Though we don’t all reach nirvana when we swim,swimming may well be that last refuge from connectivity — and, for some, the only way to find the solitary self.
1602,A New and Short Defense of Tabacco: with the effectes of the same: and of the right vse thereof, London: Clement Knight, “Rule”,unnumbered page:
Then I take my pipe ofTabacco, sitting close by a warme fire, the space of halfe an houre and more, vntill the giddinesse andswimming in my head be past, and the medicine also haue done it feate : then I vse to gargle my mouth with a cuppe of beere, well warmed with a toste.
1624, Philip Barrough,The Method of Physick, Contaning the Cavses, Signes, and Cvres of Inward Diseases in Mans Body, From the Head to the Foote:[…], 6th edition, London: Richard Field,page134:
But when the worms are killed with the aforesaid medicines, you must driue them out without delay : for there proceedeth a vicious exhalation from them, which both destroyeth appetite, and hurteth digestion, and being lifted vpward, it causethswimmings, and other euils.
1640, John Parkinson,Theatrum Botanicum: The Theater of Plants. Or, an Herball of Large Extent:[…], London,page552:
[The Speedwell] doth also wonderfully helpe the memory, and to ease all turnings andswimmings, and other paines of the head, and as it is sayd helpeth women to become fruitfull, that were barren[.]
1869, William Chambers, Robert Chambers,Chambers's Miscellany of Instructive & Entertaining Tracts, page 2:
Swimmings of the head and intestinal pains seemed the prelude of dissolution.
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