512 ESSAYS AND OBSERVATIONS 



Art. XXIV. 



The Cafe of a P erf on nvbo was feemingly 

 killed by a Bloiv on the Bread y recover- 

 ed by Bleeding and the Warm Bath^ in a 

 L^ter addreffedto Dr Alexander Monro, 

 fen. ^j/ William Alexander, Al.Z). 



SIR, 



\S the following relation may per- 

 haps throw fonae light upon the a- 

 gency, or at lead upon the ufefulnefs of 

 the warm bath ; as it is the hiftory of a. 

 cafe, in which bathing was perhaps ne- 

 ver ufed before ; I ihall make no apology 

 for. communicating it, efpccially as I 

 know I am wiiting to a gentleman to 

 whom even the moft diftant hint of me- 

 dical knowledge is always agreeable. 



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