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fame Effedt on our Bodies, as moift, foggy* 
or rainy Weather, even though the Mer** 
cury ftands pretty high in the Glafs, for 
Heat relaxes the Solids of the whole Syf* 
tem ; the animal juices are rarified, the 
Body is dull, lazy, fluggifb, and covered 
with fainty Sweats, the Mind flow, Ap- 
petite and Digeftion low ; the Spring of the 
Veflels is relaxed, the Capillaries, near the 
Body’s Surface efpecially, are diftended ; 
here cold Bathing afford the beft, fure, and 
moft immediate Relief, not only to reftore 
thefe profufe clammy Sweats, but to pre- 
vent flow and inflammatory Fevers $ for 
which, and fome former Reafons, the Ufe 
of the cold Bath muft always be of great 
Service when the Mercury ftands low in 
the Barometer ; i* e. when the Compreflion 
on the Body’s Surface is leaft ; that what 
Compreflion or Contraction is wanting, ei- 
ther from the Heat or Levity of the At~ 
mofphere, may be compenfated by the re- 
freshing Immerfion in the Cold Bath in the 
Morning. 
For the fame Reafon fuch Bathing will 
be highly neceflary for Perfons pining un- 
der chronic Grief, Fear, Sorrow, &c. which 
flacken the Tone of the Fibres, and prepare 
the 
