>775- The method of bathing is, for the patient to fit or lay himfelf down in the ciftern, till the water is up to his chin. The water then feels quite warm without fcalding, and a kind of fugillation from the internal to the external parts o f the body is obferved. The velocity o f the pulfe is increafed, as well as that of the pulfation of the heart. In fo fhort a fpace of time as eight or ten minutes, and fometimes even before that period, a deliquium appears to be coming on. It is therefore by no means advifeable to be alone, for fear of fwooning in the bath, and being drowned. Such unfortunate accidents are faid fometimes to have really happened. At length, when the patient gets out of the water, he lays himfelf at the other end of the room to fweat in the clothes he has brought with him for this purpoie. If he then drinks iome o f the warm water, he gets fo much the eafier into a fweat. As foon as this is over, or at leaft diminifhed, the patient waihes himfelf as quickly as pofiible in the bath, in order to be dry fo much the fooner, before he puts on his clothes. Some people bathe and fweat in the manner here mentioned at two different times, one immediately after the other, and find no bad effe&s from it. The ciftern may he emptied, j^y turning a cock between each perfon s bathing, i f required. Hardly a mile and a half from hence there is a farm, where the company at the bath fometimes lodge; but find this rather inconvenient, on account of the diftance. The patients bathe, as defcribed above, moftly once or twice a day, very ieldom three times; at leaft, fuch as intend to purfue this method o f cure for any length o f time. A few A few paces from this bath there are two others, which yys- are nothing more than pits into which the warm water O v O flows, covered in by hovels made o f hurdles. Of thefe, the one is cooler and the other warmer than that which I firft defcribed; both o f them are made ufe of only by flaves and Hottentots. In this part o f the country there are two other wells without any ihelter, but they are not ufed, though one o f them has the ftrongeft fpring o f any, and is neareft to the main building. At the diftance of about fifty paces from and below the warm wells or bath- ing-places, there lies in the dale I have defcribed a well of cold water, very pure to the tafte. The contents and temperature of the warm bath I cannot very accurately determine, partly on account of my thermometer being not graduated high enough for tihis purpofe, and partly by reafon that I was in want of many neceflary helps, as well with regard to drugs as vefiels; for the' mailer of the bath’s, brandy-glafs excepted, I had nothing here fit for the purpofe, but the two drinking-glafies I brought with me, the people .here ufually drinking the water o f the well out of ladles. So that the only experiments that I had an opportunity of making are the following: A folution of fugar o f lead feemed to precipitate a foul llimy matter. A folution o f Jilver tinged the water o f an opal colour, and at length precipitated a little white powder to the bottom. G//of t a t tar per deliquium, precipitated fcarcely any thing. T 2 Litharge,
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