed ftrangeto
mc before I tried it, yet I found fo much
comfort in the firft trial, that I conftanily
applied my feU to it I went into the River,
\ 'tiU the Water wasas high as my Wtft^ and
[ (looped down, aad found the Water
363 Of Cold Bath.
(o eool snd refrefhi»g to my Body, that I
was always loth to go out again ; then I was
fenfible that my fiomeis were very A«, fori
iound a greac heat within me, which I found
jfefreflicd by the cool IVster, S<c.
IK I remember an old F/Jber-mao that for-
k-jnerly hv'd at Hammerjmth^ who told me,
' /That little Sleep and cop! Diet, and thin
I iCIoaths, were the only means to live hetUth^
kful and long, and that MVer-^ir made him
\i «at heartily, and that he was a great lover
^■of Sdit-0j and ParJ»i/>s, and when he did
"heat any of his own ti-efli Fifh^ he eat theni
alwaysffffir, and always boilM, nevcrfried^
L as being cafiefl: of Digeftion, and eat them
* the Dtitch way, brought to Table in the Li-^
k qoor they were boil'd in ; and that at any^
time when he was uneafy, and could no^
►• Sleep on Shoar, he went into his Peter-Boar^
I and thecooinefsof the Air, andtherocking
I'Of the Boat on the Water, made him Sleep
I foundly. Healfooften wafh'd in ColdfVa-
ter, and his Hands and Arms always dabling
' in Cold Water, drawing his Nets botS
• •'Winter and Summer: He wore but a thin
^-woollen Wd/icMf next his 5^/V/, and wasa
^lufty tall M»B, could both hear and fee welli
b-4id neither .5/o(j/> not TrembUj and died of
^an acute Dijeafe at a Hundred and threeXeirs
if Age. I am told he died of a PleuriJ^, bis
Name was Good-man Savoiy, who for his'
%rtl
rtll. Of Cold Baths. 26:^
Stritt^th and Vigour miglit very well have
rlived forty or fifty Years more ; and I think
^is fincc he died about eight or nine Years.
I find no Men live fo long and healthful.
5 the Wafhersand Dablers in CM Water.
there is now living at Chijmck on tlie River
)f Thames^ one old Suttoa, a Fiiherman,
ipho they fay is more than 1 Hundred Te*rs
W; he ov/n'd tome three or four Years
jice, that he was almofl a hundred, he
[iugs at the Oar in all Weathers in a thin
Wadcoat, and cries his flounders about
Streets with as ftrong a Voice as any Man
lof but thirty Years of Age •, he, is a fat,
Ijquat, fhort, (ur\y Old l-'tl/owy and his Food
R& for the moft part ISrow/4 lire/id end Cbeeje^
^aind his Drink, (when becan get it) mild
fvcleaf Bf^r.This I Iiad from his own Mouth.
He is fi nee dead of the Stones and was a
hundred and five, or Bpt, when he died ;
M^ which he lived in mirery and pain thci
^ft 3 or J Years, and never felt theleali:.'J
lymptom of it, until he was frighted by.} |
naviflg his Boat funk between two Lightci"s,i '
and he in it; then he immediately pifs'd
Blood, and compIaiaM of a great weight
and pain in his Bladder. Thus ynu may fee
ho\y long a Diflemper may lie dormani/till
"^d up and awak'd by ibmc Accident ;
f this theLithoto^ii^^ hajvc many In-
064. Of Cold Baths,
I have known in my time many old Wa-
tef'Men and Fifber-men^ full, or near to a
hundred* And I am told, That at Whitny
in bxford^ire^ thofc whoworkat the BUn-
ket-MiHs^ carry wet Blankets in their Arras
next their Breaft, Winter and Summer,
and never catch CoU^ and live to extream
Jges.
There was a Fipmotiger^ who had a Son
put Apprentice to a Scrivener or Attorney,
but' had not ftrengch to hold a Pen to write,
through the weaknefs of the ^^owfj of his
Fingers and iVnJt, which he had for ibme
time labour'd udder; fo that his Father'
waj forced to take him home, and being
imployed in his own Trade by often dab-
ling and wetting in CtjW Water ^ foon reco-
vered his Strength, and is as well as any
Man.
How refreiliing the pouring of Cold Wa-
ter Out of one VeElel into another, is to thoft
in Fevers, I can teftify, and many have
been by the cool and noife of that A^hn
iuird afleep. And Ca^t. IVifliam lVi(ki
Apothecary on Lad^ate-HHij London^ told
me of*an Acquaintance of his, that was
given over in a Fever by his Phyficians,
that was by his Brother-Trade recovered,
by getting Hands enough, and perpetually
pouring round hlsBed Cold Water out of one
VelTet into another, until he fell afleep,
aod
Part 11. Of Cold Baths. ^65
and by that means recovered. And I rcipem-
ber, that my Learned and Good Friend, Dr,
yjpton, told me of one fo recovered in New-
'ite-ftreet, whether it was the fame Perfon
5r no» I cannot tell. I have al(b known
that the ftriking of the frefb and green
Roughs of Ofiers, Willow, Poplar, lildei',
K. round the Bed, has refreCh'd the Sick,
nd often induc'd Sleep, even whereO/iam
lasfaiPd.
That Cold Water concenters the Spmti
"ind ftrengihcns the lYerz-fs and mufculous
'ilires^ by bracing them, as it were, lilic a-
>««!, when thcrarclinncnt-head isrciax'd,
S very evident by rhis Experiment of twQ
loysruniiingfora Wager a hundred Yards,^
more or lefs,lct the Boys be near of a Speed;
*nd Strength, take the Boj that lofcth and
i^ him in Cold IVatff, and then let chcm
run a fecond timc^ and ttie lofing Boy fliall
lieatthe other, c~c- And talking on this
Subjeft, i remember that a Qentlmun told,
ihe, That when hy was a Schoai-Boj. they
nfed to lay a 7'ip/^ on two forked Sticks pa^
rallet to the Ground, and to jump over,;
and he faid th.it he always obfcrvea, that'
when be had been in the H'aier, lie could,
then Spring much higher than at ^ny other,
time.
Dr.dri/fiih^ a Learned and Ingenious
(ieiaao^ Da^/t//, I met at the 54/ft, who
told me of many People, both in Fevers and
SmdS-PoXy who in their Deliriums have run
into the C'oW, nay, even into the 5»tfip, and
haverecover'd without any harm or accident.
At St. Mungah'Sy the Cold Spring in Tork-
fltirej 'tis the Cuftom of the Country People,
especially thofe that are fuperftitious, to car-
ry as much of the Sai>7t away with them as
they can ; and as a fort of Mortification to
quench (as they think) Concupifcence,
they not only B^/A, but when come out
put on a vet Shirt ov Smock y (this I have
known both Men and Women do) and lb
Walk or Ride home, and let their Shifts
dry upon their Backs ; but the Effeft has
prov'd contrary to rheir Expe£tation, for,
when dry and warm, they have found y^/-
cuU l^efieris aeutt frigtt^. And I have heard
an old Carkas-ma» fay, who had been a
great lover of Caiv-Beefy that the Temple
of f^cHus was a Fond of Heater ^ for fhe that
was born at Am, wasout of her Element on
dry Land, &c. And Dr. Savarj told me,
That that Fellow which he mentioned in
his Letter, that ufed to filh up to the Chia
in Cold IVtter, found it did Jd veaerem ftt- ,
muUre^ Sic. and feveral of our Winter-
Bathers (nay even in Frofl and Snow) have
complained that all the Injury they found
by Cold BAthiag was, that it did/rfwew «
venerem rtimis mgert^ which made one fay,
CoU
Cvid Bdthing hoi this Good aiofte,
it makes Old John ro hag Old Joan.
jind gives s fart of B.efurre£iion
To Juried Joj/s, through hfi Ere£lion.
And ^^^re(b'iCi»dmfs's entail
^Ofl'WfWw^, Old, a^idStak.
To prevent Jhortioas, and ftrengtfaert
^k Wombs y 'tis one of the beft Remedies
l^he World, efpecially if fhe goes into the
'i towards iied-rt/wff, her Dinner being
fted and pail off ; and in fome Women to
s a little Blood a day or 2 before, is good.
ind aGentiewoman of good worth this
ner at the Bath told me, that labour-
^cum meafium fiaxu tmmodtco^ after hav-
I'Cried all the Phyficians of the beft re-
E, and fwallowing Bolus upon Bolus, to-
Jier with a Scavengers Cart full of all
brother 'S/'0/'-//(>/'i , and brought to the
■ ^ brink of the Grave, with unneceffary
\ nautious Dofes, which gave not the lealt
ck to her Cafe, refolv'd to try the Cold
fch, and in a very little time was per-
Ibly recover'd, and grewAgil, Fac and
iFong. Another Lady in the fame Cafe,
had a fpeedy Cure by the fame means of
cold Immerfion, even in the very Teeth of
thoTc Blockheads that grioM at the propofal
of Cold Baching, but when they faw that
" 5 was rccoverd and well, they fled with
T a
a
a68 Of Cold Baths.
a blufhlefsFaceto their old Sillyifm, Haf
Lord ! irho would have thougbi it f Now tO'
reafon a little why Men (andfomeof thetn
Leai'iied Men) ftiouW even againft Con.
viQion oppofe Cold Bathing, is a Paradox^
furely the reafon muft b e the fame withf
thzx. oi No»}urtt/3tifm, t^^SKBtOH^, aot
but that the thing is clear, and they fee
their Error, but the Thought (forfoothj
was none of their own, or that they wer^
not let into the Secret time enough, fo (<A
fbame come into the Vineyard on the ele*
venthhour oftheDay ; and tho'ithasdon*
Cures next to Miracles, yet haughty prid(
and ftubbornefs, with an elated Brow, am
a fwoin Bread muft roar and bel<
againft it to the end of the Chapter, b*
caufe it an't me, I'm not the Man tha
has broach'd and tapp'd this Cask of thi
beft, tho* rtaleft Liquor, ofmorethan 20oi
Years old, -•
Oh ! Self, felf^ irlMt a Selfifl} thing m thonl ,
Like the Dog in the Mitigeif.
Willnalher est himjelf\ rwr let' the Cmv.
In the beginning of Fevers, expertmh-
quor, in many Cafes 1 have feen it to cureant^/j
takeoff the lehtle Hent znAl'hirfi, atf
very firft Immcrfion. And I my lelf aboB
theraiddleof jf«/f, Jurio 1702. becameve^
ry feverilh, (I tunpofe from drinking
Part 11. Of Cold Baths. 2 69
JW'/t upon eating Melons when I had been
feft walliiog and very HotJ my Tongue was
rough and white, my Mouth clammy, and
an ill tafte, my Vrine of a bright amber
Colour, but no Separation by ftanding, nor
rblue ihin on the Glafs : I flept very difturb-
I edly, and had a quick high towrlng Palfe ;
[bad ftrange FUfbes'm my Blood, Uke Wild-
'ire, which I could perceive in my Face,
tfeck, Bread, andextreamParts, (znAGofL
itgive me, not fo well prepared for a Jour-
py to the other iVorU^ as I ought to have
"Sen) and found the Fever to kindle upon
and dreading the confequence of being
rious , knowing that the Executioners
would crowd in upon me, andencereme
alive in a Sheet of Blijfers, &.c. thefe Con-
fiderations were terrible to think on, and
that fomething was to be done quickly
whiJft I had my Senfes, anddurAnoc Bleed.
in a pale Vrine: I took half an Ounce of
Crem. of Tartar in the Bath-v/ater, which
gave me tliree or four Stools, which made
me much worfe. I Sweat extreamly fpon-
taneoufly before I took the Crem. of Tartar^
but had no Relief by it at all. Icalled my
Servant to get ready my Swimming Shoes,
(fori have a tender Foot, and can't tread
upon the Stones) fo down to the River went
'ft Nine a Clock at Night, and id IcapM
rer Head and Ears, as they fay, and Swam
a 70 Of Cold Baths. Part it
up and down for fome time under half an
hour ; fo home f came, and to Bed I went ;
I found my felf in a ftate of Neutrality^
neither better nor worfc-r I at the Cold Wm^
ter again the next Day, and Swam longer
than the firfttime, and came home as weR
as ever I was in my Life, and eaLtFenif^n^
Pdfijj and drank a Bottle of CUret for my
fhare ; but I continued Bathing in CoU Wm^
ter two or three Days for tear of a R^
Uffe^ &c. And in this place I think it will
be very pertinent to infert that moft re-'
markabie Cafe, mentioned by the Learned
Dr. WiUis^ in his Chapter Dr Delirio &
Phrenitide, Cap. X. Pag. 265. whofe words
are thefe, viz,.
Olim ad AncilUm robajidm^ qudfebriciUnSj
^fuwmh mjMtens^ continue in leRouinlldte^
nebdtur^ cunLndam accerfebar. Huic fangeoi*
nem cofiosc & dein tterato mitti^ alvum dh ene^
mate crebrojubduciy quin & alias quafque sd^
mtnifirationes^ cr in hoc cafu ujitat/u^ ordine
celebrar/das pracepi ; interim Jti/aPiay Emmlfo-
ones^ & Hypnotic A propinari : verum his fsttMf
aiit mhiljuvantibHs^ per feptem veloSto dies Ha
inj'omnii ufqtde^ & furioja admodum perfiitiff
Fotumfrigtdum ejulando & clamdndo perfitU9
expofcens\ quapropter Hjdropofia adlibitumy
tmmo ad Jatietatem concejfdy nequaquamfids*
tior^ aut fitibunda minus faSia eft "y itMqaejtfi
(fiqaidem temp us afUvumfuit) ut medtd n0^
i
krtJl. OfColdBothsT
\ mulirribiti fultlits O" for<u ferducli cymhx
mpomretur^ dein veftibus exiitt ^ •vtmutk fo~
sfluvio^rofuttdoimmergerctur^unetAfitum
« coTforu trumum ne forte fabrntrfu inter i-
t aSignto. l^erttm iftiufmodi retinAcuh nihil
}fw fiitf namefue pueU* at vix meliut vir
)uifpAm trtem hanc frobt edoSius^ ffonte nata-
»at. Foft lerii/im ant jaarlam bor4 p»rtem^
j'atiA ac fobrtA aqaii eximttur^ deiuledo com-
Piff* dormivit^ CT cnpiose fadttvit, pojlraque
H dlia Bfuovii rtmtdio connj^luit.
CurAtio hxc tdm fubtto & feltzittr fuceefftt^
in qumtum fitimm* tarn "vitnUi tarn unimalis
fimul m immtnjum aalia excfjjtts^ a propria i^-
rtii inteaforii remedio fcilicet Humitintione Cf
ififrigidaiioue aO aqais tollereittur.
Now, what can any Man fay againftthit
Relation, ibr 'tis impoffiblcto invalidate
t'Aii'f What Strains and Sliitts mu(l the
Jntipficholites bo at to make null and void
this.SWjr? A Iiilty Itrong /fwcA, raving
and bound in her Bed, reftlcfs fcvcn or eight
Days without Sleeps with luch an intenfc
THr/i, that nothing could quench it, nor
Opiais in the Icalt alfift her, perpetually cry-
ing out ibr Drink, ike. and yet in Icfs than
a. third part of an Hour was by Cold Water
perfcftly cured. Really this her Recovery
was more wonderful than her Siwwww^,
which fhc did to Fcrfeftion, though proba-
biy never was in Coid iVnter in her Life bc-
T 3 tore.
973 Of Cold Baths. Part II.
fore, I fay, What can the Ph^fick Zjajt the
'Jack-Pudding o{ the Town fay to this, that
keverfeand vJw/i/'Oiie of Learning, Modcfty,
and good Manners, that grins at, and ridi-
cules (to the length of his Ihort Tf<f(^(r of
Underrtanding) every thing that the ft'eak
Fibers of his own wretched Nonsca.o^tGrafp
and Comprehend? An Ingenious Man ufed to
call this Fellow the Phyfick Town-Tof, a Log
of Wood with a Brsfs Nofe, that waslafh'd
and kept up by other Mens MettU, mor?
than his own, whofe Excellency lies in a
Row of filly worn out threadbare, chaw'd-
over Stories and Jejs, fuch asferve to make
Fools laugh, and mfi Men fhake their Hesds.
Such another Gui»ea. Moem as this, I was In
Confultation with, a fort of a Town-Top too,
tho' not fo very wooden as the other ; the
queftion was, whether a //o; or Cold B^h'
was moft proper in a certain Cafe? AQu*'
ifr fitting by, and hearing T^^-w/wcir fpeak
very filily to the Point, told his Coufin, the
Sick Man, that he did not expc£V a Bleflin^
on this Confultation, bccaufe he that fpokc
laft, he found by his Difcourfe he was aq
Injidel, and had no Faith : No Faith, quotN
■ the Docior, hawfo? Why, quoth the ^a*-,
ker^ lam fure thou haft no Faith; for if {
Ihouldtell thee (before all this Company)
that thou art a Coxcomb, thou wilt not be'
iieveme, fuch is thf little infight into tfayt
SrtTT Of Cold Baths. 177
fclf ; and lam afraid that thou hnoweft aS
Gttlc of my Kinfmaii's C'«/?, as tliou doft of
[hyown Wealincfs ; u^ion which 'J op-minor
[rew angry, and ipun out of the Roon).
his FrifYid. Dr. Baynard at the
BATH.
London^ Jvly^ih, 1701.
S 1 ft,
TEariog of fo many wonderful Cures
done by your Cold Bath, the Rcpu-
Btion of it has olmoll pcrfwadcd me to
' it myfelf, if you tliink it proper forme,
l-fometimes being troubled with wandering
ihcumatick-palns, and being no admirer of
uchPhyfick, I would gladly ralte the fhor-
1 Couifuto be well : So underftanding by
lading Sir Johr/ I'lojerh Boole, that you are
tlieonly Man ih^c have madeObfcrvaEions
of both Hot and Cold iUths^ confcqiiently
you rauft be the bc(t judge in what Cafes
they are moI^ proper. But in my own Opi-
nion, I rather incline to CoU fmmfrfiou from
an Experiment, or rather happy Accident
that befel my fclf, whicb was this; I was
formerly much troubled with a fort of little
flac Worms that I Ihould often void in my
Excrements ; but on a certain time going
to Swim in a very cold deep Fond, that was
1* 4 fed
a 74 Of Cold Baths. Part 11.
fed with many Springs^ when I came out I
fouod in my Stool, a great Clufler of the
Worms, and from that time was never more
troubled with them, I only tell you this as
Fa£t ; the ihilofophy of it I muft leave to
you and yourBrethren,to determine thewhy ,
and the how, this Cure was wrought ; (b ex-
leding vour advice by next Poft, I am, dear
;ir,
7ot$r humble Servant ^
Jo.Eldrcd.
Direft for me at the old Houfc, Ludgdie^
Htll.
I remember that a Gentleman of good
worth (laft Summer at the B^h) told me,
That he went into SuMoffgah^s with Crutch-*
es, and was in (ix or eight times Bathing fo
much relievM as to walk with an underhand
Stick: But forced by his Affairs to a Journey
for London^ and his Diftemper threatnipg 4
return, his Cafe being a P^lfey with a Ju*
mofj complicated fometimes with a Rheu-
mstifm^ or (what was worfe) a Runnin^^
Gout ; and refoiving from his lafl fucceisin
Torkjbire to try the Cold bath at London^
went (irft to his Phyfick-Flingerj the Gpg"
glipg Goliah^ to hear what that Loftwft
could fay to bis Cafe. This puif M up Afil'
ioj fo bloated wiih FooTs Bnathy as if the
Qa(f bad been Prick t and Butcher- blowik
- look'a
Of Cold Baths.
ok'd fo magifterially upon me (quoth he)
&ith a Claret-ftew'd Phyz., betwixt Roai^
nd Sod, together with his ufual Hypocri-
ical GW«, that the Figure of the Fellow
like ah Ijnifon in Mufick, ftrucfe that String
of my Chops, which his Face had tuned,
,, which made me Grin too, to behold him ;
but having Prefence of Mind, I foon fhift-
id my Face into a Scene of Gravity, and
numbling my Mouth fomewhat fafhiona-
Ibly, I accofted the Wo/with a Guinea, and
ry Cafe, who after a Brace or two of un-
iaannnerly Belches, and a fhort Faufe, ask'd
ne a Brace or two of as impertinent and
mfuitable Queftions to my Cafe ; but Ibon
nd peremptorily concluded, that it was an
Ugly Scurvy in my Blood, caufed by too
'nany Acids there ; fo put me into a Courfc
[f Sweetners, as he calPd them, the principal
f which wasaQuait of thin Cuftard-Uke-
ifipid fluff, Egjbiiited^QzViA by his Learn-
d Apothecary, the OrienUl Ptarl Emulfion ;
llui the good nature of which Medicine I
was to acquiefce, until further orders ; fo
hobling off with ray fcrap ofprefcription, I
^^uro'dmort onhis Wormip's patience, and
H^kM him what he thought of the Coid Bath ?
H^ — d&it will kill you (quoth he in Sput-
^ter and Faffion) it will kill you. But hear-
ing fci often tliat this Oracle was no Oracle,
.|)]f-|)i& many miilakes in his forward, falfe
and
076 Of Cold Baths. Partlt
and foolifh Prognofticks, even fhort of th]^
Old Wife's Sieve and Sheers; and being
vext for being a Bubble to a Blockhead;
and Guinea-bic for my fenfelefs Curiofity,
I went next Day to Mr. Bityns\ and tooJf
todgings at the CgU Bnth, and was (I thank
God) much mended, tho* not Curedj by a .
few Immerfionsj and after I have diaofe
thefc Waters fome time, I'll return home to
my own Houre,wlicrc I have a Cold Spring,
and try what Faith and Cold Water will do
forme; for of all the many things I have hi-
therto ufed, nothing has done me fo much
palpable and apparent good asCoId Immer-
fion; and in this, and iDch like Cafes, I am
well (atisficd that all the confident and
moft Corinthian affurances, are but profti-
tuted Hopes and Promifes of your trifling
Prefcribers, when they are at alofsand
ftand, either in the Caufe or its Cure, fo
fly to their laft fhifts of BufFoonry and
Ridicule, making it their Bufinefs to Decry
and Invalidate any thing that may have
a probable countenance towards a Cure:
for what is not the produG of their own
thoughts, mult certainly fully and blacken
their Reputation, as Cold Water has done
in a hundred Cafes,' honeftly and openly
in thefeCeofthe5tf», without Trick, Ar-
tifice or Juggle ; at which fone of the more
i^iodeft have drawn in thcirHorns.and calm-
rttr Of Cold Baths.
377
BacnuiefcM in the weak Man's wonder,
s. L-d ! Who would have thought it ?
brwd^ff* tfi Veritas <c pr^va/ehit ; for tho'
(aft may be ohfcarM and hid for a while,
fet it can never be ftifled and annihilated.
Another of this dafs, a Manofnomean
Magnitude once, but pow dcfpisM and
(■-s--d upon, a Fellow of 3 Gelt and Caf-
r*ted rcputation,for having oijtliycd that (ct
if fofl// that once admir'd him, he can bct^ct
tomoi'c; this Man, I fay, bcingaskMoy
.Melancholy Patient^ hts opinion of a CoW
fath? anfwcred him in making Mouths,
irith ftran^e dillortions of Chops and Nofe,
ipd after his Face had cntcrtain'd him with
urning the Somcrfct a while, he by degrees
irokcuphis Grimace, and fwore it would
AW him.
■ Now I would fain know what it is that
flights all thcfefoolifh People, and makes
their Heads run thus upon killing ? how can
tt Man's wafliing Iiimfclf in Cold Water kill
Mm? 'Tis but oflafe Years that fprinkling
^me in and was us'd in Bdptijm ; and what
I pray became of all the tender new-born //»-
ftntSy that were made Chrifti/i»s by Immer-
jhn in a cold Marble Font, in a damp
Church, in cold hard Winters, and the
worft of Weather fometimes? what, wctt
allihefc Children it/tfV? I am apt to think
tho Devalue fcatter'dfome of his Hell-
Grubs
Grubs in their Sculls, and fly-blown their
Vatierjianiiin^toz degree of i.«««f;, left the
old way of Immerfion fhould conie into the
World again : not that I am an Anafaftijl^
for I was Sprinkled my felf, and a fprinkled
C/w//?;^ is better thanjione; for I put no
great ftrefs upon the form, provided a Man
believes well, and lives well ; tor he is my
0)riftisay thatfliews me his C&r//7M»iYy by
his Faith, hisFaithby his good Works, &c.
But this being the PArfon's Province, I have
done.
Some years finceMr. Elijsi>y., theprefent
Minifter of Cbijwick^ near Loadint, a tender
weak Man (a Man of a lingular Lift, and
good Learning) by the advice of Dr. Cok,
Dr. Gibhns and my felf, was direfted
to the ufc of the Cold Bmh, for it was made
in a Tff^, fo not cold enough for the pur-
pofedeilgnM, however he found fome be-
nefit; and I am informed by fome of hisPa-
lifiioncrs, that this prcfcnt Summer, he has
very often ufed ihc CoU B^th at Lortdott^tiA
U Cured of his tcudernefs to a ftiange de-
gree, and is become a new Man for Vigor
and ftrcngth.
Dr. GroeHveli, a Man famous for his
great Cures in his Art for Cutting for the
5/«»f, call'd me in to a Patient of his, a
Datth Gentlewoman, where I propofed a
C^dSithj which the ufed with much bene-
I. Of Cold Baths. 379
it. But here by the way, note, That a
Wtain Phyfician told her, it would kill her,
which after he faw the Efftfts of Cold Ba-
thing, he much blamed himfelf for his for-
■Jward and rafh Ce/tfure. The Phyfician is
Bbnce Dead, but this FalTage Dr. Gromvttf
Kvery well remembers. I nave almoft for-
gotten her Cafe, but I think it was a Fain
An her Back and Sides, with wcakncfs of
g^er Limbs.
One Mr. Caruty a Woollen-Draper on
.uc^dte-Hi/lf received a great Bcncfit,anda
Berfefl; Cure by the Cold Bath ; but what
is Cafe was, I have forgotten : he lives at
'thtGoitie» K.ey; any Man may inform him-
';lf; I think it was a Rheumatifm.
Mr. Truly at the KJng^i Jrms at FUet-
Uge, now in Bath^ told me, That one Mr.
^^ Urrifon^ a Gentleman in his Neighbour-
|bood, is this prcfent Summer pcrftaly re-
covered of a fcvere Rljeumaiijm by the Cold
^th; and a Man in year5,at lealtSixty.
I could give almoft a hundred Inftances
joi Rhimattjms ; but one the moft fevere
^that ever I faw, in a young Wootm, Daugh-
jter CO the Inn-keeper a: the White Horfe
in fieet-Jltreer, perfc£tly cured by the Cold
Btth^ where any that would be farther fa-
lifified, may inquire. I tliink her Mother
told me, (he had laboured under it (at cer-
tain Scafons) fomc years; flie was aged
about fourteen or fifteen. Ihe
Of Cold Baths.
The hchf that feemed almoft Leprous,
with maturated Bw/j on the whole Body^
efpecially on tht Hm<is, which fwell'd the
Fingers tofuch a degree, together with the
foarnefs of the Chops in the folding of the
Hands, I have known cured in four orfive
Immerfions, fo that the Bladders that feem'd
maturated and full of Ptu^ have fhrunk and
fubfided, and peePd ofFwithout any Phj^ckj
butonly moderating his Diet, and forbear-
ing ftrong Dt-i/ii\ and uQng Exerdfe^ &c.
Now in fuch Cafes, how often have I
known the poor Patient brought to the
Phyfick'Rack^ viz. BJeetlii/f^St t^omitingst Parg-
iiJgs, Dict-dr'mkiy Ojntments^ &c. together
with tlie whole Irtqaifttion of H^armck-Ltiae^
Mugivell.Sereet unA Jforhecarys Hall^aad all
to as much purpofe, as he that rod Port with
a hangM Man behind him, to read an Ana-
tomical Lefture to the Mayor of ^eenho'
roaglu
A Gewf/^w'jw of good Account, though a
modeft Man, blulhingly gave me this Re-
lation in reference to himfelj\ who for fome
timepaft had great trouble in his Urw^r/-
p'Jfages^ and Pain at the Root ofhis Tirt/y
and about the Region of the Bladder, info*
much that he had reafon to fufpeft ibme
IJUer or Excoriation ia Colh defied by the
Slime and Sordes that came away in his
Urine ; he alfo had a L^crjmx Vtmrh, or
,1 -j:;0 tj I: old
OfCQldBiihs.
old Cilcct, which at that time was very
fcvcrc upon liim, together witli wcalincft
oi EriiltoM^ 8fc. who was cured by a ftrift
preftrvance in this following Mctliod, "viz.
He firrt eently purged two or three times
v/ith C.MfflA znaT»m»rindi, Syrup oi' yiolert
and Pfdth-t'hwers; inftcad of I'offct drink
onhispdrginc days dranlf plentifully of (f/'i'^
clarified witn fome opening ann cooling
Plants ; and at other times drink L:me-,ivd-
ttr^ in which was ftctpM a little dfthb
Shavings of ^Sajfafras and tiquoriffj^ and
took two or three tirnes in a Day, three ot*
four fmall P////, made' of Juice d( Liijuorifb,
Spermt CV/>, Species Didtrx^ttcdnihi frtgidi^
or Puivif Hilf, Sfc. and iifcd Cold Immerfion
for i6 or i8 Days, NJglic and Morning,
burdpetially at Night after a light Dinner,
andnoSuppt;r,n littlcF/awmcf;)' after Bathing
with a iiriie Sugar nnd Juice ofOra»^p, fult
to make it of ;i pleafanc fweet tart Ta(f, a
4uico/ieidu7ft; mid from iliencc pafTcd into
a relfrinpeni Milk-diet, by boiling Acorn-
Ctifts^ Hijhori, and Tortnentil-rooiSy in Spring-
water, and then mixing Milk and a little
Oat-meat, made a fortofMiik-pottagc, on
which lie only liv'd tor a Seafon; he avoi-
ded the fight ofall Women, but fuch as had
Antivencreal-l'accs, for Age and Uglineis ;
IS alfo all manner of Wine and Strong
Drinks, and FlcdMiicat, &i. and by tfiis,
iitu'.i'.j'-. • '^ " tmf
Of Cold Bath.
and by fucli like mean^ he was perfeftly
recovered to his priftine Health. I have
known many times that violent ftroag
Purgings with Aloes, Scaramony, Refin
of Jalap, crc. together with the too much
ufe pt Terebinthiuate Medicines, have hea-
ted and done much mifchief to the inflam'd
and tender Nervous Parts, and often caus'd
Swellings of the Tefttcles, together with
unapt or untimely Injedions. Mr. Fuller,
an Eminent Apothecary in the Sirtua^ told
me of his own knowledge in many Cafes j
asalfo did the late Dr. H<ibbs\ and I havQ,
obferved divers times in my own PraQice
and Experience, that fuch Tumors and Ve-
nereal Swellings, have rendr'd Mca infertile
and incapable (ever after) of begetting Chil-
dren. Not that this does always hold true,
in every Monger, for fame ftrong young
Mongers of good Conftitutions, have brulh-
edthrough fuch Mistbrtunes, and have after
it begotten Ciiildren, but with a great Dimi-
nution to the Venereal Pleafurcs and De-»
lights as before ; the Organs fubfervient to
tnofe Exercifes,having been fhak'd and bain
tcr'd in their unclean Combats, &c. butia
moft Men it has totally deftroy'd Prolifica'^
tion,« Citrjt fja/ftaxirt to Caliratioa : fo that 1
have often pitied poor innocent young new-
married Gentlen^omdfjy who have fweat and
ftew*d themfclves in /^flf Bathsy Seafonaf*
icr
Of Cold Baths.
fon. Thefe unhappy Women, I fay,
ing that the Deficiency lay on cheii'
►were willing to undertake any Toil
Trouble in hopes of a great Belly, &c.
t'alas! the fault was in the vile and
sd whore-mafterly Hashand^ broke
lankrupt in his Bed-Tackle; and this
I reafon of fo many miferable and un-
V Marriages, for yenm rara^ cum re an-
domi, &c. makes Women ramble in
of thofe Satisfaftions which both Arc
Jature, in a warm Ccnftitution, incef-
prompts them unto ; and the Husband
y to acquiefce under the Brow-Antlers
flifplay'd Forehead, or to pocket his
rtune, being confcious that his Wife's
vagancies, are the ifTues of his own
Sciences, &c. procured by his own
5, &e. ib that Fathers cannot be too
il in matching their Daughters to Men
[tainted Reputation and Honel^y, and
if promifing Ability ; but becaufeof
&ny Cheats that have been even in the
t Bulks of Men, and thediiEculty lo.
'cring the Scars and Cicatrices of fe-
i/iSf which Men with the greatelt Ar-
bover and conceal.
t where Love and Ability on both fides
Qter in Virtue and Fidelity,their Minds
ade one, and 'ris a Marriage of Souls
■i^
Of Cold Baths
as well as Bodies» and fuch a bleffed State is
the Suburbs of Henven, even in this Life.
And be thatfhould dare to Marry und
any Venereal Circumftances, or Pox h»^
Wife after he is married unto her, ffaould i
have a Brand of Infamy upon his Name for
ever. For what fays the Wife Man, Pfev.
6. and jj.
J V/ ound af)d D'lfhonour fijali he get^ and
}ni Kc^r oich jbali fiot be wiped^tvaj.
Her end is liner as Death, anti as Shai^p
as A ttvo-edg^ed Sword.
jlfid thou mourn nt Uft when ihjr Flefh jini
thy Body are conjitmed^ and a Dart firutk
thro' his Liver.
Her Feet go doan to Deaths her Steps tain
hold of He]].
far jhe hath cafi dorvn many wounded, yit,
tnat^y firong Men have been Slain by her; hrr
Houfe is the way to Hell, to the Chambtn ^
Death, &c. ~
AnA the profane Orators snA Poets^
well -AsSatredj are all full of Whip-Cordti
Lapjes at this Hi//. I might here inlarA,
*but that the Groans and Miferies of fua
ahoals of perifhing iVretcbes abandon'dM
their Ff.-eWj, expos'd toDwcAw, Dattghm
andat the beft to Hofpitds^ are rotting Ift
fiances of I'enereal i''e)]on», and moftdepffl
rable Commentators on this fad Ttxt^ Vm
Their Strength isgiven fo/Mw^eWomen^g
their Tears ufiio the Cruel.
So here I fiiall ceafe this unlavory SubjeS,
and conclude with a few Lines dehortatory
from WhoredQm,and its fatal Confequences.
yiew yonder Shoar ! yvhence Venus came atjirfi,
See .' all the xoreiched Whort-wntciCd Sonsof Luft,
Where bUfied Strength lies in its Manhood curfi.
y~ttw yonder Say, that many a load endofes
Of Pumict't Shm-bants, and the Shells of Nofe.
And in yen Uofpittil there does fwvive
The remnant half, of half that rot alive,
With Bubo's^ Blanes, cavernout runnintr heles^
"TrfQuld Clap the Devil for to fetch their SouLs.
ji Letter from iSrTheod.CoUadon,
Kt. to Dr. Baynard at the Bath.
DearDoBor, '702-
I Ho' you have had feveral Expentncet
of the good efiefl the Cold Baih has
ced in curing many fad Dijlempers tliac
DO ordinary Remedies could remove, lam
fure you will take kindly from me two I»-
j?*««j very curious, that I mull; give you to
increaie the high Opinion you have of it,
and 'tis on two Kmiaent Men of our own
Profeflion ; one is Dr. Cypriamis, that for two
or three Years was grown fo infirm, and apt
to fei/ersy that Winter and Summer he was
forced to wraphimfeif up in t'U/tnel, and
■Lesthtrdifom, and upon the leaft cold or win-
3y Weather fell into violent F:vtrs and De-
U 2 finxi-
iU Of Cold Baths. Partn
jlaxioTis. We gave a fair trial of the befl Re-
medies, that by SirTAoOTJi Mi Si/igion*s Ad-
vice, joined to mim, and to feveral other D(h
fforsj hisFriends, wecould think of, with-
out any Succefs. Two Years together he
went to the Bath^ and drank thofe IVdterr
regularly, Bathed in all the iAr« B<ir-&j^ buP
ftill found no benefit, rather worfe. With
much ado he was perfuaded to try whatthi
Cold Bath could do in his Cafe, and in tmu^
orf/r/ce going in, even in themidlt of M''i>7'
/fr was fo relieved, that he has already becfl,
in it above a hundrediimes, and now Is {owii
znA^ohardj^ that nothing CAnhur: him\ bs
has left all his fUnmis^ and in fine, he is weft
to Admiration.
He perfuaded A/^W(irCaj(j«ff|,an Eminent
Jf Www-Merchant, in the fame Condicionj
to follow his Example, which he has done,
and with the fame fucccfs. My Faihcr-tK-UiVi.
Dr. Amyott, troubled with fucbCoaght ana
Defluxions, that I never duril fliave hij
Head^ was perfuaded by me^ and by Dit
C)frianm^ to fliave it, and Bath it witil'
CoUWitter^ and found fuch good by it, thai
he went into the Cold Bath^ and now is frefifc
and has not been fo well thefc ten Teiri
Another Inftance Irauftaddof Major AV^
fo/i, myLord i-f:c//|gf(!w's Couiin, Majorii
Colonel Wfi^'s Regiment, that had beefll
feized with fo violent a Rhenmatifmf tha!
Of Cold Baths. 187
he noconljf loft the ufe of his liwi/, but
was in fucli violent Paiast that finding no
Relief by all the Remedies he us'd, he was
tarried and thrown in the CoM Btthy defi-
ring, as he told me, to be f/rowa V in it, if he
had no Ueli/f; but in three times going in,
Ik could H'^alJt and come out without *&?/;»,
and in ten times wcnt4^>-<?^^, and Imethim
at Dinner at my Lord Lexington's, where
♦le gave me this full Account, and he fhall
contirm it to jow, when you pleafc ; fo (hall
the two others ; and many more, when wc
meet in Town, where I intend toconfult
youwitlihim, in order to try it my /f^' foe
niyDtftemper. As I writeyouthisin hafte,
yet you may make whatulc of it you fhall
think fit. I mull beg your Pardon, if 'tis
not, perhaps, asexa^laslcould wifli ; but
when we meet, we will correct the b'-iulis ;
and I wifb you all Happincrs,and abundance
If good faticnts. lam, mydearDoftor,
f Tour mofi humble Servdnty
V and faithful j-riend^
f Th.ColIadon.
Jofefhus tells us a Story of one S<w/« that
iiv'd ina Defart, and doath'd liimfelf with
Barks and Leaves ot Trees, and fed on no-
thing but what the Earth fpontaneoiiflw
brought forth; and that he ufed to wafh
U ?
Ijim-
l88 Of Cold Bath.
himfelf oftentimes in cold Water to keep
himfelf Chart, and that jfc/f^ifiw himfelf imi*
tated tliis old Banus for ^ Years.
He alfo tells you, that, the £jfM»j,achaft
and temperate Se6t of the J-m^ accuflom-
ed themielves to wafliincold Water very
often, and never went to Stool, but preient-
ly wafh'd, or when they touch'd any un-
clean Thing.
He alfo tells you that Sailing to Romej be
wasShip-wrackM in the j^drisrid-SeZf and
600 of them were forc'd to fwim all Night;
but heandfourfcorenioreout-fwimraingtho'
reft, were, by God's Providence, at break'
of day, taken up and faved, by a Cjren/tJf
Ship. So that we may fuppofe, that io for*
mer times Men were all Swimmers, or moH',
atleaft, when /Joo in one Ship couldfwiin;
and among the Romsasy 'twas a Term of
Reproach and Scorn, to tell a Man, he
could neither Read nor Swim.
Dining at a Noble-man's Table at Btth^
'\n Sept. IJ02. whU Mr. fVi/Uam Pen^ and!
difcourfing with him, and fome other Gen-
tlemen, concerning Cold Baths, he wa«
pleas'd to fend me this following Relation
of the Praftice ot Cold ImmerCon in Fen-'
fifvtnUj 9<c. and of a moft remarkable Iih
ibnce of it, in which he was an Eye-^yi^
nefs.
Jir. Pen*i LHtcr U 2?r. Bayharcl.
S I find the lnM*tts upon the Contl-
j^ nent mo:"e inc'idcnc to I'evfrs tlian any
Khti" Diftcmptrs, lb they rarely {aW to Cure
tbemrdvcs by gix'at ^mttin?^ and immedi-
ately plunging tlicmfclvcs into Cold Water^
y/hich, tliuy fay, is the only way iiot to
batch Cold.
I once faw an InJlancc ol it, witli c'ivcrs
pore ill Company. For being upon a Dif-
joveiyof tlicback part of the Country, I
ailed upon an hdidfi of Note, whofc Name
Vas Tcnea^h.tnf the Citpnin General ol' the
i-Jans oihidinns oi'ihofi: Parrs. I found him
^ of a Fever^ \\\^ Head and l.imbs niucliaf-
>fted with Pain, and at the fame time his
Vif< preparing a B.i^ma for him ; The B-i^-
VO rcfcmbled a Urge Oven, into which he
Srept by a Dtipr on the one fide, while fhe
put (cvcral red hot Stones \n at a fmall Dgor
on the otiier fide tliereof, and then faftned
the Doors as clofely from the Air as fhe
could. Now while lie was Sweating in this
Bagnio, lysWife (for they difdain no Ser-
vice) was, with an ^jc, cutting her Huf-
band a paflage into the River^ (being the
Winter of 8}, the great Froft, and the/ce
very thick) in order to the Immerfing him-
k\\, after he Ihould come out of bis iJ4//'.
U 4 ^
390 Of Cold Baths.
In lefs than half an Hour, he was in fo great
% Sweaty that when he came out, he was as
\ vet, as if he had come out of a fi i-ver^ and
f iJie Reak or Stetm of his Body fo thick, that
J '|t washard to difcern any Bodies Face that
p'ftood near him. In thiscondit!On,/jr*-«4itf(i
{his Breech-Clout only excepted) he ran to
Ihe River, which was about twenty Paces,
atid duekd himfeJf twice or thrice therein,
J pnd forccurnM, paffing only thro' his BAgniif
I So mitigate the immediate flroak of the CoU)
^'ia his own Houfc, perhaps 20 Paces further,
i/and wrapping himfelf in his woolen Mantle,
['Jay down at his length near a long (burgcn-
Jle) hire in the middle of his WigtvMntj or
tfoufe, turning himfelf fevcral times, 'till
[ "he was dry, and then he rofe, and fell lO
[■getting us our Dinner, feeming to beaseafie,
[■jpnd wellin W«//A, as at any other time.
This Tradition was in great meafure,
Iiowever, the lofsofoneot the braveft <«"
iheNations of /«i^/d»j(remembred by Capr.
Smithy in bis Hiflory of the Setlement of
Virgtum) called the Safqaenahs. For haV-
l^^ngiafter the coming of the Europ arts zmong
l^'them, learned to drink /?r(j»_^ Liquors^ and
■"tat freely of Swines Flefh (moftfy without
^^/r) it brought the Small Pox among them;
'they took the fame Method to cure thera-
Telves of it when they were come out, which
ftruck CO their H^^rr, and prov'd more mor-
tal
Sfffi. Of Cold Baths.
tal than the Plague, few efcaping the Dif-
eafc, by reafoti of that improper PrafVice;
the' one wouldthink that before they came
out, it might have moderated their Venorn
tod Impreffion.
I am alfo well aflur'd that they wafh
heir Voung Infants tn cold Streams as fbon
5 Born, in all Scafons of the Year. IV. P,
In the beginning of Jprilhdf 1708. I
met with the (^lA Mr. H-^il/iam Pen, a Man
of Honour , and truly fide Digntts, who
ttold me he had a Letter from one iMajor Mo'
kice, his Receiver in Ireland^ which Letter
Be would (hew meat any time, but I for-
got to call on him to fee it; but the Con-
tents of it was to this EfFeft, That he the
ifaid Major A/or/cf, for more than 20 Years
was extreamly troubled with the Gout, in-
(bmuch that his Limbs were Noded, &e.
and fo infebled that he was rendred altoge-
ther a Cripple, and incapable of any Bufi-
neft that lequirM ftirring or exercife, but
by the ufe of cold Immerfion, which he
foUow'd clofe for fome time, he receivM
fuch a Cure that he could walk very well,
mounta Horfe, and ride about his Affairs,
and continuM lb a great while ; But meet-
ing with Mr. Pert fince then, he told me,
that he heard that he Relaps'd, whether
thro' difLhntinuance, or an Error in his
Dinner of livings as tobisMeatSj Drinks,
p.fp ^f Cold Baths.
ijf^c. I cannot tell, which Rclapfc, furely
I jpuft proceed from negleft or mifmanage-
'meht in reference to Heats asd Colds, &c.
©r when the Morbid Caufe is taken off, at
leaft, fo remov'd as to give w/f, abate the
fellings J and the anguifli and painful Symp-'
jpms totally alleviated funk and gone, 'tis
Ic^afonable to conclude that a little Care,
i might prevent anyaccefTion for the future,
\ fcut we are all prone fo to humour our Pd.
'^Jttfj and gratify ourT4;?/, orCompany,
l^hen importuning with, freely ftay, take
' "f oilier Pipe, t'other G lafs this once hang*t,
otkecan do no harm, until wann'd and heat-
ed with Wine, &e. overshoes over Boots,
"Wc forget our Sorrows and preterit Pains,
urrtil the Difeafe takes the Advantage by our
Dehfludi, thro' weakened and imperfeft
Concodions, undue Secretions, &c. Then
like the Parable in the Gofpel, the Gout re-
turns with 7 Devils rvorfe thm the former.
"Vxihdf^ Man ! thit DrtnksJ&if orva attdoing.
As tho* his Bufwefs were, topi edge his Ruitt.
^:Atid that brave'Tty^tMVQ. hi sjouad Parents knitf
With Pipe arid pot he does unravil it.
■j4s if the GodSf in anger gave htm Pi^^ealth^
Tofdtrifee to Bacchus, Touth and Hedth,
'Health of all Earthly Bie^n^ ''tis the beftj
W'hiihmojt is valu^, rphetPtit leajl pc^dL ,
And
And we find tliat the old Romans in moft
their Epirtles to their Friends ufually con-
lude,
CuRA utValeas for Health ome ^one
}!l Comforts perifb with it, and art none ;
iches and Honour, Muftcky lVt»e and IV/t,
^ax flat a»d ta^ie/s vsith the lofs of it,
'ould Touth but fee, with Gouty old Mens^^w,
'ne ftretch upon r/je(>Back wouldmnks 'ew rviji ;
W Drunkenefs (the damti'd firfi Caajejdefpife.
^vt fach is giddy Touth'' s unhappy Fate, (Ute.
'^hea Crippl'd and NailM doivrt^ are wife too
And I can without Vanity fay, that I
Erform*d a wonderful Cure on 3 very Gou-
( Perfon, by the DecoQion of a certain
pct^ which he conftantly drank for a Sea-
b tc^ether, with Sweating after cold Jm-
lerfion, the fame way that you took, Sir
^ohfiy with Mrs. Pifer of Repton, mention'd
lyour Epiftle to, me p. 1 85. which Ithink
as great a Cure as Cold Bathing can b(»{l
The Cafe of a young Gentleman^ from the /»-
juries of Tahaco and ftrong Drink, reco-
ver*d by drinking of Watery &c.
A Bout fix Years fince, being fent for to
a young Gentleman, wno, from a
vivid and florid State of Health, became
Pale and Wan, and had ftrange Cold Sweats;
bad
394 Of Cold Bath. Pai
hadaTremour, and much difpirited, as it
he lived under fear and dread of fomeinia
pending Evil to him ; his Stomach quite loft
and gone, and had a great Loathing when
he (a\v Viftuais, &c. I enquir'd into thie
Caufeof this fudden change in his Health,
and found it proceeded from his much fmctaki
ingTabacco, which madeTiim always gid«
dy, and ready to Vomit, aifo toSpit and
Flux abominably: all this he endur'd, re-
folvingio be Mailer of the Black Art, un-
til it brought him to the brink of the Grave,
I totd him the danger of proceeding in ic
llinccitwas fo inimical to his Conftiution,
^nd advis'd him to forbear ftrong Drink,
and to drink a little Spring- Water Night
and Morning, and eat a raw Apple or two,
and take the Air in a Coach, or on Horfe-
()ack; all which hepun£luaI]yobferv'd,and
was as well in a Month, as ever he was in
his Life. I'mncifcia dtUBoe SylvtMy un-
der whom I was a Student near 40 Years
fince, wasfomuch a haterofTabaco, that
he would not come into a Houfe where
it was fmoak'd; and what the Learned
Kjrckringiiu fays of it in his SpicHegium Am-
tomtcunt Obferv. xc. Page 172. 1 here Trao-
j'cribe.
Mwiim Tahact ufm ftoxius,
Ijyvili/itj heu! nimium illuiiia EurofdC^
eoeihesj fuge^difumum herb* Taiaeif fit
^^F
fll. OfCMBtths. ■J95
\
I
votsnty per lul/staditt /blammodoeonfeifos.
f^mtA inde moram perverfiUSy it vidfrht,
fuihui iUud ditum eft negotii^ vel Pvliticiy vel.
'heologi. QaamuOtfAnitAtifuA f/ocea/tt^ qui-
itts hie mos efiy ut toties yalcdtio^ vel Charm-
ti fotmsjdcr lucent ^ etUm nan explicabo : fuf-.
feeeret oculis fuhjicere hominem^ c[uem inme-
dieorum tor on a fecai ; is fapra modam htfcsfu-
t»ofts deliciii add0M, vix uHum obibat mgo~
y tiuvtj ^ain fibi, utp/ttuit^ fdtalem fuccum
bsariret, Vbi emmcrebrisquifipuljataiifu
hi*Sy ndtarafatifcere, di^ae m morbamcolUbi
ecepit ; die nigricdntem materUm per arttkum^
ptr pofticum^ per utrumque gutturem tumdiu
ejicerCj donee fufcdm ftmul tvomtret ammditi^
quam PlutonU vtfentem regna comitari non lu^
bet ; fufpicor enim ntgros ttlo: & vaporum Stj-
giorum globu fumigdnies idem fotius exceafu-
etudiney quam lucidd carlorum fydera addmajfe^
utpotefutnkjmperpaftam & intiutritam \ hof-
pilium eerie quod ilUreliquerdl^ •viptdvi &
feragrdvij fultus cultro df/diomico. Quid vi-
derinty qadrit? domum mihi iatrart vifut
fam vere flutoniam : ecce tibi i» forthus
Atrdto colore tinCid 1^ quaji ventndto fucco tot'
lata tKlamaerat lingud. Quid trdchtd ? cd-
mino jimiUi^ nigra fuligine tmdiqae obduifa,
Pulmo»es aridi, exfucci^ dr penefridbUes :
^epar, tanqudtn fi pr£ cutera trdxijjet incendi-
um, totum erat infidmmatum ; d cttjui fiam~
mis ne bilis quidtm in cjifiide fua immunis erat:
coie-
396 Of Cold Baths. Parti
colorem enim eontraxerHi ex furfureo 'virefceri'
tern. Ad. infeftina vera, at fu»t corf aril fa-
ifarr*, conjluxeratit totim adujlionis csrhones ;
fleM etenim erani mgtktatt fffaieria, qua noa
immitionem ipfo Avemofpirabat odorem, Ecte
frefuentU hujui fuciionis medtcos frtttfus.
The Cafe of Mr. Michael Warwick.
IN Fehaarjy 1700. 1 caught a moft vi-
olent fall, the contufion hap^ned on the
Hip, near the lower Vertebr.e of the Back,
but by theimmediateufe of inward Medi-
cines, the application of Cere-CIoaths, and
as the warm Weather approached, the
Fains, &c. went ofF for the Summer follow-
ing.
The November 2ihtT^ 1 caught a molt vi-
olent Cold by Sleeping againf? a good Fire
ina wet Cloak, which fettled upon the Part
before affcfted, and likewlfe extended it felf
in Cramp-like Pains upon the Mufcles on
that fide from my Neck,down to my Ankle.
I went to the Bagnio, and was Sweated ■
and CuppM feveral times, but tonopur- ,
pofc.
I ufed all outward means (as wereadvi-
fed) proper in fuch Cafes, and took Tert-
binthUnyStomtichick and Chiljbeat Medicines
inwardly, but all to no purpofe.
I let Blood often, and Purged with Rhe-
harhf Agarick, SeitnUy &c. but with the
Part II. Of Cold Baths. l^f
like Succcfs-, onlyr thefe.lall Medicines, [
thought, deftroyed my Appecite, aad reft-
dred me Hypochondriack.
I obfervcd my Blood at all times after
reparation, to tiave on it dill a tough, vif-
cous Matter, like that of your Rheumatick
Perfons.
Sometime after I found my Pains not lb
Cramp-like as before, but moredirperfed,
and like your Rheumatick Pains ; cfpecially
I found in my Loins e'ery Morning, a weak
and wearifom Fain, together with a fore-
nefs upon the Fart, as if I had been beaten ;
tbuc no Swelling, Inflammation, or other
outward Symptom appeared ; nor was there,
IS I perceived, any Fet>ru Rheumatics 9X.-
:endedmy Pains.
The continuance of the Pains and the
Violence of them, occafioned fnch a con-
Taftion of the Mufclcs of the fide affefted,
chat it almoft brought me to go double.
The Thigh and Leg of that fide were great-
Jy emaciated, and for want of due circu-
^tion of the Spirits and Nutritive Juices,
deemed (a-Nights) as if they were dead
Flefli, only fometimes a violent cold Sweat
■wou'd appear.
Hearing talk of the Cold Hath, and find-
ing Ibme Encouragement from a Book that
I bought of Sir 'Joh» F/ofer\ treating of the
htaij in Novtmber lail was 12 Months,
I
098 Of Cold Baths. Parti
I applyed my felftoDr. Co/e for his Ad-
vice, who prefcribed me Cimahr of ^nti-
moajiy &c. for a Week, and afterwards to
Bath, continuing the Medicine, &c. which
I did two or three times a Week, for feve-
ral Weeks ; but found little benefit at the
prefent, other than it brought my Appe-
tite again, and rendred me far lefs apt to
take Cold, tho' I had leftoffFlanncIs, &e.
Sometime after, I found my Pains to de-
cline, and at laft quite vanifli, andthecon-
trafVion of the Mufcles loofed, and I have
continued well ever fincc; only now and
then againft change of Weather, or when
the Wind is Northward, I meet a little
minging of Pains, but no contraftion. I
alfo nave let Blood two or three times fince,
and find it Rot id, and as good asthofein
a trueftate of Health.
I Iook*d upon my Diftemper to be com-
plicated of a H ypoc bond r lack Rheumatifm,
the Sciatica, and the efFefts of the afore-
faid Contufion by the Fall, and mult ingc-
noufly attribute the Cure thereof, (next
under God) to the ufe of the Cold Bath, as
aforefaid,
Michset JVarvfick.
London, ^trnury the
t lith, 1703.
MfcUel Warwick Surveyer of the River,
under the Honourable the Commiffio*
nets of Hxcife.
Of Cold Baths.
And here not pnly Cold Bathing exter-
nally, but inwardly alfo, (I mean drinking
of Cold Water moderately) ib of the great-
eft Ufeand Moment to humane Life, if tha
Water be good, and well chofen, fuch as
will eafily lather with Soap, and is light,
clear and fmooth to the Talte, fuch asge-
nerallyarcMarleorChalk-Waters ; and of
this fort of Water I have obferv'd Horfes,
Cows and other Cattle moft delight to
Drink, nay they rather chufe to drink Pond,
Ditch, or any Puddle, Thick, DifturbM
and Turbid Water,thantlie cleareft Springs,
fromClay, Gravel, o-c there being in fuch
"Waters (ome harfli and difagrceable Parti-
cles, either to their Falats or Digeftions.
And here I well remember that one Mr.
CUrhy an Ingenious Gentleman of EJfex,
told me, that rcmovinga Horfc of his from
a Pafture where wasafwcet, foft, Chalk
Spring, (it being a dry Summer) he obfcrv'd
that his Horfe look'd very thin, and would
not Drink of the other Water in fomc Days,
infomuch that he thought his Horfe was
Sick; but trying him at the other Chalk
Water, hedrankuntil ready to bnrlh And
this I have obferv'd fcveral times, in all
fortsof Cattle, at all Seafons of the Year,
ihcy bcft knowing what Waters are noxi-
ous, what friendly to their Natures. But
to be more faiistied in this, read an Ingeiii-
300 Oj Cold Baths. Part 11.
ous ftnall Traft, caird Scelera Aquarum^yfjvil'-
ten by Dr. jf- H. a Man of Learning, and
dear Thought, where hefhewsthe mif-
chiefs of Well-water y which generally (if
not of Chalk) are impregnated with mor-
bifick Salts, which abound in the Strata of
the Earth, and arc of moft dangerous Con-
fequences to thofe that often drink of them,
either \}wvtfer fe^ or made into Beer, Ale,
Coffee, Tea, &c. alfo read the Learned and
Ingenious Dr. Curteis^ in hisEffay on the
prefervation of Health, p. 52. &c.
Warm Water has been eftecmed as a great
Secret to prevent bilious Colicks, and to
further both the firft and fecond Digeftions,
if a Glafs be taken at the clofe of our Meals,
and no Wine or Strong Drinks taken after
it. And here the Learned Georgius Bdglivi-
us in his Frax. Med. Lib. i. Pag. 82. holds it
a Secret againft the Stone, but thendfaak
before Dinner : His Words are thefe, viz.
Calculus & Podagra f lures i9iterficiunt divi'
tes quam fauperes, flares fapientes quamfatU'
OS. Tho\ with his lieve, I have known a
great many Blocklieads have been plagued
with both Gout and Stone, as well as Wife
Men ; for a Wife Man is known by's ASi-
ons, and not by his Words : For he is not
Wife, that wifely fays, but he is Wife, that
wifely does ; and what greater fign of a
Blockhead^ than for a Map to perlevereio
Whore.
Whoredom and Drunkennels, until a river-
ed Difeafc entails liis Folly (like his Coac
Armour) on his Blood, and conveys the
toifon to his unborn Pofterity ? As if every
Man would fct up for an Adam^ and make
an Original Sin of his own, that the legiti-
mate Off-fpring may be more known by
tbe Difcafes and Vices of his Family than
by their Faccsv &c. ViHf*»t-> /'(■»/«, Oiium
^ Cr^fuUfmnt primi FArerttet Calculoram sc
jl^ud potfts, USlisuftu^ fobrMtaf&exerci-
liaff' eifdem rnedentur.
Women and Wine, with Idlcnefs alone,
Arethefirft Parents ot thcGoutand Stone.
But Exercife, to Milk and Water join,
You'll ftve at once, your iVlony, Health and
*■ (Time.
^pTdmen and Wine, and Gaming if you-v
Do what you will, you cannot bcundonc;>
Happy's the Man that fees this wtiilft he'sV
(.Young.**
. I ■— — Exinde prodiit fecretum Hind eximi»m
a^cehii rtlalum m fuis CotifiUt, fiewpe ha/tfltH
AqkA edlid.t dd %). circiler jUliut itnte Prart'
tiiiim fsditt. Pijo & Jlexasdtr maliii ante
^cehium A»»ii, hocidem Aqu^e cdUd-t remidif
urn comfrobitrafit^ dicenies quod pofl primam
txeretum calcftlam, nim^uum impojhrum alt*
X 2 OS
301 Of Cold Baths. Part II.
OS genitosfuiffe wderht ufum hunc dqua C4/i^
da multo tempore continanmibiis.
And he reinforces his Argument again^
and tells you plainly,
Omnia remedU Poddgricis prafcrifta inuti^
lia propentodutn erunt^ nifi yinum^ Venm^ Oti-
urn & CrapuU temper Mtius ufurpentur.
He tells you that the eating of Mtisk-*
Melons, and drinking the Water diftiU'd
from their Pulp and Seeds, is jgood againft
both Gout and Stone ; but with this Caveat
again :
Dummodo Vinum^ Venus^ Otium^ & Cra^
pula prudent isi6 adhibeantur.
But our Learned Author, Baglivi^ being
an Italian^ ihews both the warmth of his
Climate, as well as his good Nature, when
fo Gentleman-like, he gives his Patients a
little Liberty by forlaking Wine and Wo-
men by degrees,
Nifi Tenjperantius ac prudentius ufurpentur.
which puts me in mind of an old Drunk-
ard^s advice to his Son, to leave that and
other Yicts gradatim^ and not at a jerk^ as
if the Soul would catch Cold by the lofs of
a Vice or two, as the Body does, by leav-
ing off a Coat, or Jerkin.
Ot-
i
Ohfervdiions u^on fame lute Cures done hj Cold
I ' Bathing.
A Man that Dr. Co/e and I faw the laft
Spring, come to the Cold Bath ; his Cafe
was a contraftion of his Limbs with a Scor-
butlck Rheumatifm, and accompanied with
a general decay and wcakncfs of his whole
Body. The firft time he came in a Coach,
but the fecond time he was led by his Wife,
and the help of a Staff, or Crutch, and I
heard afterwards, that by a few more Im-
roerfions, he was recovered.
But a moft remarkable Cure dope by the
Cold Bath, was, on one Truhjhaw^ a young
Lad of about 12 or i ? Years of Age, who
had not only a great Weaknefson the Muf^
clesof his Neck, but a dilloriion of one of
the VertebrEE, infomuch that his Head, if
not fupported, would fall towards his Shoul-
der on cither fide. He had the Opinion of
fcvcral Eminent Chirurgeons on iliis Cafe,
who befides many applications, as Kmpla-
Ctcxs,&e. contriv'danEngincof Steel, like
tbeLathofaCrofs-boWjto run into a Swivel,
and faftned by an Iron Stalk to the back of
a Chair, whillt a foft Velvet Muffler took
him under the Chin (as you have fcen in
ibme Neck Swings) it was fo contriv'd by
the help of the Swivel, as to turn on any
fide, and yet keep his Head upright, as ha
304 Of Cold Baths, Part 11.
fat in the Chair, which he would fome-
times do for fome Hours. But all that was
done to him, was ineffeftual ^ His Unkle
pitying the Condition of this hopeful young
Lad (that had fome Subftance left him by
his Father) confulted me in the Cafe, and
put the Queftion himfelf whether the Cold
Bath would do him any Service? Which
Queftion I anfwer'd but coldly, and doubt-
ingly ; but it was at laft agreed to try it, and
the Youth being very willing to do any
thing for a Cure, went in boldly, a Servant
keeping his Head ft<^ddy betwixt his Hands,
and fo brought him (as I remember) to
his Chair, where he fat for fome time, or
lay upon the Bed firft, I havealmoft forgot :
But in fliort, the Youth in fome little time
got a perfeft Cure. This is two or three
1 cars fince, and his Unkle tells me, he con-
tinues very well. This moft wonderful and
remarkable Cure is well known, to the emi-
nent Mr. Serjeant Bermrd^ and moft of the
Phyficiansand Surgeons about Town, &c.
Mr. Paul Derande^ an Emient Merchant
in this City of London^ had been long trou-
bled with a moft fevere Colick, which had
fo enervated and reducM him to Skin and
Bone ; his Pains were fo extreamly pungent,
that he had no eafe but when fet upon his
Head, which his Servant did often in a Day,
jby the help of an Engine cqntriv'd and made
for
Ifor chat purpofe. ThisGentlemanwasfent
' from his Country Houfe in A>»^ to his
Houfc in London, by the Learned Dr. Fuller
Author of that Ingenious Piece, Phdrmacup.
l^xtemporanea, to confult me about the Cold
S^th in hisCafe;and really I was(\vheniraw
Sim in that defperace weak Condition, his
itoniach much gone,Appetitc decay'd,cou]d
hardly go or iland a high-lone (as we fay)
yfi'ighted at the Propofal, but feeing his
^reat Courage and Refolmion to try it, I
nfented and went with him. I'hefirft
bnmerfion he bore to a Wonder, but Mrs.
prf/flfij, as well as my fclf, thought that he
l^ould never come out alive. But to fee
hat Opinion and Refolution will do; hefo
fcllow'd his Coid Bathing, tliatinavery
KUtle time, he could walU horn his Houfe in
'mdg.Kow^ nesii: ll-'alhooi-, to the Cold Bath
_^ ptimes in a Morning, which is a Mile and
thair, if notmore. HisStomacU rcturn'd
and his Flelh came on, and his colour in his
Cheeks, and by the drinking of the Hot-
Bat/j Waters inwardiyi and ufing the Cold
Bath outwardly, he is become as well and
bale as any Man. And as near as lean re-
member, this was the fum of his great Cure ;
for I heard him lay, when 1 askM him, how,
_Jlnder fuch weak and infirm Circumftances,
durft leap into Spring Water, fo intenfly
jld? Hcaiifwer'd, iSaflor, 'tis impofli-
X ,
ble
3o6 Of Cold Baths. Part 11.
ble for you or any Man living, to conceive,
the extremity or Tain I was in, and inex-
prcffible Mifcry I endurM, infomuch, that
could I have been fure of eafe after it, I
wou'd have leaped into as much Fire as there
was Pf^ater ; and I fpeak this from a Senfe of
the extream torture I daily laboured under.
I have often pityM this Gentleman's Cafe,
for he is not only a Man of unfpotted Life
?nd Converfation, but of curious and rc-
fin'd Parts, &c. and I think in fome parti-
culars, this comes the neareft to Mr. Sam.
Crew^s Cafe of any that I have met with.
And here a Demi-bra in'd Docfor of more
Note than Nofif^ ask'd in the amaz'd jigoffj
of his half Vnderftandin^,^ how 'twas pofli-
ble that an external Application fhouldaffed
the Bowels, and Cure the Pains within?
Why, Doftor, quoth an old Woman ftand-
ipg by, by the fame Rcafon, that being
\Vet-Ihod or catchini^ Cold, from without,
fhould give you the Gripes and Pain within.
Man is a fort of a mufical Infl:rument,and
4 he Strings of Life and Death are tun^ or
diforder'd upon more Keys than aWelfli
Harp, or a AV^/r/^ Bagpipe, efpecially when
an ill Fidler plays upon his own Carkafs.
The Hemip/ayia^\\/h\ch of all forts of Pa^
Cks^is the moft ftubborn and hardeft to yield
to Cure, yet I have known fome cured of
jt by the Hot Baths, aqd others by the CoIA
and
Of Cold Baths. 307
nd {orac again where neither Hot nor Cold
Jaths would avail, or fignifie any thing, as
alio ail manner of Medicines, both inward
and outward, have provM incffeftual, yet,
by length of Time, and a regular Diet,
fome have fo iar recovered, as to be able to
hobble about, or walli feebly, but feldom
attain to their Priftinc Vigour and Strength:
But I have often obferv'd, that thofe who
— havcus'd fewett hot Medicines, and have
■firivM and llruggled wicli the Diftemper
^^of^, haverccovcr'dfoonert; Butefpecial-
ly upon the firit ftroak of this half Palfie,
the ufe of hot Medicines are of moft perni-
cious Confcquence. After a Vomit and
Bleeding, I have feen the Cold Bath do
great things often us'd, but then not to flay
in half a Minute, juftimmerge, and fo out
again; yet I know aGcntlewomanof good
Quality, and fecond to none for Endow-
ments of * Mind, had the misfor-
tune to be ill created in this Di-
ftemper in Jar/iatcs, where fhe
then Hv'd ; but coming to ErigUnd, and
Landing at Urijlot^ flie tell under my Care
at the Bith. She was fo very Weak, and
her Cafe fecmM fo deplorable and compli-
cated with Fits, partly Hyfterick, partly
' Spilcptick, and of a wonderful thin and
^are Habit, &c. infomuch, that I had lit-
vcry little hppe of her recovery. Sh?
H'OliKSal'l
Udjr.
5o8 Of Cold Baths
pImII
made aa KfTay in the niol^ mild and tem-
perate pare of the Queens Bath, the flip of
that Bath coming to the back-Door of the
Houfe where flie then Lodg'd. But alas I
I jhe was not able to endure, hardly, tho
r tryal of it, the leail Heat did fo diforder
\ her. From thence ihe remov'd by fmall
[ Journeys to Lon^n^ where, being mifled
[ py the perfuafion of fome Friends, mirtak-
len in the Man, flic, to confult among other'w
XjEfealsfUn Eminence, that Cardinal Cocki
' Robin of the Phyfick Conclave, the vain,
and empty Nothing of a great Name, un»
dcr the carelefsnefs ofwhofeCare, fhefor
fomc time continued ; But with fuch fuccefs,
as was (uitahle to the infiiirability of his
Gtdd^ and fortui/oitf Prefcriptions, as fo*
reign to litr Cafe as the Prelcriber to a Pl)y-
fician.
At my return to London^ fhe fent for meji
but feeing her CElie deplorable, I propos*d
for her own, and Friends Satis.faftion, the
affijlancc of another Phyfician: and the
Learned Dr. Cole was the Man pitch'd up-
on. J We at firft, after all the neceflary In-
rcrnals, tryed artificial tepid Baths ; but
finding fmatl benefit by them, we plainly
told her and her Relations, that if any thing
would do her good, it mult be the Cola '
Baths, ( A fTiocking Propofal to fo tender
and weak a Woman, and but lately come
from
Part II. Of Cdd Baths, 309
from the Torrid Zone, from between the
Tropicks. ) She readily confented to the
Experiment, and tryM it, with a Refolution
and Courage not ufiial in her Sex; and by
her Perfevcrance, and a Blefling attending
the means, fhe is recovered beyond all Ex-
peGation. One thing is very remarkable
in her Bathing, which is, fhe finding her
felf not well, with Pain in her Head, Back,
&c. and not knowing the Caufc, continu-
ed her Bathing as ufual, but it prov'd the
Sma/l Pox forming upon her ; yet fhe efcap'd,
and came through it very well, and little or
no impreflion lelt on her Face where they
had been, crc. and the laft time I faw this
Lady, fhe told me fhe had been in the Cold
Bath more than a it;o times
Note, That this Gentlewoman had two
moft fcvere Convulfions, at, or prefently
after, her Jirft going into the Cold Bath;
yet it no ways daunted her Refolution, buc
fhe proceeded, tho' many times with Jerks
and Twitches, which at laft vanifh'd and
went oflF.
And fhe alfo told me, that her Quondam
Doflor being told of her Recovery, reply'd,
that he could not believe it. And another
Stupid, Sell-- wiU'd Member of the Phyfick-
Craft, told mc, that he would fooner be*
; WitchXraft and Speftrums, thanthac
; Coid Bath could Cure any thing in any
Body;
Of ColdBathi.
Body; nay, quoth he, tho* I fhould fee it,
I won't believe ir.
And this puts me in mind of a Phyfidan,
who, in confuUation about Cold Bathing,
told the patient it would kill him ; and
that for his part, he had rather behang'd
than try it. Quoth his Patient (who was »
Sea Captain") I fee Do£tor you are iavftccA
morSf you like a dry Death, better thaq a!
wet one; But Dr. continu'd he, were you
on Ship-board, andtherecondemn'dtodie,
I believe you'd be duck'd at the Yard Arm
ten times, rather than be hang'd once: Why;
ihould wetting of a Man's Skin kill himr
for befides Baptifm by Immerhon, wc fee
Children, even in the Month, are wafli'd
and clcans'd with Cold Water in all Sea*
fons of the Year, and yet thefe Children are
not kiird. I doubt, Doftor, your Nurfe
was a Slut, ihc let you lie in your Sh-i— a
Clouis. You are a plump Man, Dr. I fee
now, quoth he, what for: of Barton 'tis,
has made you fo Fat. At which,the Dr.greW
angry, and flung out of the Room.
'liie next Cale is that of Mrs. Mdrgsret
iiray^ cS Birr ingfou t\za.v Bar for dy in Oxford'
jbire^ who, for many Years, ufed Crutch-
es, uuderwhichfhecouldftand, butlthinlc-
hardly go, or but very feebly (if {be coulJ
at all); Oie ufed the Cold Bath twoof three
^({tc$, bu£ was dilfwadcd from i^twoor
^SxtU. Of Cold Baths. 311
three Years, to the beft of my remembrance;
Kand after the fruitlefs Tryal of fevcral Me-
■Hiodsand Fhyficians, was by Mr. Bernsrd
^(chief Chii'urgeon to her Majefty, the pre-
fent Queen jI tine) 3 Avh'd to try the Cold
Bathafrefh, which file did, and with that
t happy .Succcfs, as to get a perfeft Cure.
She tame to fee Mr. iierwW without any
help of Staff, Crutch, or any one to lead
her, and fo continued for fome Years, more
than two or three, as I remember; but
»(hine ilU Uchrymx) flie one day had been
hard Ridinf; in the Heat of the Weather,
which then wasexcelTive Hot, and iheover-
^eated by that violent Exercifc, unadvifed-
ly, with that heat upon her, went into the
Cold Bath, which threw her into Gripes
Pand Cohck Pains, but how (he was ordcr'd
in them, I can't tell, but the poor young
Lady dy'd. So here not the means, but
the intempeftive ufc of it, is only culpable
for that misfortune.
If the Cold Hath was the Caufe, (which
no Man upon Earth can demonftrate,) moft
probablj^ her Cafe was the Iliack PalTion,
, as I am informed, which might beforming
Mpon ber from fome other Caufc, berorcj
Die enter'd the Bath ; and an Inflammation 1
iof that Gut often fphacclates, which isal-'
ways mortal v/herc it happens. We fee It
'"^jrM Mr. Dirande o^ QoXxck Pains, and the
Lady
Lady that had in her Bathing the Sm*!l Pox
forming on her, I hope no Body will be io
foolifh, as to think, that the Cp/^ B^r A was
the Caufc of the Smali Pox. I fa w a Young
Man fall into an Epileptick Fit, (fuppos'd
frighted) by feeing another leap into a Coid
Batk *Tis part doubt, had the Youth gone
in at that time himfelf, al! would have
thought that the Bath was the Caufe of his
Fit, &c. as in many fuch cafes. Yet I no
ways approve of going in with the Icaft
Heat above the flandard of the Ulood.
'Tis true, that the IffdiaKs in Amerkx,
and in many other Parts of the World, as
in Mtifcovy^ 8fc. ufe to leap into extream
cold Water out of their hot Stoves, crc. as
may be feen a remarkable Cafe in Mr. f<» i
Letter to me. But we mull Fhilofophizc
upon that Point a little: for one is a beat
procured by Art, as Fire, whichattacksthe
Body from without inward, t!ie Body fit-
ting in a ftin, fedarc and quiet Pofture,
the fiery Particles firft heating the Sfcin,
and cutaneous Glands, and the Fluids con-
tain'd in the fmall and capillary Chamiels
of the Veins, Arteries, LympheduQs, &t.
next the habit of tlic Body, aslheMufcu-
lar Flelh, with the Oily Parts, as Fat, &c.
when all thefe arc throughly heated abo?o
the Ihndard of the Blood, by long felfion in
a Stove or Bath, 6''c. the Pulfc begins to
put
^^r~"
Of Cold Baths. 31 j
lut 00, and mend its pace, flower or quick-
f, according to the degrees of heat preT-
Ingon, or obfiding the Body, the Sweat
wgins to run more or lefs, as the Body Is
iroclive from its Texture and Frame, or as
t ismoreoriefs Oily, Obefe, Lean or Dry.
And altho' the Pulfe is perceptibly enough
Felt to rife, yet the Lungs are at quiet, and
irerpiration unconcern'cT in the hurry : But
Sffhen the motion is made from within out-
Wrd, Refpiration and Pulfation ftart fair,
hnd are acuated together; for running 20
Yards fliall more affeft and accelerate the
Tulfe in half a Minute, than fitting in the
hotteft Bath two Hours ; for In the aGion
*of Motion, the Spirits and Fluids n;iore in-
timate, and in the Channels are firft heated
iind the Habit and Oily Partslaft. So that
^^eaping into Cold Water, from a Hot Bath
Or Stove, cannot make fuch a check and al-
teration upon the Body, as when the Body
Is heated by Motion and Exercife; for firft
the Heat and Cold made from without in-
ward, drive both one and the lame way,tho*
they are contrary Qualities; but the Heat
railed from within outward , meeting with
the Cold driving againft it, fuch a fudden
Clafli of contraries muft turn the driven
Fluids on the driving Spirits, andcaufea
great difturbance and diforder in the whole
Kegulation and Oeconony.
1.,.. I
1
I have had feveral Accounts of Peoples
being much relieved, and feme perfeftly
Cur'djby the ufeof Cold Immerfion in Afth-
ma's, and other difficulties of Breathings ;
efpecially if the Infirmity is taken in the be-
ginning, and not confirm'd by time. Yet
an old Gentleman of near 60 Years, htely
told me, that having had a Convulfive Afth-
ma for at leaft 7 Years, he was fo Cured
at three times Bathing, that he had not the
leaft Fit in three Monthsafter ; and believes
that had had he liv'd temperate, and con-
tinu'd bathing fometimes, it would not
have return'd .
Apples and pomaceous Juices, unfer-
mented are the greateft Peftorals, by the
Tcftimony of Experience-, and Sir John
Flojer himfelfhas found thegrcateflbeneHt
in his moft fevere Allhma by the coaftant
ufe of Apple- Water, which is his Potus Or-
dinttritii^ as well at Meals as otherwife.
And this puts me in mind of a certain Gen-
tleman that Din'd at Dr. ColA Houfe with
my Lord Fairfax^ and my felf, about three
Years fince, who told us that he faw, in
HoH.tnd^ a Gentlewoman and her three Soni
who came thither, from fomewhere near
Pomeranea^ to claim an Eftate dueto them,
as next Heirs, by the Death of feme Rela-
tions, &c. and that both Mother and Sons,
were fo very Old, that between them, they
made
Of Cold Baths,
lade Four Hundred and Thirry Seven
Years ; for whacany onewasfhort of a hun-
dred the others were above a hundred,
which made up that compleat Number ot'
Years; and that they looked all frefli faving
the Old Woman, who was Pale and very
Thin, and that Hie lea n'd on the Shoulder of
one of her Sons when fhe walfvM. That the
Sons were very healthful,a nd had all of them
long, grey Beardi;, as alfo their Heads were
very grey, but not Bald, ^nd I remember
that Hippocrates fays fome where, that to be
Grey betimes ^nd not Bald, isfignof along
Life, &c. But what I mention thefe People
moftly for, is this, Tliat being by iliis Gen-
tleman interrogated as to their way of hv-
ing in Efculents and Potnlents, he found
thattheir Drink was chiefly Apple-Water,
or Crabs bruifed and rteeped in Water, or
pure Water, or Whey, <y-c. and their Meat
plain, fimple Country Hood, andbuthttle
Flefh. He told me, that he lorgot to
ask them as to their Employment, £xer-
cife, Reft and Labour, o'c. which would
have been very ncceflary to have been
known. And here fince wear*; upon Apples,
my Learned Friend Dr. Sivory o\ Marlho-
roii^h^ toldme ofaHorfedifeasM andbrok-
enwinded, (as they call it) was rurn'd into
an Orchard of one Madam Cxloway, near
iM*riborouoh\ andthis Hprfebye^cing^tia
gib Of Cold Baths. Part 11.
Apples that fell from the Trees, and all
thofe he could reach, in fome little time
was obferved to mend, and grew better and
better, fo that he became again ferviceable
and fit for ufe. And meeting with this
Gentlewoman's Son, a Surgeon in Lw^p»,
he confirmed to me the fame Story ; which
is the more remarkable, becaufe the Cafe
. is new, at leaft wife not obfervM as ever I
hearM of. That Apples are a wonderful
Pcfloral Expert us loquor^ for Apples and
Milk, &c. favM my Life twice in a moft
deplorable and confirmed Fhthifis; and I
remember that that Learned Gentleman,
Sir "John Hodgkins^ fometimes Prefident of
the Royal Society, and Mafter in Chance-
ry, lately deceas'd, told me, that he knew
a Confumptive Gentlewoman worn to a
Skeleton, perfe£lly cur'd by the fole ufe of
Apples and Apple- Water. And of this kiod
many Inftances might be brought ; but two
or three Examples are enough to con£rfn
the thing, &c. But to our bufinefs of CoU
Bathing.
A Phyfician of good Learning and Re-
putation told me, that he knew a Smith in
Torkjbire^ who had a Cancer on his righls
Side, that had eaten the Flefh to the Ribbs^
and as broad as the largeft Man's Haodf
who was perfeftly Cured by Bathing in a
Mmeral Water, and keeping a Cloth wet
in tne lame Water always to it. Am^
Part IL Of Cold Baths. ^17
AmphiHis Brown of Hall-Court^ witliin
three Miles of Bromyard^ in Hereford/hire^
by drinking and wafhing in a Cold Spring
near Bridgnorthy was Cured of a Cancer
about two Years fince. Both wonderful
Cures ! if true Cancers ; which I very much
doubt, becaufe I have often heard the mofk
Eminent Surgeons affirm, that they never
knew a true and confirmed Cancer ever was
cured. But to invigorate thefc two relations
of Cancers, take this late one, which I my
felf know to be true* One Mrs. Margery
Boltop^ Wife to Mr. Edward Bolton^ belong-
ing to the Queens Audit Office, received
fome Years fince, a blow with the Key of a
Door, fomebody opening the Door fud-
dcnly,and fhe behind it, which blow pain'd
her much at firft, bat afterwards it feem'd
tolerable, but not totally rcccedcd ; but in
fome time it grew worfe and worfe, at
length it grew big, gremous and hard, and
pain'd her very much, and at lall ex-
mUiratedy fhe had the advice of fcve-
• ral eminent Surgeons^ who all view'd it, and
^ concluded that it was an incurable C^an-
. Ccr. Ahont'J anuary 1707. I was dclircd to
r^her, I being accjuaintcd witli her Rela-
raOQSy I knew her from a Child ; I declare
i^t the Room fmelt fo foetid andcadaye-
Ws,' that I was not able to endure it ; flie
r Y 2 told
5 1 8*^ 6/ Cold Baths. Part 11
told me that (Tie was in a dying condition,
and that flic fliou'd never fee me more, and
truly I thought fo too ; (he was fo emacia*
ted and worn away, that IwilTiMhcra
comfortable palTport to the other World,
and fo took my lea vc of her. In yipril fol-
lowing, I cafually met her Husband in the
Street, and I ask'd him fiow long his Wife
liv'd after I faw her ? he fmilcd,and faid that
fhc was alive and well. At which I being
aftonifhed, prefently went to fee her; I
found her about her Houfe, in her buflnefs^
and received me with a cheerful countenance.
I ask'd how fbe came by that wonderful
Cure ? (he told me, by taking conflantly a
Mhiral IVattr in Southwark at or near the
Dog and Duck, which pureed her much
at fir ft, and keeping a wet Cloth dip^t in
the fame Water always to her fore Brcaft,
at length the putrificdlumpof theC^/^^fr^-
ted Matter fcpcratcd form the found part of
her Brcaft, and hanging only by fome few
Filiments, which fhc clipM on with her
SciiTors, it fefl to the ground like a piece of
corrupt Liver, and applying a pledget of
Vng. lUftlicon to that part where fhectipM
off, was very foon cured. I think this is
the fum, if not the whole (he told me; but
if any body wou'd be farther fatisficd, flic
lodgcth at a Shoemakers Shop, in the little
paiTage!
I paflagc between 'jnmya Street and Piccadilljt
very near St. J^wcj's Churcli.
There are many Mineral Waters in the
Kingdom iliat do very great Cures by
PAVafhingand Drinkinf;; they wafli off, or
iblunt the points of theCorrofive Salts,wliich ^
keep the Glands raw, and tnrn all the fup-
ply of Chyle, into an eroding Gleet, or
li*ctting Fceiid Pus.
My Old Friend Mr. EdivarA R(i^/jy, now
Member of Parliamcnc for Preftvn in Laa-
cajbirfy Iwsa very Cold Well, Sainted with
ine Name of ////we, in the Daysof Foppery
and Superflition, which Well docs a great
many Cures, botli by Wafliingand Drink-
ing. He has fcnc inc a grciit many Cafes of
Cures, too long here 10 inlcrt; but the thief
are Sores of all forts ; but admirable lor
fore Hycs, the Worms in Chilthen or
grown People, alfo fwcll'd Leggs, Rickets,
wandring Pains, as Khcumatilms, &e.tQ
which a great many People rcfort with Suc-
cefs.
Tliere are a preat many Cold Baths late-
ly Ere£lcd in l:'/{t;Ufrd^ and next to Mr.
8afnes\ ii that at liAtljtJfen^ near oar /d-
moas Hoi Hxtbs. It is a very Cold Water,
foftand alkalious, for it will lather, which
few Cold Spings will do, fo the wholfomer
cp Drink. Lt rifes on the fide ofa ileep Hill,
with a brisk Current, and runs North-
V J Weft
3 ao Of Cold Baths. Part II.
Weft and by North. 'Tis in the Grounds
of Dr. P Anton ^ and by him built, and made
very convenient for all theufesofa Cold
Bath. From it is a pleafant Profpeft to the
City of Bdth^ and other various and delight-
ful Profpefts of the Country ; and beddes
thefe advantages, there is another alfo (but
not to be fpoke of) the Doftor keeps for
his Friends, a Cup of Humming good Li-
quor there alfo ; but Mum for that, and
Mam in Print is like fealing a Bond in pri-
vate, which begins with Noverint univerft.
The Honourable Charles Stanley^ Efq;
Brother to this prefent EarlofD^r^, has
made a Noble Cold Bath in Grippj tVood^
near Ormskerk in La/jcajbire. I am told he
has made it a very compleat Bath, with all
the ufual conveniencies. 'Tis but lately
Erefted : and the firft Man that went into
it for any Infirmity, was a labouring Man,
onfiTbomas Becky whom it Cur'd in a very
few Immerfions: but what his Cafe was,
I was not informed, any farther then Aches
and wandering Pains.
What theBr/7?c?/and other Cold Bathsido,
I do not hear; but this I know, that all
Cold Baths do the greateft Cures to thofe
People who have beea in our Hot Baths
firft ; and why it fhould prove fo, the Rca-
lb(is to me are very clear.
I^forfirft, a clammy, cold, phlegmy, tc-r
acious Humour fixt, can never be removM
by the Cold Baths, buc iHiTen'd and made
worfe ; buc when relaxM and loofen'd by
the fofcditrdvcnt Waters of the Hot Baths,
the vifcofity of thofe tough Humours are
melted down, and wafhc otf by Sweat, and
much thefooncr and eafier when a (lifted by
the Blood and Spirits, briskM and invigo-
rated by conrtant drinliing theii: Mirn-SuU
phureoas Waters, warm from the Pump.
Then indeed, like Winter's fuccecding
Summer, the Cold Bath may be fcafonablc
(when t!ie morbid Matter is remov'd) to
ftrengthen and confirm the Mufcic?, and
Tone of tlie Parts; it braces the Nerves^
and relaxed Membranes, and fo fits their
Drum to beat a March to the next Tavern,
where they fit like To many I'urks in tllcir
Napkin Turbants, and with Anti-chriftian
DUcourfe over Chriftian iViae ^ carefully
fpill nothing but their Healths, and fo God
knows marr many a good Cure.
And I have known many Cafes,in which
neither Hot nor Cold Baths have toucli'd
Gngly; yetioin'd, that is, fuccclTively ufed,
have pcrlorm'd the Cure.
I have known, when the Blood has been
heated above its Standard by Drinking
ftrong Waters, burnt Wine, &c. or Swim-
ming, Diving, CTf. or flaying too long on
Y 4 the
^22 Of Cold Baths. Part II.
the hot Springs, that fuch violences have
thrown 'em into Fevers, which was the
Cafe of Di*. Conqueft^ by drinking quan-
tiesof ftroncr Wine after the hot Bath Wa-
ter, which led it into his Blood, and gave
him fuch a Plethora^ of which he died,
which Bleeding, nor any other Evacuation
availM, his Blood being Sizy, Putrid and
corrupt, but Dr. Baden^ (a Man much la-
mented) after having heated himfelf with
Dancing went into the hot King's Bath, and
drank Wine there, which tljrew him into
fuch an intenfe Fever as I ever fa w Man in,
he foolifhly on his own Head purged himfelf,
when he fhould have Bled plentifully, the
want of which was his Deftruftion ; he
fent for my Self ^ Dr.Goutd^ and feveral
Phyficians, when it was too late, but when
Dead, before he was Cold, when ftirr'd
and laid upon the Floor, the Blood iffucd
from his Nofe and Mouth very thin, and
much in quantity, the conlHtuent Parts of
rhat Fluid, 'viz, the Glohles^ being broken
and deftroy'd. My ExperieKce at thefe Hot
Biths^ has been of no lefs than 57 Years
ftandiog, and in that time I have known
many have mifcarricd, thro' over Bathing
and drinking ftrong Liquors in the Bath,
and many over Heated and Feverilh, I have
recovered by giving them Plantain Water^
with Svrup of Lemons, as a Julep, after
61?€d^
\tt 11. Of Cold Baths.
?'?
(ceding, which is the firft thing to be done j
fed at Night an Emulfion of tliccold Seeds,
^ith the Decoftion of Plantain or the di-
Bil Water; hut if you find the Fever very
ptenfe, thePulfe hard, and much toofre-
toent, the Face high Cotour'd, the Eyes
^lood'jbed, and the Patient reftlefs and un-
cafy, I have frequently given this Julep with
good Succefs.
£ Aq. yUntitg. Lujal Equifa (eju^ deftStu
"e Germ. Quec. aul Sjmfh. Maj.J an. |ifs.
Cifjnam.foriior. Eptdem, n/i. ^ifs. Syr. de
Mecon.^ts.fpr. Fitriot daUis Gutt. x. mtf-
ce cgput hora quietis.
z hisconflant Drink whenThirfty, Fip-
T-Thea, fweeten'd a little, with Syrup of
[lasberries, O'c. and a little Liquorilh or
Uihea Root, infusM in the Thea will pre-
■#ent Griping, which fometimes Apple Wa-
~tcr will give. 1 have found Plantain, and
fuch gentle cooling Reftringent Plants to be
of wonderful ufe in Fevers, for they pre-
" ierve the Texture of the Blood if given in
quantity. And I remember that Marggrave,
publick ProfefTor of Chymiftry in the
'niverfiiy of Leyden, 40 Years fince told
k. Jefw/hf of [Varwtck and mj Selj\ (when
' ; Heait was a little open'd with Wine)
Plantain and the Preparations of it,
irijgenera! the greateft fehtfagiatn^
that
SH Of Odd Baths, Part IL
that he koew of any one Medicine, either
Galenical or Chymical, drc. And the hot
Stoves and Bagnio^s in and about Londo»j
has been the Deftrudion of many a Man,
by over- heating the Blood after Exercife or
Drinking, &c. a$ fome of the keepers of
thofe Houfes, have ingenioufly confefsM to
me.
Which unhappy accident proves the
Truth of my Aflertion, when either Heat
or Cold drives contrary ways, tho' the lame,
or contrary qualities: For Heat made from
within outwards, going into Heat, preiCng
from withoutinwards, makes a ftrange hur-
ry and blufter in the Blood: And in fuch a
Cafe there is but one way to quiet and ap-
peafe tliat Quarrel, which I found out by
an accident on my felf.
In Cold Water alfo there is the like di-
forder, if iVIen go into it Hot from Exercife ;
fome liave had their Limbs taken away,
others their Hb^aring, as a Gentleman oa
his own Head went from the Hot Bath to
the Cold Bach at brifiol^znd being hot with
Walking, and entering into a Sweaty was at
thefirftdip, or duck, taken Deaf ; but was
afterwards redorM, but not without fome
troqble. And here -tisvery pertinent to
iirifcrt a Letter of an Ingenious Young Geor
ticman, a Member of this prefent rarlian
ment, whofc Cafe is extreamly appofite to
this purppfe. Xo
FartU. Of Cold Baths. 525
To Dr. Edward Baynard.
" S 1 Rf Feb. ji, 1705.
TTEaring you were upon making fome
r X Obfervations on the Cold Baths, and
^e operation of Heat and Cold on Human
Bodies, I could not but accjuaint you with
fomcEjcperimentof that kind. The Expe-
rience of which, I muftconfefs, I have un-
fortunately bought. And the thing is this.
About Eleven Years ago in the Summer
time, when Grafs was ready to be Mown,
I being a School-Boy, went down to a Ri-
ver, with four or five more, where, after
we had been al! in tlie Water, we ran about
:he Meadows, all Naked to dry our felves :
But the Weatiicr being excelTive Hot, we
(bon exercisd our felves till the Sweat ran;
upon which, 1 being in a Sweat as weU as
therein, went to the River and leapt in. I
no fooner was in the Water, but my Limbs
fait'd me, and there I lay hclplefs, the reft
not daring to come to help, fearing the like
Accident, *till one being fomewhat cooler
I and bolder than the reft, lifted me out of
■liie Water. Upon this, I was carried home,
^^hereaftcr having taken fomething by the
^Bfireftion gf a Fiiyfician, who happen'd
rhea to live in the Houfe with me, next
Morning T had the ufc of my Limbs, as
''^— . well
■ we
fefae
g26 Of Cold Bath. Part 11.
>vell as ever : But alas ! every thing was
in a deep Silence, all Mouths had loft their
Tongues, Bells their Clappers, Birds their
Notes, Trees their Whittling ; in fliort,e'ery
thing mov'd, as it were, by Enchantment ;
and to conclude, mySenfeof Hearing was
fo firmly lock'd up, that Vlyffes ne'er fecur'd
his Companion's Ears fo well againft the
Sirens^ as mine were againft all Sounds
whatfoever. But, I thank God, by degrees
my Hearing came to me, and I Hear now
very well.
I (hall add but one thing, and that is, my
Head was not under Water, which, perhaps
if it had, it might have had other EfFefts.
But this I fliall leave to your Confideration,
Who am,
Tour humble Servant j
G. D.
From what has been faid, there is caufe
enough of Caution, how Men unadvifedly
run into Water either Hot or Cold, after
being warm*d by Exercifc, or fpontaneous
Sweats, for fuch Sweats are oftentimes cri-
tical : And to make a check upon a Crifis,
when Nature is throwing off the morbid
Matter, may be of moft dangerous Confe-
(juence, and with the greateft care and cir-
cumfpeftion to be avoided. 'Tis true, what .
Cuftoin may do for early u(age, I can*t ac-
count
I \»
toll. Of Cold Baths. 937
lountfor; for 'tis matter of Faft, that in
fiolltndt Flufders, and thofeCountrieSjwhen
iheir Horfes are all in a foam, by Sweat and
Labour, they immediately rufh 'em into
Cold Water,, and fetthemup, andyetthey
fet no harm. But Horfes that have not
een accuftom'd to fuch ufage, muft re-
ceive great damage by it; but leta Hoifebe
rever fo hot, if you Swim a River on his
Back, and Ride him hard after it, he receives
no harm, becaufe the motion of the Blood
nd Spirits being made the fame way that
it was before he took the River, is continu'd
'from within outwards, trom the Center to
the Circumference; and thecheckmadeby
the Cold Water, can be but fmall, becauie
the Horfe labouring in Swimmini^, conti-
nues the fame motion, and with as much
labour as he d id in his fpeed in R\inmn^^&c.
but it is the ftanding after fuch violent Ex-
ercife that does the mifchief. So walliinga
Horfe, or any other Animal fo heated, un-
til he become cool, no Injury enfues ; And
I heard an old Oliverian Souldier fay, That
they preferv'd their Horfe much better than
the C<*v/i//fr Party, by only obfervingftrift-
ly the injunftionlaid on them by their Offi-
cers, to walk their Horfes after a hard
March, until they were cool, &c. And
Huntfmen will tell you, it has often been
obferv'd in foxes, that after a hard Chafe,
they'l
338 Of Cold~Baths. Part II-
theyM walk themfelves cool before they
Earth. But the (illy Hare fquats in her
Heat, and has often been taken dead, and
ftifF, from her Form.
I once in Hunting a fallow Deer in the
Month of July J and a very hot Day, faw
a fprightly Colt about 2 Years old, followed
the Etogs over Hedee and Ditch during the
Chafe, and, I think, the Buck (lood about
four Hours before he funk, and was (eizM
by the Dogs. This Colt being very Fat,
and all over in a Foam, ran into a Pond,
drank his fill,and then lay down ; the Huntf*
men with much ado got him out, but he
died in lefs than half an Hour. And here
I remember that Colonel BampfieU of Hat*
dington in Somerfetfljire^ told me. That a
Stag, after a very hard Chafe, took the Wa-
ter, drank his fill, and flood at Bay with
the Dogs, but foon funk. And he did fb-
Icmnly profefs, to his great amazement,
that cutting the Deer's Throat whilft he
was warm, the Blood flunk, and was Pu-
trid, as it run from his cut Jugulars, drf.
He was a Gentleman of Worth and fide dig"
nwy and fince I have heard fomething like
this confirmed by others.
How many have been deftroy'd by drink-
ing cold Liquors, after heated by Aftion ?
Contrarily, the Guides at the Hoi Bath ne-
ver catch Cold, by drinking cold Liquors,
tho'
nU. Of CoU Baths.
_;ho' never fo hot, by Bathing; and what is
worth Obfervation. After a large draught
of Beer, or Ale, (if hot by Bathing) that
fhe Sweat Ihall immediately burft forth,and
ifiand like fo many Pearls upon their Skins ;
which old Stepheus^ who was a Guide above
50 Years, has often Ihewn me in the flip ;
IJind tho' through fuch profuie Sweats, they
"•ifs but little, yet many of them live to
^^reat Ages.
, I am of the Opinion, that Man is not a
j3rinking(becaufe not a carnivorous)Anima!,
^tleaft no more than a Rabbet, or Sheep,
^rcM to it when the Grafs is Sun-burnt,
larch'd, and Dry, for if we iivM asdid
fhe Antedilwvians, on Fruits, Roots and
JHerbs, &c. thofe Efculents had moifture
^nd fucculency enough co abate, (or rather
to prevent) Tliirft. ForunderaftriftTem-
'perance, where Men Sweat but little, and
and ufe no Salted Meats, they are feldom
or never Thirfty. And I knew a Man that 1
told me he had not drank in a Month ; but
then his Food was Apples, Melons, &c.
And the lefs Men Drink, nay and Eat too,
the better Health they enjoy, and are brisk-
er and more lively than the Sot and Glutto^^
and live twice or thrice their Ages; for
their Organs are lels ufed, and conlequcnt-
ly iefs worn. They breed lefs Spirits, Icfs
Blood, tUe Veins and Arteries are not fo
fill'd
Of Cold Baths. Pai^
fill'd and crowded, the Circulations notfb
fwift and frequent, the Bowe!*! not fo thin,
and the Mucus not wafh'd off, which rs
not only a Lining and Defence to the Sto-
mach and Bowels, but to the Veins and Ar-
teries alfo, to keep their Coats from wear-
ing in too quick and frequent Circulations,
which in unnecefiary and thirftlcfs Epota-
tions, efpecially of ftrong and fpirituous Li-
quors, that unthinking Animal, the Drun-
kard, puts the fatigud Troops of his own
Houfhoid (Sots Ha/ij too often upon; till
they ravage and lay waft that Carkafs, in a
few Months, which might have ferv'd an
honeft and fober Soul to havehv'd com-
fortably in a hundred Years. Who, when
he is forfaken ofhis Health, Mony, Time,
Friends and God, too late cries out, in the
bitternefs of his Soul : Oh ! that I had been
Wife, &c.
But, ad Rem. I am of ilie Opinion, that
Spring Water, cover'd, in a Houfe, is much
colder in the Night than in the Day, con-
fiderably Colder I mean, than the abfence
of Light can be fuppos'd to make it ; efpc-
cially three Days before and after the new
and full Moon, as the Spring Tides rife
and fall; they give a ftrange frigidity to
the Air, about that time, efpecially when
the Wind is at any Northern Point. This
I have tryed by my Hand, but not yet with
Of Cold Baths. 531
a Thermometer. That Cold is a Poficive,
and not a Privation, SebAflUnus Wirdig, in
his Traft de Medicha Sprttuum^ tho' Para-
doxical enough, yet in fome of his Notions
he may be right. He fays, That the Moon
is as truly the caufe of Cold, as the Sun is
ofHeat ; and he calls it a Cold Fire, and
that it burns from its intenfe Frigidi-
ty, &e. and that the Lunar Rays were
the true and ftrift caufe ofCold; his Words
are,
"Vt Calor if ignU Sotufeu SoUris qui cdi-
d,m efiy & a Sole tanquam a fonte ad nos rd'
diat^ ex opfofito frigiu erit Ignu frigidus^ ex
L.u»A Ad not demijfui.
Frigus autem ejfe Sptntum Luadrem
monfirnho \ per Mechamcam. Radii Lutii'
res (olhciiper Lent em feu Speeulum comxvum
frigidifunt ^ igne fuo jrigtdo Uptritui verru-
cdrumn/egetxnte: enecATJt. And mighty fond
he is of this Notion, that Cold is a Fire,
and that the Eafterly Blafts, as the Etefjx^
burn the Leaves and tender T^yiggs , which
blighted Leaves, &c. ifrub'd between your
Hands, fmell vtry ftrong of a Sulphurous
Gas. And that mofl: intenfe Cold will ex-
ting;uifh a Candle. I fuppofe it muft be
by (heathing the keen Particles of Niter in-
to che Tallow, which Niter is invellopM in
the frozen aqueous Particles of the Air,
which thawing by the Flame, it is by them
Z ex-
55a Of Cold Baths. Part 11.
extinguiQiMy or elfe the Flame reaching
and melting the fmall Volatile frozen Icicles
hovering in the condensM ambient Air, re-
folves it into a Fog or Mift, which damps,
fufFocates and choaks the Flame.
Imferium jtbi arrogaf frigsa in ignem^ if a
ut intentiffimM CoffdeUm extiniudt.
That the Cold Bath^ the colder it is^ the
fwifter the Spirits concentrate and flie from
it I is fcen in Cyder and other Spirituous Li-
Guorsthroughly froien,whereaI1 thePhlegm
lliall be condensed, and the vinous inflama-
ble Spirits crouded and concentered in the
middle of the VclTel, &c. which Spirit is
generally more or Icfs, according to the
Ihcngch of the Liquor. But a Country
Gentleman told me, diat he in the great
Froft, "JanuAry^ idSj.faw'd a Hogflicadof
very good Cyder fo frozen, in two, and
that he had not above the 55th, or 6och.
part of pure Spirit ; for ibme was fplit in
the Operation, and that it lay in a Neft of
an Oval form, &c.
I have obferv'd fome of the beft Cures,
done by the Cold Baths^ is from a fudden
Plunge over Head, and fo immediately go
out, and repeat it two or three times in >
Day; cfpecially twice in a Morning afl
Hour or two between each Immeriioo,
when the Stomach is empty: for then the
Body's not repleated and ftufrd with Foodi
and
TI. Of Cold Baths. 335
and the Head fcrene and clear, the Spirits
have room to flioot, retire, and concentrate,
wliich upon going out olthc Bath, the pref-
fure and frigidity being taken Qi\\ by chcir
ipringy and elaltick Power, force tlicir way
and naffage through the obftrudled Nfirves,
&e. but long itaying in, weakens their force,
and the benefit of tTie Immernon is iof>.
Hence I may Indance for a Simile, a
Bow which drawn fmoothly to the Arrows
Point, and that Moment let flie, it foars
aloft, and anfwers the intent of the Shooter;
but if it be drawn to the Head, and there
held five or fix Minutes, ilic Fibers of the
Bow being weakn'd by fo long a tcnfion, it
hardly has ftrength to c)e6l it far from the
ftation of the Archer.
A Gentleman of theTewp/f, a halcfoiind
Man, of a ftrong athlctick Habtt, out of
a Humour, and to try his ftrength, ftay'd
in the Cold Bath of Mr. Bajimt, at leafl 1 5
or 16 Minutes; but it fo chilPd him, that
he had much ado to recover it, and was not
well in fometime.
Another (tay'd in St. Mattgo\ fo long,
until the Veins in thecxtrcam Parts began
to look black, and the Btood ftagnatc, but
was, thro' care, recovered ; but came not
rightly to the free and genuine ufc of his
Limbs in fome Months. So that the buft
Remedies have their nocamentu, when ill
Z 8 ad--
534 Of Cold Baths.
FafflH
adminiftred, over-dos'd, or abusMthro\
Folly and Ignorance. So Patients in tbefis
Couifes Ihould be rul'd by their PhyfictM,
and not jeft away themfelves out of a Bra*
vado; fo a Man that can't A'nvw, and hanit
help*near, «» iBf/j over the t^ofe^ will a$
foon drown him, as if cart away in the Btj
ofBtfcaj. But, I hope, a Word to the Wift
is enough.
The beft and wholfomeft thing in Nature
may prove noxious, by intcmpeftiveorim-'
moderate Ure, according to the old Diftich.-
BalneSj l^iaa, Veans^ corrumfunt torpor a
ReJiiruanteaJemy B'tlite*, VinsVeata. (firt^i.
Baths, Wine, and Wifes,
Deftroy, if took too much.
But Healthful all,
When Now and Then a Touch,
So that nothing can be fo friendly toour,
tet3der Ndtures^RS the temperate ufe ofevof;
thing, efpcciatly thofe which relate toour
Hedthi; and 'tis rare to fee very Old Me%,.
or Women, but in fome one thing the^
were always cautelous, and liv'd by a cci^
tain Rule, either in Eating, Drinkinft,
Rert, Exercife, &c. or not eafily angr^
or dirturb'd by other turbulent Ftffio^.
orthe Miads ; and 'tis fuch People that uffr
ally bring found and healthful Children iiin^
theWorld; and onthe contrary, thcProui^
Haugh-
Of Cold Baths. 535
lughty, Froward, Il!-Natur'd, that vex
^ fref at every Trifle, together with their
gh favory Haaces^ Wine and ftrong Drink
t every Meal, Supping in a Morning, and
fining at Supper Time, bring a brood of
ftifcraDlefmall Kjfg^s-Eyillj^ Scshly, Ricket-
^Jnfims fcarce worth the rearing.
f [itch /AeOfF-fprings Are of Purtnts Lewd,
Vhtt mafi the Producl he of iP fgcond Brood
And their produce, will jitUbe worfe and morfe,
Uefides the Ails//ve Child fuck's from the Nurfe ?
And now I fpeak ofthe Rickets, I know no-
thing in Nature fo Speci^ck and prefent a
Cnre as Cold Immerfion: and theiefore,
tr believe, this Diftemper was not known
ta the time of Hippocrates-, where he fays.
Cold is naught for the Bones, Brain, Teeth,
Nerves and Spinal Marrow,(^e. wherechtcf-
\y the feat ofthe Rickets lies. His Words
arc TO -vjjy^g^v -m)Al|iA*''i' orfoiJic, oVwin, I'^'g^if,
SyiMiftitAc^, /A.:i\^. And concludes.the cnd
ofthe Aphorifm, tj ^ S-ejSHJv oipsAi/^si', by
which he means Heat, or Warmth, are of
ufe, and comfortable to thefe Parts, to which
he fuppofes, that Cold is injurious. As to
Coid, I conceed and agree with him, (jaate^
niuCold; but cold Immerfion only atls as
cold upon the Sarface^ and outward Skin
andbyclofingthe Pores, 8cc. flops the per-
fpiring ejfJavia, and turns thofe heated and
Z J warm
Of Cold Baths. Pai
warm Steams on the Blood again, which
muft invigorate the Blood and Spirits by
the addition of that //«r, which is loft by a
continued perfpirmion, the Body being in-
carcerated in Water, and all the avenuts
ftopp'd up, even refpintitoa for that Mo-
ment o( fahmerfioa;' -which ^ I think, is the
only meafure of T^we, (Children at leaft)
and Wedk People, ought to ftay in the Cold
Bath, and let the Immcrfion be the oftner.
repeated ; by which means they would be
fecur'd from thofe accidents and haz-Mris^
which a longer ftay might bring upon them.
And this fecms tobe the Sentiment of the
Learned Senmria^, 1. 4. c. 7. de Bain. Ft
gida vera aqua Partes quidemy qass attiagit^.
refrigerate ex accidentitamen^ Ports eoactu^t^
atq\ intra repulfo & coaclo tdlore^ ca/efscit,
IJade fi ex dijfipatwne calor aalivus fericUt^
fury frigida temfefii-ve exhihita earn reeoSigeih^
di & confervandi non parvam i<im habet to-
tamf, Corfm, (^ imprimii caraofam Mt/fculo*
rum fubjlantiawfrmat.
As to the Rickets, it was a Diftemper iq
EfigUfid 3\vciQ&. worn out, but now it begins'
tocomeinr/.yagain.Butinthe timeof Kng,
C/«r/ej I. it was alrooft epidemical ^ fewFa^
miljes efcaping it ; efpecially thofe that were.
Rich and Opulent, and put their Childreo
out to Nurfe ; where, thro' unnatural Vfage^^
jad vicious difagieeable Mitky the Infant
,/ was
Fart 11. Of Cold Baths. 5^7
* was foon fpoil'd by contrafttng from the
drunken Nurfe^ Cacocymiom Juices ; hence
with the growing Infant grew up, the Boot
•falliiod for the Men, and long Coais for the
Women ; for they were fo afEam'd at their
crooked Le^s^ that they wore Boots to
hide them. And this beginning at Court
(among the Qualiij') the flreight Legg*d
Fools tauik follow the Fafhion, and wear
Baois too, witli great BootHofe tops of
I fineUnnen, Jac'd, &c.zm\ ymgling S^urrs^ ■
Iwhich gave occafiou to the then witty Spa-
ifi jsmbajfador at his return home, to jeft
pon our FoUies ; for being ask'd by his
after, the Spamjb K/^S* u London were a
bulous C/V; ? heanfwer'd, it w.n. Was,
ply'd the/vM^, why isitnotfonow? no,
_boch the /tmbajfador, I believe they are
gone e*re this, for they were all Hooteky be-
fore I came out of Totvf).
Thefe Nur/es fpoil and deftroy, through
qegleft and want of (true Mother) Tender^
nffsy two thirds of the poor Infants com-
mitted to their Care. A very pious and
good Man, Miniver at this time of a certain
Town not far from London^ on the Banks
of the River of Thames, told me, with a
great deal of Sorrow and Concern, that it
was the greateft trouble he had in the World
to fee, even in his own Pmjh, how many
Children were facrific'd Yearly to tlie bar-
338 Of Cold Baths.
barous Treatmenc and ill Ufige of their,'
Narfes, what with bad Milk of their own,"^
and feeding the -young Infant with mtited'
Meats and Drinks, as jieafy new AU, ac,
Stale-Beer^ &c. which makes it Pukt^ or'
gives it the Gripes, from green porraceous;
Bile, &CC. Then it has the WVmj forfbotb^
and murt bephyfick'd the Nurfes way, by-
fome neighbouring drunken old WomanJ
qr favourite ^jmcL- or Jpoil/ecarjF^ wh^
vouches for the Nurfes Care, that its time'
was come, and no more could be done ; and'
this difmat Alarm is pofted to the Parent^
two Hours after it is dead, to haft dowO];
the Child being fuddenly taken very /I?
and that ufually when 'tis over-Z^irf, of
choack'dv/\r.\\ hard handageyK-c. Downcomes'
Madam the Mother, furbulo'd, with atT
ere£ted /?«?«^ (crying and bellowing) andl
running about half Mad, like a Coip ihu^
with a G-ti/ F/;e, and with her iW«(i ladett
with Pots^ Glsffes, Vemce-TrtaeUf soodj
Kents'j Powder, Goat-JJoney BUck-CTitrr^
Water, &c. And after her, £«/rp, her Hus^
band with a Coach and four, with perhapd
a brace of Do^orj, or fome famous CAi/i^ji
Apothecary, &c. And thus the i**rf»//are
kept in the Dark, and the jW«r//^pr of their
Children ftifled, when all this might havc''
been avoided, by bringing the Child opb^
Hasd^ at home, under th? Mother's £;f,rr
through
lefe
Of Cold Baths. 339
)' Weaknefs, or want of Milk or good
fles^ fhe could not Nurfe it her felf. But
fe deficiencies in the Mother, are chiefly
ing to her Parents^ who muft have Mils
le, and tight lac'd for a/rWer Waft, era
7 or a dancing Boat^ &c. hence the Nip-
5 are fqueez'd in, and the whole Breaft
1 flat, when young. Thus the GUnds
prefs'd and injur'd, and made incapable
%i officio, in laftifying and fweetning the
fiood into that delicate 'Juiee caird Milfr,
)id fometimcs worfc accidents attend thefe
nrd Lacings, as Cancers^ Scirrhous and hard
Tamors in their Breafts, &c. But Women
hat are not able to Nurfe their Children,
hd will not, thro' Pride,Lazinefs, or fome-
hing clfe not to be nam'd, are Monilers or
he worft of Brutes : for nothing can be fo
friendly and homogeneous to the Chi/d, as
^eMother''s A///*,being of (or very ncar)thc
ame Subjlance of which the Child was made^
nd nourifh'd in the Womlf. And I am of
2 Opinion, that without Go*/'/ ^rwf Mer-
there are more Women d*mn''d for
£hild-deftroying, xhzafa'ved by Childbcar-
^ Do they know what they do, when
they foolifhly, or wickedly deftroy a Child?
who knows what this Child might have
come to? They may rob Heaven ofa 54/»f,
the Throne of a Priacr^ the Church of a
^Jlio^t ^^^ *^^^ Bench ofa ^udge, 8rc. Great
-^ " Meq
CffCW Baths. Pi
Men and good Men have fprang from meai
PsrentSy andfmall Beginnings, and yet have
been inllrumental to fave a Kjfi^dom^ Ex»j
amples iliat Hiftory is full of, &c. I knew,
iTiy felfas proper a Gentleman as moftii
EngUttA^ was faved in the Btrth^ byade-
fign to deftroy him. His Motiier was fpent'
with /;4r^ Lubour^ and a skilful Man being
icnt for, to deliver her, and feeing no pof-
fibl? means elfe left to fave her^ rtruck bis.
r Inftiuraent into the Roof of the Child*Sy
I ^athj inftead of the Sku/I, and lb brought
I^m into the World; and, I think, he toM>
me his Mother was alfo fav'd. He was 3
Gentleman of anancientFamily in Cbejbtre,
By this Woujid, he had a great Impedi-
ment in his Speech, but might be very well
underrtood, when he took time to exprefc
himfelf.
BiiE npw to tell you how many Oiiidren
have been deftroy d by Sisathing and Roal-
in^y ii a hlfck Scene. Hence moft Difeales
of the.C/jf/?, and Lujigiy JJihmit\ ihort
Bresthwgs^ Confumptions, and all the Cough-
ing Trtbe. I have openM, and iz&a opcn*d,
a great many Men and Women in my Lif^
and I, profefe, near the halfoi what I faw,
either one Lobe or othexjluck^ adher'd, and
grew totlie Ribbs^ that is, the P^ear* ; and
I priijcipaliy attribute this misfortune to
Swathing and Rowling: and my Realbns ar»
n ■■>'/} thdii
Of Cold Baths. 34.1
efe. Firft, it has been obferv'd, as &ras
tcould learn by enquiry, that the JnMaitfj
Bind feveral other Nations, as the High lani-
»•/ inScotUndy the native /r/^ are proper,
pir, ftreight, becaufe never rosvl'd. My
cxt Reafon is, becaufe Infants^ when (0
•cry Tender and Youns, are little better
^an a fquah Duck^ or Chicken, a meer Cd~
B or Gtateay and may be torith'd and tvrung
y the leaft mif-bandage into any inform
^gure and Shspe: Hence crooked Backs Jhackle
iiamsj Biker Kpees^ &c. Now when this
joor Infant is tight rowPdy and wrap'd in
Jlannel, nay Flannel upon Flannel, and
■id to Bed in Harnefs ; *tis impoffiblethat
ne Chefi can expand to its full ftretch in In-
fairatipn, fo confequently can't grow to its
|ue extent ; but the Lftngs are at liberty (for
Siey can't be rowPd) and fo grow in bulk,
ioo fad for the ClieO: In breadth; but the
ftreaft not extending equally with the
erowth of the Lungs, the Lungs grow too
pig for the hollow of the Thorax, and by
puching and adhering to the Pleurn, there
pick and grow.
Hence 'tis that for the moft part fuch
Ihlldren are Potbellyd^anA have large Heads
becaufe the Head and Belly can't be fo con-
^'nientJy rowl'd as the Ribs, he. and fuch
ihlldren, if they live, befides the infirmi-
ff la J?fM//'/0g, are \ii^a}\y vtntricouSf and
Id n<»
543 Of aid Baths.
not fo dgil and tiimkie as other Children, and
are apt t« Aide into white SmSings and Leu-
cofhlegmatia'Sf &tc.
Obferve a Child when *tis iooje and up-
L^r/V , before the Nurfe puts it to BeJ,
1^ it plays with its little Hands and LeggSj
\Ad is fo pleas'd ; and how fowr and fro-
[ Ward, when 'tis hacked up for a whole
FjJights Vsin and Torment. *Tis a great
fShame that greater care is not taken In fo
r Weighty an Aflajr, as isthe Birth^ and Breei-
tUtg^oHh^K. Nohic Creature, MAN: and
[ 'ibnfidering this ftupid and fupinc negli*
I ^ehce, I have often wondred that there are
IiD many Men as there are in the World,
k For what by Abortions too too oft caufed
by the unfcafonable, too frequent, and boi-
^fterous, drunken AddrefTes of the Husband
* to.ttie Wife, when young with Child, and
Lfier high Feeding, fpiced Meats , Soops
r*hd Sauces, what with ftrait Lacings, Dan-
\ 6tngs, and the like, one full half of the Men
f. begotten are deftroyed in the Shelly fquob'd
i jn the Neji, murther'd in Emhryo^ and ne-
*yer fee Light; and half of the other half
f^trUid^ ftarv^d, ^(T^fon'd by ill Food, aiu]
, tin'dat A^«r/e, 8fc.
r -^rho' breeding Children by Hand is as fefe
%k way when under the careiif t\\cMothtr\
. sifanf , or feme near Relation, yet WomanS
'Milk is much better, and more Natural:
but
It if the Mother be under fuch cireum-
tances as not to be able, let herchooiea
^urfe of the fame Complexion,fanie colou-
ed //<!/>, Difpofition and Temper of Miad,
jid as near as Ihe can of the fame j4ge too 5
br the ftrong Milk of the Reti and BUek,
will not agree with the Fair and Broa-n, 8fc.
ind let thcNurfe ufeher felf toChearfulnefe,
ind a cooling Dyet, often eating thin Milk-
rorrage, and often drinkiaga Glafs or two
>f good Spring-Water, once in a Day at
Eaft> efpecially after eating a full MeaJ of
^Ujby and drinking Wimjov any other ftrong
Oriak, &c. for that will temper and allay
[he Afrimonj of the Blood, and dilute and
^a(h offby Vrwe ihofe caujiial and acrid
Sails, which often are the caufe of G«/«,
ind fometimes Coftvuifions, &c.
If the Nurfe, at any time, drinks any
crmented Liquors, let it be a fmall, well
>rew*d, clear J*/f, neither »fn' noryowr ; but
above all, let her have her due Heft, and
go to her Repofe betimes. Sleep foftens
and fweetens the Juices ; for the fecretions
,are better made in the ftate oi ^tetude and
Refit than in JilioUf Noife and Hurry:
This is every Days Experience at the Bath,
(and in all other Places where 'tis obferv'd)
'tfaa£ the Wntrs pafs beft, either fitting/i/f,
' "r lying in Bed.
I have
344 Of Cold Baths. P^
I '■ I have been fcnt for often, and fometitiies
I IcnockM out of Bed, to Children juft dying,
J In Fits^ as they call it ; and fomettmes have
I ften the Child black in the Fsce^ HAiids and
[ KArms. I ftraight caus'd it to be ftripM mk-
[ «(/, and the Child was well in an'Inftaoc:
[.And I always found (or very rarely oiher-
wifc) that it was either tight Swathing^
Ythit-fiays^ or other hard Bandage, was the
l^nly caufeof the Fright and Fear.
And if all the Phjjicims^ Chirargesnj zad
I jlpotheearies, fliould club their Obfervations
|-^ this Head, I doubt (befides what really
hjfliefor*t) two thirds of the Peojile of this
]-Natiofi have been a hundred times half
ifl>4^V, before they were a Year Old.
*• How many poor Infants have I fecn
brought fiackl'd to the Foaty half choakM
to receive the 6rft Seal of its Sslvation, with
a Face as black as my Hi;, as if it blajb'd
for Original Shy and all through the fuper-
fine tight Dreflings of Madam the Midlife,
or her principal Maid of Honour, Mrs. //«
Narfe,; nay, fome have been fo hard fwa-
thed, they have been forcM to flacken the
Bandage, even in the Chareh.
Now, when they chriftenM Children by
Immerftoft^ the poor Infant was fecure from
that Days Punifhment ; for doubtlefs they
carried it loofe to the Fonty in order to the
more convenient and fpeedy dipping of it
'art II. Of Cold Baths. j45
I could wifh all Mothers^ Midivifeszad
Ruffes, &c. to whom thefe Prefents fhall
;ome, that it maybe impreji'd on 'em (like
he beginning of Bonds) w ith a aoverint
wiverfi, that they may not only be admo-
lifhM of this great Fauiiy but that riiey
smend it alfo.
One thing I had almoft forgotten, which
as materiai as any thing laid ; that I was
bardly ever call'd to any Child convuls'd in
Xh&Month^ but upon enquiry, I found that
jiliofeF^j (moftly) proceeded from giving
^e Child SACK,, or other fpiritaotet Li-
quors analogous to it, or at kad dilcovered
the Efe^ from the Caafe, when the Mother
pr Nurfe chear'd up their Spirits ten times
10 a Daj, with a plentiful Dofe; but what
jonore wonderful is, that this unnatural ufagc
iJhould fo long prevail among M» (fo ten-
der of their species) when every Butcher
mows it would kill his Calf, without ei-
^er Ax or Hatchet ; nay, even fome of
pur famous Bottom-tvrtghti, for want of a
^gbt Bottom, the Mid-men havefo far con-
wnted to this fatal and pernicious Pra£fice
as never to dlfcountenaace or forbid it ^
_^nd without the flop b^ins there, or
qtianiM by Pbyficiaos, I doubt thofe great
'^rrcrs will amble on, to the end ot the
Chapter. And To I (hall conclude this Sub-
let with a Relation of a Child almoft
,i,i_ { fweat-
54.6 Of Cold Baths, Parti
iweatcd and fmother'd to death,
ijovci-careof itsown Parents.
Iwasfentfor tothisChiU (not far from
•the B*thJ about three quarters of a Year
Old, dying as the MelTenger told me. I
found it in a great Sweat, hard tuePd in a
wooden Crad/e, and in the heat of Sum-
mer, the Month of Juiy. I caus'd tbc
Child to be taken out, and brought near
the Fire, fo (Iript it naked^ and put on it a
warm clean Shtfr, (the Cloaths taken off
the Child both Linnen and Woollen, were
fo wety you might have wrung Vm) and over
the Linnen Shift, a loofe fort of a Child's
Gown. The Child's Tongue was very white,
it made figns for Drink, I caufed three
parts fVdter^ and one part A/i/it, to be hea-
ted a little under Milk-warm ; *tis tncredi*
ble to tell how much of it that poor Infant
drank, and foon fell afleep ; in which Sleep,
it had a Jarge loofe Stool, and five Hours al-
ter, when it awak'd, it was as well as ever
it was in its Life. I believe the ioofe Stool
might proceed from the large quKnthy it
drank; and thcMotherafcerwardstoId me,
that they obferv'd that the Child made no
Water in a great many Hours after it awa-
ked, and then it was not in any quantity,
fmelt very ftrong, and high coloured, is
much as they could perceive, byitaining
the Clouts.
Telling
~ Of Cold Baths . 947
iTcIling this Cafe to my learned Friend Dr.
quoth he, I doubt not but many yOuug
ildren are dejlrofd by fuch ufage ; and noc
hly Children, but oU Folks roo. I retnem-
jr, faid he, that I was call'd in wherq ano-
icr Phyfician had deny'd a Man Driffk in a
Soft intenfe ^>^'f^, with a PUariJie^ that the
^lood was fo ^lutwoMsnd thick, that itcould
t run (for want of dilution) tho' the K«ii
•as fairly opened. I ordered the Patient to
inkasmuch aslie picas'd; upon which, he
I freely, and prefently began to mend,
Ae^fvanidiM, the Pieuritiek Pains went
and the Man recover'd in a Day or two.
i could give a loofucli Iftpatices, where
people of all Jj^es have been lolt, by being
;nyM Drtijk; and in tlie Small Pox it has
:n of fatal confecjuencci for it nor only hin-
sthe filling of the PuJluU-s^ but the fiery
_ ;alous 5'j//-- are thereby retain'd in the Biood^^
hd not walh'd off by Vrine^ which does noj
niyincreafc Thirjl^ but li the chief caufec^
'nqaietade^ and Relllejmp^, &c. and an J^pU
or two boii'd in Milk and IVater^ and ftrainV
off, and drank jw/fp, or very near Cold, ,"
the belt 'Julap in the World. I could enlarge.,'
upon this Heid, from tny (?»■«, and other',
Phyficium Experience, but verbumfat. ^
hy [his Ihort digrellion from inypurpoie,
I have eas'd niy Mi/»d of a debt I ow'd to the -
defence of helplefs and tender hifdnn-^ and I^
A a could
Of CM Baths. Part II
long rerencion had made To grear an extenfioa
of the Bladder^ being fill'd with too great a
quantity of tJr/ws, that Nature, without help
of Arc, could not relieve her, and the Igno^
ranee of the Attendants and People about her
made wrong applications of Quite contraries^
as the ufe of warm Cloaths, crc. and fill'd hef
v/ith Liquors, as Syder, Stale Beer» White-
Wine, with Hony diffoW'd in it, &c. which
but fill'd the Veflels, and added to the oveiv
loaded Bladder, tooiull before, that in twoOE
three Days flie began to fwcU in the Kwai
firft, next in tlie Habit of the Body, which
would /-^f apon preirinc with the Finger, as>
Ufual in an J/3afarca, &c. at laft fhe grew
Sleepy, and then was let's fenfible olpaia;
and dyed about the 14th D-y. Now had
any Body about her been fo Wife, as to havft
taken fome Blood fiom the Arm, and kept
her lifting, put her F<jet into cold Water,
and walh'd her Arms, Neck and Breaft with
it alio, 'tis forty to one, but that the Ladf
.ijoight have had the benefit of emtffion thro'«
ftrong univerfal mufcularcontraflion, whicS
'^y tlieextrtam frigidity andconfenc of Pare
prm the fuddcn attack of external inteal
C^old) might have given fuch a general fhocfc
p. the wliole, as to have faved her Life, eff
jccially it flie had had the conveoiency of.
w^/lmmerfion. Several have received gre^
/3^
by the ufe of Cold Water, bothiBK
ward
■ward and outward, in mafly Urinous Cafts*
'but cfpecially in a Supprcfllon caufed by
long retention, &c. But oftentimes a g^'cat
Supprcffion proceeds from another Caufe *
fls when the Blood is too vifcous and clam-
By, and docs not feparatc its urinous Serum ;
»ntl fomctimes by default in the renal Sccrc-
flons, &c. In fuch a Cafe I have fecn Acids,
^ Yith Vegetable and Chymical, dranfc incon-
''vcnicnt Vehicles, hjvc, like Rcnct to Milk,,
leparatcd the Scrum, (o as Secretion luisbecn,
prcfently made in the Kidneys, and tlie Man
has urin'd immediately. Several Examples
of this were printed in the Phdofoffjiid Tran-
/aft. Anrio\h(j'^ in the beginning of tlie 19th
Volume, &c, where Dr. C'c/tand Mr. iJfr-
hafi^ in fuch a Supprcflaon, were concerned
with mc, in the Cafe of Mr. lUger Kjmion^^
then Member of Parliament, who had not
made a drop of Water In fome Days, and
no Water in his Bladder, by the proof of the
Catheter ; bur by the ufe of Acids, as Lcm-
nion in Rhenilli Wine and Water, Sfir. Nt-
tri dalcis, and the like, he was perfcftly re-
covered in a v'cry little Time. What cold
Immcrfinn would do in this fort of Suppref-
fion, 1 have not try'dj but ic fcems rati>
onai, that the Cold driving the Heat inward,
the Spirits fhould quicken the flug^ifli Se-
cretions, if fome brisk vinous Spirits were
given inwardly, and the Patient well rub*d
Aa 3 with
*
with a hard Hand in the Bath at the tame
time.
Mr. Chri/fopher Stocks^ of I'Vhiichareh in
fiAmp/bire, had, here in London^ a total fup-
prefllonof Urine. He had feveral Phyfici-
an& with Iiiin, as well as my felf, we tryed
all things tryablc, but cold Water and Acids,
which he would iioc confent to. He began
togrowdrowfieonlhe 7th Day, and dyed 00
the 1 5th. To my bcft remembrance, Mr.
WilliArn Co'.vp,-r tfie Surgcon openM Mm,
and we found no Stone in his Bladder, but
one very fmall as a Vetch, or Pea, but his
Ureters were ftiiftasfull of fmall Gravel and
Sand as they could hold, as alio the Kidneys.
One thing here i? worthy of Note, that he
toid mc, that he never took any fowrc, fharp
Meats, or Liquors in his Life, and that he
Was a great lover of new Ale. He was a
Man of a Toft ft^dentary Life, towards his lat-
ter end, and ufet!, very little Exercifc.
The learned Dr. Cyprtanas^ the famous Li-
thotomift, (who has receivM fucli beneiji
by Cold Bathing, that lie has made a moft
convenient Bath m his Houfe) told me, that
he has long obferv'd, thofe that ufe Exenife^
and eat ti}h and Milk Meats often, are lel-
dom or never troubled with the Stone, &c.
And I remember Mr. Pei7nit of Puiuey^ a,
very honefl Man, and a good Surgeon, being
L' wush troubled with the InHrmities of fhort
Brea-
11. Of Cold Baihs. 35?
Breathing, and much llulft: in his Lungs,
(.told me, That lie very much H-aiM that his
-.Dirtemper was owing to his much drildngof
pew /He. And many have complain'd of Pains
^ the liovtls, from drinking ol turbid, thick,
''fiafty^ nady, new JU\ whicii I look upon
Co be a very un wholfomc, dangerous Liquor :
and chat yeafty new Bread, together with
ftnle FUfh^nA Fijh, is the chief caufe of moil
of tlieDifcafes that the generality of the Peo-
ple labour under here in Town, ror a Sir-r—
is a Sir-r—- whether boiL'd or bak'd ; for the
T — that you han't in your Drink, you have
in your Uread; and therefore I like well tho
Adage, viz..
md Drink what isf/edr,
^P And eat what haeiv;
^^' Conceal whar you hear,
^v And fpcak what is true.
^r And until this be remcdy'd by the Magil^
tratc, and it be made Criminal to vend fuch
thick unwholefome Liquors^ the People may
driftk oa, and die on ; and a great Shame it is,
thatfucha Church-yard /^riic/f asthis, fhould
fo long prevail, perhaps unknown, unthought
of, or conlldcr^d, &c.
Anno 1670. Several Scorbutick and other
unknown Difcafes, raging among the Poorer
fort of People, from the infalubrity of bad
Bread, and Malt Drinks, which tlien began
Aa 4 19
554 Of Cold Baths. Part II.
to be in fafhion in the City of Paris ; It fo
alarmM the Parliament there, that there was
a Confult ofTenof the moft learned Phyfici-
ans appointed to enquire into the Caufc ; and
they found it to proceed from the ufe of bad,
hard, Well- Waters, and thefcarcity of well
bak'd, wholfome Country BreaJj called there
Paiff de Go/jejfe; and that the City Bakers
ufed privately the Excrements of Malr-Li-
quors, caird Baulirt^ers' au petit Pairt^ nafty
Barm and Yeaft, inftead of Eggs, Milk and
LeaVen^ &c.
And I once faw a Brcwer^s Uo^j a young
)ai^e Maftiff, had an Arthritis vaga^ and his
Limbs terribly fwell'd, with lapping new
Ale^ and licking the Yeaft from their Trough
and Stilling, and afterwards died of the Gout
and Dropfie. So curfedly unwholfome are
t\it faces of Malt Liquors, which hitherto has
been (lid over, and not look'd into, and con-
fiderM.
I have confiderM the Nature of Waters,
that its conftituenr Parts are fubtile and fine,
beyond Conceprion, what ftrange Nourifli-
ijient it gives in mixtures, and how very little
Avzvkperfe: as for Example. Mix an Ounce
pf Oatmeal with a Pint of Milk, and give it
to a Pig, &c. and mix with fuch a quantity of
Milk and Oatmeal, a quart of Water, and if
fliall nourifh as much more, as has been of-
ten trved on young Animals. ProbaWy the
Oat-
Of Cold Baths. 555
-Oatmeal, bcingclanimy, glutinous and thick,
fCBn't fowtll pafs the Strainers into the Blood,
Bis by the help ot the Water, to dilute, and
^|ad it alonf; through all the Labyrinths and
Ma7.cs of Uigeftions and CJircniations; and
how little Oatmeal, with Water, will hccp
a M^n alive, and in FIcalth, is hardly credi-
table. But I have tor{;ot tkc Story told, as to
the quantity, but I am fure a Hen would cat
more in a Day, whole in the Grain, and un-
ground, tlian hedidalmoft intwoDays; and
fuch Nouriflimcnr, with Hxcrcifc, is whoU
feme, clean, cool and good. According to
H'ppoiraies^ Sei^t. iv. Aphor. xlviii. where
he cammends Oars as an admirable Grain, fo
be U5'd both in Meat and Drink; and the
Notes upon ihnt Aphovifm by Sponiits^ arc
tyionh reading. I mention Oais, bccaufe I
kvc tried all Grams with Cold Water, in
Difeafes orthcLun|;<;, and Bnd none lihc Oat-
meal, for HamecUt & Rffrsgerat. And 1
know'. a- certain Dillcmpcr curM by fuah a
Dycc, and Cold Bathing, when the PafJenc
was hroucht to the brink of tlic Grave, and
nothing elfc would do. All whici) hidiciently
proves that ir-i/cr will iiourilh, rho'notfo
evidently per fe, as in the mix'd ; but a very
Learned French i'hylkian Dr. Peter Petit^
whoamong other Learned Tradlswrita Book,
4e Nufrimtulo Aqitsrim, fee his r..ifc in Mr.
CoSirr'i Uifho/mrj.
I had another Gentleman tinder my Ca|
.ivho had tirfl trycd the Cold Baths, whui
" -cpard him the better for Cold Immerfioi
'» was a Scorbutick Pt^ftyt with wandri((
'Pains, much hkc the Artlirtitt vag^i, but wiilj
out Inflammations, hut fometimcs Swelling
on the back of his Hands, and Feet. Oa&
meal and Water brew'd cold, together wiih
a vcty little Sugar, was, for fometime, h^
condant Drink; and by the ufeof the Cola
£ath, about a Month after he had moderatft*
ly ufrd the Hot, he was perfedly cured.
^^t, Cure of an jigue (hy a forc*dPut)t
i(ii08 jVir. "Edward Bofwell, UteGtm*^
2" jr«* of Her Majefiys Shnf the Scz^
' ' Horl'e, and Jince of the Gr\^n Fire-
jhip. In a Letter to me.
• SIR
* '^ Being on board the EUz^btth^ a Mcr-
*' jL chant Man, in the Year 9J, I hadgot
f. it-terrible Ague, which held me about five
*'Weeks. Welay at Anchor in Tori-i;, and
• 'badextream bad Weather, infomuch that
* f "was perpetually Wet, during the Storm,
f the Ship being very leaky, and Iforc'd to be
f'-flpon Deck, &c: Ic was cxtream Frofty
♦ •Weather, and (harp hard gales of Wind,
. * our Ship was forc'd on Shoar on the Rocks,
Of Cold Baths. 557
ating her felf to pieces. I was refolv'd
coimnic my fclf to the Seas, and the
Mercies of Almighty God; and being a
bretty good Swimmer, 1 leap'd over-board,
sing weak and feeble, could not reach the
oar; and my ftrength being gone, I re-
;nMmy felf up for another Wcrld ; but
^ near the Shoar, a Black leap*d in,
i caught hold of me, and pluck'd-me out,
'^1 was Speechlefs. The People got me in-
to a Houfe, and laid me in Bed, and the
' next Day I was as well as ever I was in
' my Life. In a few Days 1 fet forwards
' towards London^ having nothing but a
' thin Waift-coat, and Calamanco Breeches;
' lb I travelt'd So Miles in the Snow, with*
our either Shooes or Stockings. But na-
' withflanding all thefe fevere bardfhips, I
never catch 'd Cold. There are feveral Men
' alive, that were Ship-wreck'd with me,
*tat can atted this.
/ am
Tour humiflr Servant,
Edward BofwelL
'One Mr. Holding told me, of his owq
owledge, that before the Fire of Londort,
a Citizen long ttoubl'd witli a quartan Ague,
9od tioding no Cure froni taking great quan-
tities of unfuccefsEul PhyHck, wasadvis'd,
^ a Friead, to leap mio Cold Water, it be-
ing
^5S Of Cold Baths.
ing in the Month of Decemher : he fully r
ving to try it, accquainted only two or thix
of his Companions; and having got a F
ready to rake him up, about two or three a^
Clock in the Morning, it heing near the tim^
he expe£tedhisFir, down went heto^«»-'
Hiih^ and fat on the Rail ready to bounce in,
(tt being a clear Moon-Oiiny-Nighc) andaK
things prepar'd to receive him. In he leap'dJ
wastaken upandputto Bed, where he Swearm
plentifully, but never hear'd moreof hisdcfl
ihivering Companion. I remember his0ia«l
Jogue with his Ague, was the talk otihcl
Town.
I have (mown a great many Agues cur'd*
by a fudden plunge inro Cold Water; but
the Perfon to be fubmerg'd (for without a
duck over Head and Ears, it wilt not do fo
eflfeSually) fhould always be told of the de-
fign, and^ive their confent. For 1 knew a
pretty young Woman furpriz'd under the
Notion of gathering fome Liver-tvort^ which
grew on the Wall by the Ponds brink,
which' was very deep in that Place, and as
fhe was ftonping, her own Father (I think)
took her by the Heels and pop'd her in. *Tis
true, it curM Iier Ague, but made a worfc
fwop; for fhe was that Moment fc'izM with
Epileprick Fin, from the Fright, which held
her many Years after, much to the trpubteof
her Frientk and Relations. And EpJleplici
359
Part II. Of Cold Baths.
gotten by FriRbts, arc very ftubbofn, and
rarely admit of Cure ; or it' they do, upon the
Icaft Fright or appearance of Danger, they
arcapt to return.
Young Children take lefs harm tlian Peo-
ple more adult, bccaufe not fo apprehcnfible
of Danger.
That a fuddcn plunge into Cold Water has
cur'd many yl^ues oiall forts, nothing is more
knowiif becaufc very common; but the rea-
fon why fomc have niifsM of a Cure, is as
clear. For, cither firlUhcy go into ihe Bath,
and do not wet their Heads, which is doing
nothing; for if the cold and prelTurc be not
made equally upon the wli()li>Body, the Spi-
rits cannot be driven equally from the Cir-
cumference to the Ccnter,fo have not Strength
enough on their return, to force their way
thro' the FafTagcs locli'd up and obftrurtcd,
fuppos'd to the chief Caulc and Scat oi'A'utJ.
Secondly, foinc go in cramM and fillM wicti
Meat and Drinit, or not empty, andprepar'd
by Faftiug or I'hyfick ; or elfe do not chufc
the propercil Scafon for the Immcdion; as
to go in three or four Hours, either before or
after the t'li^ when alas! the only critical
Minute is, as the Enemy h at the Door, juft
uponthcapproachoftheiw, whcntheBlood -
and Spirits llrugulc to enter the Gates, and
force the obflruacd and block'i-up V'ij]''y,tif
^which conHnc and hinder the genuine and due
"""irculations and Secretions, &e. I
I had a Patient, one 'Jobn Willittmsy that
was a ftrongCounrry-man, who had folot^
Iatx)ur*d under a feverc f^t/trtaH^ that it had
very much rcducMhim to a cacheftical inha-
bit, and his Blood was poor, low, and fizy.
He had been in the Cold Bath many times,
but without any benefit. I advis'd him to
invigorate his Blood with a Glafs of W'/Af,
with fome Antifcorbutick Sfints, to eat whol-
fome, frefli Foad^ new kill'd, keep raertjr
Company, and after fome rime totrythc
Cold Bath upon theacceffion of the Fit, juft
to fubmerge, and fo out, which he punftuaD;?
did, and receiv'd a pertert Cure upon the Ei-
fay.
And now I have mentioned frefh Food
new-biird, I'll here relate a fbort Story I
had from that Ingenious Gentleman, Mr.
"John Lamhn^ Son to the o!d General Lam-
itrtf fo long a Prifoner in Pertde/inis CafWc,
&c. This Mr. Lambert living at his Eftate in
Craven in Tori-fhire^ one Morning his Mao
told him he could fbew him where a Wood-
code was hang'd in a Snare, and titat by the
ruflingand ftruggling of the Bird he came to
difcover it. He bid him take another Ser-
vant with him, and watch privately who
came to relieve it, whicli accoidioly thy did,
and brought before liis Worfliip Che being Id
the CommilTion of Peace) a very old Man^ of
I florid, fanguioe Complexion. He ask'd the
old
old Man where heliv'd? he anfwer'd, five
Miles from that Place : He ask'd him, fince
he had broke the Laws, and was taken in
the adion of deftroying the G«we, whache
bad to fay for himfelf, that he fhould not bo
{GOttoT'arkGoal? he down on his Knees, and
beggM him co pity his great Jge ; he ask'd
him how old he was? he anfwer'd, a i&«»-
dred wanting two. He ask'd him how he
came to be fo hale^ and look Co well at that .
Age? heanfwer'd, why, your Worfliip fees,
by catching a ho/hp Bii, and eating it frcfh,
■^d if I can, quotli he, I roall it or broil it,
H|efore ic be cold, &c. And viponfarthertalk
Iwith him^ he found that his Drink was, for
the moft part, fowrc Milk, as Whey, Buc-
tcr-Milk, or clfe Oatmeal and Water, but
very rarely any ftrong Drink; and that his
Bread was made ofUifr, and that he went
thin CUii^ and generally was wet in his Feet,
cither with the Oae^ or laying his Springes in
Rsi/s of Water, and running lirooks. And
that in the Summer-time, he lov'd Fifiiing,
and much wading in the Water, &c. So the
Toflice, upon his promife of amendment, let
him go, tho\ faidMr. Lambert-, I believe he
catch'd 'em as much to fell, as to cat ; for he
had in his Bagg, a Hare, and two or three
Wood-cocks more, which I fairly divided
with my old Man, for I took half of the Fowl
(e bad, and gave hitnthe relh Healfocolct
me,
36a Of UJ Baths,
p^^B
me, that lie bcliev'd lie fpoke true, astohirf
not being us''d to Jlrong Drwk\ for I made
my Man give him a Cup of ^/f, wiih a Htito
Toaft in it, which was under a Pint, yet itf
almoft fuddled him. ^
And as touching frefh and fiale Meats, i^
is very evident, that Meat new-kil]*d lias"
twice the Nouriniment of lk!e Meats; fop
Meat hung by, and not fajied, the volatile
Spirits evaporate and fly oft", and tlje Juicof
grow rancid, and contract a cadaverous iH
Taft. I remember a Poulterer told Capt.
WUksy and my felf, that he, in the great
Froll in Jfim 168 j. that he fold Ducks for
the Lord Mayors Tabic in Ftburary^ which
were brouglit to him on the latter end of Wo*'
vember, or beginning of Decewber^ the Wea-
ther being cold and frofty, which prefcrv*d
'em from linking, but not from putreraftion,
for they were as rotten and asfoftasa Sir-.r-.'
And a Gentleman and I once e.it a coupleof
very ftale Tea!, that tlirew us into great dif-
order at our Stomachs, and notwirhflandia^
we took all precaution, as Wine, Brandy,'
C^f . yet we were both render'd Feveril}i, with
a corrupt taft in our Mouths, and much outf
of order for fometime. And I am throughly
perfuaded,that tlie ftale Flelh, Fowl and Fifli^
that poor People tat (^kept by tlie Retailers
of fuch Wares,to hold up their Prices too longji
is thecaufeofmoH: ofour Autumnal purred I
Fevers, I
rt 11. Of Cold Baths. ^6^
PcvcTs, which People miftakcnl/ lay upon
thccating of Fruits, &e. And my Lord/ii-
con'xw hisNatunil Hiftory, after his fpcak-
ing of chofe wicked Merchants that fold at
Naples Man's Flcfh barrcll'd up for Tunis^
Anno I49J- that the Pox might be iri that
Flcfh perhaps; or clfc being eaten might
fo corrupt the Blood ns (that with a little
mixture of fomc other virulent Difcafc)
might produce ic. And he adds, it was
probably fo, becaiifcthe/^^Mfljat tins Day,
the mortaDcft Foyjonf that they ufe, have
fomc mixture of Man's Flefh, Blood or Fat;
and all Flefh, when 'tis once taintdd and
corrupt, is alike venomous and defVruftive
to Human Nature: And we fee that car-
nivorous Animals, both Beafts, Fowl and
Fifhcs, choofc to fcize and eat their Prey
alive, (ifthey canget it.) 'Tis Hunger only
and necefTiiy inforces them to the eating of
C«rri(JB, and other corrupt and flinking
Meats, i^c. So thcfe Precautions may be of
u(e, to make Men careful of what they Eat
and Drink And fo again to our Element,
Water, &c. A Gentleman of very good Re-
putation afTur'd me, That a Tenant of his
in iVales, havingbecnfor fomc Years Rheu-
matick, and Lame, which made Iiim inca-
pable of any Labour; hearing of a very
cold Well fomc few Miles from him, was
eany'd-toiCf where he bailed fomc time,
B b and „
36+
Of Cold Baths. POT
and came home aspertciSly found, 2nd»
{^ well as ever he was in his Ufe.
Mr. Thamas Newtu^ham, oi' Cork in In
daai^ a Gentleman of great Worth and Re ,
. putacion, being at the Rath with his Lady
for her Health, thislaft Summer, and talk-
ing of hot and cold Water Cures, he did
^(uirc me, that a poor Man in the City of
[ ]Cork^ was lb Lame, and had fo far loft his
Limb-i. that he craul'd on his HxaAi and
Kj>et:iy (I think he faid lor Tome Years). He
fave me the particulars in Writing, but I
ad the misfortune to lofc or millay it. Tfiat
this poor Man was carried to a Well or
Spring of excelTivc cold Water, dirtanr
about itven or eight Miles from the City,
and in fome few Weeks came honicrtraigtit
and upright, and peri'eftiy recovered; and
is now in that Town, a laborious working
Fellow, and capable of doing any bufiQeS
he is fct about, or imploy'd in.
A Captain of a Ship told nic, that a
Friend of his had a running Gout or Rhcu-
matifm, and was fo Lame as to go with
Crutches, without which help lie could noi
ftironeflep; and coming (or rather bein
brought) on board his Ship, to drink
Bowl of Pn»i:/;, whilftthey were tiandt
him up the fide, whether the Rope "
or the Crutch dipt, he could not tcJI^
down went PilgArUck into the Htn, aod b&Vr-
Partll. Of Cold Baths.
ing Men and Boacs ready st hand, they
catch'd hold of him ibon enough to fave his
Life, tho' he was under Warcr ieveral times.
They clapc Hands or Tackle enough to him,
to hoifi him on Board, and having fhifted
him from his wet Cioaths, and liquorM him
well with Punch, he went home as well as
ever he was in his Life. Now ^xrtntr,
which did the Cure, the Frijjlit or the cold
Water? for he could not Iwim a flroak.
Now I am apt to think that this Cure was
noc perform'd from the Fright only, for
the Captain told me, that nocwith(^anding
he was well feafon'd in Sea-brine, yet he
was in another Pickle alio.
Dining with a Merchant in the City, a
young Gentlewoman ofC/jz/iv/tibeiug there
alfo, told us at Table, that the Cold Bath,
at once going in, had cur'd her of zfare
Throaty which fhe had labour'd under (and
found very troublefome for) ac lealt a Vear
and half, and that it is fome time tmce, and
that fhe continues very well.
The Cold Bath has been fam'd for curing
old and inveterate He^d'Sths ; yet Hcad-achs
proceeding from fcveral Caufes, it cannot
be good for them all: as in this following
fhort Hillory, will be evinc'd and made
clear.
A Gentlewoman o^ good Qpalicy, was
affli6Vod with a periodical Hcad-auh,and flie
Bb 3 was
•366 Of Cold Baths, Pirtll
was accuftomed to bleed. Upon the ap^
proach of the f"/?, (he in hopes of a perfKb
Cure, was perfwadecJ (as a!fo from her ownj
Inclinations) to try the Cold Bath, anj
chofe a time to go in. In the intervals of ttw
Paroxyfms fhe purgM once or twice, as pr&J
paratory to it, but did not bleed. The Im-j
merfion fhc bore very well, but coming
home, fhe fell into a moft violent fit of ihi
Head-ach, worfe than ever flie had; Qst
ftnt for Dr. Cole, who very jud icioufly tooi<
from her a quantity of Blood, which Ibmcg
what abated the rage, but fhc could get n*
Sleep. He piefcrib'd her a Farcgoricfc
which quieted her a little, but Ifill file waj
much out of order. Sometime after,- in*
Day or two, he took another qiianriiy of
Blood, upon which ilie was fomcwhat bct«
ter, butlHUche I'ain hepc Poflellion. - Sha
at length rcfolv'd lor ilie Hoi Baths^ where
being arriv'd , Eiyoping, Bathing and Driok-f
ing, reUev'd Stid cur'd her, and fhe bat
continued well ever fince, <
Another Gentlewoman's Maid-ServanC
complained of a great Pain in her He»A^ ai
heavinefs in her Eyes ; fhe could not bea|
no hot Application, but was always woriei
but by ivajbwg her Head fome few times 'n_
cold Water, was perfcftly cured. So cbal
People fhould not, of their own Heads, gift-
dily rufii into either Hoi or Ccid Baths, W
mi. Of Cold Baths. 367
advis'd by Tome judicloas thyfician, who'
may confider ihe Nature andCaufes of the
Diltempc, and put them into a right me-
thod of proceeding; in order, and rationally
to prefcribc fuch known and expericnc'd
Medicines, from which they rcafonably
may expcft a Cure.
In Gfl«;jofalIforcs without confidering
wliac ought to be done previous to a Cure,'
People run fafqae deq; , Hand over Head,
and fbraetimes headlong to their own De-
JlruQion; tho' 1 have known when both
lot and Cold Baths have wonderfully rc-
;v'd in that cruciating Diltemper, when
mpeftively , caucioufly, and wifely pre-
fcribd. Butoftliis, my very learned Friend
and Collegue the Judicious and Sagacious
Dr. Mufgravej of the City of i'-xe/ey, in his
raoft learned Piece De Jrthritide Symptoms-
tiea\ has faJd of that Dillcmpcr all that can
be fa id, and handl'd that pcevifti and fro-
watd Difeaff^ with a QiB^ia proportion to
itsTenderneii, where all the Caufesarefo
accurately dcfcrib'd and accounted for, as
tq find out the Seat and Source of that Baff^-
i'er of our Profedion, the Clour.
I always thought the Go«/, (before it was
fxfy and became a concrete) to be a itqaa-
min of acrid, alkalous, Uxivial, eroding SaltSy
fenerated from Intemperance and higl^
ceding, &s. which is thrown or forc'd by
B b J repleT
568 Of Cold Baths. Par
repletion into the Habit and flelhy Partvnil
Aiding down thctender membranous CoaiSi
of the Mufcles, there fret, and caufe great
Pains as tliey pafs; but being come to their.
Journeys end, at a Joi/it^ ftop there, whei
thofe covrofivc, tartareous Salts exercifl
their Tyranny^ until the aftive volatile ftrug*
ling Matter is fpent, and leaves their inert
Cidx^ their caput ?»oriaum behind, which
are thofe Chalk Stones which gouty Peoph
complain of, &c. Hut how Venery mould bi
luggM in to be a Party concern'd, eithef
inihe Caufe or Quarrel (with my Friend
B^Z/f^'sheve)! can't underfiand; for among
the Turks, &c. where they are moftly ener.
rated by Women, they have no fuch thing
as the Gout, VVi/ie being by tlieir Law for-*
bidden, &t. So lay the load upon the right
Horfc, and Saddle old Uacchui^s Back, astho
chief Author and Contriver of this Joint-
EvH^ and ask I'enm Pardon for laying a
Drunken Brat at her l)oor, which Ihe ne-
ver deferv'd for.
And this it is, to be ill nam'd,
When a poor Whore, is (wrongly) btamU,
A GentUmati with a decay'd Stomach, a
wan and pale Look, Ihggeriog under a load
of nothing but Skin and Bone, his Cat-fltck-
Icggs notbeingablc cofupport his CatWiker
C.ArkAJs, From a ftrong young Man, as l»j
tokl
I [Part 11. Of Cold Baibs. 369
told rae. Wine, Women and Watching, had
feduc'd him to a mecv Sie^eto^t^ and could
not rwallow the le^ft Sufleriance without
Vomitings and yet a little very ftrong
wine wou'd ftay on liis Stomach, which
jRc often fipr, and always cravM and honM
ifter. f'di/o _divortio cum Cerercy eo nugU
■i^ccbaiiidulft, S:c. , . .
' He came to me to the Bath, with a Lfit-
ter from his Phyfician Dr. Stotkham'. t
found that he had no Cough nor Heliick
Heat nor Loornefs, but a general waftc.
Atrophy and Decay : He had a great Tre~
rwr^ which he told me was caufed from
Snioakin|;coo much Tohxcca ; and I believe
heguert rights as to the caufeof that Infir-
mity» for it vitiates and deftroysone ofth«
bcft Juices of the Body, the Saiiva, with'
out which we could neither Uat, nor Drink,
Concoft, nor Talk, g"c I fpealc as to the
immodeitdeUfe of it; not but that it may
be Medicinal, and is taken witli goodSuc-
ccfs in many Cafes, &c. but old Men may
take it with kfs Injury than young Men,
notwithftanding they are dryer, for they
fpit lefs, and are not lb eafily diforder'd by
the Fu?Mj &CC.
This young Gentleman's Cure was very
cafic, for by the ufe of the Bath Waters,
and leaving Witte by degrees, he came to
his Stomach) hisFleflicameon, his Colour
Bb 4 re-
^ Of Cold Bath. Paf
sturny, and in tea Weeks he was as well
as ever ; but he often told me, that tho^ he
lookM well, and was well, yet he had not
that Strength he had berore ; He was not fo
a^U and nimhU^ more prone to Sloth and
Drowfinefs, bcHdes a decay in FirilUtj^
tho* he was a young Man not above 27 or
|«38 Years of Age. Hence we may obiervc,
what a Shock and Stuntl Men give their,
ponftitutions by eariyWantftnnefs andDe*,
h, according to the Poet,
ris Drink and Lufi that does our Health
(deftroy,
I And brings the A/^a too foon upon the Boj,
Repeated Bumpers, and repeated /'o*.
Two fatal Earthquakes, that our Fabrick
(fliocks;
For when a Conftitutions broke and gone,
'Tis rarely feen it ever does return.
I found that this young Gentleman had
a great defirc to be perfectly well, and re-
cover his former Bilskncfs and Strength,
that he might be able to hunt and ufe other
Field-Pleaiures, to which end he promifcd'
me to live ad amt4fjim, to any Method !]
would direct him, which now muft be al-
together Diateticks and Analepticks. 1 or*
der'd him from the ufc of the Bath Waters^
drink a Pint every Morning of the Gefmi%
"paw, and faft rill Nopn ^ at Noon to Ea^
no Flefh nor Fifh, but what was new leilPd,
and alwajjs to rife with an Appetite, con-
cluding his Dinner with a fmall Glafs of
^Water, and at Night cat nothing but roaft-
H|d or bak'd Apples, Apple- Pie, Flumme--
^», or the like, and to continue the SpaW.
^HTater 16 or 20 Days, never exceeding a
^Kint, and as he left thetn, to do it by de-
^pecS) a^ from a Pint, to two thirds of 2
^^nt, thence m half that quantity, finking'
and abating the quantity, not every Day,
but every three or four Days a little,'
and take at ieaft ta or 14 Days or more,
to leave them totally off! Fori havefeert'
(bme fetal confequences enfue, upon leav-
il^ any Courft, Cuftom or Method oF
Living, whether good or bad, fuddenly at
a Jerk ; for Nature is fo kind out of felf-pre-
(ervation, as to widen or contraft, adapt,
fit and modifiethe Strainers according to the
Figure and Quality of the Aliment received,
all which cannot be done in a moment.
Hence 'tis, that a fmall quantity ofFood
taken, to which we are eftrang'd anddif-
us*d, fits, at firft, very uneafie on our Sto-
machs, and confequently cannot be agreea-
ble to all the reft of the Digeftions, Altera-
tions and Precolations thro' which it mufV
pafs, before it can be elaborated into a ge-
nuine and laudable Nouri(hmenc.Hencethe
fource oftnoft Difeafes: fotrueis that fay-
372 Of Cold Baths,
iag, Veatriculus mult affeBus efi origo onutium
morkoram, &c.Thus having laid th« reafon of
the tbiag before Inm,wi:b a full RefolutiOtt
be went on,aiK) fell by degrees into the life of
^illi Meats, ,aiid other cooling Viands of
cbyliferous, fucculcnt and c^ood Nouriflir:
Item:. He ufcd Hxercife oTall forts, but
cfpccially Riding and Swimming, which lall
did lb invigorate his ConlHtution, that he
came, ina Yearortwo, toafirmer, lirong-
cr and better habit of Body than ever he
bad. before; all which argue^ tlut he waa
Born with a good Siamea^ and had his Be*
ing from found Parents : And iho* this Gen*
tleinaii had ttie good luck to get fuch a reco-
very, after bcingdiawn fo low by repeated
Debaudicries, yoc it isnot to be depended
upOflf for not one of forty may have the for-
tune to cfcape as he did. The Gentlcmaa
is yet living, and is become a Pious Good
Mao, sikI a Member of this prefenc Parlia-
ment It isaneafic niattcr, by a conlhat
and regular perfcvcrance, in any whoKbmc
fUetttiek Courf^', to rcftificand ffraightena
jvrMp^d and ^mi Conftitutioni but how to
mend and icdiicc ^ i/roLen qhHj \%hieldor^
hae oftis. How many youngGe/Jiieaiea have
I (fimwn in my time, that their Aj«/ihas
rita to the end of the lippe, before they have
numbcr'd ^o Vear&j betwixt the C'r<ti/f and
the Grtve? &<:. and generally their Life,
Credit
uredicand Eftate terminate together, which
is the beft end a prudent Dda/icfjee can pro-
pofe, to make his Bread and Cheefe even,
fiutfora Brainlefs, Unthinking Animal to
'outlive his Subftance, and become the Jeft
' od Contempt (not only of Mankind inge-
u-al, but even) of thofc Land Leviathaas
at have fwallow'd him up alive, his own
[Chores, Pimps and Bawds, &c. This fo
fticks the tatter'd Beau to ths Hearty if the
Ftv/hasany, as to get rid of his neceiHty,
'« flies totheiall Comfortofa Shirtlefs and
hifdefs Defpcrado, viz. a Bounce a jOo/p,
r a Hdter.
From whence he's thrown into a hole,
*TiIl kind Oblivion forgets th'Fool.
One of thcfe unhappy Wretches fwol'a
with the Dropfy ^jcites , came to mc
for my advice. I pitying his Penny-lefs
Coiidition, gave him a Note to Mr. Baynes
of the Cold Bath, to let him Bathe ^riirw;
but having the conveniency of a Barge or
Koy, he went to the Salt- Water, and by
Cen bathing in the Sea, he was recovered :
d I am finceinformM by one of hisFriends,
that he did not only Bath in the Sea, but
that he drank the Salt- Water alfo; and
tellioEof this Cafe toMt. MexAnder Ens-
/{f^iChirurgeon to a Regiment of Horfe,Bc
told lUetliat lie had known feveral cur*d by
drink-
g 74 Of Cold Bath . Part II.
dririkihg of Salt- Water, even without ba-
thing."
Mrs. Sadler y3. Gentlewoman lately living
in St. John^Streetf London^ went into the
Cdd Bath for wandring Rheumatick Pains,
which Pains the bathing did not only take
off, but cured her of a Deafnefs alfo, that
fhehad for fome Years, and (he continues
Very well, it being near two Years fincb
flic ufed the Bath.
' A' Gentleman extreamly Fat, was fovery
droiifii, thAtfometimes he would fall a-fleep
fitting at Meat, &c. He had long laboured
under that inconveniency, but by jir inking
Spirit ofSulphur in Spring- Water, and ufing
the Cold Bath, he was perfectly cured ; but
he; told me, that upon eating a full Mc^I,
it <ir4s apt to return.
My learned Friend, Mr. Arch deacon P.
laboured under the fame Diftemper, but
by bathing in the Cold Bath, and the Sum-
mer after drinking the* Bath- Waters, he
was very well recovered : but I had lately
a Letter from him, wherein he defir'd my
advice, by way of prevention, for he had
foihp previous Symptoms which made him
fear a return.
A Divine of my acquaintance, verygrols
and fat, yet a very temperate, fober" Man,
was cured of fuch a droufinefs, by ftamp^
ing Barberries, and drinking the Juice in
Spring-
rtll. OfCddBath.
375
fpring-'Water : yea,was imt only cured of his
Veturnicy, but it rook off much of Ins fuper-
Juous Fat alfo. I believe not only Barber-
ties, but Verjuice, Oranges, Lemons, Sor-
yel, orany vegetative Acid, whereitcould
jbe drank in quantity, without bringing up-
on them the j^rdor veatncali^ corruptly
ijaird the Heart-burning, would all, or
any of them, do the fame thing.
A Gentleman, living near Tiverton in
pevoffjbire, told me, that he had labour'd
under a great Cold for fbme Months, for
jthich he had wrap'd himfelf in Flannel,
|ind other Woollen Vcftments, which had
fo weakened him by perpetual Sweating,
jhat he had no Stomach to eat,and when he
did eat, it would not dlgeft ; and befides his
jnany Cloaths, he wore a quilted Stoma-
cher j but by the advice of a Friend he left
Jhem all off" at once, and went into cold
^ater half a fcore times, and has been
ever fince very well.
Sir Joha Chichley told me, that he thought
hehad(when a young Man)aConfumption,
for which his Father fent him to Mompdter -,
when he came there, the Phyfician whom
'^ le confulted, found that he had no Cough,
^ lUt that his Diftemper proceeded from a
^eaknefs induc'd by the aperture of the
ores, from the wearing too many thick
" warm Cloaths. He knt for his Taylor,
Nvho
who made him a thin flefy Coat of Sarfe-
net, or fomething as thin; With this I
rode, quoth he, the cold Hills every Morn-
ing, before Sun-rife, when the Dew was
on the Ground, for fome time ; and home
I came fhivering, and half ftarvM. He
would not let me come at a Fire, but
walk my felf warm. This fevere courfc
at firfl-, feem'd very irkfome to one ufed
to all the delicacies and foftnefies ofa tender
Mothers breeding; but Cuftom whkh
makes every thing eafie and familiar, re-
concil'd me to it ; and I came home with a
keen Appetite, a healthful ftrong Body, be-
yond all the expeflation of Relations and
Friends,
A young Gentleman that is very often
at the Hot Baths for his diverfion, and the
benefit of drinking the Waters there, uled
to go very thick Clad. I met him this
Winter walking in a very cold Day, bare-
breafted, with nothing on, but a thin HoU
land Shirt, and one fingle drugget Coat. I
wondred at it, and ask'd him the reafon of
that fuddcn change? he told me that he
went into the Cold Bath two or three times
with a Friend, out ofa FroHck, and that it
had fo hardned him, that he felt very little
or no Cold. I could give many Inftances
of Cafes like thefe, bat a few Examples
may Hiffice.
Mr.
Of Cold Baths. 377
Mr. Roafe Apthecary, tlie prefent Maf-
:erof Ins Company, told me of a Patient
if his, a Youth that had loft the ufcof his
^^imbs by a fort ofa CfMreAfa^Bi Fiti(ca\Vd
iaint /'^/fail's Jigg^ tliat after the Advice of
leveral Phyficians, and feveral Methods,
E^c. was at laft perfeftly recovered by the
fble ufe of the Cold Bath. I think he told
le it was a Salter's Son in Tiiamei-fireetj
.ondon.
A Woman brought a Child about feven
years of Age, which could fpeak hut very
Irawlingly through weaknefs of therecur-
ent Nerves and Mufcles of the Tongue,
but could not (land unlefs held up by the
Arms, havin^g no ftrength in either her
Jlips, Knees or Ankles; this Child was
jnuch injur'd by Oyntments, Oyls, and
Other fuch Things, that had foftn'd aod re-
3axM the Joints; I bid the poor Woman,
jvho liv'd near Mr. Chan/fnefs of Orchadly
in Simerfetfljire, to get of his Servarits a lit-
]e Verjuice, and rub the Childs Ltmbs
^ vith it cold twice a day ; which fhe did,
jind found fome benefit by it, but not much ;
^hen I advis'd the Cold Bath, and by the
.help of that (he was perfeftly cured in five
or fix weeks time.
Another Child, much about the fam^
:Age in a Paralyfis, was cured in St. iW(j«-
4*>*s Well by immerging 4 or 5 times in a
day
578 Of Cold Bath. Par?
day for 7 or 8 days fucceflively; the Fa-
liier of the Child gave me this Relation.
'Tis endlefs to recite the great Cures
»hich have b^en done on People of all
&ges and Sexes, where the Cnufe has been
iifcovered to proceed from Nerval Obftru*
Sions, Relaxations, c^c. perform'dby Cold
lathing, where 'tis done with Care and
^Eaution: and I Iiavc always obferv'd, that
"thofe arc cur'd fooneft who have not been
itamper'd with by Emplafters, hot Oyls, &c.
for thofe things do great I njury to the fmatl
and capillary Nerval Filaments, and of the
cutaneous Glands, &c.
To T)r. Edward Baynard.
^ S I R
J_ '' I "^Hougli it is eafy to collecb many lo-
* J_ llances tiiat prove the ufefulnefs
,* ot Cold Bathing; yet (i nee you apprc-
' hend the following Cafe of Mrs, Comag-
* hum to cantain in it fomething unconl-
* mon, I have, in comphance with your
' Requeft, fen: you as particular an Ae-
* count thereof, as after fo long a diftaace
* of time I am able to recover.
' This Gentlewoman at firil only com-
* plain'd of a ficknefs in her Stomach after
' eating ; but in a tew iMonths this incrcaf-
* ed CO chat degree, that as ibon as ever Che
* had earen fhe immediately fainted away,
' was in cold Sweats, and loft the ufe of
* her Limbs: thefe Symptoms ufually coti-
* tinned two or three houi's, tand then gra*
* dually abated.
* But after three or four Months, though
* her Sicknefs and Paintings went off, yet
* the ufe of her Limbs did not return as at
* firft: She confulted fevcral Phyficians in
* JreUad^ who directed her Vomits, Bltf-
* ters, Steel courfes and Bitters: But fhe
* received no Benefit by any of thefe. Up-
* on which fhe was brought to Bith^ and
* drank thofe Waters fix Months, and Ba-
* thcd every third day i but was no better
' by either. She was brought from Bath
' to London^ and here coniulted Dr. Cole
' and me. We perfuaded her to try the
' Cold Bath. Alter fhe had continued the
' ufe of this for two Months, her Sicknefs
* was Icfs, and the ufe of her Limbs in a
* great meafure rcftor'd ; upon which we
* fenther to7«»ir/(i^e ; (he continued the
* ufe of thofe Waters and Cold Bathing for
* fix Months, and afterwards returned fo
' fo well that (he could walk about the
* Streets with hglp of her SiatT.
Tour humble ServaaT,
F. Upton.
^o
Of Cold Baths. Pai
About three Years fince, a Man ajged
about 50, a free liver, and by Trade a
■""Wigg-maker, a merry Man, and would
! jeft upon his own Infirmities (which was a
tPjtrdfpJjs with a Tremor) for being ask'd
[what made his HanJs and Arms hang fo
lank? he anfwer'dwiih Simile's out ot'his
own Trade, 1 had (quoth he) once a ftron(
and curiM Conftitotion, till Claret comb'i
it out of its Buckle : And being ask'd whv
hedid not live regularly, and take AdviceT
he anfwer'd, I now grow old, and tiVt
worth while, and will e'en let my Body
wear out its own felfits own way: Ai^
old Wigg, new bak'd , turns but red,
and weais the worfe tor'r, &c. And yec,
this Fellow by only drinking the Watery
hot trom the Fump in a Morning, and tak^
ing a fmall Glafsof Elecampain Wine ^
httie before Dinner, rccover'd his Stomacl^
ftrangcly in a little time, and began to fin^
Strength in his Limbs; and had he beei^
rul'd to have ufed the temperate wannf
Baths firit, and the cold Bath afterwards,
1 doubted not but to have recovered hitHj
He went from the B^f/j into hisownCouOi,
try, Lixcoi/jjhire, and 1 beard fince, that
with drinking of Ale, &(. he fell into a
Dropfie, but whether he is dead or not, I'
can't fay. I have often obferv'd, that Wine*
I drinkers falling to drinking Male Liquon^'
OfCdd Baths.
?8'
frequently Aide into Dropfies; and Aic-
drinkers removing to Wine, (bon tall into'
Jaundice, Stone and Gour, and fo quickly
go off: And the Livers of fuch People
(^whcn open'd) are generally found to bo
hardt fbddcn, difcolour'd, and the Stones
for the molt part In the vtfuuUfcllu, andi
ibmetimcs in the parenchymow Subrtanceof
the Liver it fcif, cfpecially if they arc fip-
pcrs of Brandy and fpirituous diftiU'd Li-
quors.
Sometimes wc have obfcrv'd, that the
Liver is perfcftly rotten, and will break
with touching In others, 'tis quite burnt
up, and friable. In others, their Liver's
pretty well in its natural State; but in fuch,
I haveobferv'd, that their Heart is foftand
white, and not much big^ci' than a Tarky
Egg; and where that is (ecn, ufually the
Perieariiium is alfo (hruiik and little, with
very little or no Water in it, and fome-
rime again cxtrcamly large and full of Wa-
ter, oUnillTaft-ancl Colour. I very well
remember that when I was at Ltyden^ the
learned Dr. Qrev , and Dr. 'Johnfion of
WArmcky were there alfo, and that both
T)r. Fmncifcm de U Uoe tijlvita, and that
moft accurate Anatomilt Dr. Dnthicurtius^
by a conftant, and frequent Practice in Dif-
fcftions (for bcfidcs other private Bodies
they open'd moftthat dy'd in the Hofpitals ;)
■" Cc a I
Pa^
i%7 Of Cold Baths'' Pari
I fay, that thefe Men, from many Obfcr-
vationsin morbid Bodies, could (before the
Knife was laid upon the defunft) tell whap
a foul Neft of Boxes they fhould find with-"
: And I have heard Sylvius frequf.ntly
/ upon viewing the Corps, and only look-
Ifog into the Moutli,
t^ino & fumo nimis deMtaSy vim defancim.
^ fumusy he meant Tabaco, to which he
vasa mortal Enemy ; and I heard him fay,
ihatconfidering the Slobber and Naftinefi
that great Smoakers make in a Room, (hoj
was of Opinion) that had Tabaco beea
taken in the primitive Timesof Chriftlani-
ty, it woud have been reckon'd among tbi
Sins of Uncleannefs, &c.
ThiscurfedCuftom of Tabaco-taking is^
but a foreign Invention at the bell, a bor-
row'd Excellency, intimated from a rtupid
/Wmw, who, ignorant of tlieufe of Mer-
cury, us'd it as a Salivation for the Taivi^ a;
fort of Leprofieor Pox among 'em. And.
now another nafty fnuffling Invention iS:
lately fet on Foot, which is Snuff-taking^
which hangs on their Noftrils, &c. as if it
were the Excrements of Maggots tumbl'd
from the Head thro' the Nofe; nay, thisi
Folly is fo taking among us, fo fpreadiog a
Contagion, that even Women and CM-
drennow begin to have their Snuif-Boitft
A'Gemle- j,*'
too, and to fpeak without fnuffling is hardly
genteel.
I have read fomewhere, I think 'tis in
Sir '^ohn Churdms Travels, that there is a
Kingdom in the Eaft-Indies call'd UotaK^
where the Subjefts hold their Prince in fuch
efteem and reverence, that they dry and
powder his Excrements, and ufe it as a
great Rarity to ftrcw on Meats, or garnifh
Difhes with, as wc do ours with grated
Bread or Nutmeg, &c. And I vow Gentle-
men^ pray pardon me, I never fee a " "* ^
box in a Man's Hand, but I think
BoianU». 1 he Nofe isof great \/fh to the
Animal to difchargemanyExcrenfents both
from the Eyes and Head, &e. abd when
that Organ is ftopt, and the ferffible ner-
vous chin Lining of it is by th^j^-ufe of
pungent Powders made dull ^HHhder*^
incapable of irritation, it can nnfE its Of-
fice by difchargingthofe phlegmy cold Ex-
crements neccffdry to be extruded for tho
Safety, Health and Well- being of the Crea-
ture. So true is that Saying of 5o/o?woff,
God hat made Mao upri^ht^ but he has found
out mmy Inventions, &c.
One Captain CUJf that usM the Gainex
Trade, but fince gone to IndU^ I am in-
form*d by a Friend of his, Mr. Brorvn a
Wine-cooper, that he was pqyfon'd there,
And loll: the ufe of his Limbs,fo that he could
Cc 3 not
not feed himfclf, yet by the ufe of the hot
Baths, and drinking the Waters there for
feme time, was perfe£lly recovered to bis
Health.
One Mr. 1,4;;?. troubled with a Tremor
and Gefticulations much like a Chorea, af-'
ter the ufe of the hot Bath was by the Cold
Bath perfe£tly recovered.
Note^ That Dr. Gou/iCs Son-in-Law ,
mention'd in the laft Impreffion of this
Book, before he ufed the Cold Bath wasfe-
veral times in the Hot Baths,which prepar'd
him for a Cure ; fo that in many places the
ufe of contrary Qualities has perform'd very
confiderable Cures, &c. which (perhaps)
no one Bath fingly could have done.
TAowrff M(?/} a Quaker, who came from
Jamaica^ was fo infirm by a Rheumatifm,
Arthritis vagA, &c- that he was wrapt like
an old ^fen in Flannels, o~f. but being per-
fwaded to the ufe of the Cold Bath, threw
off all his Sweltering Harnefs, and in tliree
or four times Bathing was cur'd.
One Mr. H^dh^ of an ill habit from an
irregular Life came to tlie Bath about four
Years fince ; he coniplainV! in the right Hj-
fochoi'/dria and Region of the Liver, and had
a great induration there; yet this Man by
Drinking,Furgingand Bathing,got a perfea
Cure: But before he came to tljeiJii:/' hehacl
been in ill Hands, and wrong manag'd with,
Clialibeats too foon adminiiTer*d. I
. I knew a Fhyfician that had a fcver6
Jaundice, with ajcirrbus Mepatts, who was
cur'd by the Bath Waters, and by much eat*
ing Sailet wife, the Herb far.ixicon only.
This laft Summer, Madam / hi(letkvajte,
a Daughter of Mr. Thiflethwayte^ of Winter-
Jloe, near Strum^ Wilts, received a great
Cure by the Bath Waters join'd with ibmc
other Aperitives, in as high a Jaundice as
ever was feen, which had long feizM her,
and fhe a very lean, emaciated, worn-outj
Weak Woman. And in this Cafe, and alfo
moft Difcafes of the Liver, I think the
Bath Waters the bert Specifick in the World,
if taken feafonably, with due Preparatives,
and Advice, &c.
InallSprainsandWrenchesof the Joints
and Tendons, the prefent application of
cold Water, or Verjuice and Water, or
Verjuice alone, is the belt Remedy yet
known. A Gentleman of Quality having
ftrain'd his Ankle by a falfcftej) down Stairs,
went lame and flip-fhooM for at leaft a
Year and half; he came iokUq Bath and
us'dthedry Pump much, and often, buc
Re t»feiiit. He was afterwards cured by
keeping his Bed a Month, and the ap-
plication of cold Verjuice three or four times
in a Day, and afterwards a ftrengthning
Plaifter, &c. And Sprains ill manag'd, have
been the lofs of many a Man^s X^gg, and
C c 4 Life
Of Cold Baths. Pai
Life too; I have heard many of the Hof-
pitalChirurgeons fay, that they have cut
ofF many a Legg from no other Caufe bur
from a Sprain in the beginning, tued, halM
and wrerted by ignorant Bone-fetters, pre-
tending it was diflocated and out of Joint,
&e.
High Heels ufually are the caufe of moft
Strains, either in the Ankle, or Knee, &c,
for no Man treads ftralght and perpendicu-
lar with a Heel, nor can he wall< far with-
out wearinefs, efpccially in the fO'ees and
yWo/c/trjof the Thif^hs, from the III figure
the Limb is in upon every Step ; fo that no
Man with a high heel can tread ftroog and
boldly, efpecially with the leaft weight and
burthen on him. Should a Chair-man that
ufes Pumps, bur one Day wear a Hffl but
an Inch high, and work fo, it would Lame
and Cripple him for a Month. For in Man,
upon his progieflion, the Heel cumes firit
to Ground, but in Horjes and moft Quadru-
peds, the Toe ; and if the Heel be high he
cannot ftcp with the whole Limb ftraight!
Ifor the Knee bending forwards, verges to-
wards making an yingU, as may be feen by
making a ftrai^ht Line from the Heel and)
Mi^, he. and mfuch an unnatural Pofturej
no Man can walk far and long, without
Pain and Wearloefs ; but wemulV be wjfci^
(forfoQth) than our M.ther: For infinitft'
Wifdom
Wifdom that has made all things by a right
and unerring Rule, by Weight, Meafurc
and Number, furely would have fed a high
Heel to Man at firft, when he made him,
if he had thought ic to have been necef-
fary, &e.
And one thing more I add, asaraoftne-
ccflary Remark, viz. That no Man ever
fprain'd his Ankle, and rarely his Knee, that
never wore a Heel higher than the natural
Plan of the Foot ; neither have they Corns
under the Foot, nor on the Toes, without
the Shoe be tooftrait; I could wifh our
Soldiers and others, who travail much on
Foot would but confider, the great Benefit
that they would receive in a long March by
wearing Shoes of a low and equal PUn-^am
fucli Soles as would bend and yield to the
Foot,fjcIi astlie/r//Z' and icWf/'Highlandcrs
wear,withouc any/J«/at alljandefpecially,
if they areub'd rofuch Shoes from their In-
fancy: FortheTewrfo^ then would not be
conira£led,as they arc in luch as wear H«/j,
who cannot, thro' the ftiffnefs and contra-
fiion cf the Tendons^ walk far without
//rf/j, but arc cramp't in their Hocks and
Hdtas^ akings and pains in their /(/ffw, Sec.
Nay, and altlio' they are accuftom'd to
high Heels, they cannot walk far or faft,
but are foon m-try and //rV, whilft the
-ether treads Hat and firm, and arc not funk
588 Of Cold Baths. Part 11.
or fpent^ even in long Journies, nor ftiff
or diibrderM the next Day, &c. Men for
want of a little Knowledge in the true Stru*
dure of a Limh^ and of the Mathematical
confideration of the make of the Thigh,
Leg and Foot, edeem this a light Thing,
and laugh at it as a Jed: perhaps, but the
tryal of a hard Days Journy, will foon
demonftrate who is in the right, &c. And
it has been very often obfervM that after a
long Foot-journey, to wa(h the Feet, Legs,
Knees and Thighs, &c. with cold Water,
has wonderfully abated and taken off Wea-
rinefs, and difpos'd 'em the better to Reft
and Sleep, &c.
Naturam Difce fequi.
Vtt-erriftg Nature leArn to foBow clofe^
F<!?r quantum fufficit is herjuft Dofe ;
Suflicient clogs n^ Wheels y and tires no Horfe^
Yet briskly drives the Blood Around the Courfe\
And hourly adds unto its rvafts^ fupflies
In due proportion to jvhat^s fpent and dies.
Whilft furfeting corrupts the Purple Gore^
And bankrupts Nature of her longMiJ^dJlofe:
And thus the Soul is from the E^y tore
Before its time.^ ■
Whichy ^j^ 4 temperate Liry>, inselednCelly
Might full a hundred Tears withCamfart dweS^
And drop^ivhen ripc,4/ Nuts do flip the ShcD,5|
Of Cold Baths.
A Gentleman contrafting a complicati-
on ofA^wo-i'pwt^'f/Direafes, which he plea-
fantly call'd Twffts^ asalfo finding a fcnti-
ble weaknefs and wafte in his Ef^atej re-
foi v*d to turn ovei" a new Leaf and become
a Wife Man: in order whereuntohe put
his Eftatc into the Hands of a prudent Ma-
nager, and himfelf into a CourfeofPA;-
Tfcje, rather Dietetic than otherwife. He
firfl: btgan with the Purging Waters, with
fome fraall Shop-Catharticks to quicken
them (lor he could drink no great quanti-
ties of any thing but Wine, &'.) After
due evacuations, he cook the Wood-drinks,
with fome Anti-icorbutick DropSj &e. from
thence he went to the Hot Bathsy bathM
there in the temperate Baths, and drank
the Waters moderately for the fpace of 8
or lo Weeks; us'd Exercife much, efpeci-
ally Riding and Bowling : he drank Wine
very fparingly, and cxil'd himfelf from
Women quite, (having no Wife); from
thence he came to the Cold Eathsy to har-
den and confirm his Conftitution^ perfe-
ver'd in this good Refolution, and recovered
both his Health and EftAte^ then not being
above forty Years of Age. But before he
went into his own Country, he writ a D(-
fiteh or two over that Tivtrn Door where
heufed to entertain his Mijlrejfes. I hear
c^ he is lince married^ and has two or
^■■i three .
590 Of Cold Baths. PI
three healthful and lufty Children. His
Verfes were, viz.
Before a Tavern ever jhAll confound me^ 7
Or painted Harlot in her Arms impound me^ >
A Fever burn wp, or n Dropfie Around me. j
Thut cuffed Trade I followed too longy
But now Vll (iop before mj ALL « gone ^
By this Refolve jb-tl! Health and Many fave^
Andcar* no patched up Poxes to the Grave.
A Gentleman in a Dyfpncea, and grea?
difficulty of Breathing, went into the Cold
Bath Ibveral times, but with no great fuc-"
cefs ; he went to the Hot Baths, and there'
drank the Waters, and by the ufe of thofe'
Waters grev/ worfe. I foon found the*
Caufe, for he would di'ink two or three
Quarts or m6re in a Morning, befides what"
he drank at Meals, and all the Day after.
I reduced him to the drinking of a Ptntonly*
with fome drops of the fweec Spirit of Ni-]
ter, and he foon recover'd; for before he_
had over loaded his Blood with Waietj!
which made his rcfpiration difficult, ana
his Lungs lifted heavy, and I much
wondred that he did not fall into a Dropfie,
or had a difcharge by a Metsjlafis into his
Head; which misfortune fome have havcfel-
len into, through drinking too long and too
large quantities, efpecially if they batbe
with too much Water in cheir Bodies, for
r-,yu all
all Heat and Sweat diminiflies Urine, and
hinders the due Secretions by which the
Blood fhould be difcharg'd and deliverM
of its load, &c.
One Mr, Andreivfoit a North Country
Gentleman, told me he was cured about
ten Years fince, of a great difficulty of Brea-
thing, by theufingof theCold Bath atHi?-
Iji Weli^ and drinking good (tore of Liquo-
rifli Poffet-drink with Fennel-water. Qux'
ritur^ which did the Cure, the Saint orthe
Medicine? I believe St. Liquorilh and St.
Fennel-feed did him more fervice there,than
St. WtmJrU and all her Crown-fliavea
Chaplains, &c.
And now I am gotten into a Northern
Story, I muft tell one fad one moreofa
very worthy honeft Gentleman of Lama'
/bircj fome Years fince, whofe lofs was ve-
ry much lamented ; he being then in Loa-
<w», fell into a Diarrhcea^ which was long,
and very fharp upon him; Mr. i^iercem.
Drury-Um was his Apothecary, and I was
his Phyfician. 1 ufed all the VJualia, but
with little A'uccefs; at length I gave him
the G4S Sulphuris, with fome few Drops
oif&e. with it, (not Z.4»{^4niym I faithfully
declare) which Itop'd the Flux and comfort-
d his Bowels, and the Excrements began
) be hard and figurM ; and without a fi-
gur'd
392 Of Cold Baths. Pa!
gurM Excrement no Man is right inHealtfi,
tho' Ale-drinkers are generally looft and
foluble, but that proceeds from the new-
nefs and fmoothnefs of iliofe oily Liquors
which they take in too great a quantity /^c.
But to my Story. The Setters (and per-
haps the Sharers) of Dr. CaftAnCs-SXiVtW
Profits perfuaded him ( much againft his
Mind) to fend for this Pul^-pdtedViW-mon-
ger; in came CrMw and £^g/ with his ufu-
al Changling's grin (for then the RtiiMbtm
was not fo hard of acceffion as he is now:)
He firft purg'd him, then at him with his
(^Poft-pharmacou) Afles Milk,which fmooth-
ed his Bowels,and made the Acids lofc their
hold ; down came his DUrrh^a again, then
he was at his Wits end (and that no far-
Journey. ) Lord ! Mr. Peirce, quoth he,
what fhall we do? what was it DcBuyaurd
gave him ? The Gas Sulpharis, reply'd he.
G«, quoth the Dodor, what the Devil is
that? What is it, a Solid, or a Liquid? a
Liquid, quozhMr. Pierce; Ipray givchJm
fome of that G^ then. I have none, quoth
he, the Do3:or brought it himfclf ; fend for
fome of it, quoth he, by a fliam Name, &i.
Ay, quoth he, but the DoQor told me that
he had no more of it (by him) made.
Whatfhall wedothen, quothhc? I know
not, quQth t*other. In inort being thus ill
creMed, he applying to the Fever, (which
was only
pupping,
Of Cold Baths. 393
vas only Symptomatlcal) by Bleeding,
Cupping, &c. not knowing the Caufe (at
leaft-wife, not what to check or take it off
with) fo that in a few Days the poor Gen-
tleman fquirted out his Soul, and then this
Phyfick Ananioi look'd like a Dog that had
loft his Stones ; for an impudent Fellow out
Kof Countenance makes a rueful Figure.
K The misfortune of this Gentleman, who
^Rvas well belov'd,was the talk of theXown ;
Kuid I have been oftentimes fmce much
Krex'd that I did not Print the Cafe, with all
his lorry P refer ipt ions : But, as our Pre)?-
dent faid to Mr. Fierce when he heard that
he had given him AlTcs Milk, JUs I poor
PJM*/;, quoth he, he can give no other Milk
*«r AdcsMilk.
I could fay much more on this Cafe to
the Shame (if he canbeafham'd) of this
forry Medicafter, but that it is but pouring
^Water on a drown'd Moufe, for he is pelt-
B^ by every Paltry Profcr, and is the very
spiffing Poft of the Poets; for not a Cur
in the Country, nor a Dog of a Dogrihft in
Town, but holds up his Leg and has one
"quirt at him as he paflcs by.
Squ:
This Story an Apothecary, now
fiiad from Mr. fierce's own Mouth ,
s was his Mafter with whom he ferv'd his
time.
alive,
for
594 Of Ud Baths. Pi
One thing more I muft add, that Mr.
Holmes^ late Apothecary to the Chsrttr-
boufe, told me that he having from his lona
Praflice and Obfervation from Phyficians
Bills, collefted and form'd a very Ingenu-
ous fort of a Difpenfarory, by coIIcSing
Ibme curious and chotceForms of compoun-^
ding Medicines, which he defign'd to havi
Pubhfh'd by way of Appendix to Dr.B«fw's
Difpenfatory ; in order whereunco, he dtf^
firM the confcnt of the Fellows of the Col-
lege for the Members to perufe and approve^
it, the Prefident firft beginning by (etting
his Hand to ir, &c. which moli of the FeR
lows did in order, according to their Seni-
ority ; at laft he came to liati-ham's Houfe,
wlio was but a young Skull-flinger then, a
Cub- Cockatrice, and juft crept out of his
Toad-hole in Mattorr-Ha!/. He received
him with a cock't HaughtinefSjin proporti-
on to his bafe and elemofinary Breeding;
the other fubmilfively accofted his Worfliip
with low Bows, maltifq; cringibits^ SiC- and
fhewM him his Errand he came about. The
firft thing he He upon was an Jpentive Sj-
rup, wherein was tlie Herb Borrjs. Botrys,
quoth Fool-enough^ what's that ? Why,
quoth Mr. Holmes^ 'tis Oak of JeruftleM,
Jerufalemy quoth he, why can't E»gli^
Oak ferve the tura ? By no means, reply'd
Holmes, 'tis of a quite contrary Virtue and
Ope-
operation. Evgli/h Oak is aStiptickand
Reftringent. Stiff-ftick and Refting-joint,
what's that. Sir? Quoth he, I will prove
out of the Accidence of LiUyh-grnmnurj
that Ertglifh Oak is a better Perioral than
yotir Jert/faiem Butter-box, as you call it.
How fo, qaoth Holmes f How fo, quoth
the Doftor, what think you o^ Peiiora per-
eufftt, Pe£iusqno<j\RohorA jiuat? And thb
Devil's in't if Oak upon Oak, as you fee'
in the Verfc, ben't a Peroral, when th^
whole Breaft was turnM into Wainfcot.
Sir, had you this out of the Accidence,
quoth Holmes ? Yes 1 had, faid Arfenick.
Why then, faid Holmes, farewel Accidence,
but ecce Dunce. This Story Mv. Holmes
has told to a hundred People about Town.
jQ»» capit ille ficit. i ' '
The greateft Cures that I ever have done'
in my Life-time, (and I thank God I have
had as good luck as my Neighbours) I hav^
done by Simples.
I know a certain Plant in the World In-
fusMlong, whole atM unbroken, in warm
Bath- Water, and that Water pour'd oii
more of the fame Plant until the Water is
tlioroughly impregnated with iJie cifentiat
Volatiles of the Plant, that jn a certat'ii
Cafe, Ws znEns Specific umy and therefore
it'is admirably wifely and knowingly fait^
of Hdmom.
^"^. Dd Ex.
596 Of Cold Baths. Pai
< Exifiimo Deam perjecie & faffuiin* )
ter in fmflicibus compofaijfe compleia morho^
rum quorumcknq^ remedia. And a little far-,
therne goeson, Felix iSe qui Jimplitibtt^j^
^ (uio atq-f prowpte novit toSere or coacuUart^
k morbos. /f-fj; credo fmplicia i» fu* fist-f
f f licit ate ejfe fujficiemd fro fxntttcne oUtmum
Worhorum^ Et per confequens Dfjfenfatfi^
• rU violent} A compoxere S" necitre flurtma to^-^
I turn perdunt. What wonderful Cures d<f
r we hear done by thehdiam purely by Siro^
pies? And here I muft relate the greaiel^i
Cure done (aIn:ioft ex tempore) by an Va*;
diaa^ on Mr. Thoman CUjton^ then a Law*)
yer in Firgi/iia, related by his Brother M^
'JohnCUytony now a Minifterof a Pariu^
in DubliM, and a Gentleman very knowinj
in Phyfickhimfelf, whicli he has often tok
fome of our Gmjbamites , which in (hoft
was this. His Brother being feiz'd Wirfij
the Country Difeafe, viz. dry Gripes witJ
a Paralyfis that had taken away the uie o
all his Limbs, an /Wmw for fo much Bran-
dy, &c. would undertake to cure him. Bft
order'dfome Wine or Water or fome fuch
Liquor to be warmM, into which he fcrap'i
about a Scruple or half a Dram ofacertai*
Root which he pulIM out of his Pockety'
but whetted the Knife he fcrap'd it widy
becaufc they fliould not difcoFer by d»i
fmell what the Plant was, drc Upophis
taiuDg
Part II. Of Cold Baths. 597
taking this Dofe, he fell into a violent
Sweat, and repeating the Dofe the next
Morning, he recoverd as if made whole
by a Charm or Miracle. When the hdi-
dtt Doftor was gone, the Maid-Servant
found a little bit of this Root drop'd under
the Table, which fhe prefcntly gave to
Mr. John CUyton : To work went he a
Root-tafting all round the Country for
fomc fcore of Miles, but with all his
Pains and Diligence could not difcover the
Icaft Foot-fteps of this wonder-working
Plant- So after many EiTaysand tirefome
Journeys, home he came and refted him-
felf contented. Sometime after this a Sow
with Piggs was ftung with a Rattle-Snake,
the Sow immediately made to the River
on a full gallop, grunting and making a he-
dious Noife, (as the Hogs did with the
Devil in 'cm) he being in the Houfe and
hearing the out-cry, ran to fee what the
matter was, and follwing the Sow to the
Water-fide, heefpy'd, under a large i.*(f^-
frai Tree, a Plant about a yard high, with
a Leaf not much unlike our ^«_ge//M; he
chspp'd a Leaf or two and rub'd them, and
hfe fancied that it had a fmell fomewhat
like the Root we are difcourfing on : He
immediately upon tafting the Root, found
ic was the very iame tliatcur'd his Brother,
Dd 2 He
^9^ Of Cold Baths. Bart II
He gave mc a piece of it : it was a very
ftrong Aromatick^ and fcented every thing
that ic touch'd. Mr. LUyton fancy 'd it to
be by the Defcription the Lib^notis vera Di*
dfcoridis^ but I think it came the neareft ia
both Taft and Snoell to the Spanifh Mtum^
but far pleafanter and much more Aroma^
tic. He alfo the next Year fcnt for fome of
the Seed (he having before he came for Ejfg^
Und difcover'd more of the Plants) but it
got wet with Salt-water in the Fa^ge.
He gave fome of it to the Ingenious Mr.
Watts then Difeftor of the Phynck Garden
VitChelfea^ but it came to nothing; either
our CUmate was too cold, or the Salt had
deftroy'xl its foecundity, &c. I inftance
this Relation, that we may fee what hidden
Power was givfen by (the Fiat of) the great
Creator to all the Works of his Hands.
1 could add here, feveral remakable In-
rtances of moft wonderful Cures done in
Pa'ftes^ whtvttUt recf4rrent Nerves and Muf-
des of the Tofjgue has been feizM, even to
zt\ Aphonia^ and total lofs of Speech, and
fome of an old date and long Continuance,
which has been inftantancoully recovered
by Cold Immerfion: one . whereof I
had the Relation from his own Mouth,
thq matter of Fafl: was as followeth. This
Gentleman Mr* 'John Perion oi ihQ Town
oiTau^no^-Dea/i m the County ofSommer*
'Vf Cold Baths.
399
r >vas feiz'd, ^s T underwood by him, wich
jlrthuu v.ig.e upon a Rneumatifrn,
vhicliasro dolorous and puqgeanc Painst,
much the fdme. He was advifedby
his Phyficians totry the Cold Bath' he wjs
",) weak and tender, as not to be touched
/itiiouc great Pain; To that they litied
lim into it in a Sheet or Blanket; he fate
hp to his Necli, and hul the Cold Water
pour'd upon his Head for about the fpacc of
half an Hour; his Speech that was loft and
gone, fo as not to be underllood what, he
^fiid, fo pcrfci^Iy rcturnM([ think he told
nc) from that very fir(V Itnmerfiort, that
be cry'd to the Adfla»tes, hold, I am well.
Sod continued fo; tho' for Confirmation-
Ifike, he us'd the Cold Bath fome few
Smcs more. 1 brought this Gentleman to
Jive the Relation o^ his own Cafe to a
itient of mine here at the Bath, thisSum-
her^ Anno 1 70S. a Gentleman of good
Worth and Note, who from an ApopleC-
ticSrrolic totally loft his Speech, together
"-* '1 theufe ofliis right Side; he feemM
; afTcttcd nnd pleas'd with tlie Rela-
and I believe deiigns to try it;
I what Alterations it will produce upon
iy the World fhall know in the next
iflition ofthis Difcourfe. And if (uponTry-
) the fuccefs anfwers our Hope, the Re-
arks upon fo great and eminent a Caufe,
Dd J may
' 4O0 Of Cold Baths. Pa!
may be of great ufe to Mankind, as well
to rofterity, as the prefenc Age. and here
I do boldly affcrt, to the blufblefs F<ic« of
all its oppofers, that fuch prodigious and
unheard Cures, has been doney«i& *//«, and
in the faceofiheSun(by Cold Iramerfion)
.without Trick, Vraud, or Cozenage ; in-
fomuchihat could any PhyficiAn perform
Jjut the tithe otTuch Cures, as we daily fee
done by Cold Water, he would be foUow'd
and efteem'd more like a God than a Mai.
But alas! Envy, Pride, and Malice, ihofe
Charaflteriflicksofthe Devil^ ever was and
ever win be in the Sons of Dilcord, and Con-
tradiftion. But for Men of Repute and
Learning, to opprefs fo known, evident, ,
plain, and beneficial a Good, that performs
the three parrs of Phyfick, the Phyfician,
■ .^ui^eon. Apothecary, all in one, mull
certainly be a Divine G///, and Blef-
$ing from Hea'ven^ where little or no Hu-
man Skill is requir'd to the Cure. Butfor
i Man not to be Huhjecium Capax^ as to be-
lieve his own Eyes, to what he fees done,
is aftonifhing, and as Iiard for me to be-
lieve, that he can't believe; furcly lucK
Men muft be Fools in perfection, like a
Puke's Coronet, the Flowers of his Igno-
fance bloom out ; fo that Learning in fo?)C
Men fervcs pi^ly to worfen 'em, and nru^
"em more Fools than tli^ey were beforej
•/£iu :■ -
fr Of Cold Baths. 401
Ke a blow on tho Pate, that cracks the
Jkull on *tothc[- fide, and gives a Counter
ftlTurc to die hiosk ''oih the CraMe ; fo make's
X Blocklicads, atramf, ferem. But left
fhould coo much Co/i-jooi wiih 'em, I
ave done.
Having finifhed my Obfervations of Hoc
,nd Cold Bathing, &c. V\\ proceed now
^0 give you (Sir '^obn) fome few Remarks
''' \ iMOfig-evitjif and conclude.
■M fiort ^Difcomfe on Longaevity, in
feveral Injla^cn of Verjons living
to an exiream old A^e^ <vi much from
a cool and temperate ^Diel and regular
courfe of Life J as from ibe trtie Ba-
lis and Ground of Old Age, that
hafpy Tarental Blejjing^ of r
Bona ibmina vitx.
"^H A T the Devil for once fpakc true
when lie dud, Skin for Ski»^ a?*4 4/I
that a Man hat f(/r Ijh Life, ^c. Long Life
is fo deftrable, and fo vaUi'd and etteem'd
among Men, that 'tis every Man's Hope
and wifh to obtain ir. And yet wc fee noc-
withAanding this great like and love Men
ihow and expref!^ for it, how remifs and
carelcfs the greateft part of Maakiadarciit
Ud4 (hv
"403 Of Cdd Bath. Pa?
f;
the means to fecurc it. This fupineand
fiupid negleft arifes from our too much
'ruft in a good Conflitution; when alas!
;hey think'not that the leart Debauch (the'
4c does not blow up, yet) Hke an Earth-
jakc it fhakes the very Ibundation of the
[uman Fabrick^ and repeated Afls foon
' I the Saferfiru^are; and becaufetbey
fome few old Drunkards offourfcore
fefe waded through an Aceldama of their
.■Neighbours W»/j that has fallen in the Bat-
tle, young Men prefently take/fo» Ctufi
^froCaafit. and unitate them in Drinking^
not confidering Uiat this their Precedent ^hid
he trim'd his Ld>fip and wifely manag'd the
:pUme^ he might have liv'd to have been
an Old Pirr or. a Jenkint^ &c. But alas!
where one Claret-Pro/f/Zyr lives to So, ten
ihoufand of their Tyro^s (ink under it. I
muft confefs that Company is very plea-
fant and charming, cfpecially if itbe allof
apiece, witty and ingenious; but wc
ibould confider how dearly wee purchafea
little frothy and fiecting Difcourfe, and
fwop our precious Time and Health for no^
thing but Pi/i and Prate, for in the Sinic
ordfiamber-pot all Tavern-Delights termi'
nate; andttio' a Man may wrcftle through
a^rcat many years under a cuftom and hfe
fiit of Drinking, yet the BonJe wW] afclail
pucvait and &Sr]y lay him on his Back! TNc
r.ii . ■■■ -^ ferioi
ftrious ConHderation of this many years
fincc, even in my Youth, diftaccd rfiis
Caution to my /i-//, f /«.
Trufi mt to Conftitution, Uwilldecsyf
AncLtmjled Strength its lubres wears aaidy;
Jsc/ofe-ivoveG&rme\nsof/tJlro»g.Jpu»Tbread
The WoofF/r-f/j oat and tears away the Web ;
A'o Soul hmU Body t ho* ne''er fowelhonjoik'd^y
The tonver that they wear the more iheygriadS-
Then im erackt Organ ntuji impair theMitfd. ^
^B jiHiteThtRgi lead to their own undoings
Bat Man atones induprious to his Ratn'^
For what with Ryor, l)eIicatC5 4Wii Wine,
Turns Pioneer himfelf to undermine.
Be/ides the hidden Snares laid in oar wajy
Thefudden Deaths we hear of ei'try day^
The finootheft Paths huve unjeen Ambufcades,
yind Infecurity Security i»vades\
For no Man knows what^s tht next hours event,
Man XiVz^ashe does die hj Occident.
Horvfoft ts Flcfli, how hritttt is a Bone! ■)
Tintt tats up Steel and Monuments of Stone,C
And from his Tcctli art thou exempt alone ? j
What i^arrant hafi thou that thjkodfs proof
Jgainfl tht An^utfb of an aching Tooth (
How foon's a Fever roused hy acute Pains ?
The /maf/e^ Ails h.tve all their Partiz,ans j
^ttdin in'iejiine iVars they may divide^
I tifcV Oeferters lifi on the wrong fide.
^' :.-■■- Dif.
404 Of Cold Baths. Part U.
DifedfiSylike trueBlood-hounds^eize $heirDamj
And f re) upon the Carkafs whence they ffrang .
Be alwdjs on thy guard^ watchful snd wife^
LefiDtzthjbouldtake the napping by furprize.
ji Letter giving an Account af one
Henry Jenkins a Yorklhire Man^
who attained the Age of l(y<) TearSy
covumunicated hy Dr. Tancred Ro"
binfon Fello^c^^ of the CoBege of
Thyficians^ and R. S. with his
R cmarks on it.
S I R,
MR. Robiafon teffs we you defirethe Re^
Litton of Henry Jenkins, which is m
followeth.
When I came firft to live at Bolton^ it
was told me, there lived in that Parifha
Man near an Hundred and fifty Years Old;
that he had Sworn as Witne;fs in a Caufe
at Xork to an Hundred and twenty Years,
which the Judge reproving him for, he (ai^,
he was Butler at that time to the Lor4 Cfl»-
yers ; and they told me, that it was report
ed his Name was found in fome old Re^
fter of the Lord Conyers^ Menial Servants;
but truly it was never in my Thoughts to
quire of my Lord Ddrej^ whether diis laft
particular was true or no ; for I believed
little of the Story for a great many Years ;
till one Day being in my Sifters Kitdiin,
He»rj ''Jenkins coming in to beg an Alms, I
had a mind to examin liim ; 1 told him he
jras ap Old Man, who muft fuddenly ex-
£t to give an Account to God, of all he
J pr iaid ; and 1 defired him to tell me
^ry truly how Old he was : He paufed a
ptle, and then faid, that tothebeftof his
membrance he was about One hundred
:ty two or three ; and I asked him what
igs he rcmembred ? He faid Henry VIII ;
_ aslicd what Publick thing he could longefl:
remember? He faid h'lomden-feld ; I asked
whether the King was there? He faid no,
* le was in FrMce, and the Earl of Surry was
~ ;neral ; I asked him how old he might be
len ? He faid, I believe I might be between
en and Twelve ; for, fays he, I was ient
to Northallerton with a Horfe-Load of Ar-
rows, but they fent a bigger Boy from
thence to the Army with them. I thought
by ihefe Marks I might fiad fomething in
Hirtories, and lookM into an old Chronicle
that was in theHoufe, and Ididfind that
Fiorvden-feld was an Hundred fifty two
Years before ; fo that if he was Ten or Ele-
ven Years Old, he nuxft be One hundred
(i^ty;^W^ Vefrs, or three, a$ he laid when
. ■ V 1
I examined him. I found by the Book, tha^
iBowsand Arrows were then ufed, andthM;
the Earl he named was then General, and
Ahat King Henry VIII. wasthenatT(7ffrffi/,
jfochat I don't know what to Aofweriothe
Confiftencies of thefe things, for Henrf
Jenkins was a poor Man, could neither
■Write nor Read : There were alfb four or
^ <ive in the fame Paridi, that were reputed
all of them to be an Hundred Years Old,
or within two or three Years of if, and'
Ithey a)I faid he was an elderly Man ever
fince they knew him i for he was born ia
:another Parifli, and before any Regifters
Were in Churches, as it is faid ; he cold tnc
then too, that he was Butler to the Lord
Coaj^ers, and remcinbred the Abbot of fiJafl^
tAtns-^ithy very well, who ufed to drink a.
Glafs with bis Lord heartily, and that the
Diflblution of the Monafterles he laidhe
well remembied.
Ann S^viSe.
This //ffw^J^flH^j departed this Life tbf
eighth Day of December ^ '^70. at ESerioli
upon Swale.
: The Battle of Floipden-feld was Fought
upon the nintli Day of Sepiemhr, in titt
Year of our Lord 151 j
' hemy Jefikif>s WAS twe\veXG3its old whsd
fiomdeti'feUi ftf&i Foughtf fo he Uved ii^
•Years. 9M;
; OH F»rre lived One hundred fifty two
fears nine Months ; fo that Henry Jer/kiKs
out-lived him by computation fixteen Years,
and was the oldelt Man born upon the Ru-
ins of this Pc^-diluviaft World.
This Henry 'Jenkins in the laft Century
of his Life was a Fifherman, and ufed to
wade in the Streams; his Diet was Coarfe
and Sowr ; but towards the latter end of
his Days he begged up and down ; he hath
Sworn in Chancery and other Courts, to
above 140 Years Memory, and was often
at the Affizes at Tork^ whether he gene-
rally went a-toot : And I have heard fome
of the Country Gentlemen affirm, that he
frequently fwam in the Rivers after he was
pall the Age of One hundred Years.
'Tis to be wifhed that particular Fnqui-
ries where made, and anfwered, concern-
ing the Temperament of this Man's Body,
his manner of Living, and all other Cir-
cumftances, which might furnifli manyufe-
ful Inftruftions to thofe who arc curious
about Longevity.
FraKci/co Lupdtfoli the Femtian Conful
at Smyrna liv'd 1 1 3 years, and had by his
Wives and other Women about 5oChilr
dren; he ufed to prav for the Soul of all
his defunft Miftrelfes by name. He drank
nothing but Water and Milk, fometimes a
fmall Sherbet i his ufual .Diet wasifmall;
Soops
4o8
0/ tola baths. FafI
Soopsof Flcfli, fbmcrimes of Bread, Vfz-
ler and Figs. He faw at that Age, or near
It, without SpeOacIes, and could hear wen.»
He drank nomannci' of Tea, Coffee, oi'i
iChocolet, nor any fermented Liquor. He'
Iwenc upright. He had fomc new black
^ Hairs on his Head, and Mr. Rny^ the Eng.'
M> Conful there, tdld me that he faw af
jboth cue in his upper Gum, He faid that
Fbc was potent for Women at that Age,
I atid was known to give Mony for a fht
[young Slave to he kind with her. To-
I wards his latter end hccomplain'dtoaDoc-
[ tor that his Eyci began to grow dim, and
■ dcfired a Remedy ; the Doctor's name >Vas[
Barhat/c/o. He was a fair Man, of a middld'
Stature, &£.
Mr. /^jy lodges nt Mr. Ba/Ztfrj- next door
to Mr. >/^/;'s in Chitrter-hnafe-jitrd^
Mr. '^ohn Hill rel-itcd to that Rithard
Lt0y4, born two Miles from Moxt^omerj^
was aged i jj within two Months, a ftrong;
ftraigiic and upright Man, wanted no'
Teeth, had no grey Hairs, wliich was of"
a darkifh brown Colour ; could hear well,
and read without Speflacles ; flefhy and fiJl
ichcek'd, and the Calves of his LcggsnOt
[wafledorfhnmk, lie could walk wd!: he'
lt«'as of a tall Stature: his Food was Bread,
I Gheefe and Butter for the moft part, and'
[ bis Drink Whey, Butter-milk or Water,
>'.[^'-iC and
and nothing e!fe; but being by a Neigh-
bour-Gentlewoman pcrfwaded to eat Flem-
meat, and drink Malt-Liquors, foOn fell off
and died. He was a poor labouring Man
in Hu^ndry, &c. To the truth of this,
the Copy of the Regirter produc'd affirm'd
it.
Dr. Lotver^ Brother to our famous Lomr,
told me, tiiat he faw a Man in the North
of an extream Age, full or above fixfcore;
he lay on a Pad on the Ground in a dark,
imoalty tatter'd Cottage, with a Clout or
old Stocking that ftopc a hole in (the next
to no Wall") a Clay- plaftcr'd hurdle,
with a little Cow lying by him, chewing
the Cud. I ask'd him what that hole in
the Wall ferv'd for? He told mo that it
fcrv'd to let out Smoak or let in the frcfh
Air, according as he wanted the one, or
was opprcfs'd with t'other. I ask'd him
what that Cow ferv'd for, with her Mouth
lb near him ? He anfwer'd, for refrc(h-
ment; for, faid he, the Breatli of tlie Cow
is a Cordial, and much rtfreflics me when
I am feint, &c. I askt him what Diet
he us'd ? He anfwer'd Oatmeal made into
Water-pottage, and Potato's, and fome-
times a little Milk, when his Son and Daugh-
ter did not drink it from him. He ftid
that he had been a labouring Man all his
Days, and that he never had been lick
4IO Of Cold Bath.
as he never could remember in his life >
that he eat very little i'lefh, &c.
As to being comforted with the Breath
of the Cow, 'tis highly rational to believe
it ; for the Breatli was warm, and muft
emit with it fome volatile Salts, and fra-
grant Particles, analogous to our own Spi-
rits. I have heard feveral Shepherds and
other Cattle- keepers fay, That in roofing
of their Herds from their Rell in a Morn-
ing, the Sreems not only of their Bodies,
but even thefj^tfwi and (cent of their Dung
and Urine has been grateful and refrefhing,
from thofe falubrioiis volatile Salts that
they draw in with their Breath in their
Sheep-Folds, and Cow-Houfes, early in a
Morning before the Beams of Light and
Heat exhale them , and rob them of
the beft Nofe-gay in tfie World. And in
the times of the Old Patriarchs, no doubt
but that the whole Family lay upon the
Ground, Old jidar/Pi firit Floor, both Man
and Beaft, Wife and Children, which
might be one caufc of their long Life, fjrc
For in thofe Days they were Strangers
to ilie curfed Invention of rail Houfes
and painted Roofs , which the Divine
SenecA , Socrates , Flaio , Epicietut^ jith-
/o»/>w the Emperor (who, asCaaJabou rcr
marks, had more Kingdoms than eTCr&-
ioman had Towns, &.ej. ;. I fay all tluife, and
many
Of Cold Baths. 411
marly others of the wife Philofophers of aU
Ages have cxposM and raii'd at the Pndci
Vanities atid Unncccffarlcs of Life ^ which is
not only the Trouble, but the very Plagud
and Torment of it, according to the Poet,
He that wou*d rejllefs live ia thit jbon Life,
Let him have s •vain And fajbionable Wife,
from Top-knot Shop to Top-knot let her nnge^
And con jl ant to nothing but to conftant Chttnge,
Rut whiirt the Devil, that Spiritual Taylor,
Prince of the Air, can (o eafily fly to
Fnnce, and Monthly fetch us new Fafhi-
Dns, 'tis never likely to be otherwifei
What a fliaine is it, jn the Church, the
Houfe of God, where People ought to af-
femble in Sack-cloth and Allies to lament
and mourn for their Sins, tocomewlthi
Bufhel of creeled Head-geer, like fo many
walking Turrets? And the Men todifguiw
thcmfelvcs with long dangling Pcrriwigs
hanging to their Rumps, as tf each had a
Be»rs-skin at his Back, is a Shame to the
fober and chrillian part of the World, in
making the Church a Spiritual Hide-farkt
an ogling Rendeivcuz of Amofetto's and
I-OVers, rather than a Houfe of I'rayerand
Humiliation? Really this muft be a great
<Mfeticc even to the poor Mamptrt that beg
iHhc Church-door.
''■■' Ee There
There is at tlie Bath an Old Fellow \a the
Summer-{inie» who is an afliftant to the
Play-houfe. I have obfcrv'd this Old Fel-
low once in a week, or foraetiines oftner,
to go to a Millt-Iioiiil; (where I u(ed often
to drink Milk) lo fill a great Pitcher (which
held at leart 6 or 7 Quart;.) of new Butter*
milk, but always kept it Limilit wasfowr,
and then draiik of that and notliing elfcall
the Summer Montiis, ('■*■:) from jtprUm
Mtj, uniil Oof ohir ; the remaining part of
tlie Year lie drank cither Water or fmall
Beer, tho' he told me that in his Youth he
has foraetimes drank rtrong Drinks, but
they never agreed with him; And healfo
told me, that not above 2 Years ago he
went from Uaifj to London on foot, in two
Day^, and came home to the lUth again
in two Days more, and that he was uieo
near 87 Years of Age, as may be feen ^ ,
the Regifter. He is a Jiraight upright Man,
without itooping, and of his great Age
moves wonderfully nimble. He hasanun*
grateful Name, tho' an honeft Fellow, for
xt is Seth Vnthdtike. He was born in Mil-
felilj in the County o^ NorthumberUad, in
G/cwii*i///-i^dr<^,intheYcarofour Lord, 1617.
outhe 29th of AV/'/ewi^t?-, in the 15th Year
of the Reign of King James, and wu
Baptiz'din iheK/Vi- Mirfo/;. He was die
youngeft of 22 Children* Hiseldcft Sifter
has
as been dead a Year. He has a Brother
living lo Years older than himfelf, his eld-
eft Brother has been dead three Years. He
has a Sifter hving in Spittle, within Haifa
Mile ofUerivtck, 16 Years older tha;i him-
felf. His Unkle was 1 26 Years old, when
he died, he was a Penfioner to the Bilhop
of Durham.
Henry de U Gnnge d^Jrcfaia was born in
frsftee the 15th of Jprii 1606. and was
made Cardinal D^Jryam by hnoeent XII.
the itth of December, 1625. He is now
At Rome, and enjoys Health enoughtode-
ferve being called the youngcft Man in it.
He goes frequently on Foot, diverts him-
felf more than any Body at Feafts, and has
often Conforts of Mufick at his Houfe,
where he entertains the Company with
an air of Youth; lie lives at liberty, and
without conftraint. He has a robuft Com-
plexion, and is not not fubjeft to any in-
difpofition but the Gout, which may pro-
ceed from his too much eating, having a
molt devouring Stomach. He is fo little
fenfible of his great Age, that he often
talks of going into France for a Year or two,
and afterwards then return to Rome. , , ,
He deny'd himfelf no Pleafure in his
Xouth, arid not with Handing is very fdte
"V.carry the fame temperament and brisk-
'i CO the Grave.
E e a Mr.
4JN|_3^^^^ ^*^^' Fart 11.
Mr. Martiu in his defcription of the
WefternIflandsof5^(?//4;;^ fays^ that Do-
nald Roj^ who lived in the Ifle of Saitd^
where they have neither Phyfick nor Phjr-
fician, died lately in the looth Year of his
Age, and was able to Travel and manage
his AfFah"s till about two Years before his
death.
He makes mention of one that died about
18 Years ago, aged one hundred and forty^
and of another who they faid died at one
hundred and eighty.
At Bean Holeit^ a Village rtear 7«r/>, I
faw, about thfee Years ago, an old Wo-
man in the Inn that. was 10^ Years old,
as her Grandfon told me, who was Matter
of the Inn. She was become from- a tall
proper Woman, a fhort hump back'd Fi-
gure, but had all her Senfes in Perfeftion,
and was continually employed in the drudg-*
ery of the Houfe, and had a prodigious Ap-
p€tite, as I obferved during my ftay. Sba
xvas reputed older by all the neighbour-
ing Villages, and had never been Sick.
It U to he noted^ That this ViUage where fhi
lived^ is famom for the bejl Air in ^ Pied*
roont.
About two Years and a half fince, going
into the North Country, and lying it
North*
-r—
'^'^TlHs Account Dr. Baynard haifrm Dr% Engliib.
Of Cold Baths. 415 '
MorthAmpion^ I defined my Landlord of the
nn to fhew me the Famous old Man fo
nuch talk'd of. When I came into his
R.oom,Ifaw a fhort,broad-bi"calledold Fel-
'■ fit by the Fire-fide on a low Stool: I
isk'd him how old he was? lie anfwer'd
"me, that he was 128 and t- I ask'd him
about a great many memorable things
done near a too Years fince, fome whcre-
pf he perfeftly remembrtd , as the com-
ing in of King \fitmes the Firft &e. and far-
ther (aid, that he was one of the 24 Mor-
Bce-Dancers that dancM before him into
Town: But here I doubted my old
[an*s veracity, for if lam not miftakcn,
King came in the Torkjhire Road,
hrough Harittngton. But however, I
bond him by all, and by the nicel^ enqul-
^ I could make, that he was not tar fhort
bfthat Age, as appeared by die Teftimony
feveral People, fome near, others
Ibbove a hundred; and tbey all fay,
hat be feem'd to be an old Man ever fioce
bey could remember. That he was born
iihe Town, buc before R^illers were
ifed, &:. He had a very itrong Voice,
and (pake very heartily and loud. He faid
(ootdefigniog ic for a Jcft) that he fliould
never die fo long as he could breath freely,
which is no fmall Happinels. Difeafcsand
Difiicttlttcs of the breathing Family, are
Ee ? not
4i6 Of Cold Baths. Part
not only moft troublefome, but the moft
dangerousaifo ;ancl Ineverkncwa very old
Man.buE hisrefpiration was very liberal^f.
And this agrees with the Sentimeots of Hip-
focrtes. viz. FicUefpirsre mtgm momenti eii
aif»lutem^ &c. and 'Jacok. Spo^. upon Iiim,
Spirare enimfaciltpArtium Thortciarum it-
btrtatem fftdicat, &c. And upon this Arti-
cle how many Narfis and carelefs Mothers
ought to be hartgd for their hard fwathiog
poor helplefsand tender lufaatSy &-c? as
in aaoiher Place 1 have faid more at lai^e ;
nay I have fecn a Nurfe Jay her heavy
HMdy and fometimes her Army upon the
Br(»fi of a Child, as it lay fiit and fupine
in her Up^ until it has been black in the
Tace \ which tho' not always the prefenc
deftruQjon of it, yet it gives the rAorAxa
crulh, which the Child may never well
recover as long as it lives, crt.
This old Man, whofeName was '^oba
Ji*ilesy told me, that lie had buried the
whole Town of Aorthimptofiy except ^
or 4, 20 times over. Strong Drink, quoth
the old Man, kill^i 'cm all . He told me
thdt he never was druuk in his Life, and
that Water, rtnail Beer and Milk was his
drink, fometimes x^kcn per fe^ fomotime;-
;nix'd, and that his Food was, fortheoioA
pqrc, brown Bread and Chcefe; he caroA
not much for Fieili Meats. He was a ({»■
fible
^Rt"
Of Cold Baths. 417
fible old Fellow, and had no Difeafe hut
Blindnefs, which had feiz'd him not above
four or five Years, &c.
. Mr. Robinfofi Miniller ofO/wi/in C««-
^iw-ZW, has wrote me fcvcral Lecteis of
Hsoor People that have liv'd to e>;treamold
lAges, of a hundred or more, and that up-
on enquiry, he moftly found that they
lived upon the lacticinix. efpecially on
Whey and fowr Butter-Milk, and Cat-
head. &c- he alfo wrote me Word, and
sthave heard it confirm'd by many other
\tUmhsrUndCitx\i\zmtii\, That a Manfieep-
l^on fome Mmeral Bank, the Steams and
jlwvu of it had turn'd that fide of his
Hair which lay next the Ground as wiiitc
as Snow, as alfo one Eye-brow, and half
his Beard, which before was as black as a
Raven. This Minifter attelted this (verba
facerdotis) ac ChiWs CotFee-Houfe at the
Weft end of St. PaaH Cliurch, before Ma-
jor Roycrofi and feveral otl>ers. Mr. Ro-
bitifon defir'd it to be recorded in the Phi-
bfophical Tranfaftions, but I hear it was
oppos'd by Sir Tijfmj Sleejj the MuQin*
Man.
Mrs. Hudjhn, Mother to Mr- Georgt
Hudfun a Solicitor in Chancery, lived a
hundred and five Years, and then died of
4n acute Difeafe,by catching Cold.Her Eyes
^cce fo very good, that flie could fee
E e 4 c«
41 8 Of Cold Baths
Pi^P
to thread a Needle at that great Age: Her
_Pood was nothing (or very little elfe) fave
Spread and Milk all her Life time.
Mr. Johx^off, the Father of my learned
' ^r\tnd Dr. Johnffon of Warwick, always a
ftrong lufty Man, dy'd at a hundred and
L .^teven. His ufual Drink was Milk a nd Ale,
».drMilk and fraall Beer mixed together.
I ' That Milk is of a falubrious, fafe and
iweet Nourifhmenc, is evident by many
Jations that eat much of it, and livelong,
One Inftance of it is at Croydon in Surrj ; a
rhyfician of good worth and learning was'
ib kind as to give me an account of himfclt*,
who has conquer'd a Diftemper, and ac-
qiiir'd a good Conliirution by his drink'
<Jf Milk only ,eating and drinking norhin^
clfe for thefc 6 or 7 Years part. His Qum^^
turn is a quart in a Moining, a quart ai
Noon, and ^Pintat Night, withoutBreac
&c. and to this quantity he exaftly keeps
Ibmctimcs he drinks it hot, fometlmescold,'
ic->.
as for his conveniency it happens. .
All thofe that have written of the Iflands
of AVof/4«i^,ikc. fay,That the Whig or Whey*
they boil'd with fweer Htibs, and barrela
it up for their f^otm ordinmm.
. A hundred Example^ of this kind frta'
be found to confimi the DoSrin ofTeni
Iterance and a cool Diet, as nettefFary' t
fhc prolongation of Lije; but if aH Aagi
fion
from Heaven fhould come down and Preach
it, one Bottle of Burgundj would be of
more force with this Cidret-fietv^d Gene-
ration than ten Tun of Arguments to the
contrary, tho' never fo dcmonftrable ai
(Jivine, &<:. _ tj
Bttt when /tUs ! Men eofnt to die
Of Dropl}^ 'JauHdke, Stone atjdGoiti\'
Vhtn the black Reekoning drsws nigh.
And Life (before the Bottle fs out:
yhen (low drAwn) Tirne's ufon the Tilt,
tep> Sands And Minutes left to ran:,
tffd a/l our (^sft^one) years Are fpihy". *- 7
And the gn-At Work « ieft undone :
Vhen rejilefs Confcience knocks within
And in Difpair begins to bxul^
Peaih like n Drawer thenjief/s in,
Andatkethy Gentlemen! d^jeca^f
"" mjh thit Men rvould, timely, think
On this great Truth in thgirfull Bowlsj
Both I And Will, of Lud gate- hill, . .
^ And all our Friends round Pauls.
As ilie Divine Herbert has if,
( Verfe may find him whom a Sermon fliaif
W ttfrn Veltght into a SAcrifice, Sec
'A fion dehortatory Poem to a Claret*
* ..FxoncKinfinanandGodfonofmine^
. ogtnnji immoderate Drinking,
i^A/s by a Tatern-door, my Son,
ThU facred Truth write on thj HtArt ;
u enfier^ Company to Jbux^
Than At a Pint ii h to fart.
For one Pint drams another in,
A/id tbst Pint iights d Pipe;
J/idtlmfiiil/MOTny they ta{> the D&y^
Jfid drink it out e'er Night.
Not dreAwi/jg of a fudden Bott/tety
From Vinous Sulphurs J^or''d within;
I Which bbtvs 4 Drunkard up At once^
When the Fire takes Life s MAgtzh.
An Apoplexy hi&$ 44 fure^
As Cannon Bati ; and oft lU foon ;
And tvill no more yield to a Cure,
ThAomur^^ring Chatn-fhot from a Gun,
Why pjwld Men dread a Cannoa hre ?
Tet boldly ^pronch a Pottle Pot,
ThAt mAyfalllhrtj fboot mdej or 6*re,
Bat Drinking if the furer Shot.
Z;^ many Fools Ahout this Towrtf
Do Quaff and Laugh Away their Time >
And Nightly knock each other down.
With CUrret Clubs, o/No-Grape Wm\
vmu,
Vjftii s D*rt from Bacchus Qiiiver^
(At Solomon defcnbeth right^
pofs Jhooi his Tartar thro* the Liver
Then (Bonus Nocious) Sot, good Night,
Good Wine rviH Kill <ts well as bad,
When drsnk beyond (our Nature* j) Ifouilds :
Thin Winep/vw Life amorial Stab,
ji^d itaves her weltring, in her Woanist
Wounds ! that HO Phjfch Art can heal, Jf
And very rarly that they feel >
The Sirolic, the Moment it does tQII. 'A
Virgil'j Cold Batby
Defcribing a People invigorated
and hardn*d by uling to wafh in
the Cold Streams from their In-
fancy, l?c.
>£neid. 9. iuxta fincm .
Durum t Jlirpe genuf^natos adflumindfrimurOj
Dtferimtu fevoq;^el/fy duramus & uadis.
Faraphras*d
AH^trdy l^eofiefropt their Childhood io£d^
Oejieidid frfim « Race inur'^d to Cold ;
Bathing their Infant-limbs tn H'iuters Flood
Reverberates the Heat upon their Hlood ■.
Of ColdBaths, Paitll.
S'^sr^rt^^''^
The rous^i^uf Fjtame mAkes the whole fluid boil
Deft Us brisk Spirits from good Blood and Chjle.
Bracing the Nerves ^ andfhrpus Mufcles tight
For Battle ftrong^ for Hunting fwift inflight.
This bars the doors through which Lifers vigour
(pays,
At^d locks th^ Pore sup with a cold bunch of Kjjs
^9 S\As:zx\ forging Shields for th^ SonsofMzrs
^is Thetis makes his glowing Fire foflerce ;
For as he blows jbe fpr inkles on the Coal^
•
The opened Sulphur gives to Fire a Soul)
Thiuft<^ its'ci^tary ioesStren^h$cquife^
And what would feem to quench does raife the fire,
^if J[fan^ that often to the Streams refortSy
jf#r Life becomes an impregnable Fort ;
Not only a keen Appetite creates^
But the whole vital Force invigorates ^
And gives ^ Tone to all the Bodfs vents^ •
Perfpires in unfeen Smoke its Excrements ;
Where every Duftus carriesoffhis fbare^
And every Gland is her own Scavenger.
(A, Secret only known to th* learned ^ Cole
Jlfljo^ traced D^w^Nature thro^ herfmaUefl holt.
« Dr. Cole dc Secretioae AaimaK & £ciolog. ad
Doft* Hub.
Found
Found a/l her Foils/ti lor/g Uj bid in nighty
jind all herfecret Mewfes brought to lighty '
And in the dark before where no Man come^
The Pocher catch' d herfqaat upon the form.)
Thus in ihelnhnt is the Man madefirong^
Nothing hat Time can /bake his Garrifoa ;
For who to hardfbips from his Toaih's inured,
frflw Stone viW Gout and painful Death V/e-
(cur*d,
'dttd he that this rvajfor old Age frefareSy
fc fure (bar Accidents) of a hundred Tears,
Winds no decay, is one aniflill thefamiy
And's mind fublimed h afironger Flame \
For fure the Soul mufl take agreat delight^
And a£t mthPleafure where AsrOrgan's bright ■■
For where the Bodfsfoandy md th' Mind is
Man in himfetf enjoys a Heaven there, (clear,
That^atUKaadiflarif*d in this hlefs^d State,
Renders the Pa//ioas caim, the Mind fedate.
For rphere (he's warm btiow and coo/ above,
That happy Man can both inflru^ ana iove.
To Men his long Experience may impart.
To Womm fbeiv the green-honfe of bis Heart.
Where
4H Of Cold Baths. Pai
Whtre bleomitif^ Love is in itt hlojfom gay, j
For his December is their Month of Mrjy
Jujl in his prime, fvbfn othtr Mgn decay,)
ifW- ili tkt tcHder brood do ftrijhfoon^
•eir fttting Sun « his meridiitn N'oon ;
Vhof'r vital Heat around his World dots rntf
I atfffrf not eonjift''d to Stages like the Sun.
Thus at A hundred Years Am thtrdbrisk Wife
CenjojSt
Jadpockr a Village with his Girls 4nd Boys ;
With his Children's Children*! Children^ tojs
(andflajSy
jind finds their Inclinations hj their majs.
There fets himfcif /> every fmiU and Uuib
In their young Faces, four Generations off.
But nijen the fatal Hour draws en ^ O
For Man mufl die, iho* he live ne'er fo ion^j >
Time that difarms theOsM ttilifeize theftrong^
Finds he decays^ and majf dear ]otT\ forfakt^
Tif hi foill Cobble rrhere he cannot make.
Then comes the Curfc, vrhen impotent depre
Broods o^crthe Afhes of exiinguijhU Fire:
For
Of Cdd Brnhs. 4«S
I
for tvhen the Fower to aft is fiafi 4nd dead,
^XjiEMCUtoii ^ Luil then h*unts the oU Man\
■fcirijfi; . CHead.
I don^t at all doubt but that Mr. W»ifi
ht H'ije, call'd a Crittek^ will be nibbling
Bt this our Book, and indeed all char Write
Ihoiild have (omcRuUiJb in their Writings
to make a Bdit forC>i/«i, whoarctatchM
like aptrrms in a Scrape of l'.h»ff'\ and (a
becaufc they fhan't lofc their expcftation
1 only trull 'cm a couple ol Kiimblers
which, if they don^t like, let them take
any other that they do like^ viz
Thitiirrt the Doors thro* which Ltjss I'igour
firaysj
And tacks lit* Pores up with a coU hunch oj Kjfs,
Now if any Man fhould have tho misfor-
tuc (£s his Mother had) to labour under the
fuperfctation of i-W, and askthcgucftion,
pray is it true that the Cold lUtby like a
D«/ciWainans Girdle, or a Sexton of a
Churcli, has a KfJ to every Pore in the
Skiitf I anfwcr, that I could only have
wifh^.d chat he had liv'd in tho cimc oi'jEjop ;
and havcasM him if it were true, that the
HorJ'e calk'd co the Ki/i-*, or the Cat to the
KJ" \ would he not have cold hitn he was
a Coxcomb ?
fiuc
4i6 Of Cold Baths. PartIL
But if any, out of a felonious intent to
pick a Lock or a Qudrrel with my bunch of
Kjjs^ or any thing elfe containM in this
Treatife, let him fit down, fmoak a fober
Vife^ take the Context with the Text, and
read it quite through ; then when he and
I meet, we may (hake Hands and be
Friends, as being upon the level^ for I ne-
ver knew a bad Writer, but that there
was a Fool Reader for him ready cat and
dry'd, &c.
For whin a Book before a Cririck //>/,
He reads to carp, or filtches to be Wifc^
And now, Sir "John^ you and I may do
as they do at Funds and Lx)tteries, e*ea
clofe the Book,for I[never intend (as at prc-
fent I think) to write more upon this Sub-
jed, and once again am
Tour moft humUe ServMt^
i.»Hio»,NUrci>,2^i Edw. Baynard.
tHE
iome' farther Obfirvations and Remarks
on Hot onti Cold Bathings Pump'
ingy Drinking, Sec.
S TVater is, in chief, the
. univerfal Driak of all the
Wor/d^ both JnimAls and
Vigf tables^ fo it is thebeft,
and mofl: falubrious ; for
without it, no PlMt n6'r
CfM/«« could longfubfift;
nay , even the Air we
! would deftroy us, were not the
leen Particles of the Nitn Ineath'd and in-
p'd'in aqueous Lamht and Ttgumentt^
5 it has fometimcs been fatally experiment-
ed by Cow/i/w/jf/i/g Ferfons, fent into moun-
tainous and over- dry Ain^ befides the Ac-
counts we have fo often had, from thofe
who have afcended and climb'd the Alps,
and othei* Ikep and almoil inaccefltble
F f HiUs,
4^8 APP ENV IX,
HiSsy SiC. That this W'^^rw enters witfi the
Jir into our Luitgs and Blood, feparawd
from thence by the feveral Srcrttiom, a
evident^ by any found Man's Obfervaiioaj
that he returns more Liquids by Vritte thaq
' lie drinks, by much. And it has of \m
I'bccn obfcrv'd, that Diahetic Pcrfons havt
made, in a Month's tinie> more TJrim tha
the Weight of their Bodies, and all tha
' ihcy have eaten acid drank in that Mond
Dcfidcs; which can never be accounted fop,
fcut allowing the (jamid and aqueout Particles
of the Jir to fupply fo vail a Projitrviitm,'
And 'tis farther obferv'd by fomc Gentle^
jnen, Lovers of the Sport of Horje.Ratiitgt
where they have been dieted to Horfe-man
iVtigbt^ and brought below the Standard > ~
the fluid Confiftencc of the Bhod\ that I
'Meeptng beyond the allowed time, ihi
■ liave incrcafed their Weight to fome Poun(! _
And Mr. Ma^j, a Gentleman of Quality u
ChejljiTty try'd it on his own Perfon^ whi
he rid for a confidcrabte Sum of Money, it
Jiy little SUff and a thin fpare £>»/, broogh
himfelf down to Ten Stone ; who, as foo
^as he had won the Race, weigh'd himfcH
' Thence he went to his /»», and not takifl
■.above a Pound and a half of K/W/ in boi
.Meat and Drink, went to Bed^ and flep
i6 Hours ; and when he arofe, he found
^ebyitbe Su it that hegot by jVeight (to the
■ ^— ,. .: — — (j^l
"' "^^
APPENDIX.
t-'j? .^J
bell of my Remembrance) 1 4 Poandt .JkoA\
J Qa*rttrs. And I have heard fcvcral of
the Jticii'm affirm the fame thing, in propor-.
tion to tncir h'tfiwg and low Uitt^na Ovcr-
flecping afterwards : Which if true, as I
doUDC not, having fo olten heard it from
Getititmeit of Worcli and unciucllionable
Reputation, this can no way be folv'd but
by ibc former Rcafon of allowing the wnirj
p. fcrticlcs of the yi/jr to tijpply thofe Vacao-
^«ies and Delc£ls, which a low Diet and t^o-
IjUtlc Sleep hadcaufcd. Which Ihews evi-
Bdcntly, that this crcac Change and Intre-
Vment is (mnllly, W not only) made in the
■ Time of aUep, wlicn the Spirits ccafc from
\£lion, and Nature intent upon the ncccl-
iry Separations, and Rel^orations to per-
irm the bodily Labours of the ncxc
ky, &t. Vqt true 6'^(p is made in a State
fiMcogitAaty^ without Thaaght or Drt»m-
% ; then the natural Fun^ions arc ac
^IVork, Wounds arc heal'd, and Breaches .,
Bade up, according to the (Quantity and
^oodoefs of Materials laid up in the Blmd
r Nature to perform that Work with, <^(.
od here it will be pcroincnt to Ibew, what
^learned Hjfcian\ Opinion was of iV^tr
S generah
..Frimum autem inter aiia Potuhnt* ,]^$^
vtndicat lofum Aqua. Turn jure MfiquitMk^
turn Ukhitatii pr^roi^AtivA ■ <jr iff (iifpeitaf*
JP f a Pctm
^_
APPENDIX.
PotUf mrdicm merstS ju6'*udity quod JtArici^
tite & fisxtbiUt/tte pArticuUrum fefg ?Ofi*c
cujafcunque p/tl fgar£ facile inftnuet^ Mtidam,
vttiofum igmftrtt, ftlU dtladt^ fetuiUmfai^
diorem yeddit^ hiOi djlum demuUcdt, &Jm}
gaim humidas farlicuUt rtfiiiuat ; fuferjluuii^
autem turn per -viiis VrtnsriM, turn per txtl4
riorem Corporu Jeperfcinn O" dmbutim il^ui^
txcernatury & qaodCaput ret efi nuUtH MejH
■ exti, nt ifpt ttum agroumshm, modo r;^
I fri^ uon ohjlef, tuid fropwATt poffit . i
BligMur iti^ue Aqua foasaaa vei iimpitUX
tenuii & Crjfiilima^ qa* levif dr omnis odorm
& japorU exptrs eji, yuod ft forte Pat tuuim
Hfterogeneas & Limofa^ in reetjfu bttkut^
eoHhm tmendetur. \
This is rpoken orfiAiple and elementaiTl
Waters, noc impregnated wrch any Miaer4
particles, (if any fuch are) which, oocwitlvt
fianding they are genuine and pure, yet ib^
are medicinal, tho' noc fo very medicinal
. as Miner aI Waters. And where othcrWaters
arc noc to be had, I have hncwn where a
regular drinking of Spring Wtter hath dond
feme confiderable Cures, by walbing ofl
the acrid ftorbutich Salti from the Bloodi
and ftrengchning the Coats and Fibret of cht
Stomach and Bowels, and hath broughcoQ
both a good Appetite and D^ejiioa. Oot
lafhnce whereof I will here relate. *•
Acef
A certain Man that ufed to frequenc Tan-
&-/4^p, by which he found much Benefit,
wasfoconRn'd by his ABairs, that one Sea-
Ton he could not go thither ; but having a
good Spring or Pump in his Yard, drank
with great Regularity his own Waters, the
ufual Quantity as at the Mineral Waters ;
which did him as much Service, by cooling
his Bioed^ and diluting and walhing off the
Jheterogeneousand tartarous Particles which
Ltiis Cltret had left ; for he was a ^ood Fcl*
^ow, and wrote this Dipch over his Pump :
The Steel is the Cheat,
T« the Water does the Feat.
JBut here it may be doubted, whether a Fer-
rfeverance in drinking of his Pump [i^Mer
might yearly yieldhimihe fame lie«e^(; For
Mineral WaterSjCfpecially the Cfej/jAM/,leavc
a Rellringency and binding Quality on tha
Stomach and Bowels, which manifelUy> ;
Ilrengthens, beyond any other Waters, void
of fuch vitriolic Particles. And Dr. Whift-^ '
Utj an eminent Fhylician, who ufed Jan-*
^j^emany Years, ufed to fay, That in %
dry Seafon he could perfedly tafte a Ga*
VitrioU in them, which is wonderful dif-
kble in ihe Bsth Waters in a dry Sea-
and the Wind at any Northerly Point :
but all Waters, ^uAtenus Waters, noc
lu loaded
APPENDIX
loaded with Cathartick Siln^ as North-Iui^^
ifyfom^ &c. are retlringenc and blod-
■iD^ \ tho' taken in any great Quantity, tbejr
1 Will purge rttione foaderis.
t . That good and pure tVattr has 3 hl/amu
[ snd healing Quality in it, I could give ma-
■jiy Inn^ances, as well exiernally in curing'
\of Wounds, as internally, as Ulcers, Ex-
■coriations, &c. For I once knew a Gen-
riemanot a plentiful Fortune, who by fouie
Accidents fell to decay, and having a nume-
rous Family of fmall Children, wbUll
the Father was a Prifoner in the K.'>>s's
Befieh^ his Family was reduced almolt to
Want ; his Wife and ChildV-en living on
little better than Bretd and IVattr. B^lt I
never faw fuch a Change in f.x Mooths
time, as I did tn this unhappy Family ; lor
the Children that were always ailing and
valetudinary, as Coughs^ Grem-fickmtfsj
IQKg^s-Evil, SfC. were recovered to a Mira-
cle, look'd frefh, well-colour'd, and luliy,
their Flelh hard and plump : But, I re-
member, the Mother told me, it being a
plentiful Year of Fruit, ilie gave them of-
ten bak'd Jpphs with their coarfe Hrf/uL,
which, I think, might very much contri-
bute to their Health. Aud that tnofl re-
markable Story of jilexantUr Selkirk, a
Scotchmsa, who from a leaky Ship was,
upon his own Recj^aeA, fet on Shoar on an
Ifland
APPENDIX. 4»
land in the South 5f*, callM Ju4fi Vtrn&n-
desy about the Latitude of jj Degrees,
vhere he livM 4 Tesrt and 4 Months by
himfeU alone, and eat nothing but Gosfs
Fltjb^ and drank Water^ having neither
Bread nor Salt, as he told me himfelfat the
Bath, where I met him ; and that he was
three times as ftrong, by Exercife and fuch
a Diet, as ever he was in his Life : But,
when taken up by the two Ships, the Duke
and Dachefs, let out from Bripd for the
South Sea, that eating the Ship>fare with
the other Seamen, and drinking Beer, and
other fermented Liquors, his Strength by
degrees began to leave him, like cutting off'
Sampfin's Hair, Crinitim,{to make a Word}
or Lock by Lock ; fo that in one Months
time be had not more Strength than ano-
Ifacr Man. 1 infert this Relation, to fhew',
Sthat Water Is not only fufficient to fubfift
>lis as a Potulenr, but that it liquifies and
•foncofts our Food better than any fer-
mented Liquors whatfoever ; and even
thofe ftrongand fpirituousDriHit/, were it
not for the jvdtrj Particles in them,
would prove altogether dcftruftive, and fo
far from nourifhing, that they would in-
flame and parboil the Tuniclcs of our
Stomachs; as is daily feen, and cfpecially In
the Livers of ff.olt Claretcers, and great
JPriokers of other lUong Liquors, &c. Not
but
434
APPENDIX.
but that a little of thefe fpirkuousLiqaori
may be of Ufe fomctimes, in phlegmy and
cola Conflitutions, but the conltant Ufe is
I tjS pernicious Confequcn(;e ; for we are lU
fo blinded and mifled by Cujiom and Exsm-
_fie^ as to tA\ie Mxi Cdufi fro Caufd; for wfl
ll^ink that the l^^fne warms us, when, alas I
iWc warm the Wia* : For the Spirits In
iihe Wine IHr up the natural Heat to iGt,
rvhich increafcs the Circulation which gal-
Dps on, and flutters in the Blood, till *tis
un out of Breath, and fpent, evaporates
'^knd infenfibly goes off in Perfpiration, c^f.
I'Now this HiiMt, which every merry Bout
"drinking raifes, is taking from the Stoekf
d robbing the BMk, which Nature has
hid up in our Conflirutions, as a Fiiiid of
Heat, if rightly husbanded, to fcrve the
dnimAl loo Years ; but when by UviUhand
bnneceflary Expcnce, 'tis fyuibPd and fir'd
' "^ by Drunkenncfs, and other Irregulari-
:s; his Tenement daily dilapidates, the
liManyZfr/witi, and grows old, mtherj, and
&IIs (>f, e'er half the Time be cxpir'd,
lllowM him even by the fliort Jem/b Cal-
ulationofThreefcore and Ten.
This Truth is every Day's Exferience in
r Friends and Neighbours \ but wiTliog <
the Elofom of our Fears, wc arc loth to '
bring it home ro oarfiives, and make it oar
own Cafe, but drink on, until Difeafcs (as
the
APPENt>fX. 4.^5
the Wife Man fays o{ Poverty) come on us,
like an armed Man, with all the difmal
Views of Pain and 5/cA»e/i;together with the
fad Retrofpe6:of a vicioust'/f, where we fee
che Ruins and Breaches of a (once) good
Conftttation, too wide to be rcpair'd ; and
' Nacurequite tired oat withher Office o(Se4-
•vengeTy fo often to unload our repeated De-
SutucheSy till at taft (he finhs under the fil-
P^ Borthe/t ; and when too late, we cry
t, with the Herd of Fools, Why did I
fpife Inrtruflion ? Why was I not wife
time?
For, alas t when the Organical Parts of
flic humane Fr<ttne areinjur'd,and the whole
"Regulation and OEconomy is out of T«ffp,
the Soul^ the Organirt that plays upon them,
makes but harlh and unpleafant Mufck;
for a Defe£^ibn on either fide fpoils the A/t-
iodyof the whole. So well is that Saying
of the Phiiojhpher :
NuMiaif iiiftir vemrmdum (it meiktt-
meriy qao non Corporif Jed ^ Animi re-
ditite^atur Upfus ; ^uippe a fe invicem it a
pendent, at aniiu inimicmj *lieriusjn hofiii.
And here to begin with fome Cures
done by the force of Htst from the hot
Pamp, where che hotted Baths will not reacb
the Dinemper, that it lies deep among the
Mafcies, oris o/dznd chrome, I have often
fccn the EfTefls of pumping, to a Miracle ;
G g And
^^^6 APPENDIX.
And to inftance, a Man of ^nUiy, who had
•;ft)r fome Years an aching and gnawing Pain
'in \mArm^ a little above the Mufcle B'-
ce^Sj who had tryed Ointments, Plaiftcrs,
[ ,Fcmenutions, Bliftcriog, Purging, and
Bleeding, (and all the Train of Do-llittle<0
to no purpofc: At h^ he came to the
Bath, and began with 200 Pumps, and
increafed every day a Hundred., until he
came to 1 500, or near 2000 ; and whe^
f' he found the Pain to abate, he receded, an^
"abated the Strokes of the Pump gradually,
' IS he began. And 1 faw him fome Year^
gfter, and he told me, he continued wd'^
'tho' in great I'rolh he had a little Remem-
brance of it, but fuch as was tolerable, an4
generally went off with xhtThnrv.
By the good Management under a Couri?'
' -of Pumping, I have feen very great Cur^^
pcrform'd, as, namely, in the Sciatica^ of.
H'p-acftes^ one memorable was in a Gentlcj
man of IreUadj who liv'd in moll intole^
Table Pain; and he yielding to that fide iq
walking, it had drawn him crooked; H^
' pump'd at lead from 500 to 2 or joco, bj*
* which he h^d fome Ed/e, but was notcurec
At laft I advifed him to ufe Cafpi/^ witk
Urge Glaffes, which, he faid, he had fo^
hierly done, but re inftcli ; But, however.
I advlfcd him to try it again, upon warnta
ip^ th? Part well with the Pum}^ and thcf
S
APPENDIX. 457
apply 'em ; which had a wonderful Effeft,
for, by doing that two or three times, he
was perfeflly cur'd ; and, I think, that two
of thofe Cuppings were dry, without Scar-
riBcation.
Sir Thom.-ts Milevrier, a Gentleman of
Torkpjire^ had a great and an old Pain upon
his Hip, from a Fall he receiv'd in Hunt-
ing : He came to the Bath, and from ba-
thing he fell [o pumping for fix Weeks or
two Months together ; the Pain fome-
■whac abated, but his Hip and Thigh pro-
dtgioufly fvveird, and grew foft ; it fo wa-
fted, and'robb'd the rert of his Limbs, and
his whole Body alio, th^t he died of a
MdT/ifmtfs. Alter his Death we open*d the
Part, from whence flow'd fome Qiiarts, aC
leafl: 5 or (5, of an impure f(e:iU corrupt
Pus; and tlie upper part of the Thigh-
Bone, Csrks^ and eaten away with the
acrid corrofive Pas, at leaft 5 or 6 Inches,
ai^d as black as Ink. His Brother Sir.
Richard Malrvrier, who fucceeded him in
his Honour and Eftate, was prefcnt when
his Thigh was open'd.
I could give many Inftanccs of great
Cares done by pumping only ; for the Heac
of the IVtterj prefs'd by the Weight of ic
alfo, from a Uore of a large D/nmeier, and
drawn immediately from the hot Springs
mull have a great Force and Effeft on that
G g a Fare
JlgS JPP ENVIX,
f&n of the Body on which it fall^ : Efpe-
jFcially, when it is held and continued, by Us
k Weight and PrefTure, the Fart muft befo
i extremely xvAfn^A^ as either to Icatter and
Ldifpcrfethe offending mor h id Muter ^ orelfc
[ $iia and dijfolve it, fo as to make it capi-
\h\& oih^a^^bforl'd into the circulatory.
\ Veflels, and feparated by the Secretiomi
L as to be carried off eitlier by "Orine w
A memorable Cafe hereof, wa$ of so Al-
, derm4» of Bttb^ now living i it is near, ifi
, not complete ao Tears fmcc ; And I have;
caufe to remember the Time, for 1 was fai
very ill myfelf with he6itcal HeMs, [ogether,]
with a H*moftoe, that we ufed to comparo^
Notes, and condole each other, as fearing]
• that we were both in the high Road to th^!
Crave, and that our Journeys-end was noci
far off. He connplain'd of a great Pain ii^
his Uick^ which feem'd to lie deep, an4
ibot into his Side ; which Pain was fo iharpy
'and pungent, that he could not deep, tooH
off hisAppetite,and brought him fo very loi*^
that, with yielding and ftoopingto it, bi
went as if crooked : He had the Advice Q
feveral Phj/fieUas, his Friends, for he is i
Jfothecary himfeU, an honeA Man, 81
well belov'd ; they try'd all probable Meai
as Bieeding^ Purgiagy &c. but all in vai
nothing would da, or give him the teal
£al*
APT END IX. 4-^9
Eafe or Relief; moil fuppofing it an fmpo-
flumation,an Abcefs breeding, Atlengrb of
his own Head, proprio (mpu/fu^ he refolv'd
upon trying the t'uwp to the Extremity,
and, I think, he told me, that from 500 he
proceeded to 2000, and fo on to 3000
Strokes of the Pump, with a CoutwaMdo :
The extreme Heac made him fomewhac
fever/jb, but liill he bore it, aod went on,
until at length his DiHemper yielded to the
Cure. I thought to have had this moft me-
moiabic Htfiory^ with many rare and nice
Circumllances in it, under his own Hand,
bitt forj^ot to delire it of him when I was
lart at the Bsih ; but, in the main, it was'
the Paw/", and nothing but the P«7w^, to
whicli he owM his Care, and confequently
his -^(/f- And, doubiiefs, in many Chronical
old Jchis and Bruijh, iVlcn might receive
much more Benefit than they do, would
they have Patience and Pcrfeverance ; but
fuch is peoples Harte, that if they have roc
a perfe^i: Cure in a Week, two, or three,
they neglect, grow weary, and totally a-
bandon any farther Tryal, and Eflays : For
the Weight of Water from a Spout or Pump
of a large Diameter, has done wonderful
Cures as well from the cold as the hot i-Va.
t«ri, according as the Cafe, either hot or
cold, requires the Application of liiofe con-
trary aud oppofite lluiUtiu \ tho' the re-
cciv'd
cciv'd Axioms are fmilid Jimilihm fd/tanttir,
^ coritrArUcontriri^ curantur^\uh\cU in fomc
Cafes, are both in force^ and both ufed, pro-
duce fometimes the contrary EfFcfts, as
hot or warm Apphcations to a hoc or io-
flam'd Pare, where it is neccfTary to open
the Pores^ and give the bilioms hoc Pdrtic/es
and Steams room and hberty to evaporate,
and fly o/,- which has allayM and coolM
the cutaneous Mwera or Ferments, which
were lock'd, and glu'd in the choak'd-up
MeataSj and Pores o( the Slcin and Glands^
when a cold Application would have con-
trafted, and ftop'd, to the increafe of the
Inflammation, and perhaps (as verv often
it has done) brought on a Montjiciition ;
and, contrarily, 1 have feen, that in a cold
phlegmy adewuous Tumor, fuch as are of-
ten on the Kjie<-^ call'd a White SweHitig,
hath been cured and difcufs'd by a Weight
of cold Heater pump'd on it, with other
proper Applications ; which, if it proceeds
not from a Spi/ta t'emoja, and Cartes nf the
Bonfy does rartly fait ot Cure. A late Hi-
llory hereof I ihall, for the good ol thofc
that have, or may have fuch a Misfortune,
fairly llaie and relate, &c.
Ayoui\gMznonVorci-Jier,Mr.Momford,z
Bookfeller s Son, aged about 25, had a very
large White Swelling on his/C«« ; after the
Tryalofmany Applications, to no purpofe,
bs
AP P ENDIX. 44.1
le came to the Bml/, and there, for a long
:ime, ufed the Pump ; But finding little or
no BencBt, I advii'ed him to try what eoU
l^aier would do, and either to hold his
X/iit under the ImU of an over-fhot Milf-
Streum, or fome very cold Pamp, whofe
ffpout had a large DUmeter^ and to do this,
^ he had Conveniency, twice in a day ;
,and, going to Bed, to wrap a large Towei,
(fmtt in a Dccoflion of OAk-bari, Lime-Jione
(Well burnt and flack'd in the fharpeft old
yerjaice: By the Continuance of which
Jbme little time, he threw by his Crutches^
and walli'd all the Town o'er with an un-
;^er-hand Stick ; and I hear fince, that
£e walks without any Stick at al). I
gave Sir John Vbytr an Account of this
Igreat {jind^ I may fay, anexpeiJed Cure) but
5e was of the Opinion, that the Remedy
.was more owing to tlie Lime and Verjuice
Oak-hdrk, than to the cold Water. Now,
if any are fo curious as to make the Expe-
riment, if fingly, they (hould not fucceed,
they may try ihem jointly afterward, with-
out any hazard ; Tho' I am of the Opi-
nion, that that Application of the Bark^ &c.
both warms the Part, and difcufles alfo,
after the Ufe of the cold Water, which I
very much doubt would not have done
without it ; for the Preffure and Cold, (q
jery foi'cibly laid on, mult awaken and pir
up
44^
AP P ENV I X.
up tlie Spirits to x£t, as is fecn by the Glow-
ing and Warmth in the Part after pumpingy
tho' no Heat in the leait perceptible before:
And I am alfo perfuaded, that the AppK*
cation of Siwif, to fo cold and phlegmya
Part, might do almoil tlie fame thiog, be-
fore the Ufe of the Bark and Lime, &c for
as in cold Coaatrtes^ when hrxumyd and
frozen^ they lirft rub the Parts with Ham^
before they will fuffer *em to come into
their Stoves, or approach the Fire : Of
which CuAom, among the Northern Peo-
ple, Fdrtetitt HiUabus gives many In-
Itances.
But a wonderful Cure, by a coatrary
Method of a large teiemttotu tumor in the
VOw^)*asperform*don the lionourableCapt
Edofard Nevdy Commander of a Man of
War, Brother to the Right Honourable pbc
Lord Abergsveny; the Part wa» at firll $»-
fism'd by the Application of a C'tt^ptofm
made of the hot amifcorhuac Plants, fuch a*
Garden Scuri'ygrtfs, Garden Cnff^ Hffrfe-
Radtjh, Erjjimara, Trifoiiarr^ Pttittdojam^ and
fuch like Plants, which very much inilam'd
it. The next day they took away about
ao Ounces of Ulood ; two days after Phle-
botomy he was purgd, and fo every other
day, or two days the Purge repeated ;
and, on his Kpee apply'd a Flaifter of dt
Ranis e zVifrc«r;o,aod e Muctit^imhus^ mix'd,
wid)
W APP ENDI X. 44^
with a pretty tight broad Bsndsge of Lin-
nen, infomuch that the next Morning* af-
ter the Bleeding and firft Purge, his Kjk<
fubfided, and funk in the Circumference at
lead fcveo or eight Inches i and, by re-
peated gentle Pargdtiom, and a fpare low
Dietj in about three Weeks, or a Month at
mod, he was as iveS as ever he was in his
Liff, and walk'd abroad without the lead
Hdliiag or LAmenefs. This Cafe is yet well
reineinberM by his noble Brother my Lord
Bergtveuy, and Mr. Middkton a Glover ia
FUetfireetf at whofe Houfe helode'd. This
is the Sum of what I now remember of this
great Cure, confidering that the Captain had
the Swelling growing upon him fome Years.
What was farther done than what is here
related, may be feen upon the File at Capt.
fV«*j's Shop on Ludpatehiliy who was hia
apothecary, 2nd atteaded him thro' the whole
Cure.
B^Tho' this ExperioKat fucceeded very
Hnl, yet lee Men be very cautious bow
Maey attempt a Cure by this Method ; for
' an Ifififnmation eafily falls into a Mortis
fcation^ cfpedally in an ill ti^it, and mor-
bid Bodj/^ and then it may come to a ii^h
would have thought it '. Bot the otlier Cure
by coid Pumping^ &c. is very fafe, and eafy
10 be eday'd, without Hazard or Dan*
H b Several
r
44+
AP P END IX.
cocl
.0=]
KD^ J
Several great and conriderable Cures havsl
been dooc upon mnicMt Perfons, even where
tiv DiAra^on has been TAviagy and all ,
Hopes of Recovery given over, and alt d
ufual BeiUm Methods have been baflTdj
and the Patient funk., and brought low^ \ _
^ often HleediKg, and neediefs PurgAtiomSj oi'"
ly by a fpare DUt of chiefly Fruiis and
' kootij but always keeping the HeM tool
in that Diet, or elfe that affo will not do : ,
A Hiftory of which I here gice you, com*
municated to tne by aGemteoun oi Scot*}
• Uody one of the Lords of the 6'^£w, IVJ
SecfjS, a Civilian, who was an Eye-wiui
neis to the Cure.
A Ship, belonging to SweielmA^ was, in
the Winter-time, calt away upon the Nor-
' thern Pan of the Sc^ch Coaft, but moft of
the Mm were (by the AffiQancc of th(
Inhabitants) fAv*d : Some of thcfe poa
Seamen being {helter'd and relievM by tbj
Charity of a Gentleman in a Village, then
chanced to be at his Houfc a Brother, d
iome near Relation, difirtHed. and ravinj
w/, inforauch chat he wa$ bound in hi
Bed^ and bad been fo for ibmc confiderabfi
time ; fome of thefe Seamen told them
chat if they would make him wear a C^
fiird with Sbovpj and as it melted to reple^
BiQi it, it would in a iktie time caufe hint
CO jleef J which bad the defircd Efe£i .- And
be
APPENDIX. 44-5
^B awak'd very calm and fober, and, by a
■ a little time pcrfevetiog in this Method, he
was perfeftly eartd ; only had the Misfor-
tune of having a fi>.-ifmod:c ContraftioD oq
one fide of his F^ce^ from the Extremity
of the coU Snocf in over-doing it : And
the Do^r told me, that after thU he had
known two or three more cured by the
I (ame Method ; and I have been credibly in-
^^brm'd by a Gentleman, Vtde Mgrnis^ that
|be knew one in that Dillemper pcrfe£lly
Beared, by eating jifffits for a Months and
nothing elfe ; and that they kept him loofe,
and Ibluble, all the time : Not that I think
that this, or any other Method, would
cure all forts of msmc4l People ; for fome
forts of MadoefTes are certainly incurable:
And there are more forts of this Di-
flcmper than of any one Diftemper what-
focver. So that the Method of Curt Jhould
be confuked from the Caufey without which
we fiioot at rovers, and work in the dark ,
and in luch a Cafe the Phjfcidu is more
^Biad than his Patient : So that this cold
^pMetbod is much fitter for the unruly, and
Proving, tlian the melancholy Madncfs, efpe-
ctally, if aoy religious Defpairtng be in the
Cafe.
A young Man troubled in Mind, from an
unknown Caufe, was ac ti,T% for ^rae
time, fuUiff. and mtUneboh ; afterwards, he
Hh« IcU
446 APPE NDIX.
fell into an unruly Farj^ and Ravsngj who
after gentle Bleeding and Purging, a cool
iparc Diet, the Ufeofcold Immevfion, fre-
quently walhiog his Head with a Deco-
ction of Sedam, Endivey Cttborf, cofnmOQ
' J^i^hjhade, Purjlmn^ and tettitt^ cold, ad
' lying hard^ and thiity without a Op, wai
perfef^ly cured in three Month's ctine
without any Relapfe.
Mr. 'Thomas Hohkf, a Gentleman of great
Honour and Integrity, told me. That tbs
VioU Tricolor^ call'd Heart's-Eafey hath cu-
red many mad People, to his Knowledge,
by drinking the Juice, and alfo the Heri
(leep'd in their Tahle<driak ; and deliredi
fne to try it, and to give him an Account
of the Effi:€ts of it ; but as yet I have not
1 had an Opportunity. Tho* I have pro?
I pos'd the Ufe of it to thofe who have had
the Management of People under thofe Cir*
icumftances, but, thro' Want of Faith, ei-
ther in the f^trttie of the P/«»/, or fomc
A4iftake in the Relation, they negle£led
the Hxperimenr, not conceiviog how fa
' fimple and taftelefs a Plant could perforai
ib great a Cure, as to fedate and quiet the
■Furor and Juxy of the Spirits, aad preter-
natural Ferments of the BUod j nor con-
'iiderfDg the occult Qualities both ofPiaats
p^^od Minerals, which the befl £aquircr
afl4
^miA dee]
■ never aci
APPENDIX.
I
_jd deepeft Peeper into MiS-ftones could
never account for.
Tis evident, the great Effefls of the
PeruvUft Bark, io tatermicting Fever/^ and
other Cafes, lies out of the Reach of our
Scrutiny ; for, other Barh and Roots arc
more fiiptick and bitter, &c. than that^ yec
will hardly reach to a Saccedanium ; fo it
inul^ forever lie in the dark till Sohmc/i's
Refurre^iion.
Th^ d Thing is, Md does, tse kaow^
But bow, And why,
Btffits cur mAk Philofophy.
But to proceed on the Good, that jw^m-
caI People have received from a cool Regi-
men, and cold Application externally ; alto
I fhall here give an Account, what my in-
genious Friend, and moft knowing Bota-
nift, Mr. 'JAmes Petiver, hath received from
a learned Scotch Phyfician, Dr. Blair of
Cotvpery in Angus^ in North BritAtn.
This Man was fo raving mad^ that he
was bound in Fetters; having firft tryed
all Evacuations, ufual in fuch Cafes, toge-
ther with Opiats in great Quantity, but to
no purpofe, I, at length, plung'd him ex
improvifoy into a great Vcffel o( cold IVater^
and at the fame time throwing on him,
with great Violence, ten or twelve Pails
full
4+8 APPENDIX.
fuU of cold Water on his Head ; but tbc
not fuccceding, the next day having the
Coiweniency of a Fall of Water, about half
a Mile off, I caus d him to be placed in a
Cart, and fhipt from hisCloaths; and, be*
ing blindf||tU, that the Surprize might be
the greater, let fall cm a fudden a great
Fall or Rufh of Water, about 20 Fool
high, and continued him under it as long as
his Strength would well permit : This fuc-
ceeded fo well, that after his Return home,
he fel) into a detf Sleep for the fpaee of 29
hours> and awaken'd in aquiet and ferene
State of Mind as ever, and fo continues to
this day, it being now about Twelve
Months fince ; but in fome hypoeboiidiUc
and parslytic Cafes, I have not fouod it to
fijcceed fo well.
Alfo a B07, about 15 Years of Age,
feiz'd with a ParapUgUy who, after feve-
ral vain Attempts in hot-dry, and hot-
wet Baths, Semt-Capiums, S^z. and totally
deprivd of the Ufe of his Limh^ and alio
emaciated, 1 at length had recourfe to the
cold Immcrfioo, whereby fome fmall Symp-
toms of Recovery began to appear : His
Parents defuing farther Advice, brought
into Confultation with mc the learned
Dr. PiscArne of Edwbourghy unto wtram I
wrote, that all the Hopes I had of recover-
ing him, was, by proceeding in the cold
Regimea
APPENDIX 449
Regimen of Bathing, as he was now in :
Ot which the Doctor approved ; but fai*
thcr advifed ihc (Utdrafl, or Fall of Water,
from a MiH, to which I confcnted ; it ap-
pearing realbnablc^amii/V/, from thegrcatcr
Force and PrcfTurc ; fo placing 4| hoy un-
der the Dcfcent of the Water- falfabout 12
or 14 Foot high, that the Water's grcateft
Force might tall upon that Fart which I
fufpe£^cd to be the mikefl^ and kept bin
under it about the fpacc of three Minutes
the HrA time, and fo daily lengthoing the
time Co fevcn or eight Minutes, allowing
fome few Intervals in this cMidrdlfie^
Courfc 5 the Boy, in a very little time, re-
covered, and was as brisk and nimble as
ever he was in his Life.
Now to requite Dr. Blair for his great
Cures done by Cataracts without, I will tell
faim of a greater Cure done by Catara^^s
fpithin-doors, if I may fo ufc the ExprcfTion ;
for a great Fall of Water is a 0/*r4^, whe-
ther within the Body, or without it. But
to rvAvi Words, and come to tlic Hiflory,
it is this :
Sir Thema4 tVitheriy, wlicn he was Prefi-
Mentof the the College of Phyficians,L(i#-
^«, was plca&'d to entertain fomc of the
Felhwj at the Board with this following
moft furprizing Story of an hydropical
Cure. I'hat Water {houid expcU Water, and
that
450 APPENVI X.
that a drowoM Man Iliould be brought ta
f Life by being more drown'd, is a Mindt
I beyond any of S. Wtmfre£s,
I A certain Wint-Cooper^ that had beeaa
I free Ijvei>. fell into a Jiandice^ thence, as
i the ufua^nge is, into a Dropfj, the Afcites\
be apply'dfor Help to Sir Thomss Witlmlj,
then Phyfician to King Cbtrtes II, he, as he
laid, treated him in all the ufual Methods
pra^icable in fuch Cafes, but nothing
would do : He made little Urine, grew
dron'fy and dfihntdtictl^ infomuch that he
erew weary of his Patient, forefeeiog he
rould foon die. He defired fome near
Friend to pronounce Sentence, for a Phy-
fician fhould never do it himfelf 5 for ihofe
who are Jdjutores l^iu fhould not be A'eji-
eii Mortis. In fliort, this Mao was pro-
digioufly fwell'd, Belly, Back, Sides, ThigfB,
and Legs. Thus, being paftall Hopes, and
forfaken by hh Phyfician, and given over
by his Friends, he defired his Wife to let
bim die at Ssdler'*s WetU at Ijlingion, to
which (he confented ; and when there, he
told her, in that he had always been a kmd
and loving Husband to her, that fbe would
grant him one Requeft, which was. That
having 00 him an ioextinguifbible Thirfi^
fhe would let him drink his Fill of thofc
Waters, and then, that he Ihould go out of
this World vv'cU fatisHed thac Ibe truly
iov'd
APP ENDIX.
rd him ; and if Qie deny'd him, he Ihould
y a miferable Mm, both in Mind and Bodjf.
t feeing him fo refolv'd and bent ep-
ic, and confidering all other Means
iail'd, confeoted : And, to the be[J of my
Remembrance, Sir Thomas told uS, That
from between 4 in the Afternoon and 9 or
10 at Night, he drank 14 Quarts of Wa-
ter, and all that time made not one drop
of Urine ; he fank down^ in the Chatr
whereia he fate, dead^ as they all thought,
in a cold clammy Sweat ; thence being laid
00 the Bed, in half an Hour's time they
heard fomething make a fmall rattling
Noife, like a Coach on a diftant Gravel-
way; and fooa after he began to pifi, and
ptji''d in an Hour's time about 7 or 8 Qtf»rts^
aj)d had alfo, from the Weight of the Wa-
ter, two or three Stools : He began to Ipeak,
and defir'd a little warm S«i, which they
gave him. He fell into a profound Sleepy
in which he both fmai^ and dribbl'd his
Vrim all that Night. The next day he
drank, by degrees, about 4 or ^ Quarts of
Water more, and had two Stools more,
thin and waterilh, but dill piji'd on, and
drank on, more or lefs, for ti?e or fix days
together, taking alt that while nothing for
Food but thin Mution Brothy and fometimes
a little Sack, and fo recover'd. Now do
iMan upon Earth, in his Senfes, would have
I i prefcrib'd
+5^
A PP END IX.
prercrib'd fuch a Water- courfe to cure
Droff^ ; which ftitws how little we kno
QiNAture^ aad the great Uncertainty ofoue
Jri.
And to this Cefe may be aptly appl)'
thefe LiflC!) :
A Mfdicine msy hit * DifcMfe goae *jffr^,
iTiit^' untiiiftly frtlerih'd^ quite out of tbtWt}i
He enkpcivn u the Caujs of ex'ery Diftsft,
Lotlu af in Damt Nature, trho uone kup
. tb« KpP-
$iftf m mite in tke^tigk, jet .pE^rik i
-,,;**« Dark, ■:>•
Afid^ a'l not A Chduce then if wt itr bi
thf AUrk ?
So * Do£for in mtf^ng is never to hU*
For^who fboots in tht Dsrk can never tskt A
So iif that's [a hold hit I'aitcfit to aarrsnt, '■
^hfiald i>e ejieetn'd s Hjftck Kpight'EnMt,
( Tbe Relation of this mofl unaccount^
Cure, Sir Thomts fays, had for ever I
lo(l, if he had not accldeataily met tt
good Woman his Wsfe about two Yeai
after; and asking her, how long IicrHi
band liv'd aticr he had left him ? Sbcr
ply'd, (to his great AftoniiTimeotl) T*
he rvas dive uoir, jfte ihmkd GO D, aa
pointing to a iittle fleader Min (landia
E^ her, htre he is, this u my Hu/ha
APPENDIX. 4S?
tk*t rftt your P*ti«Hi, tut rtcovn'd i/j i/tiitg
hit own Ph)jician ; and lb related ihc Story
hero mentioned.
His Son- in- 1 n w, Mr. llromfii'ld^ who mar-
ried Sir Thnm.u^n D^iUj'.htcr, «n Apoihocary
\X\Hrot)k-^iiilMmn, I lo/hrrt, had ttie whole
HiHory of this in Willing, which he
had from both itio Winc-Coopcr and hii
Wifi:, &c.
But how to account for a Cure of this
Nature, is a pnz/Jinp, Adventure; it being
done by Addition and Muhipiiution oi' the
UmeMdtifTy of which moilly ttic Uifraji
was made : So, If we confult l<i-if<m^ fiic
tells us, That fuch a Quantity of told WMttr
fo fad pour'd in, mull quite cxtinguifh the
natural hlett, which, in all hdropie Bo-
dies, is too we3l(, low, and languid in it-
fcir. ad/y, Cold Water cannot amend and
foftcn an tjblkiid^cd, hard, and iidrihous
Livor, not' rcftorc a dccay'd and rotten
OmtniHm, nor the other ^{/(fM, fotldon and
ftcw'd, (like a C/irpJ in Cldret, and other
fermented J.ifiunrf, to tlie Dclltuftion of
their V'finr and 7>x/»rf, and rcndei'J ui)-
capflblc of cxccutinR their Oflict ; whence
comes an tjjo'ti (,'A;/f, poor bloody and
worle ^/i/m;. But if this Story he /i^/, u
I believe it ii), we mult acquicfcc in otv
Rearoning<; until the LoKfii»4iiianMi\ Pjc-
<]uet!> of L>ifcoverics ore ojjciKd ; in tt.e m-
1 i 3 tedm.
i
454 APPEl ^ DIX.
tcrim, let it remain bound up in the Bailee
with the reft of the Osculta.
This following Relation is of a wonder-
ful Cure done on Mr. H±nh$iTj^ afterward
Sir Thomiu Haiibury^ near Gketfttr^ by dio
DireQions and Care of the learned Dr. Kn-
btrt heiidijt^^ principally perform'd by ihfl
regular Ufe and AdminlAration of Bttkt
and Butter-milkj in a true Mar/ifmM,
SIR,
TO anfwer your Requefl, conceroing
the great Cure of a Gentlemao, 'm
a moft deplorable Cafe, by Name Mr,
Tf'omis Hinhury of Little MjriiU, ia Here-
firdfbire^ in An. \6%B. In the Month of
'^ulj I was fent for to him, aged about 2%
ox 2j, whom I found feverith to ihe moft
intenfe Degree, with a violent parchin|
//fiir, and Thir(l unquenchable, PaZ/equid
and high, little Urine, and that very nigh-
colouro ; his Mouth, as it were, fcorch'd j
two Chaps, or FilTures, the whole Length
of the Tongue ; the Mufcle of the Thumk
quite confumed, fo that the P*tm of his
Piand was all plain ; no Cough, but a con*
firm'd Mfilte ; and was reduced to a Sielt''
$on^ only a Skin hung upon a few Booe^
and that drycd, wither'd, and ill colour'd.
I was informed, that in the Spring he was
feijed wiih an Jgue^ which cbang'd its
APPENDIX, 455
^^ate two or three times, and, Toon after,
terminated into a Synochus^ or continued
Fever : I order'd him all the Vfualia^ as
in thofe Cafes, as Emulllons, with other
cooling jf«/f^J» Src. as alfo MuciUges of
Quince-fieds, Sent. PJyL with Sj/ru^ of VioUts,
jlq. Lujal.Scc. for the Drynefs and Chaps
ci his Mou:h and Tongue : But whilft my
Thoughts were thus employ*d, and, as it
were, at a Hand what to do, and condder-
ing his Cafe a true Marafmm, and feeing a
large Dairy near us, I conceived in myfelf,
that Batier-Mt/k would anfwer fevcral In-
tentions, as being coohng, moijiningy and
rtoari(bing ; and, if to this were added a
coohttg B*thj madefoft with emollient and
cooling Plants, it might temper and allay
the Drought and Heat of the Habit of ihc
Body, and mufcular Parts; fo a Hath was
prepar'd with yialet and Sir^wbmy Leaves,
Cicbory, Endive, PUiitjiae^Wtllsjv Leaves^c?"?.
I immediately procur'd a GUJi-Charn^
btownat the Glafs-houfe at GhceJIer, and
baving Milk enough always at liand, I or-
der'd the Nurfe to churn for him frejh
Butter-Milk, and to let him touch nothing
eife : Then the Bath being ready, we made
L it at firft Milk-ivarm, to keep him from
iffivering, or a Rfgor at his firll going ini
I '^nd in this Bstb he fat up co the Chi», ana
|.thcre he remain'd until it began to grow
cold
45* AF F END tX.
cold upon him. The firfl time he face ia
it threcQuancrsofan Hour, then an Hour,
then an Hour and a half, and fometimn
longer, is he iaw good, and was bathed
thus twice in a day. Then J orderd him
Lincameotsof Oil of Violets, Gam Jr*hic^
with Vug, Nutrttuttt, and Woman's Milk ;
with thiti they anointed his Bick-boae^ and
7(w»/i,8n:. after bathing. And in thisCourfc
be coniinucd fcven Weeks, taking nothing
but Baitrr-mili!. And when he began to
dcfire fome other Fooiy I then order'd him
a Draught made of the Tolk of an ^,
Rofr'iviiir^r\di a little Sag^r and Nutmegs and
juil taking oft the Cotd, let him drink it;
which Draught pleasM him well : And I
told him, that he might take it at any
titnc. Soon after I order'd him, firrf,
(to give by Degrees) the Juice of Meat,
filch as Cbtckea^ Ved^ Limb, &C. taking ofF
the Fat, alfo 'jdlies of Ham-horn Ivary^
with a little Orange and Sugar, drc.
But now a new Trouble arofe, his Sto-
mtch coming on, and his hecVical Heat
going off, his Legs were fweli'd like Blad-
ders halt fiil'd With Water ; for this 1 or-
krd a Decoclion of Sdrfa and Cbiu* with
^arflty Roots and Currants, to drink no
Walt Liquors, eat Water-gruel with Rai-
allo Puddings made light of Bread,
Lpr flower, without Suet, but with KaiOos;
alto
I
APPENDIX. 4S7
alfo Flummery, and Milk-pottage ; to ufe
gentle t'ricattotts, and fomttimcs to cat a
boiled Chicken with Soncl Sauce ; and fo,
by Degrees, to proceed to fiiongcr Meats;
but never to eat his Fill, and always to rife
iirom Table with lomc Remains of an Jp-
pttite.
This Method fuccccdcd fo well, that he
daily got Strength : At the Knd of j4t/£aji
he brought mc fame Miles on my Journey.
This GeatlemM was fincc Knighted, twice
married, and had IJfue by both f-^e/i:er\
and, I believe, may bcyecliving. If you
have any new Cafes of Moment, either in
hot or co!d Bathing, or otherwife, be plea-
fed to communicate them to your old
Friend, and hunablc Servant,
Rolcrt Feiiding.
This, to give this judicious Pbyfician h»
due, was a wonderful Cure, wifely con-
certed, and with Patience profccutcd :
Had this poor Gentleman fallen into fomc
Hands, how had his Suul, long fincc, been
hmh'd out with Wo/w's ? How many Hods
of Difpenfary Hodge-podge had been car-
ried in ? How many litfetafur\ and Rt-
petdMer's ? How many Smgalitj fieands,
ttrlUy & qutrtM qusf^ue HorA'a^ had he
been peltfd into his Grave wirh ? And,
Uftly, l\kc i Horf; perhaps buried without
niSj T Was
•r, which
his Hide, and encear'd in a Sheet oi Blijiif
ing PUiJlert for his Shrowd.
The afi cf Mr. R. Hetmes, Jan. of
Bury 5/. Edmonds.
'' Was taken very ill, and, in all' '
Appearance, it feem'd to be
a Fever, which continued upon me for fix
Weeks : All proper Means being ufcd to
remove it s which, indeed, it was, although
not altogether fo effedually as could have
been wilhed. The Dillcmpcr falling into
my Occiput, where tt fcemed as if there had
been a Lance iiruck into it, which caufed
me to have a fainting Fit almoft every Mi-
nute. Thus it remained for nine Months
without intermifijon ; and then it returning
to lis former Shape and Form, fiom which
it was diverted for fome time : But at tall
fell into my Abdomtn^ which fwcli'd very
much every Night at fix a Clock ; and by
feven in the Morning it was not to be per- '
ccived. From my Ahdomtn it fell into my
i'fgs, which fweird alter the fame manner :
From thence it went into my Hack, and
Vreters, and was there fo very violent, thac
1 could not make above a Spoonful of Vrine
at a time, and that with the greatest Fain
imaginable. Thus it abode for fome time;
aud then, by the Uireflion of a Pf/jficUn, I
went into a Hot Buh, made of Herbs,
Milk,
APPENDIX.
459
Hilk, &c. which, after I had done it onc^
femoved the Difcafe into my Chefi^ and
pere, every time 1 made Urine, tyed me
3 fo much, that I could not breathe ; ia
Porture it was for ten Days: And
I made its Removal into my Back and
inters again, where, not being able to bear
, I came up to Loadon^ for the Advice of
tr.SIoanej who order'd me to go down
> the Bar*, and drink the 14^ atcrs ; which,
xordingly, I did, and found Relief by
1 during the Time I was there : Bur,
Murning Home, was taken with a Flux,
[^hich put me into great diforder ; and in
I fhorc time after, I loft the Ufe of my
X-f and IO*ees, ib that I could neither
Sand or kneel for nine Months, tin, by the
dvkcoiDv.Craske, I went into the CoU
Uth, which, after two Months Continu-
of it every Day, I found myfelf fo
%)l as to walk almoft a Mrle ; and then
ig it every other Day, till I found my-
as well as ever ; and have not had, a
Month's Sicknefs fince, unlefs the Smtd Pojc,
which is now almoft three Years ago.
R. Helmesj Jun.
I Tbe other Cure Trrtm^ht kf tbt C(AiA Bath, i
upoH Mri. Taylor, a j<m»g GentUmmaiW
ihu kodrdeA tC mj father's..
AT the Beginning of her lllnefs,
was kxix^ with violent Pains of hi
Bstk^ Limbs., and Hesd, fo tliat fhe coul
pot fleep Night nor Day, but was
^nual TarmeHt, and fo very cold, that the
ftrongert Corduls which could be made
P'would not bring her lo a natural Hcu;
I and, in a Week's time, with the Agony
iof thcfe Pains, (he fell into ftrong EfiUpm
and Ccnvulfoa Fits, which drew her Mouth
and Eyes on one fide ; and when ihcfe ftu
were going off, (he would foam at the
Mouth, and talk as infenfibly as any delti' '
ous Perfon ; In this manner (he remain'
for fome time ; all proper Remedies
appty'd, but not finding much Relief
them, was advifed by Dt.CtmIu to go
to the Cold B»thy which, accordingly,
did ; and, in two Months time, with
Help of fome Medicines that (he took, \
feftly recover'd her, and hath been vi
well ever fince.
This Mrs. TAylor was a Geatlewoi
of Tirmouth.
The Young Man hJmfelf writ and gave
tne both thefe Relations : fiuc I have re-
ceived
AP f ENVI X. 461
lived fincc a Letter from the learned and
gcnious Phylician Dr.CVai/Yhimfelf, with
; whole l*inccfs of the Cure, with all
; rational Phurmdcfutic Steps he cook in
the Cure of both tlicfc Pstientt ; but they
arc too long to iafcrt in this thort Jppta-
And now T am upon that grand Eiixir,
the Phytician's AmiMntcren, the renowned
Liquor iiutier-mtlkj I mull here aflurc the
Reader, that fcvcral, to my own Know-
ledgC) have been cured of Flufhrn^s, preter-
natural Httts^ and I'omc of contirtn d He-
ilits^ by the much Ufc of liutter-miik ;
whereof Mr. Thomas Hohby gave IcvciaJ
Inilanccs in his own Neighbourhood ; and
that two of his own Tenants were cured
of Hffl/e Ftvirt by drinkinp of Bittttr-
milk ; but whether they drank it ntiv^ or
fovfn, I forguc CO ask him.
Sir "John Hodgkw!^ late Maftcr in Ch*n.
irry, and Prtfident of the Royal Saeiitj, told
mc, that, ot his own Knowledge^ divers
Perfons have been cured both ot Hdiics
and Phthifics by tlie folc Ufc of }iutttr-mill.\
and that in /jr(f//c4/ Cafes, where the Heat
was much, and their Thirft more tatrnfty
there Btttttr'Wi/k a little /?<i/f and jmre was
bcft, but, in a Phthtfietl Hahit, fwecr
Buttif'mU/:, new churn'd, did more nou-
K k 3 ritl),
iV63 A?? ENVIX.
rifb. and alfo did fomewhat mitigate aa<l
allay their Cough better than foivre.
Thus Butter milk, Whey^ and alfo Milk-
pieMs of all forts, keep the Biood calm,
quiet, and upon an Aqutpotfe with thoi
Solids^ in which confifls the true State o£
Heslth : And in this Ro/id^ Life may Jogg
on in a fober travelling Trot 150 Years j
and, at laft, unwearied, come into his Ina
(ooly and fall aflecp without a Grodn, and
depart as eafily on a BoArd as on a Bfd.
WhilR the Drunkurd makes Matches in bis
own BomlSy and fets his Blood to run Hacet
round her own Padoc, fo many Heats a
Bottle, Ride and Ruh, id eft, fmoak a P'pe,
and (ir/«(&, till poor Nature's run out of
Breath, and off her Speed, before the Man
is 90 ; and then good Night Nicolas, for
IShkjMded^ and can hardly keep np to a.
Foot-pace : And if, thro* fome few re-,
maining unworn-out Mujchsy j^e creeps oa
a Year or two more, wiih her dear-bought
Companions, Goat and Stone, tofmeak&ni.
repent in the Intervals of Paia and periodi.
cal Torture, this is all that can be expeSed
from fuch z foo/ijh, JhaHow Heiffbo-uer out )rf
the World.
I could give cndlefs Accounts of good
Health, and Length of Days, enjoyed by,
thofe who do early put in Execution a;
cool, fober, and temperate Life ; and fome,
I
APP ENDIX. 46j
who have lived very freely, have help^ and
amended a bad Hahit^ by tacking abour^
and iieering a new Courfe of Life.
To\j Purcell, Efq; Governour of Dum-
canno^ Fort, near Wat erf or d in Ireland, hath
drank nothing but Milk, and cat Breads
for above the Space of 20 Years, which
has cured him of the Qout, which was on
him many Years mod fevercly.
Mr* WiUiam Mafiers, Merchant in Cork^
drinks nothing but Milky and has recovered
his Limbs to a Miracle.
I have had lately fent me feme remar-
kable Cures in both Jtrophys ^t\A Vlnhtfics^
by drinking of Goat^s-mlky where both
jijfes and Cows have faiPd,
Mtlk has all along been held not only
very nutritive^ being the firfl: Food of all
Animals tliat fuck, but antiheitical alfo ;
and for that Rcafon we fuppofe, that the
Irijh, who feed much upon it, are general-
ly freed from pulmoniac Coughs, and Con^
fumPtions. And Theophilus Garencieres
maKes this Obfervation in his Book de Tabe
Afi^licand :
Hj/berni folo LaSiis ufu qui ipfis pro potu^
dr cibo ejl^ ab hoc malo Ji tuantur ; lac enim
parte Butjraced optime r/utrit, ^ fanguir^em
laudabilem generat, parte ferosd pulmonem
abpergit, d^ Qafeosd ajlringit, qua omnia ad
pulmonis
fmLmomit rotmr eomjervtiuium^ non ftrvifimt
mamemtr.
And frofli their UBidmMry Ditt, I pre*
fume, Co few of tbem are ever troubled
Vtth the ^fwr.
And I hive heard OrXyfrimtas^ cbcfo-
mous Luhctomiff, fiy, That he has ob*
fcnM, thatthofe who eat much Milk znd
fi^b never are troubled with the S(om»
The vcrtuous MnXfctlts Psntoti^ the fa-
mous H'fJftTB Beauty, Daughter of Dr.pM-
toM^ who, from a florid arid good Habit of
Hody fccmingly, fell into a Heclie fuddeo-
ly, thence into a galloping Phthtfu in a ve>
ry few Months; fiic was advifed to Riding,
and Jji'^ Milk ; In which Courfe fbc perfe-
ver\L(lriftly, but it funk her; her hkitic
and Cr:^6 were inceffant : And a little be-
fore llic dy'd, faid, Thti Jhe ipo»<ifrV thut
Phylicians Jbould de^nA fa much ufon AfsV
h\\\k^ for jbe bsd foMftd, by Ex^ritmce^ tba
Afsi Milk tf*f dM Ak's Rtmeij.
I am very well latisfied, that the giving
of the Bxrk aod Opium In Heclics, and tho
Beginning of Loughs, has deltroy'd many a
one ; they thinking the B«f* would give
a th-.ck to the W(«r, as the OfUte would to
the Cotigh : But, alas ! it is, in my Opi-
nion, quite wrong ; for they (hould take
fuch things as woulddiluteand promote Ex-
peOoraiion ; for the tcrU Seram^ a fort of
a lixiviMl
APPEhD IX.
1 not dif- '
t
a lixivUt Salty being l^opp'd, and not dif-
charg'd from the Lun^j, and thrown ofi" by
touching, which might be made iuft and
ealy by better Medicines, mud erode, tVet,
and tear thofc tender thin Skins^ and l^e-
ficUs of the Lungiy which in time turns to
VlctrSy aai\ Spitting oi Jilaod^ tho' generally
the Hd/Moploe precedes the Vlcen ; yet I
have known many^ who have died with
large pha^edmout Vlctrs on \.\\c Lungs ^ which
have conl'umed part oflhc Pdrenehyma, and
ycc never had any Sputum Sdnguinu ac
all.
I know that Sugjir, in this Cafe, is
much condcmn'J by' both Helmoet and Gs-
riaciercs, and Ibmc others ; ytt they com-
mend, and highly approve of Sugar of
Rofii, and quote Jvicenr/4 for't : Mtrif
LdudilnUy C(mJ¥rVAm Rofaram tjf'ert^ jtque
■y/j^/jj^ejiiulicrcm cfuandtw Phtilicam memO'
fMtf de quA coMcUmstum traty qux tamea ejus
frtqutmi ufu, hom I'olum Sana, verum etUM
Pifigufj evafit. Sow he attributes tliis to
the Rojiiy and not to the Suf^ar ; 01; vim
sbfitrgtndi, d" ajiringendi. And, I pray,
why not the ^fl^4r f* For he fays, That jbt
■trew fat. And the Sugar Planters all fty,
That all Creatures which eat of their t^i/^^r-
i^amSy at ihcir grinding-timc, wax very
lai, and tender alfo ; which Teadernefs, he
t>refumcs, is a foit of t^alrejdUon ■- Tho'
1 confefs,
466 APPENDIX.
I confcfs, I am no great Friend to the
much Ufe of Sugar^ efpecially in Fulmo*
niac Cafes, and flabb/ Lungs ; but fo many
Arguments pr6 and eon have been banded
about it, that I will let it reft, till it be
farther, id efi^ better decided.
About three or four Years Gncc, the fa-
mous Mr. William Pen^ Governour of Pen^
fihania^ being at the Bath^ I went to pay
him a Vifit; being very well and long
acquainted with him, and difcourGng about
the Indians Manner of curing their Difeafes,
efpecially Fevers^ by Sweats^ and imme-
diately bouncing into cold Water ; of which
I have given his Account more at large, in
the laft Imprcflion of Pfychroloujia^^. ^12,
and talking upon this Head, he affured me,
That a Servant of his there prefent, who
gave me this Account of himfelf, that being
long vexed with wandring Pains, efpecially
when warm in his Bed, and alfo had fome
AguiQi Acceflions, and finding no Cure
nor Help by thofe Remedies he had taken,
and having* good ftore of Water prepared
below Stairs for wafhing, he, in the height
of his Pains, leaped from his Bed, down he
went, threw off his Shirt, and flounced
into one of the largeft Veffcls of Water, it
being a very cold Night j he gotoutfoon^
and ran thus naked once or twice round
the
APP END! X. ^^7
_ Ost/tim, iind then J'luldenly into ilio
Wmerflgsin ; (uAot, »tu\ roitml (heO'jr-
«IfM once or twt'o mnic ; then i.Tl(iri|jj Irom
h\%(:ttftn'4rti^0T Ihffff, ("for he wwt hin Bur.
ler) a uiHwl .Swif^F; of ifr.iWr, went to his
ikd : I'ltit threw him into » moll violent
A'wM/, which ho contintictt in until cigtic
01* nine ill the Mortiitic, ; snri not rtliria ai
urual« a Hctviini Muid coniiim to cull liim.
Iiollow'd, or rp()l((jvciy Iniul, 8<) Hio ulcd
to do, (lor he WJ1 </m/ id a Rrcur I 'egicc)
llio t'elltM' (inl'wcr't) with loinc SliDrpnef-iy
yb« (WffW Mt>t y/pf /•' tomi^ for I cum hr-ar yim:
\$^A from thai Mnnicnc rccovofd hit* Hr4r-
tuff, ind contiiiitcd lb; nv iiro^ wai free'd
frnm his iVifumntit /**/*», ^nd other Com-
plainti. J i'uppolu thut ScrVunt muy ho
livinp; with him Hill. This, to tho heft
of my Hcnitmhriincc, ii the Whole, or
■t Icud the !liim, ot the Hebiion 1 h«d
from both Miilkr nrid Mun, wlui.fi F loolc
upon ill u vtiy p.rciit ( iiir, clpctinlly bm to
\m Urdfim ; ny whiihMcjirw, tcvc/it! Iiflva
K|dfo received tknclit, .xM uunc perfect
^Kiiro*, which t'lm only fic uccniiturd for,
■Stiiei l>y rnoiUnin^> rjic hsrd itnd (;on(len»*u
Cvmmm, or \V«x m ttic E*r^ (which miy
bo poccini botli in Conliflcncc and (^imn-
tity) or clle liy ()>'Ui'in^ and nllbdrin^ the
whole «w''i"i/A>//iw, the rtlaxM 'i)m^*imm
Wki teltut'd to in Tooo.
\
LI
I know,
468 AP P END IX,
I know, many in Detfaefs apply hot ao^
warm 0//i, which ruin the Drum, and
other mort curious Orgtns of the Ear 5
alfo .Sftnts, which are too potentially h«
and are all naught. I have known in Ci
fes, where the PVmx haih been too mud
condens'd, ftifT, and hard, that Pej>y.R(yt
Water, drawn in a cold Siill^ and dropp^
Milk-warm into the Ear going to Bed, am
ftoppd loofly with a little Cotton, and c
lie on the oppofuc Side, hath, in a fe«
Effays, cur'd that fort of Deafmfs froo!
Wax. Now Penj'Rojsl is a warm aromAiU
riant, and, perhaps, it might both warm
and comfort the Nerves^ as well as ibftca
and relax the condens'd IVax ; by thb M
lone, I recoverM a learned Clergyman ai
the Bath laft Summer. I am apt to think
that plain Element, honeft IVater, mighi
have done the fame thing, flnce only M»
fture and Sofming was rcquifite in the CafcJ
Now, had I nam'd Water only, without tho
Snaftion of the FJant, it had loft its Elhein
thro' the Simplicity of its Being, and migh
' have fail'd of its Efficacy, as to tiK Cure
tJiro' the Diffidence of the Receiver ;
being too weak to raife an Idea of Hope
the 6'o»/, thro* the poor Opinion Men ha'
of fo weak a Piopofition. Hence 'tis, th_.
P. P. don't do half thofe Cures as Ptar,
and Crds Ejet ^ for all Medicines that hat
■ APPENDIX. 4.69
^Bot a tnanifefl: Operation, are rais'd or de-
^^refs*d in their Virtue, according to the
good or bad Opinion the Patient hath of
them ; nor does this Power of Opinion reft
here, but reaches to the Prefcriber and
Apothecary ahb. And I knew a nice Lady
that us*d to fay. That her Cordials were
moft exhilarating,whcn the Boj that brought
them up, put on a clean Band ; but ner
P/pifick always work*d molt, when brought
with a dirtyF«?;but 'twas fureto gripe her
at fight of his Majier, who had fo homely
a Phiz., with one Eye, a wry Mouthy and a
long CV-f/fl, See. Tho' this merry Ladj us*d
to fpeak thus jeftingly, yet, I believe, fome
Folks (or rather Fools) in the World are
weak enough to bepoflefs'd, not with the
. Jeft, but Eameft of thefe, or fuch Uke ri-
diculous Trifles : As a certain Bm« once,
upon a Bowling-green, changM his Tay.
lor for Betting againfl bim ; and twice his
Shoemaker, for laying he had a long Heel.
Now this Inftance of Mr. Pm»'s Man
running naked round his Garden, leads me
into a Hiftory of an old Farmer, one of the
Head of the Yeomanry, who ufed, when
fuddled over-night, to walk naked, or on-
ly in his Shirt, until he had cooled him-
lelf throughly, and not only fo, but till he
had evacuated his Vrim once or twics alfo
L 1 2 before
■—• -' — ^
H 4-70
APPENDIX. "^^
before he lay down in hk Bed ; aad chev
next Morniog, with only his Shire aod.
PShooes on, would rua three or four Turoft
! round a Field adjoining to his Houfe; n:
Pput on a Gown, and gently walked, uotil'
ihc had a Motion ; then drtfs'd, and went
iriiout his Bufidefs. And this was his confhuiC;
I Cuftom, ai ok as he was beaced with Hrongii
ll-iquor. He was a luHy ftrong Man» ofi
L'a tall Stature, frefb Complexion^ good
[Teeth, and white ; and I have feen hin>
[ often to crack Nuts at upwards (rf Eighty.
[ He had feveral Sons, Men grown, but out^
rlivM them : He cnjoy'd perfeft Health"
F when I knew hioi, but how long be hV'd
[ after, I know not ; I was then a School
\ Bey, and it is Hnce 60 Years at Icall.
This Courfe may not be improperly
[ called a Bdfieum Aenusiy and ipiiy be oEi
frcat Ufe to fober People, as well as the
uddlers ; for running empty, after Steep
Tand CoDCodion, warms the Uiood and Sfi-
ffits, aeuates ths C tr c uUt ion ^ fans and cools
the LungSj helps both Excretiott and Sure-
tjott ; alj the Care in this, is, not to over-
do it ; to cool by Degrees, and take care
of Cold in drcffing, and not to cat ordriok
' too haftily, after fuch Exercife : It muft al<
[ ib ftrengthen the Mufcles of the Brcalt,,
I Back, and Loins, cfpecially, if you fwing
L^your Arms in running j and daily Expc-,
rieace
»
I
mce (hews us^ that Men only tahe cold
when they rtand or Hr, and not when they
run or walk fall in cold open Air.
And a PalTage, very I'uitable to this, I
read in Dr. Lower's Book, De Mot u Cordis^
p. [4.1, 142. and being a Cafe very appo-
fitc to this, and (hort, I ftiall tranfcribe it.
Dr. Lomr attributes moft Dilcafes of the
Head, fuch as JpopItxteSj Lethirgies, Pal'
Jirs^ as alio Tremors, Dropftes, both oC Head
and Bicart, to proceed from a Habit of
Night-drinking, and lying- down with a
I-oajd of Drink in 'em i fo tliar, for Want
of Excretion, and pifling it o^\ when the
Veins and VciTelsare full, and ovcr-charg'd
with Serum, it (hoots its Channels, and
gets imo the Head, 8rea(i, and any
other Ventricles that it can make its Way
into : So his Advice is, ^«< mala ut effa^
gitt aliqaii^ qui bihmdi tamen coafuetudtne
^fiinere non pt^tefl^ cohJuIo ut non leHo prlaf
ft traddt qudm confci/ts ftbi faerit fe m*^ I
ximtm cofjgejH Uquorii eopnm per •vefuamL '
iuram reddidtjje^ qutm muha Urgtus,df'citius
evacuahitf fi vtfitbifs exutit astc pattlalum
reiaxatis^ aen dmbteeii fe cauie exponat ;
and brings fome Inftanccs of Cokl provo-
king VrinCy by contracting the Ai'//», and
doling the Parej ; Perfpiration being
ftopp'd. Urine does not only llow foooer,
i)uc the Ejeiiio» and Force is made ilron-
gcr,
4-73 APPENDIX.
ger, and brings off that Sordes and Sskum,
often iodg'd in the Bladder where the
Stream is fmall and weali^ which is not on-
ly the Caufe of a StfUicidium Vfin-g, but
a Strangury alfo ; and from this Reafon,
all Creatures, when going into, or pafling
thro' cold Water, return their Urine pre-
fently. And here he gives a (hort Hiftory
of a Fuddlcr, that took a Precaution againit
this Danger, by not lying down in his Li-
quor.
^it ex cautd hdc (a U£io ahjiiaentia
frius qukm Urg»m fstis Vriti* copUm reddi-
dijfe, fecurus effel) aovi qaeadam PoeuU ad
fir Am flcrattique noSiem, vitam quoque jusm
dd muttos aanos imo ad vividdm viridtmqut
(at aiunt) feneButem frotutijfe.
He alfo (hews the danger of lying too
low with the Hend^ efpecially when over-
loaded ; and I have Ireard of many, and
known fome, who going drunk to Bed,
have been found chosFd, and deaJ^ by
lying too low, or their Head hanging out
of Bed.
Sir Joha Flower hath lately given mc an
Account, among other Cafes, of wooder-
ful Cures done upon weak and rickety
Children, wherein the cold Water feldocn,
if ever, fails of Performance in that Diilem-
per : But becaufe that Cafe hath been
treated of before, I fhall forbear ; only ad*
ding
APPENDIX. 47?
I
y^ing a Relation of an Eurofitan Child, about
fix Years of Age, as my ingenious Friend
Dr. Oover^ a Phyfician Ibrmerly of Uri-
fioly gave me an Account of, done at the
Caps of Good Hope, of which he was the
Advifcr : This Child could never ftand
nor po, and all the Limbs limber, and
(ecm6 as if disjointed, or out of joint, and
in 10 or 12 Day's conftant Immcrfions
he couki both (land and go, and in a little
Time's Pcrfcvcrance, his Limbs and Joints
recovcr'd their natural Firmncfs to a per-
feft Cure. This was the Child of a Dmc,
or Sivedf^ as lie told me ; but could never
undcrftand why they brought fuch a Crip-
ple to Sea, unicfs born in the ladies, and
touch'd at ihc dpe in their Paflage home.
A parallel Cafe to this you may fee in the
laft Imprcffion, Z-. 255.
That cold Immerfion docs amend and
reftore the Hurts and Injuries of the nerval
i>/?fm, is evident, by the Effcfts wc find by
it, as, namely, in ihz Cn^k o( MwHam.Bremr
of Trowbriiigei in ilic County of W^/Zr/, Gene
who gave me this Relation, viz. That he
had a flow, iluggilh I'ever, hung on him
for the fpacc of three Months, and finding
the Remedies he hid tryed proved incffc-
Oual, he rct'olved upon the CoU Bath,
which did not only rcfcue him from his
i-tvery bm rcllor'd him to the Senfe of
474
ro IX.
beioic
Tht
hichhe
Scofa 1
ilwafs
oooKt oat ,
TbeCikctt CuffoB-baale OScet n
Tear 16S9, wbo bad Img iain iaif
id, wvk Gtmr. aad ctber wxndring
, aliD a giac Tnav; which Urt, I
mkbt pnxBcd from hi> much
TamMra, aod (Inokillg C«Jir:
ao, in the Mooch of Afi/, was
1 ion ibc CoDDtiy, where 1 regu-
lar Diet dad oncfa aineid him; but ftin
the Weabx& of his liofas rcauin'd. Ac
ieqafa be was pa&aaded co go to the H«
Bml when, bj dnnkirg the Waters, aod
gcoi^ h»Thfii*E ia the ^tmtru*! BmJi, per-
kSt/ itamr'd him : But Icaviog the Hit
Bai tea (boo, aod reoaniiig to bb old ill
Vj^ of ffskag aad irukiag, he reUps'd,
and fen iota Eftlftic Fun .- Froui aO
wbidi be W3& cccoKr'd, bjr cold Iminer-
floo.
^^^^"~ ^^^H
^^^ APPENDIX.
475 ~^
fion, and drinking the Bath'fVdtert (here
ia London) cold, with fome cephalic Tin-
Surtt.
A Turner, now living in FUet'fireett
who was (ome time under the Pains of a
feverc RhsamAtifm, and, after the Tryal of
fevcra! Remedies, to no purpofe, he was,
with difficulty, perfuaded to cflky the Ccld
Bith^ was carried thither in a Coach, or a
Chair, and returned Home on Foot ; and
to this Day continues well from that ooe
only Immerfion.
A Boy, that was lame many Years, by
conftant ufing a Co/d Spring near Gto'
ctfier, was recover'd ; but the mufcular
Flefh of bis Leg and Thigh was very much
wafted, and fecm'd withered; who after,
by the Help of the Hjt Btih at the httb,
tnd gentle Fri6^ion, and rubbing the Parts,
by the Care of his Guides, was perfectly
reftor'd to the Ufe of his Liails, and the
FIcfh of the fhrunk MufiUs encreas'd to
their natural Flumpncfs and Strength.
That Void Bsths hive their ill Efieas,
and SoiurmntMy as well as the Hot^ if un-
advifedly ufed ; I have known in feve-
ral Cafes, as, namely, about four Years fjoce,
a Gentlewoman in Holhora went into Mr.
Bjinst*s B/uhs^ and, by ftaying a Utile too
longi gave her fiKh a fettled Pita in her
He^d^ almoft to Dil^raftion, that ooihiaz
M m coulj
^76 APP EN D / X
could remove, or give her Eafe : I being
confuked^ fent her to the Hot Baths^ where,
by bathing and pumping in the Crojs B^b^
{he was (bon recovered ; and to this Day
continues very well, the Pai» never more
returning.
And, this lad Summer, a GeotleworDaii,
who lodgM at Mr. Wdliam Longs Houfe,
received great Benefit by bathing in the
Hot Baths ; but defirous to be expeditious
in her Cure, unadvifedly of her own Head,
or perfuaded by the Tattle of fome Wo-
man, went from the Hot Bath to the Co/d^
which gave her fuch an intolerable Pif//r in
her Head^ and continuM on her fo long,
as might have provM her Ruin, bad cot
kind Nature, with her own Care, relieved
her. So that People can't be too cautious
in the Ufe of fuch great and fudden Alttrdr
tives^ as Baths of all forts are, to the Bodies
of thofe who at Erft ufe them, and theMif-
chiefs that Bagnios and Humbums have
done, thro' Want of this Caution, to the
Ladies^ who fweat for Ccmflexions^ are not
a few.
Of this fort, (no longer than laft Autumn)
a middle-aged Lady of 84, finding her Face
to go down, and willing to put a Stop to
the Remains of a declining Beauty, which
flie found daily to bid her Adieu, by ovcr-
.whaving, and fioviiig her old Bones/\xi fome
of
Iixh
nd .
APPENDIX. 477
' ihcle H<i^Hni\ coniraflcd filch a Hmr^
Snd tlicd a Lv»W, ihnt i Mrffr fucceedcd
I lie ncxc (iiiv with Tiicli V tolcncc, as
loon imlcotcli'd ilio IVhrtf^ iind away trult'd
~ By liraftHsm to the liottom of the NiU.
The Witc of a wcakhy Citizen Ubour-
ag under wandring fcar/jniic, rhentntiifc
niftj for rome conl'idcrablc Time, fubtnit-
hcrfclfid the Guidance and UirdUfons
ii SciE of SivKiairj^ who put her under
I Courfo of Sivritiii»!^^ tn corrcft and tak*
~ the Acidity of her Hhod, ai tlwy fac-
erdinfr to cuilom) mcthodicnily canted it.
L;And .liior repealed Dofcf uf the tcflaccous
'VowdtrSy MtHti<edes, &c. wafliM down with
pMr/ CorM*b, JJs*s Miik ; together with the
Jilfltr Intcrlopoi^ as Jw^c/'J, and AHAh^tit
'WiHiUrit^ ^Mte^oiic Urau^his !, noc forget-
ting the fftmous Sal i'oUtilt, and other
Drops, CO be called tn upon Occafion, as
AuKiliaricSi pro re trnt*- bctldci the At-
tend;intNof the Iclfcr Sitle-boird, Hid in B'
inoflj^ the reft of tlw jifi ta Proi»prii\(^c.
and to all thi:i, ihe paf^'d the Pikes, and
run the G:intlct thru' all tiicir wholfonic
Sevcriticj,as fur^i>t(fyBlii'Mffy,ii///itrfui[^Ctifi
LJffff, &e. At Ult,bcing weary and tir'd out
Kvith the repeated Uejrf of t)o-»viht/igt,
■ fbc, to gain Urcach, dcTird a Cc^aiiort ol
Arn»; Which wu^r»nircd. In tlic InMr-
vaJ of whicJi, fome lucky I'eifon c^inoin,
*ui. i;;^ M m 3 ami
I— ^
■ 478
APP ENVIX. ^^
and advisM her to try the Cold Bath^ feeing
all other things provM incfTeflual : Upoa
which, flic confiilttd bcr old Emaljioaeert^
who very honcftly own'd, they knew no-
thing of the Matter, but by Hear-fay ; fo
cou'd neither advifc her to it, or dilTuade
her from it. Upon the Foot of their M».
■ Jrality^ {he adventurM it, and found great
L JR.elief and Abatement of her P^m, in a vc>
I ry few Immerfiom, and, by Perfeveraoc^
\ got a perfeft Cure.
Now 'tis a ftrange thingt to fee how
f eople run mad upon a falfe Suppofition of
jlcidi in the Blood ^ and becaufe Vimgar
And jf««e of Lemons, 8fc. are Jbsrp and acid
upon the Tongucy it muft be fo in the Blooii
falfo; Sed veram friiis, ergo ^ PofteriuSL
, Admirably well argu'd, indeed : Could
Vinegar^ quAteum i^hegar, get into the JBioodf
it would make mad Work, and prove mor-
tal, no doubt ; but they fhould confider,
r that the B/le and yimgir arc Whtgg and
. Tory^ fworn Enemies, and mortify each o-
ther where-e*cr they meet, &c. But, if
jlcids arc fuch Enemies to our Healths^
; the Learned would make us believe, I won-
i der how much Pearl and Cr*bs-Eyes mull
L go to fwecten the Blood of a Runntr^ Fcl-
f lows, who are dieted for a R«f, who, per-
' haps.for a Month,or 6 Weeks together, drink
nothing* Qr Uttlc qll^ but Vmeinx, and great
C^uaq*
APP ENVIX. 479
Quantities in a Day, to take dowD their
'f«/, and ufelefs Flefi^ ; yet, if one ofthofe
Fellows were chymicaliy Mulyz^d^ knock'd
in the Had^ and diJhS'd, I wonder how
much Aeid would come over the Helm.
So that it appears to me very manifeft,
that it is not any acid Particles that are
(he Caufc of iiich vagrant, pungent Ptins,
as the Kheamatie, or rather Rheumatifmstie
Perfons labour under, for the Rcafons afore-
faid : For if the Caufe folely lay in the
Jcidityy it were impoffible Men could hve
under fuch Quantities of Fimgar^ and o-
ther Jcids, as fome have taken, without
any apparent prefent Ifj«rj, or fucceeding
PMtiis ; I rather fuppofe thofe Psi/fs to
proceed from the Liqu4men of cMfiiesly U-
xivial Sdts melted, and Aiding down the
the ienfible, nervous Coats and MemhrAnes
of the MafiUs, thrown off from the Shod,
and other Flaidsf upon the Soitds and Ha-
bit of the Body. And the Experiment of
SylvAticaSy quoted by EtmuHer^ p. 5J5. is
enough to prove it ; which I have alfo ex-
perienced in feveral Patients in an Ardor
Vrin^, that Juice of Lemons, given with
PU/ftane^ Rofe^ or common Water, has cor-
rc^ed, and broke the Points of the urinous^
fbarp, alkalious Salts, when the Meatuf VrU
fiarius has been inHam'd, and lay bare, for
Wane pf that Mufi^ which the wounded
Projlties
48o APPENDI X.
Proftdtes could not (upply, being not ca»
pable, fuffgi officio^ from the Injury of the
VemireAl Vtnom^ &c. when all the foft things,
as EmuifiotiSj ufidceom Powders^ &c. Hgni-
Hcd nothing ; and what makes this lixivUl
Salt^ and how it is produced^ hath formerly
been hinted at.
Which lixivUl Salt is to me, a De«
monftration of a viul FUme ; and until I
can hear better Reafons to the contrary, and
fuch as may alter my Mind, I mull be of
the fame Opinion.
So that the Advice of Cormliui (lelfm^
in well and healthful Perfons, might be put
in Pra^ic«, as the only Means to prevent
the Mifchiefs, v^hich any fudden Change
of old Cudoms, may bring upon the
Body.
Sdmts Uomo^ d^ qiti bcue valc^^ d^ fit a
Spontis eji, N^Uir ohlhiare fe legibus clem
bet^ ac ncqtfc Aliptd egere hu^c oporiet
7}arium fraherc vita gcttuf^ modo ritri
ejje^ modo in tfrbc, papittfq^te in aj^ro na^
vigarc , vcnari , ffutefcere interditm , fed
freqtfcftfiffs fe cxerccre ; fiqtitdem (^ iy^nnvia
Corpus hcbetat^ labor Jtrmat ; ilia viaturam
fenccftttcm^ hie lon^am adolefccntinw reddit.
Prodcft ciiam interditw, aqttis frigidis uti^
7}todo Uffgij modo id ipfum nvgligcre. NhU
Inm cibi genus /5//;f re, quo popnlm utatur^
intcrdnm in convivio ejfe^ interdHm ah eo
ATP END IX. 481
fc rctrahcrc^ modo plus Jujia wodd mn am*
flius affuwere : Bk de die potitis^ quam
plftri/j/ii/j/y dttPJi modo hnnc concoqnat.
According to the Poet :
WhAt Care^ ami Lahonr talc ivc every day^ji
'Jo j)iilib ami prop tfj/s 'Icmmeftt of Clay^ C
]\hi(h^ under its Repairs^ does vpear away ! y
Jhft^ if tre moulder, with our ^rcatcfl Care^
]Vhat rr'tU become ofthofe who ncer repair ?
Bftt^ thoufi^htlvfsy fnorc /// tbdr old Houfc
of Si/i^
Until ^ at oftrc, the Cot tare does fi/7 in <"
Mortar^ and 1 rowel ^ then arc brought
too /i//c,
^\hcn the Whole Man does thus dilapidate,
jlnd in his Rain antedates his Fate :
Nor can Phyfirinns Art rcftore the Man^^i
Ihat has ontlirPd his Confiitution^ >
And hath not left himfclf to work upon. 3
7 here fore ^ 'tis held f^ood Hnsbandry^ to patch
And mend the firfi Ht or m- flurries of the
Thatch.
Biit^ on the other hand^ ^tir my Advice ^
Not in your Manage to be over-nice^
Not freeze vrith Lokl^ nor fcorch in Sol flee
Beams,
Hut fifi: a fort of Mcdhmi in Extrrams :j
By (i^entle Ufe^ Nature vrill foon obcy^
AncL like u Sivii^ef^ ivill turn erery ir.ry.
i >j:/s
' 4S3
AP F EN D iX.
Thus yoiiU acquire fame caitater Habits'
rple Flood 5
eiiy befeear
n a Grcea^ J»
fet Stream, j
Thai no fmaU Error fliaU effeS your Blood,
Nor check the Progrefs of the Purple Flood 5
I %r Where, by the Help ofGUfes, any ' "
Millions ofG\o\i\i\'s bowling on
Crowding each other tn a Scarlet _^
Andjha'rttfiich circling Bubbles, Jo minute^
The Doubter of his Maker, clear refute^
^nd fievp the Fool, by Dentonflration^
The Author of his own Creation ?
But, if a GOO in a fmall Fin vee fee,
Whai tauji that great tremendous Being i«/
The tranfient People who vifit the Bath^
'whofe Affairs will not permit them to ftay
a Seafon through, becaule the City is fur-
rounded with Hills, ihink, that the Steams
are impritbn'd, and therefore the Place is
infalubrious ; not coofidering the great and
long Troughs and Hollows In the extended
Daks on one Side, from the l-l'e/Ierfi Sea;
and on the other Side, the great Vale un-
der the North Part of the Kjng's Dovm,
which draws and leads in the Nortb-Ea(l
Gales and Breezes; and both thofe Vales
are as Thorough fares to each other ; So,
if there be any Air ftirring, you aluays
have it in the Bash ; and the great Ages of
[hft
APPENDIX.
the Inhabitants aCily etriace the. WhoU
Tomeners of the Place.
An Actount of the Namiier uni Agti of the M-
tient Feofle, now lining in the City of Bath,
*ni PUces Ttilbin two MiUt iijitnce there*
{f^ *ni tR rvithin the Huodrei tf Bath-
Forum. CoiU£iei hy Mr. juftice Merii-
weathcc of Breatford, ia Com. Mid.
Jan. I. anno 1702-3.
rerCjni. Veirs.
12 of 80
13 of 81
i; of 82
8 of 8;
10 of 84
11 of 8<
6 oSiS
2 of »7
2 of 88
Perfijns. Yelrt.
4 of 90
1 of 91
9 of 92
2 of 94
2or9«
I of 98
1 of lob
t of lO)
I of 107
Pcrfotu. Year;.
J7 of 70
JI of 71
62 of 72
30 of 7j
20 of 74
16 of 70
4 of 77
10 of 78.
3 of 79'
Which makes in tU 267^8. None Bed-
ridden.
Deceafed, within (hefe two Years, 40
Pcrfons, whofe Ages nude 3522 Years j
now living, and lully, 547, and none of
them Bed-ridden, whofe Ages make 27522
Years. At Hniford^ near Buh. four Si-
fters make j6o Years ; the cldeil, in Df.
amitr lad, rid 10 Miles fiBgle, (nc being
N n ■(.(*
t8t ;APr£NDiJ(.
jtea , Years pld; ,.15 t|ie City, three Sillerf
make 247 s antl three others^ ia the iami
rUce, make 225 Years. Withm this four
3£t^r^t~The fiii>c. Aldu'fi^n nutk 70Q ani
.,,Atr.; AI(lerTOB,-Ci/(ii, Apxhcnry, r
flTfifj^bir^, w^n the 12 Alras-Peopfe,
^y,Wueiii4i.^fjlfita{ ',made 1C05 Yeanf.
■I I'l
Pi'
F f''^ ^f^'A:'
IW I "-"i *■
i**l
• . -•« - ■• ■ -^■"
An Alphabetical
INDEX.
A
A.
Blution of Children.^ how^ and when v/eJi
Ablution, Religiotu and Phyjkal^ ufed in
the Kaft-Indlcs ' ibid;
Ablution in Cold Water wm ufed by Divine Men t0
prepare them for Divine Offices^ and to dijpofe theit^
for new Dottrines tfS
Abortions prevented by the Cold Bath I6y
Abortions, howcaufed 342
Abfinthlum Marinum, its Urtues illufirated by d
comical Simile 251
TTfe Achincfe very much delight to rvajli in Cold Wa^
ter 25* I
Acids ufed for a fuppreffion of Vrine 35!'
in Acute Cafes^ Life and Death pearch upon the fami
Beam i^6
'the M^y ptians ufed to purify by tmmerfton 3
i'he Author cannot join with Agathinus 1 88
Agathinus cited to fliewthe ufe of Cold J^aths^ and
the Cuftoms of fever al Nations to put their Children
every Day in Cold Water 131,132
ji ciuartane Ague cured by immerfion 21)
AA forts of Aguss cured byJmmerfiot^ 1 1 6
Pf Thi
The 1 N D EX.
Thi cure of an Ague by d forest put 3 5^
Agues often cured by a fudden f lunge into Cold Wa^
ter 358
Ale, dn Wiwholfome ddngerotts Liquor 353
Alc^inkers removing to Wine^ foon fall into Jam-
dice^ Stone and Gout 381
Alexander ScTcrus rarely bathed in Hot Baths^ but
4Umofi always ie§ a Vifciha 167, 173
Sr. Ambrofe, cited becaufe he moft particularly de*
fcribed the Trine Immerfion 54
The Americans cure Fevers by Immerfion in Cold
Water 1 3 1
Afodern Anatomifts follow Hippocrates 90, 91
j4n Aphonia cured by cold Immerfion 1 15, 398
K^\\^%good in the SmrJl-Pox i^l
Apples the greatcfi Pe^ orals 3 14
A Difeajed Broken-Winded Horfe cured by eating
Apples 315^31^
ji Confiimftive Woman cured by the fole ufe of Ap-
ples 315
The Nature of Apoplexies confiderd 1 49, 1 50
Apuleius cited to prove that the ^Egyptians hadper^
feiily obferv'd the natural good effcUs of Cold Im-
merftons 4
Armenians, their manner of BaptizJng 13^ 1+
How Arfenick h^u been miftaken 199
AH K'iv^i V fed to wafh new born Children in Salt and
Water 94
Afthma how to he relieved by Cold Bathing 20
Relieved but not cured thereby 121
No Hot Regimen proper for it 1 45
Afthmas relieved by Cold Immerfion 314
The old Athletx bathed in cold Water 151
A: univerfal Atrophy cured at the Bath 195
Averfioa difficult to be conquered 83
Auguilus was cured ofDefiuxions by Cold Baths 137
The
The Index.
Theeaufes of AnViOinal Fevers 361
B.
Bagliyi eked for the good EffeEls of igfarm River of
Sfrin^ Water drank . 2o6
Bantering reckon d by the Author to be a very great
tVicked^efs •. i8s
The Indians Bagnio defcrihed 289
BaniUs the Hermit defcrihed 287, 288
The word Baptife, interpreted by St. Chry foftom by
Immerfion 54
Tlje Cvfiom wof to Baptife both Men and Women na-^
ked 53
TTbf Eafiern Church Baptized at Epifhany 6z
Baptifm an Antitype to the Flood Z
'Succeeded the Gentile Purifications 1 1
Jt was in all parts performed by Immerfiofi at the
firfi planting of Chriftianity ibid»
Of the Mufcovites 1 3
Of the Armenians ibid
^■' The Cannon concerning it Anno ttfo3* defc anted
on 15
Baptifm how and when adminifired in the Primitive
times 5^1 53
The times (?f Baptifm were Eafter and Whitfontide
in the Weftern Churck 6z
Baptifm how at prefcnt proElifed in the Grecian
Church 87
Baptifteries when firfi built 53
Ordinary Barometer how much it fubfides in our
Clime 153
Bathing is mofi properly called the Fomentation of the
whole Body ^6
To what Perfnts Bathing is not ufefid 45, 47
Bathing its BffeHs and Cautions concerning it 93
Ff2 Ba-
The 1 K D £ X.
I ii ii *i> ■ ifc
Bathing in tphat Cafts ufeful . 295
Baths near Litchfield defcribed i <^9 1 7
^^-—Coldy heat Perfons 30,31
^-^Hoty cool Perfons ibid
Both hot and cold Baths have their immediate effects
on the Skin^ and the Aerial Spirits contained in the
jinimal Humours 3 1
'j4 Parallel between Baths and tomentations 37, &c,
Reafons why Old Baths do the greifUeft Cures to thofe
who have been in hot Baths 321, &c.
Hdt Bath^ cha^aaeris^d 1 89
Bede cited to prove that Paullnus in the Tear 6i^
Boftifed feveral Perfons in Riversy and that Im^
merpon was the general Practice in the fir Jt plant-
ing of Chriftianity in England $6^ 57, 58
Beelzebub a great CantharU 1 99
Bellows, theih Nature and V ft 236
7l!^f miraculoHs Cures at the Pool of Bethefcla confi'
der'd 67
Phyfick Bigottry is rvorfe than that of Popery 1 98
What Bitters will agree with the Bath Waters 1 92
Blifteringr^ be cautio ufly ufed 200
The Body has its Regiflers and yent^holes as well as
other Furnaces 238
Boots, how they came in fafhion 337
The Brain, mofi of its Infirmities may be cured by
C Id Water 67
Boyle cited becaufe he obferves that frozen Eggs will
thaw f after in cold Water than in the open Air 1 40
Difficulty of Breathing how cured ^91
The nature of Briftol Wafers 1^9
Buchanan cited for relating that the Pifts Wem na-
ked^ that the Scotch I/landers Sleep upon the SnoW'f
and that the Inhabitants of the Orcades preferved
their Vigour and Beauty^ by obferving Parfimony^
»72yI73
c.
CacocliymiasAof W celd 31j 33
The Caiiaiims wapj thtir Children as fo<m M they tot-
born 1 i-
A Cancer cvred by Bathing 316,317,318
Cantbarides aB like the Devil 1 99
Catarrhs, their Nuturc 150
Ceadwalla King oftbelVe^S^xom left bis Kingdom^
and went to Rome to be Baprit-ed 57
St.CeAdzand hiiCbmfaniom Baptized the Province -
of the Mediterranean Angle ibid
Ce)Ius cited to prove thar the cure of r»ofl Infirmities
of the Brain may he performed by cold Water, and
that Cold Bathing is mofi ufefd in met Weather 70
Sr. Chad, an account of him and of the Baths called
by his Name iS? ^7
St. Chad w*M one of the firft Converts of our Nation,
andiifedlmmerfion in theBaptifm oftheSTi.OM 16
Gai\dLVQa.,VBhat Difeafesthey are fvbjeiito']-7,'7^i']9
are often born with the Stone 78
Convulfion? in Children to be prevented by immerfing
them in cold Water I3i
Cold Bjtlis ui^ree with Children 229
Weak Cllildicn made firong and vigorous by cold
Water 225
Chriftianity pUmid in Rn^z^xA by the vfe of Im-^
merfion 56
St. Chryfoftom cited for interpreting the word Bap-
tife by Iminerfton 54
Cold, iti Nature and Effe^s 19,30,40
Cold things lefs agreeable to Natttre thtm hot ' 43
Cold produces CoKghs 45, &C.
Cold Bathing its Anti^^viiy I
w^^iittfTBVcd by she Romans 6
■"" F f 3 —If;
mm^^'^i^'mmmmmmr'm^mmf^f^rmmm^'iimm^'immm
The Index.
its good EffeSls known to the moft vnlearned Na-
tion ibid
Cold Bathing vfed to cure the Lefrofy and Rheuma-
tifm %j &C»
'the JUafins of the Authn contriving it 1 6
fefi in wet Weather 70
On what conditions Cold Bathing is ufeftd for an
Afthma 20
Cold Baths, their Variety 20, 2 1 , 22
-m-'-^hfervations made on them 22, 2 3
> Cautions given concerning them l^ 2, 5 , 3 7
-Hippocrates his Opinion of the Natwe and Vfe
of them 27, 28, 29
-"haw they heat 3 1
-the bijury of them 4 5
'frequently nfed in the Days of Auguftus 63
Gold Baths very beneficial far all Rheumatick Pains
■ and Paralitick IVeaknefs 1 8
Internal Remedies neceffary before the ufe of Cold
Baths 19
mse various EffeBs of Hot andCold Baths 34,3 5,3^
Tlhe ufe of Co\A, Baths taught by natural Reafon 8 5
Three kinds of Cold Baths 9 1
Cold Baths, for whom f refer 97, 1 29, 1 30
'to whom Injurious 97, 98, 1 36, I 59, &c.
-Galen'i Cautions concerning them 97, 135, &c.
Cold Baths will procure good reft 142
Cold Baths very prejudicial if flayed in too long 333
Cold is a pofitive and not a privation 331
Cold is a Fire ibid
Jidoft intenfe Cold will cjuench a Candle ibid
Cold Climes their Influence 1 08
Cold Regimen be ft to preferve Health 173
The CovOin^fs of Springs tried by Experimehti mttha
Ball of a portable Thermometer 1 7> X 8*'
^n inftance of a Colick cured 3Q4» 305
A
The Index.
A complication of Difiempers cured by the Cold
Bath 298
Compounds why invented 1 87
Every fimple Plant is compounded by the IVifdom of
the great Compounder 252
Conftantine the firfi Chrifiian Emperor Baptifed
naked 55
Conftitutions of Bodies how to be judged of 32
A Confumptive Woman cured by Cold Baths 1 14
Con^wm^tiovis depend on divers Dif cafes 157
A Confumptive Woman cured by the fole ufe of Ap*
pies Sl6
Contorfions and Contufions curable by cold Wa^
ter 20.7
A Cough cured by cold Immerpon 243
Credulity is Harbinger to Injallibility i pp
Mr. Crew wonder fuUy cured by the ufe of the Cold
Bath 221,222,223
Criticks defer ibed 42 f
Miraculous Cures were done by the ufe of Water in
the Jewijh Days 6^
Tue Cutiliae were famous among the Roman Thyjiciy
ansj being nitrous Waters 16 J
St. Cyprian c/r(?^ for Baptifm by hnmerpon 54
Dr. Cyprianus cured of a FeveriJI} Habit 28 Jf
D.
Dacier cited for tranflating the Words of Hippocra-
tes fo as to under ft and thereby Cold Baths 34
Dcafnefs cured by the Cold Bath 70, 1 2*
'^cured by Immerfion 2 1 8, 374
The leaft Debauch Jhakes the Foundation of the h»T
man Fabrick 402
AugDitus Vios cnred 0/Defluxioi^ by Qld Baths 1 37
F f 4 ^^
KT
The I N D E X.
pdirimns ewnd ky i^cidemal Immerfim XTiS^^
Tlr MTiTf 40^ c^tife of the Diabetes ' 1^9
^nis Slculos c/rrjif r« pTM^r riEMT tilir j!f^ jEgyj^
txauiilS^w^thuBcify, in Water %
f Piogencs Laertius cited fir dOare he mentimiste
' ># dmu hg the £gyptm iVif/?/, hy Bathifg inth(
SesMMter ^ \ 4^ 5
pip][uhg 1/ Children in Boftifm nfed in Enghqd
40^ Wales ^4>i5
pipping in S^ifm freved vfefvl to the HealHt ef
Infms 15
pifeafes vihence pr educed 3 2
f7o'Di&a&%0renewy only better defcribed than fir*
' merly i o
Jtereditmry Diieafes enumerated 79
Diieafes which defend en a Jharp Serum 7$
piieales incident to Children 77, 78, 79
iVhtt will cure a pifeafe will mofi effe^uaBf prevent
it 66
Diieafes which ajfett the Head 109
T%e life of Drinking cold Water ^noderaeely 299
JDrink necejfary in Fevers and SmaVrfox 347
1>tcy^{\^ cured hyhnmerfion Z17
DrunkenPfr/i^j become Sober by fudden ImmerfioH 74
prunkennefs expofed 329, 330
jiDy(^Tixahowctire4 390
E.
\4fttr Eating immediatly we mufi not Batb^ nor Eat
^ ' immediately ^ter Bathing 45
Edelmakh King of the South Saxons Baptifedin
Mercia ^^57
Elficminacy kfsinthe Northern than in the SouAem
'- (ms of lS*aglw4 182
>•
■ftw
The Index.
Jin Elcphantiafin cwtd byjfyirtg the P^rty under th
Spout pf 4 Mill 259
Hn j2;lan(l iNfrJhd with Leprojy 8
Kpiclcmical I'cvers^ their rife 99
Ej^ilcpfy muy be prevented by Mmming 1 44
EpilcplicH flatten by Frif^hts 4re very ftulfhorrf 359
Erafiinis noted it as 4 piece ofHingtiUrity in the Eng-
lifll Churchy bec4ufe in his time they vfed fingh
Immerpon 60
No Writ of Error in the Graife 1 8tf
7%e ElYciU)% 4 chajt and temperate Seft ofthekvtn^ae^
cuft om*d them/elves to wapi often in cold V/ater 288
Mojt Evacuations depend upon liffervejiendes smd
Defluxions of Humors I J7
Exccflivc heat and rold^ their Fffelh 37, 38
Fig^vred F,xcrcincnt h n figti of Health 391
lCx])criiTicntH mttde of the Cold Baths I7» 18
Exj)crimcnts made of the yolatile ^Itriclkk Cai in
(tot Hath Waters 1 90
Rxj)ci intent made of febrile Vrine 237
External Sknfes are moft lively in cpld Weaebtr 69
V.
Farriers well know the ufc of void Water 3*
7%ritficinttCht4rch ufed Falling hefpn Boftifm isK
Evenino 6I
What VJfeUs hot and cold Baths have upm Firfens inb
///f//;fw Falling 35
l*'cvers depend not on Heat alone 42
Vpidemival l^evcrs, their rife pj^
Fcvcr?J cured by Cold Bathing 1 30
-'-^-'^ured by I mm rr (ion ll£
The Indians ufe fweating fw the cure $f Fcvcn 289
Very intenfe Fcvcrn hoyo cured 323
The Kaufes of atttumnal Fcvcrn 362
i**«
The I N D B X.
Jk^ fMirim$m mtdf i^Febrile Vrim xyj
ff^m nn Finlanders indifferently nft tbimfihe^ te
bet andceld ij
Bire hams fiercefi in imemfe Frefi 235
Fiihmongers sre lenerslfy Heidthfd 233
l^ismdiud3w» .234
i ii ^ f reved h I^^^fim 23 5
PoQy 4mdwifiem imf^^ed teanr natural Temf€ra-
mem 71*7^
Uf faroBel between Fomentations and Baths 37,&c.
T%n^ is amim^^cmntakhS^imfathyketmun Fools 202
fke Vod dues lefs harm thai^ the Xnmf€ ibid
Vosmdi^d Hetffis cured by eeUlVaeev 96
Fopntains mere efficacieus than liivers fer furifyhg $
Fri£k|on may be nfefid both before md aper Sa^
HnfHik Spirits efLupiers concenter iv^FfOzea 332
G.
Gtten wtderfioad the nfe of cold Immerfien 6
lefcribes a Plevrijy tinder the notion of an inflame
matory Laffttude 10
ie advifes to ffrinlle Salt all over new bom Chil--
dren 44
methods for fvefervation of Health by Old
Baths 91
Ohfervatien made of Fever ifh Perjens 1 30
-enumerates the Misfortunes that arife from the ,
' vfeof Old Bathing 1 4I
^Galloping Phyfician defcribed 201
^thrumnus the Dane, with 30 of his Omfauiem
i>t^i7ied in a Fountain 1 3
^AK^^Mt^^ facro4,FountainsfaffedDWom6
Tif Gentiles imitated tk^l^amm aadlVafbiegf
•jf /fee Jews 58
I
I
Glen the nxmt of a River wherein m gretU mmtker flf
Perfans mere B4fttz.ed jtf
A Goaty Perfou yfmg ih' Cold BmIi i 9
Both Hut and Cat J Baths art good for the Gout 44
A Gouty Perfm much relievtd by Old Bjithitig
102, 103
The Gent cured by the Cold Bdth 240, 29 1
The Gout deferihed 367, &c.
j4n account of the frefent Baftifm in the Graecian
Church 87
Ko Writ of Error in the Grave 1 86
The Greeks ackntTvledgt thru forts of PurijicMiBiu
by waflilngi 5
To he Grey betimes^ and not kald^ U a figu tf tonf
Life 3IT(
Grotius cited for fttveuring Plato i Ofinitn emtern-
tag the Flood 1
The comfofition of Gunpowder rtfeUed ott 152
Gregory theGreac introduced the Jingle Jmmtrfm im
offofitlon to the Arrian Hrrefy ^^
In Gratian'j Decretals and Gregory'* DtertuU^
both the finglc and irint Immrrfion are ofttn Mm-
tioned 5 J
H.
The HabaHians Baptiz.e thtmfelva i:iery Tear «n th*
Day of tpipbany in their Lakti mid Ponds 8S
Bipaf Ha!I iiitd for a rmracutom Cure done hy Ipt'
merfion 7
tCbUnefs of the tiai renders it fitter for aS ratimM
I Thoughts 93
\ The Hcadzqhiurcd hy the Pfeuehrohfu I38
I ^eteratr\lc::x6z.ch% cured by aid Bathing jtf^t&C
"" ' \t'iie3\\\i much defends lo^
Healtl)
The Index.
mmm
Tw§ deftgns of Imm^v^iOXi^ Mi Religiomtbe Hher
nsuttral ^^i^^
Immcrdon in Bdftifm cmtinmd in thi Ckl&^ sf
England ^till dbout the Tear J 600 5 1
dm/tiiiniiy plsmid in England lythi uft tf Ifflmer-
iioa %6
Immerflon MlmtfB nfedto Cbild^in m weS M toddkt
Perfms 59
^ u fudden ImmcrOo^ # dnmkin Perpm brnmes
foher 74
Immerfion how effeBudto cure Childrens Difeafes
l6y &c.
Immei-fion ftiU ufed by the Eafiern Churches 80
Immerdon never abreg/tted ij artji Qtnon 6 1
• 'f^ h ad a natural as weS as a divine Firtue 6^^ 8cc.
•— -ir frtvtmed hereditary Difeafes iWd
Odd Immerfion cured a Gout 29 1
Immerfion for the Gout and mofi inveterate fains of
the Head 208
Cold Immerfion defcrihed 400
Old Inftmt r Hon a fftcifick cure for the Rickets 33^
How cold Immerfion aBs Ibid
Thk Indians jtv^i^ themfelves with the Jbatwa mid
^frefently recover kry THaifienhg tht folet of their
Feet in cold Water 1 2
A great Cure wrought by an Indian 396
iBy Imraoderate ufe the wholfomejt thi^s in Ifature
may vrove no^HoHS 334
T^elnOiAmufe to l0dp ifk^^oldWattt Mt of their
hot Stoves 512
The Indian^ ipafh thtir young Infantum P4td Strtanis
M foonaisbi^naitaH St^4fls of tke Tim 291
7^ Indians ufe Sx^eatii^ for the cut^^fFti^s 289
Tb$VaSi9ti^ BMgnio de0rib4d ibid
f{(n$
Hot Climes their influence 1 07
I Hot Baths Ch^ailerifed 189
t^Mot Regimen mifcbievoHs in the Small-Pax 230
\ Signs of hot Hiimouvs 1 20
I Hypocondriack Cafet relieved by the Cold Bath
19, io
[ Cne fvrt of Hypocondriack afe6tion with its Curt
I 47, 48
f The Hydrophobia reqvirts did Baths I JO
I a^^etickCiliik cured by the aid Bath l itf
The japOnefe teafin their Children in cold Heater 1
Jaundice c-ured by the Bath Waters 385
^ account of one Jeukins who lived 1 69 Tears 404
The Jews had aCvJlom to wajh before Frayers and Sa-
crifice and going into the Temfle 4
The Jews acknowledge three forts of Purifications by
aajhings 5
The Jews vfed to tvafii new born Children in Salt and
Water 94
Thi Jewifh Prophets and Priefts had agrtatKnovfledg
in Phyfick as well as the Divine Rights <S$
how they cured the Lefrofy ibid
Immerfion, its religious Vfe I , Z
• - i ts nattiral Vfe t , 2, 3, 4
■a miraculotti Cure done thereby 7
Ret igioiu and Medicinal Immcrfions, as eld m Sd'
crifices themfelves 1
Cold Immei'fion beneficial in narcotick Poifont l £
The ohjeHion that Immcrflons art fuitable to hot Xt-
gions and net to the cold taken off" 1 2, 1 3
ImmcrfiOns have been fraifis'd by all AHifikind ■Ae-
ther learned or unleamtd t j
Tw
iriiw^
//
The I K D k x.
N,
Lamtiids cwnd hy cold htmerfwn 364
Leprofy firttpum in England 8
^i^'^^^ewrid h Old SiMm ibid
IJtfiofjf mtghttrtbdlj Se thifnfent Pm 9
J * i J hfiMces 0f ks hm^ cwred kyTirfins tei^gdiff
' :^ iwtmerfi irn €0td Water 64
iiindhidFUone 1^4)23$
^'hvidkyrcdfin^ 131
LBlWbod eked ccncefHiftg BMfnfimis ^9
th^fcneralefiSs of Liomds 3^
Jift Liquids ibi Jbifter their AbtUn the teUer they
' 'ire itfo
Hew the Sfirits i^/Liquors concenter whettfretei 332
A^itjvf IJquon m/m^ia ftf CU/ir tid
.M*. Lock oW ^r ddvifi9^ thst you$^ Perfons be
every d^w^ in cold Water 94
A difcourje on Longevity 40 1
lUdiard Lloyd lived 1 3 3 Tedts 408
IW Lungs are Air^ftr^ners ^3 5
Loftrd^ns begun by the Pafrrarchs , and dfier^
/ Airix imitated by the Egyptians , Jews ^
Gtteks^, Romans , ^m^ almofi alt Mankind
o> I
ttftrations a/ fi!^ Mahdmctans 4
~ rl^r Moors tbid
Madnefs cured by Cold Baths 1 42
Tibr Mahometans ffrinkle and purify themfelves with
Water .4
m m f h ^ learnt Lufti-atious of the Jews ibid
K •
Matt
^»m
The Index.
Malt Liquor frefcrred to Wine after the Bath Wa^
ters 1 93
Man is a fort of a mufical Infirwnem . ^06
A haffy Marriage defcribed 283, 284
Frefii and ftale Meats confiderd 3tfz
The external ufe of Medicines ap-ees with their in-
ward yfe ^S
For want of Nitre in the Air^ abundance 0/Mildews
fell in the time of the Plague 233
lifld^^ when its ufe is frejuMcial . IJKS;
I 4 S of a falvhriom^ foft and fweet Nourijhmenty
418
Mineral Waters do very great Curts^ both by wafhing
and drinking 3151
^he^SiooTl is as truly the caufe of Cold, as the Sun is
of Heat 331
The Moors ufed Lufirations 4
The Morbifick/Matter confidered 32, 3 3
]Mor ning wafhings why to be frtferred 9 5
Mofes retained the Immerfmis of the Patriarchs and
iEgyptians 4
5r. Mungo'j Well defcribed 211
Mufe prcfcrihed the Hydropofia as well as the Pfeu-
chrolulia to cure Augulbus 1 9
* ! je wrought fuch a cure upon Auguftus, that
his Statue was by order erected in the Temple ^f
^fculapius 224
The Moors in Winter wallow in Snow 1 3
they believe themfelves the only Chrifiianr
on account of their Baptifmal Rites ^ ibid
•they Baptize themfelves every Tear on the
Day of Epiphanyj in their Lakes and Ponds 88
Gg J?.
The Index.
N;
ih^h Mm stnd Women Boftiutd Naked ^i
KaDire fiems U have tdtight dS Nmom the iife of
4oUW0^er 8$
Nature teaches us what Regimen is mojt agreeable to
• tackOime jo6
Mercurialis his advice to Nephriticks 91
Nervous Difeafes are of all mqjf hereditary 75
MOhftrtkHofts of the iitry&s m^ be cured by Cbtd
Maths ili
IJ^ervons Difeafes curtdbyCotd Baths tyg
Nitre, its Nature andPlrtues 155
&r vM9tt of N itre in the Air^ ahimdance of Mildews
fell in the time of the Plague 233
hs the beginning of the Normans the Lefrofy ffread
' ot^r England by Infeii ion 8
jin account of a very old Man at Northampton
Jhc Northern Pecfle have found Cold Baths very
tifcful to their Bodies 8tf
The ufe and ahufe of Meris Nofts 385
A Noftrum-monger defcrihed 203
Nur fcs dcltroy marry Children 3 3 7? 3 3^ '
Ni^rfes horo to he chofe 383
Oats and Oatmeal recommended 355
jiH Obftrudioas of the Nerves may be cvred by Cold
: 3nths 1 28
Piiralytick Obit ruft ions talen ojf by Cold Baths
122
Olearins
.. J— ^,.^»fca»«Mfc<i^»^»^— ■»*■»- -x*!!- *i ■■* ■ - ~ — ■■» - » ii4 >•■<■**
The Index.
Olearlu^i citid fouthirifi^ thi BaptifmiU Rita 0f iht
Mu(lovitc<i itnd ArmcnidM i 3
Cn\\\\i commeftds thf PG:\\i:\\Vol\\Cui frr tht OnluH
Sonon 145
. i\i^^ thrirrf eft t 147
'/i* i»# wdded t$ 4rt Opinion i(r rriit M^rfn
T^i^ Jfihtdfifdnu of thi Orcfldei frtfirvtd thiir
t^if^mr dtid Ihiiuty^ by ohftrviH^ Psffimopy
OribtinuH lived Ififir After Galcn^ mid np fkyfi'-
9iMH ever frefrmtd did SMthi with miin if^
J'tttHrtte ihiifi hex f^^ ^'^ Sen/ittf ! 3 1
Oril);t fills Pbyfiiimi t$ Jilliau the (Jfofi^i) MtH^
ferpr 188
> * rPdf 01 fre^t MUPt^ htmever our Amher t^i
h4Vi t0 diffirt ft'om hi9M ibid
Ofwald Kinjt of the Norlutmbir 91
r
I
I'.
i
Pilini f9 whivh cold is iftjurious 4$
" ^'• i ^tured Ity cold Oftfy itllV
P.1I (y cMred by a iVnter itt Flinders 7
htify 4// its ^pKies tmd h Bmhing l%%
fftveter^te Paini of the Stomsch cured by tftimiPpon
t'atlit*^ rw^^f/ hy (old fmmerfion 39^
7K;# tlfeHs of aid R4tht in Prtftily tick Oh/heditim
A gerfersit VAn\Yf\% i?ured by hoe B0fhi9ig 1 89
j4 KtrilyfiH ri/;-fi/ by'tmmerfm ht Ht. MUAgo'i (fff^
■37
^^«/r;if Pjirion^ dijturb the Judgment 7 *
77/# Patriat wtit i^r^Min Luflrntiont t
G g 1 Perfiui
The 1 N D jE- X.
-^^"~-*^-^- • "
Pet fi\|S cited for§bfervirfg that in all ffredt Devotions
. Immerfion was fraSifed 5
Ytxfjpivatmn cpnJUirek 95
Ferlpiration is the Smoke made from the vital flame
238
Pbilo €ued fw i^rming that the Jews rvere fubjeH
•r#^ Anthrax 9
A^e^ptmed PhthiCs cured by Jffles and Milk
';.■■. 316
Tb&Artof Phyfick not known in Tattary, Mufco-
'''V% 0t itmwg the Indians . . 85
Phyfick has of late Tears been tranflated from the
'Arabians po
Phy-fical P>^4fif/r« which have leafi of. Art ^ are ufu^
" My moft agreealile to Nature 105
P6y licians^j/^ to improve the Foundations of Phy-
^•'fkklaid by Hippocrates 4ifii( Galcn, and never
' receed from them if
Phyfick Bigottry is worfe than that of Popcry 1 98
The Piles, how prevented 97
Pimpinclla recommended for rfc^ Plague, and in
■ cafes of Poy fon 210
The Pifcmas were called Baptifietia by Pliny Ju-
V nior 63
itnffances of the Plkgtie being cured by Immer-^
\'')hi 231
•ft the time of the Plague \66^* there was a general
'■ Calm and Serenity of Weather . ibid
Plafttaih^rry ufeful in Fever j . 323
C^ery fimplo; Flant is compounded by the Wifdom of
' the great Compoundet 252
The different parts of maxty Plaints, have their
" different Taftes and different Hrtues 252,253
t
. ♦
Plato
The Index.
Plato cited for ^{ferting that the Gods purified
the Earth by the iTtnrl^ from which Opimon
f prang the Cufiom of pi^t't-fyi^ig ^y Inmmcrf^)-?
Mankind^ as well as the Earthy which Ofivu :r
is favouredhy GrotvX^ z
The Pleurify was very rare in Ejigland i j
Pleurify is a Species of the Rhermatifm \ o
Pliny largely defcribes Cold Baths '{^
Polycarp Baptlz^ed Tranquilliiuis naked s >
Pomaceous juices the greatefi Peftorals .3^5
The Pores art fr mans Sally-ports^ by whicfi Na-
ture drives'out the Enemy crept tntofhe Gdrrlfon
Porphiry rtW for averting fhatth^ Egyptian
Priefis wajljt three times in a Day upon extraofdi"
nary SacriRtes ' ^ 3
Bjlvius^s defer iption of the Pox 155
The Pox the greatejt Curfe that if an befall a Man in
this Life ibid
The nature of Indian Poyfons 363
The PraiUce of cold Lnmerfion in Penfilvania
Heathen Pvotclyte^ how admitted to Judaifm 68
Purging ncceffary before Bathing * 33
Three forts of Purification by wafinngs ' ' "5
Purifying by Water as ancient as fhe Flood 2
Purifying by Water ancienter than the Law of Mofes
^^ 3.
Puftulcs cured by Cold Baths 43
Pythuf^oras was aPhyftcian as v^U as Philofopherj
- . he faugh t the Wefiern Nation^ and the Greeks /*-.
merfions 4
Gg.j 4
The 1 N D E x*
A Qpart^n Agtic cured by fmmerjton Zi$
A Quartan Agut cured 6y Ics^it^ into, the iTjames
TTjccure of aQviS^xtan Ague ^60
R.
TChi RegiUHcii ^ Alqcand^r ^verus recommtH^
to tUf frofem Ag€y ms deferred ty Lampridius
169
77^ cold Regimei^ mofi ndtrifeaUe fkr freferMtim ef
Health ;. 173
Internal Remedies necejjfary before .^ vft of Old
Baths IP
Rhenmatifm an old Ef^UJh I>iftafp "^
■I i ■ V leurify a ^ecies thereof ■ i o
cured by Cold Baths 5>> TO
■ V ' ■ ' ^» » inftofjce of its Cure by cold hnmerfie^
A Scorbutici khepmatifm csfred by cold Jmrner-
J fi^ 303
A Rheumatifm cured by the Cold Bath Z46
Infiances of Rheumatifms cured by Cold Bmhs
A Rheumatick Perfon cured by the Cold Bath
286^ 5.87
Hot Regimen mifchievons in the Smatt Pox jjo
TfMxvsXSf relented by wajhing the Jlead in cold Wa-
ter P3
Rickets, its Original confide/ d . ^^jTI
No Diflemfer more frequent in Children than the
Rickets ' Tjs
The
' f^
riie Index.
'^*~ -| ■! _ a^^x,^
The Rickets prfl nef eared in England about the
Tear 1 620 77
commonly cured by bathhig ibid
were firfi known in the IVeJl of England
ibid
The Welch filing concerning the Rickets 94
kickcts, Inftancesof itiiure llj^ ijf
Rickets cured by Old Baths T 2 3, 1 3 9
Tl)e Rickets was a Diflemfcr almofi worn out in
England, bnt noxp it begins to come in flay
again 33tf
The Rickets brought Boots into fajhiott 337
pild Immerjion a Sfecifick dn for the Rickets
335
fn the River Trahcnta a great multitude were Bap-
firmed 5*> 57
The River Glen, a gr^at number of Perfons were
Bmiz^ed therein ^6
The River Swalva, fever al Baptisicd therein 5$
Bathing in Rivers^ Ijow beneficial 9J
Tl^e Romans had both their Religious Ceremonies and
their Phyfick from the Grecians 5
■ ■ ■ *they improved the Art of Cold Bathing 6
^accounted it opprobriotrj ncc natava:, nec li*
teras fcirc 93
they had their Pifcina on the North fide df
their Baths 1 34
J^rhattg the Ronuns it was a form of Reproach
f tell a Man he could neither Kead nor Sanm
188
Th9 Church of Rome hath drawn Jbort Compendiums
of bi»h Sacraments t {
Oflk Bathing generally praEhifed /ft Rome for near
'400 pars ^ I ^4
/I Rupbre cured by the Old Baths 1 20^
Gg4 XH
Thd Index.
3T?r RuiTians 54pri/i» confiier*d 89
: ■ I s. . . •
m
f ■
Tlbf Church of Rome W/i ^r^vn Jbprr Omf indium
pf tin Sacraments \ 5
Ti!>^ naxure of Salts , 236
Water is the hefi Menflruum to dijfolve Salts ibid
The Samoids about Tartary harden their new bom
Infants either in Snow or Water 173
The Saxons vfedLufir at ions ^ 6
The South Saxons converted by Wilfrid 57
The Sciatica a Species of Hheumatifn 9
> ■ relieved ky Cold Baths 1 1 3
!The Scurvy a new name for an old Difeafe^ caBed by
Hippocrates the great S\At^n 10
Swimming prefcribcd for the cure of the Scurvy
65^66
Vndcr the Name of the Scurvy divers Difeafes
are comprehended , hecavfe we may obferve in
it^ a complication of divers Cacocfymias 1 56
How Sen(ation Is made more lively 74
A Shareing Pljyficlun defcrlbed 202
Simples heft to ejfeEl Cures 395
Invention of Compounds woffrorn not knowing the Vir-
tues of Simples 187
The motion of the Spirits In Sleep 1 4^^ 1 47
How far the Cold Baths may be proper for Sleepy
Difeafes 148,210
Sleep foftens and fweetens the Juices 343
Sir Robert Shirley In the Reign of King Charles
the Fii n., had three of his Sons dipt in the Font 6\
61
Hot fomentations of^the Head ofcajlon Sleep* 41
Th^
The Index.
The Small Pox rcvkotPdby Hippocrates among the
Spring Difciifcs 9
Small Pox is htjurrd by d hot Rcfjmcn 230
Hotv the Small Pox cttMc timottg the Indian?* in Pca-
fiWania 190
Snuir ttikivg^ exploded 383
jit Sorhcek itt Lancafliirc is the mofi remarkable
cold Sprif/f^ 153
Spchnail cited for itffertim that l.ncius writ to
Eleuthcriiis/0 fhid Afijjtortaries into Enghwxd ta
Convert and Buptiz^c the Nation 5ff
f or the fraElife of Immerfion iff Boftifm 58
59
In all Sf rains cold Afflivations mojl proper 3 8 J
j4 Spring covered ly a Building is much colder than
one uncovered 1 05
Sprlnp-watcrcflVoW «;//f //ott/r is much colder in
the Night than in the Day 330
Decayed Stomach reflored'by the Bath Waters 191
Inveterate pains of the Stomach cured by Itnmerfion
218
Stomachick pains when pungent are mojl exqui"
fite 219
Infants arc fubjefl to the Stone, and are often hinrn
with it " 78
The Stone in the Kidneys cured by cold Bathing
Straho cited for affirming that the Water if the
Kiver Cydnus was beneficial in curing the GetA
141
Stupidity is proof agamfl S;ityr 204
Sudor) Ticks how prejudicial 20p
Ctufes of SupprcfUon of Vrine ^ 57
A Surfeit of Salmon how cured XQ%
H^d
The Index.
fiari SwathlAE of Childrtn how frefudicial 340
^weatmg tifiivy the Indians for the cure of 1%-
versy and immediately flimging themfehes in told
Water 289
■ $y\ralva the name of a Riv^r wbereiri many Perfons
were Baptifed 55
Swimming preferibed foir euro rf tht Scnn^y
6^yS^
Swimming in the Sea^ bywhor^and forwhat^om-^
mended "ijl^&C.
$wimmih^ <j^»^wfcf Afir^^ ' 153
^7imTa\ti% good for furfeits heating 2oy
Jk fonner times atmofi a$ Men were SWiiiimws
218
5yIviusV defcriftion of the Vox '' *' ; ij^
, . , T.
ifcplperaiice recommended 3 ^
Tipinjperance^^r^o/JD/Vf neceffarfto the prolongation
\'\if Life ' 418
Tender Conflittnions how to be prepared for Cold
,Sdihs 95
^eadernefs cured by Cold Bathing 155, 375^ 375
T%e Tetanus is only a laJUng O-atnp 3 8
neTctSinus cured iy Cold Bathing 145
Thiirft) is an hftdmrieatiott 235
'* I hew to be quenched 249
A fore Throat eured by Gld Bathing 35 5
ToDacco brought a Perfon to the brink of the Grave
Kcrckringius'j Opinion of Tobacco 295
Tobacco prejudicial to yotmg^ but fafe for old Per-
fons 359
The
The IkdBX.
I
The rift of Tobacco takivr 381
/JaB" the Tongiiefc, a Tartarian PetfUy iutrdnttt
thtmftlvti Ag4irtfi the extreme cold of tht. Air
Vahenta a River wherein greAt multitudes wire
Baftiz.ed 5*j S7
rinc Jmmtrfion of Children necefary , tj^ei-
cialfy in Families fubjct'i to Hereditary XHfe*-
fes 5»
Trine fmmerfwn fofitivefy trefcribed 5 ^
aTrtnc Jmmerfon « mofi to be approved 60
ufed in the Englifll Churth in King Edward
VI. D^s ibid
''Both hot and cold tVater are good for the TuniOurs
in the yoints jf^
fZsUxis advifei SaimmiMg for the Tympany 1 4^
u.v. _
ji Varlx with an Ulcer cured hy Cold Bathing i ly
VaiinfteiS Mcomit of the Coptis Baftizjng them'
fetves 88
^ Venetian Conful at Smyrna MmfiiFrancifcoLu-
patlbli, lived 1 1 3 Te*rs aq-j
Baccius'j advife in the Cafeof a Vertigo 144
Vefputins cited t^out the A mericans curet of fe-
vers 131
Virgil cited for defcribing the waiting of ^neas ip-
fore he Sacrificed to thcGeds ^
Virgil'/ Cold Bath 4JI
But two Perfons died on hoiidow- Bridge in tin i^Ut
time of the Vifitation ^»wo 1 66% 211
.Unftion of OiUdren ufed before Baftifm rfj
"the Unflions ufed hy tht Anciemt conftdtred 1 \6
^i
The Index.
jibn^ livd Family named Unthankc 412, 413
Vomiting cured by the Cold Bath i itf
An Experiment made of Febrile Urine 237
€jiufes of fupprejfton of Urine 3 j I
The external Uic of Medicines agrees with -their in^
wardUfc 16
ji/l IJftion leaves alcalious and caufiicat Saks either
Fixt or Volatile 236
W.
ft
Wattr^dr inking its advantaga 109
Petrifying by Water ancienterth^if the Law of Mo-
•Vfes 2,3
THe general effects of Water 35
Common Water, its nfe in Bathing pj
i ts life to cure Horfes p6
to curr Men ibid
Watermen rarely infcUed with tht Plague 233
Water is the befi Afetjflrunm to diffolve Salts 1^6
The mofiflmple atid elcme/^ary is thebejf W^ter ibid
The nature of Briftol Waters 239
IVhat Water finefifor dri /iking 299
M^rTW Water dra?/k prevents bilious Cblicks 300
The nature of VJ^Xtr^ con fidcr^d 259
The power of cold Water in the fupprejfton of Vrine
evinced 3.497 &C.
The Welch have 7norc lately left Immerfion than the
Enp,li(h ^'14
The Welch Baptiz.c bydipjping 87
The Welch Sayin-i concerning the Rickets 94
Weaknefs cured by cold Water 377
Wearinefs taken off by the ufe of cold Water 388
A Well near Stow which had been a Baptijlery cures
foreHyes^ Scabs^ &c. 17
,4 Well at Wy in Kent very famous 7
WcUs
SOOKS fthtiifor William Innys, at th
Prince's Arms in St. Paul'i Chursh-j*ri^
pUjfitvthttUty ! 01, A DcinDtiArjiloti or ibc ncing lad
f Atinbut«t of GoJ, from hit Woj'kt ol Cieaiioti ; being
lIiG SublUntt oi l< Sermoni prciili'il in S. Mnryltiew
Ohitidi, LmifDMt u <lio HniiourAble Mr. Keylit Lcuuiei, lA
ilie Ycjri ITU) ind ■7i*< wiili Urga Ndcci, and minjr
euitoui ObrcrvMioii!. iJy tK. Vtrhum, P.ca«i of Upraii»-
/!w i» /•;ir«''. "nJ P-R..S. rtt rb'rd Sd'ticn. 1714. »«.
A^ro-Oaolm i or, A Dcinonlluiion ol' rlio Utine and
Anribiicet of God. Irom a Survey of iImj Kmvciu ; iluitiri-
■ed wuli Coppar l'Uc«. By M'. Vrrb/uri, Ketior of Lto*
m;B/J«f in i'J«», »n4 P. R. 5. r?i<. 8^.
The Wifdoin ol God nuinlL'ncJ in tlia Work* of ihe
Creation. In Two I'trti, w>. TJ»c Liftavculy Bodiai. Elo-
inentit Meicon, FofliU, Vc|;«jWc?, Aiiiinali, fB«;irt(,
BinJt, rilhei, md InfediJ mgru jurticuljflv m tlic liody
pt the >'arch^ iti Viffiti, Moiioii, iind Cutilillcncv, in tlii
■tdmirobl* Scrufliire at tlie Itoiiici of Mm, and otlivr Ant-
miU, in «lfo m tlicir Oeuer.ition, t^i-. Willi Anlwan to
fbtnc Ol>jefUoiii. by Jehu Jtov, Ure rellowol lb* Koyal
Society, fbf &nh BdilK*. if id. Ufa.
Tlirci Vbyfitc-rbtohiiUal UiUotiifei. loiicerning, I. Tin
Frtinitwn Cl>4oi, and Crcaiioii ul lim World. II. The
general PBluea, iti Caufei anS lUi'ntH. Ml. Tlic DifTolu-
110 n of ilio world, and tuime Contljftracion. Wlierein
«H litgoly dikulleJ, the I'l'Diihaiuii mid Ult of Moun-
,l»in«; tlic OriKJiul «l fowiiMiiu, ol loiumJ Stonct, and
Se.i-lin><;> lioii.1 <i>d Sl»>llf louxd 1,. (lie Cartl. ; ilio UtiH
af'partimbt I'looJ<, md Iniiiij^tKuti j) ti,G sea i the Bru|>-
tioui of Vulcaiio'i , the Nature and Canlei ul EartU.ju*ket.
Al'o an Hiftoiicil Account ut ihulc [\vn kit t«iiiarkaUe'
6ne» ill 'famAna and RntlAtiA. Witii KraCLical Infcroii-
Ml. liy John Ray, lace f e How ol li.e Ky^t .?« •';. Tit
Third I'.Aitian, iunftiaied w«h Copprt-Hatei, and inuctt
mord anlaigad tlian tlic I'onuer £ditioiii, Iroin ibe Ati-
tlioi'iown MSS. r?!}. \iv».
tb.\rm»iefasiii ExftnfaHmiit i 01, A Dodv of MedicirMt,
com.tiuin|{ a Ttioufand felv^ VtcIcriOEi, nnlMenng moA
Intintiunt nt'Cui'C ; lo wbi<.h are added uiuliil .N,#.^l,«, i
Cat-ilogiic of Kcmediet) and a copioM InJi;* lor the Alli-
ftance ofyoimi; I'iiylii'uni : ■J'lt Si-'inJ Sd^tim, witli larue
AddmuH, by ii)0 Author 11 , liiUit. i?!^ Htv
The Index.
'^'m
Wells dedicated to 5. Winifred 4fid 5. Monali 6,7
, their Defcriftion and VJi 168
WcW'H^ater mt fit to he drank. 300
W er Weather beft for Cold Bathitifs v \ /\ 73
ir/;r /nr^i/ Confiquencos of WhorctTftrn 285
W'iwe'drjfskers fatting to drink Afult tic^uorsy fre^
fjite fitly Jlideinto Drofpes 380
^■iiX^'Kino^ar good for the fUyue;^ and all material
C.ifes of Poyfon 209
Willi id converted the SonUj Saxons to tijo Faith
57
WifUom and FoKy imftittd to our natural Tempe^
vAmeytts l^'ill
The Ctiftom of Baptlz^ing naked Womca 55
Womcns vicious Diet and Re^imen^ with their Ef"
ftEls " 7^
A lerfoi cured c/Wornis hy Sfvimming 273, 274
Y. ',/\-;.,
Young VerfvHS ought to ufe Cold Baths. 20 4.
The Indians xoafi} their Young Infants in cold ^
Streams as foon as born^ at all Seafons of the Tear
291
A Young Gentlewoman killed by Retention ofVrint
3 SO '.
'GiL ^ V£. '^7
7i. ^..
F I N I S.
Open Library