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CHAP. VIII. 
Of COLD BATHING. 
I Shall briefly confider Cold Bathing in 
common Water, the Theory whereof 
has been eftabliffied by Bellini , borrowed 
and improved by Dr. Wainwright , tran- 
fcribed by Quincy, and from them taken 
by Burton in his Non- naturals. The Prac- 
tice of it has been revived, with inex- 
preffible Benefit to Mankind, by Sir John 
Floyer , Dr. Bernard , and Dr. Brown ; Sir 
John has abundantly fhown and proved the 
Antiquity of medicinal , as well as religious 
Bathing, and the univerfal Ufe of it, by all 
Nations and Religions, till a Monkifh Phi- 
lofophy prevailed in the Weftern World, 
which took away one of the Legs of Phy- 
lick, viz. Exercife and Cold Bathing , and 
in their room fubftituted Incantations^ Spells 
and Charms , &c. When natural warm Baths 
came in Ufe, this Practice was attended 
with fo many Doubts and Queries, as clog- 
ged and rendered it difficult, whether the 
Bath at that Time might not be under the 
malevolent Afpedt of fome Star ? whether 
it was fafe in Leap-Tear ? or at the Ap- 
pearance 
