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This seems to have been caused by the water, though subtepid, being much below the heat of his skin, and consequently contributing to cool the capillaries, and by satiating the absorbents to relieve the uneasy sensation from the dryness of the skin.

Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766

Hence the admission of cold air, or ablution with subtepid or with cold water, in fevers with hot skin, whether they be attended with arterial strength, or arterial debility, renders the pulse slower; in the former case by diminishing the stimulus of the blood, and in the latter by lessening the expenditure of sensorial power.

Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766

Bathing in subtepid water, and in breathing over the steam of warm water, with or without a little vinegar in it.

Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766

Facts similar to these are observable in other parts of our system: thus, if one hand be made warm, and the other exposed to the cold, and then both of them immersed in subtepid water, the water is perceived warm to one hand, and cold to the other; and we are not able to hear weak sounds for some time after we have been exposed to loud ones; and we feel a chilliness on coming into an atmosphere of temperate warmth, after having been some time confined in a very warm room: and hence the stomach, and other organs of digestion, of those who have been habituated to the greater stimulus of spirituous liquor, are not excited into their due action by the less stimulus of common food alone; of which the immediate consequence is indigestion and hypochondriacism.

Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766

a large dose taken by mistake, not less than half an ounce or an ounce of the tincture, by which I suppose the urinary lymphatics were thrown into violent inverted motions, for the patient drank repeated draughts of subtepid water to the quantity of a gallon or two in a few hours; and during the greatest part of that time he was not I believe two entire minutes together without making water.

Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766