Mackenzie's Five Thousand Receipts, in All the Useful And Domestic Arts:
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of bay-salt in 16 gallons of fresh water, possesses all the properties of the water of the sea, a small portion of sulphate of magnesia excepted. The shower-bath. The cold shower-bath is less alarming to ner- vous persons, and less liable to produce cramps, than cold immersion; it may be considered as iha best and safest mode of cold bathing, and is re- commended in many nervous complaints. It has also afforded relief in some cases of in- sanity. Substitute for a shower bath. Where the saving o...f expense is an object, it may be effectually answered by filling a common water- ing pot with cold water. Let the patient sit un- dressed upon a stool, whicli may be placed in a ! large tub, and let the hair, if not cut snort, be 260 UNlVEtlSAL RECEIPT BOOK. spfesrd over the slioiilders as loosely as possible. Now pour the water frnin tlie ])0t over the patient's : ead, face, neck, shoulders, and all parts of the oodv, progressively down to the feet, until the ■whole has been thoroughly wetted.
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