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Shortened nor difturbed in your Reft, nor 
lofe the proper Seafons of Bathing. But for 
thefe Things the refiding Phyfician is al- 
ways to be firft confulted. 
Pumping is another outward Ufe of both 
common and mineral Waters, but we here 
confider the laft only. Before the Inven- 
tion of Pumps, the difeafcd Perfon either 
flood under a Water- fall, as from an over- 
shot Miln, or a Cafcade from a Rock, or 
other Precipice ; or two tall ftrong Fellows 
took up Water in Buckets, and poured it 
leifurely, in an even Stream, upon the Part 
affefted. But fince the Invention of Pumps 
by Ctbzefius an Athenian , or, as others will, 
an Alexandrian , about 200 Years before 
Chrift, that Method is found much the ea- 
fier and better, 1. Becaufe the reft of the 
Body being kept dry and warm, only the 
difeafed Part is touched. 2. Becaufe the 
Prefiure of the Water on that particular 
Place is far greater ; for whereas a Cylinder 
of Water two foot high, whofe Bafis is equal 
to ~ of a Foot, prefles on the Skin with a 
Weight equal only to 9 Mb. a Column of 
Water of the fame Bafis 5 but 10 Foot high 
comes with a five-fold greater Weight, be- 
fides the Weight acquired by its Fall $ 
hence 
