Aventii, Fabricius Hildanus, the Ephemerides, and Curry relate instances of a fatal issue following the ingestion of cold water by an individual in a superheated condition.

Cridland describes a case of sudden insensibility following the drinking of a cold fluid.

It is said that Alexander the Great narrowly escaped death from a constrictive spasm, due to the fact that while in a copious sweat he plunged into the river Cydnus.

Tissot gives an instance of a man dying at a fountain after a long draught on a hot day.

Hippocrates mentions a similar fact, and there are many modern instances.
The ordinary effects of cold on the skin locally and the system generally will not be mentioned here, except to add the remark of Captain Wood that in Greenland, among his party, could be seen ulcerations, blisters, and other painful lesions of the skin.