An Essay on Warm, Cold, and Vapour Bathing - With Practical Observations on Sea Bathing, Diseases of the Skin, Bilious, Liver Complaints, and Dropsy #252758

That the ancient Physicians were not governed by any decided prmciples, re specting the external application of water, appears from their very loose manner of recommending it. They prescribed ah lution and bathing without mentioning the necessary temperature of the water, indifferent whether it was hot or cold. See. Avicenna, T railian, and other ancient writers.