Psychrolousia: or, the history of cold-bathing, both in ancient and modern : In two parts . at Efteem for your J^^^g-ment and Learning, and as a Relpedwhich I owe to you my old Friend andCountryman. I am, Tour very humble Servant^ Litchfieldy Oa. 21. I7OI. JOHN FLOYER. LETTER II. Id the Learned Phyjician^ DoBorPhineas Fowke. Containing Hippocrates\ Opinion,concerning the Nature of ColdBaths, and their Ufefulnefs. SIR, Long (ince acquainted you withmy Defign of making a ColdBath nt?ix Lltchjield, and thenI gave you fome rcafons whyI thought that Pradice bothfafe and ufeful: But that I might moi
Psychrolousia: or, the history of cold-bathing, both in ancient and modern : In two parts . at Efteem for your J^^^g-ment and Learning, and as a Relpedwhich I owe to you my old Friend andCountryman. I am, Tour very humble Servant^ Litchfieldy Oa. 21. I7OI. JOHN FLOYER. LETTER II. Id the Learned Phyjician^ DoBorPhineas Fowke. Containing Hippocrates\ Opinion,concerning the Nature of ColdBaths, and their Ufefulnefs. SIR, Long (ince acquainted you withmy Defign of making a ColdBath nt?ix Lltchjield, and thenI gave you fome rcafons whyI thought that Pradice bothfafe and ufeful: But that I might moi^ ful-ly explain my Opinion, and the Realbns onwhich it is grounded, I have here digeftedmy Thoughts into a fliort Effay on thatSubjed. I will firft give the Opinion ofHippocrates about cold Bathing, who hasboth fully defcribd its Effects, and givenus fome Rules and Cautions about theright Ufe of it. And in the Second Place,I will, reprefent the Ancient Pradice ofImmerfion in the Catholick Church, andmoft particularly in our Climate, for theBaptizing of all forts of Perfons, whichD con-. 2 8 Of Cold Baths. Parti. continued in England till about the Yeari^oo; by which I defign to prove the In-nocence of that Cuftom, and itsUfefulnefsin preventing Hereditary Difeafes. I willin the Third Place relate fome Cures ofconfiderable Difeafes lately performed byCold Bathing, which will l\illy Anfwerall Objedions and Scruples which can bemade againft this Pradice. I know you will allow me to pay all Re-fped imaginable to the Judgment of Hip-focratejy who was a moft Judicious andRational Phyfician, and the moft LearnedFounder of our Faculty : And fince he hasrecommended Cold Bathing, I cannot un-dergo the Reflexion of propofing fome newunreafonable Projed in this following will firft begin with the Opinion of Hip-focra/es, which he has delivered in his Tradof Ancient Phyfick. I will next obferve?what he has delivered in his Books of Diet,and in that which treats of the ufe of Li-qui
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