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a rainy Seafon, is to the Water as i to 22 9 
fo the Weight, and confequently the Pref- 
fure, will be encreafed proportionably 5 for 
a Body thus immerfed jo Foot under Sea- 
water , fuftains near 5201b, more Weight 
than in common Water. There we fee in 
an Afcites or Tympanites with found Bow- 
els, where the Serum is got out of the 
Veffels, and lies in the Cavity of the Body, 
and cold Bathing is ufed for its Expulfion, 
the deeper the Immerfion with Safety to 
the Patient, the more effectual and expedi- 
tious muft its Effects and Benefit be; for 
the greater Weight is laid on the Body* 
the more forcibly will the extravafated Se- 
rum be impelled or driven into the Mouths 
of the abforbent Veffels. On the contrary, 
in an Anafarca , where the Lymphatics 
over the whole Surface are diftended, but 
not broke, the Cold Bath well managed, 
will be of fpecial Service ; but then they 
muft be dipp’d more gradually , as the firft 
Day go only one Foot under Water, two 
Foot next two Days, then three Foot, &c t 
for fiiould they venture in too deep at firft, 
it may be of dangerous or fatal Confe- 
quence, by putting a greater Prefiiire and 
Contraction on the Body's Surface, than 
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