Bather’s Cramp.
No sooner does the warm weather make bathing the most pleasurable exercise than we hear from day to day almost of some fatal accident from it. Borne of these, of course, arise from persons who cannot swim getting out of their depth, but in many oases the victim is a practised swimmer who is seized with cramp. Sometimes the spasm may attack the voluntary muscles, and render it impossible for even the most expert of swimmers to save himself. The cause seems to be the sudden shock of cold applied to the body, since cramp occurs most frequently when the body is warm after considerable exertion, and it is safe to say that in most cases it might be avoided if only people would refrain from plunging suddenly into cold water while the body is unduly heated. When anyone has been taken out of the water after being seized with cramp, he should be wrapped in warm blankets, surrounded with hot water bottles and his limbs well rubbed.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2996, 16 August 1911, Page 76
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170Bather’s Cramp. Otago Witness, Issue 2996, 16 August 1911, Page 76
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