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Pamphlet, regarding hot and cold bathing by John King

Reference number: CLP/14ii/50

Date: 1736

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King advertises a newly completed cold bath in Bungay [Suffolk, England], and writes of the benefits of cold bathing for 'rheumatick cases, lameness, palsies, rickets, and many other distempers'.

Subject: Health / Hygiene

Read to the Royal Society on 23 December 1736

Reference number
CLP/14ii/50
Earliest possible date
1736
Page extent
2 pages
Format
Printed

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Pamphlet, regarding hot and cold bathing by John King, 1736, CLP/14ii/50, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_14ii_50/pamphlet-regarding-hot-and-cold-bathing-by-john-king, accessed on 03 December 2024

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