Note 82 — CHAP. II.
Reading edition
The want of this apparatus may be supplied, in case of exigency, by a contrivance mentioned by Dr. Lind, consisting of a tea-kettle with the handle taken off, and inverted upon the boiler, with a gun barrel adapted to the spout, passing through a barrel of water by way of refrigeratory, or kept constantly moist with a mop.
In this place I cannot help mentioning also, that in case of great extremity it has been found that the blood may be diluted, and thirst removed, by wetting the surface of the body even with sea water, the vapour of which is always fresh, and is inhaled by those pores of the skin whose natural function it is to imbibe moisture, of which there is always more or less in the common air of the atmosphere.