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Thermometer, and confequently how much 
greater Contraction one Water will make 
on our Bodies beyond another ; on which 
Account, we hope, a Table of the fundry 
Degrees of Cold in feveral Baths, taken by 
the fame Glafs, cannot be unacceptable to 
the Reader, as it has never been done be- 
fore. It is from this contractile Force im* 
prefled by the Cold on our Bodies, that 
Bathing is of fpecial Ufe in feveral exceflive 
Evacuations, as Fluor Aibus , faint clammy 
Sweats, Menfes immodici , Faintnefs a?id 
Lownefs of Spirits * Hippo , Stupor, Weak - 
nefs or Laxnefs of the Nerves, Lamcnrfs , 
Pains of the Stomach , and Want of Appe- 
tite, Scorbutic fixed. Erratic, Rheumatic 
and Arthritic Pains , loofc, foft, painlefs. 
White Swellings, Deafnefs, Lofs of Speech , 
Atrophies , Lethargy, Lax Stamina, old 
Gleets, obftinate Agues (if the Blood is not 
too fizy, for then they are often fatal) 
Eredlion of the Penis diminifhed and loft , 
Cremafier Mufcles relaxed. Abortion, &c. 
The Caufe of this Contraction, is either 
from the Senfation and Stimulation of Cold 
upon the Body, or the Compreflion of the 
Air in our Solids and Fluids ; as the Air in 
Spirit of Wine contracts by the Increafe of 
Cold. 
