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Skin 3 encreafing Perfpiration, and attend 
ating and rarifying the grofs Humours* 
and alfo they help to relieve Pains of the 
Side, Difeafes of the Back and Breaft, by 
promoting and facilitating Expeftoration, 
as well as by abating the Inflammations. 
They are ufeful in Pains of the Eyes, Ears, 
and contracted or Sinew-grown Members, 
by relaxing the Membranes of the firft, 
and the Mufcles and Tendons of the laft. 
Thefe few Inftances, out of many that 
might be advanced, fhew not only the 
Ufefulnefs of tepid Bathing, but the Man- 
ner how it produces its Effects * which be- 
ing known, wq may not only add a great 
many others, but alfo fee where it is hurt- 
ful 5 as in all W eaknefs and Relaxation of 
the Nerves, which Difeafe it muft cer- 
tainly encreafe, and aggravate all the Symp- 
toms of it, by letting down the Spring of 
the Fibres ftill lower; and alfo in He- 
morrhages, by rarifying the Blood, encrea- 
fing its Bulk, and widening the Vefiels * 
and in a Lownefs and Depreflion of Spi- 
rits, from the Slownefs of the Circulation, 
and in too great a Penury and Difiolution 
of the Particles of the Blood, &c* 
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