Folk have been making overblown medical claims for cold water for a long-time.

Turns out one of the first proposals for a controlled trial (on #scabies fwiw) was a C19th Irish Dr trolling a cold-water proponent.

Our new #OpenAccess #HistoryofMedicine paper: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11845-025-04027-x

#ColdWaterTherapy #RCTs #MedicalHistory #scabies #IrishMedicine

Photo: Man swims in cold water. Credit: Oleg Dubyna from Poltava, Ukraine. From Wikimedia, Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license, see https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Man_swims_in_cold_water_(34807325734).jpg