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EVery Bath of fresh water, moistneth, * 1.1 but in heating and cooling, there is not the same faculty every where, a temperate Bath of sweet water opens the pores of the skin, and softens, and rarifies the part, and discusseth the excre∣ments into the extreame parts, and corrects the drynesse of parts, and so takes away lassitude, but if it should continue long 'twould discusse that which is dissolved, and weaken the strength.
Luke-warme Bathes, * 1.2 if they incline to cold, something re∣frigerate the body, nor have they power of rarifying the parts and discussing excrements.
Cold water of it selfe cooles, * 1.3 yet by accident the pores being shut, and the heate penned in heateth, whence if through dissipation the native heat should be in danger, cold rhings being timely applyed, have power to recollect and pre∣serve it.
Bathes oftentimes do hurt, and especially to those that are not accustomed to them, and to Plethorick persons, and such as are filled with crude humours, as also to those which are obnoxious to Catarrhes, and inflamations, or an Erysipe∣las. The Romans often frequented Bathes, and they often bathed twice a day, the preparation whereof you may see Galen 10. of the method of healing Chap. the tenth; they used unctions also before and after bathing, whereof Galen the second of simple faculties of healing Chap. the twenty fourth; and the seventh.
A Tempe∣rate Bath.
Luke Warme.
Cold.