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单词 cold affusion
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cold affusion
b. The pouring of water on the body or a part of the body for therapeutic purposes; an instance of this. Frequently with distinguishing word specifying the temperature of the water, esp. in cold affusion. Also figurative. Now historical.Affusion of cold water was used commonly in the treatment of fevers until the early 20th cent.
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the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or fact of pouring or being poured > [noun] > on or over
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affusion1652
1652 J. French York-shire Spaw iv. 45 Now water is used outwardly..first by way of Balneum, or bathing the whole body, secondly by way of insessus or sitting in water up to the navel, thirdly by way of aspersion or affusion (i. e.) sprinkling or pouring on.
1683 W. Harris Pharmacologia 238 Wherefore I very much suspect even the affusion of Cold Water upon the parts affected, which our Great Hippocrates does sometimes recommend in Gouts.
1797 J. Currie Med. Rep. 67 The tepid affusion is little if at all stimulating, and does not, like the cold affusion, rouse the system to those actions by which heat is evolved.
1803 W. Taylor in Ann. Rev. 1 273 From the eruptive fever of democratic effervescence, countries recover by slight and temperate affusions of concession.
1844 T. J. Graham Mod. Domest. Med. (ed. 9) 752 In very acute attacks of yellow fever..we resort to the use of purgatives, and the cold affusion.
1921 N. Amer. Jrnl. Homeopathy Feb. 153 Massage of lower limbs followed by a hot affusion.
2000 N. Altman Healing Springs 142 Kneipp techniques also include local affusions (pouring on of water) to various parts of the body.
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